Metro News Release

For immediate release: June 28, 2006

Celebrate 30 years of opening doors with Metro’s prize team

Monthly giveaways continue Friday at Virginia Square-GMU Metrorail station

Metrorail’s 30th anniversary prize team will greet commuters at the Orange Line’s Virginia Square-GMU Metrorail station Friday, June 30, from 11 a.m. to noon. Prize team members will randomly select riders, surprising them with free Metrorail 30th anniversary commemorative items such as key chains, notepads, lapel pins, squeeze train toys and baseball caps.

The prize team is part of Metrorail’s celebration of 30 years of opening doors. Metrorail began service in March 1976.

As part of the 30th anniversary celebration, the prize team will visit one station each month through March 2007. They will reach riders on all five rail lines in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.

News release issued on June 28, 2006.