Metro News Release
For immediate release: March 4, 2011
March planned work on the Red, Blue, Orange and Yellow lines to improve safety and reliability
Work aimed at rebuilding the Metrorail system
This month, in addition to the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project that will result in no rail service between the East Falls Church and West Falls Church-VT/UVA Metrorail stations for the weekends of March 11 to 13 and March 18 to 20, Metro will also conduct major weekend, weeknight and weekday track maintenance work as part of its effort to rebuild the Metrorail system. To view a complete list of March service changes associated with weeknight work, click here; to view this month’s service changes associated with weekend service changes, click here.
All weekend work will begin at 10 p.m. Friday nights and conclude at closing on Sunday.
All weeknight projects will begin at 10 p.m. and conclude at closing (midnight).
Metro will not conduct major weekend track maintenance during the opening of the National Cherry Blossom festival on Saturday, March 26.
Please note, this schedule is subject to change. Metro riders can visit http://www.metroopensdoors.com at the end of each month to see the following month’s schedule of work. Metro will continue to issue news releases each Thursday as a reminder to provide updates about any last minute weekend track maintenance schedule changes.
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News release issued at 10:47 am, March 4, 2011.