Metro News Release
For immediate release: May 30, 2010
Dulles Rail Project Holiday weekend construction work progresses
No Orange Line service between West Falls Church and East Falls Church stations
The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project work on the Orange Line between the West Falls Church-VT/UVA and East Falls Church Metrorail stations during the three-day Memorial Day Holiday weekend is progressing.
Regular service on the Orange Line between the West Falls Church-VT/UVA and East Falls Church Metrorail stations will resume when the Metrorail system opens at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, June 1.
The free shuttle buses have been busy throughout the weekend with buses filling up as trains empty at the West Falls Church-VT/UVA and East Falls Church Metrorail stations. Through Saturday, 13,459 people have used the shuttle buses to help complete their trips.
Metro administrative employees along with Metro Transit Police officers have been on site guiding customers from the rail platforms to the shuttle buses to assist them in completing their trips. They also have been busy answering questions from customers.
Through Monday, May 31, the Orange Line will remain split in two sections, the first running from Vienna/Fairfax-GMU to West Falls Church-VT/UVA Metrorail stations, and the second between the New Carrollton and East Falls Church Metrorail stations. The West Falls Church-VT/UVA and East Falls Church Metrorail stations remain open.
When there is no train service between the West Falls-VT/UVA and East Falls Church Metrorail stations, Metro is operating free shuttle bus service between these two stations.
This weekend, the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project contractors are conducting work on a pier located east of the West Falls Church-VT/UVA Metrorail station, driving piles along the fence adjacent to the I-66 west and eastbound lanes and replacing ties on the tracks. All of this work is necessary to connect the new rail line to the Orange Line.
Orange Line riders in Northern Virginia who plan to take Metro to events in downtown Washington during the remainder of the Memorial Day weekend should build an extra 30 minutes into their travel plans.
The Trip Planner, located on Metro=s Web site, will not reflect the impact of this work on its schedules. For more information on traveling by Metrobus or Metrorail, customers may call (202) 637-7000 or TTY (202) 638-3780.
News release issued at 10:27 am, May 30, 2010.