Metro News Release
For immediate release: March 4, 2010
Metro announces weekend rail service changes
Weekend track maintenance on the Orange Line
Track maintenance on the Orange Line this weekend (March 5-7) will cause inbound and outbound trains to take turns sharing one track. Customers should add 30 minutes to their trips.
Orange Line Track Maintenance
Metrorail customers traveling between the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU and West Falls Church-VT/UVA Metrorail stations should add at least 30 minutes to their travel time because Metro will be welding new rail on the tracks. Trains will share one track between these locations on Saturday, March 6, and Sunday, March 7, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
To help expedite rail travel into downtown Washington, every other Orange Line train traveling toward the Vienna/Fairfax-GMU Metrorail station will terminate at the West Falls Church-VT/UVA Metrorail station and will return to the New Carrollton Metrorail station.
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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 1:34 pm, March 4, 2010.