Metro News Release
For immediate release: January 20, 2010
President's Day Holiday weekend work to close Metro's Rosslyn and Arlington Cemetery stations
No Blue or Orange Line service between DC and Arlington
Questions and Answers
Questions and Answers (En español)
Throughout the President’s Day Holiday weekend, the Rosslyn Metrorail station on the Blue and Orange Lines will be closed and the Arlington Cemetery Metrorail station on the Blue Line will also be closed from 10 p.m., Friday, Feb. 12 to closing, Monday, Feb. 15, while Metro undertakes a major track rehabilitation project. Normal service will resume on Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 5 a.m.
To help people get around the work zone, Metro will operate free shuttle buses between the Court House and Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail stations and between the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom-GWU Metrorail stations. Customers should build at least 40 extra minutes into their travel plans if they need to pass through the work zone.
During the President’s Day Holiday weekend, Metro will install two new rail switches at the Rosslyn Metrorail station. In addition to the installation of new rail switches at the Rosslyn station, Metro will replace several hundred feet of rail, 300 track fasteners, 300 anchor bolts, repair 30 water leaks, replace 550 tunnel lights for safety, clean third rail insulators and cover boards and make track circuit upgrades at the Rosslyn Metrorail station.
Metro’s Emergency Management office is also taking advantage of the station closures and has arranged to conduct an emergency drill inside the closed Rosslyn Metrorail station in conjunction with Arlington County and the District of Columbia.
The Orange Line will be split in two sections, the first between the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU and Court House Metrorail stations, and the second between the Foggy Bottom-GWU and New Carrollton Metrorail stations. The Blue Line will be split in two sections, the first between the Franconia-Springfield and Pentagon Metrorail stations, and the second between the Foggy Bottom-GWU and Largo Town Center Metrorail stations.
Metro will operate free shuttle buses between the Court House, Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom Metrorail stations and between the Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery, Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom Metrorail stations throughout the President’s Day Holiday weekend.
Customers who normally use the Blue Line between Franconia-Springfield and the Pentagon should consider using the Yellow Line to get into downtown Washington during the long holiday weekend.
Riders who plan to take Metro to events at the Verizon Center or the Washington Convention Center during the President’s Day Holiday weekend will need to build an extra 40 minutes into their travel plans.
To alert customers about this work, Metro will send e-Alerts, post signs in key stations, place notices on station kiosks, and make train and system announcements. Additional information will be available on Metro's web site at www.metroopensdoors.com.
The Trip Planner, located on Metro=s Web site, will not reflect the impact of this work on its schedules. Customers should allow more time for their trips because of this work. For more information on traveling by Metrobus or Metrorail, customers may call (202) 637-7000 or TTY (202) 638-3780.
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Media contact for this news release: Steven Taubenkibel or Lisa Farbstein at 202-962-1051.
For all other inquiries, please call customer service at 202-637-7000.
News release issued at 12:40 pm, January 20, 2010.