Metro News Release

For immediate release: June 9, 2011

Metro to temporarily close Union Station First Street Entrance at 8 p.m. Sunday, June 12 due to construction

Massachusetts Avenue Entrance to remain open

Metro will temporarily close the Union Station station entrance at First Street, N.E. at 8 p.m. on Sunday, June 12 to allow for rehabilitation of the station manager’s kiosk in mezzanine area of the station. The entrance will reopen the following morning at 5 a.m.

The entrance at Massachusetts Ave., N.E. will remain open.

For more information on Metrorail and Metrobus, customers are encouraged to call (202) 637-7000, TTY (202) 638-3780, or visit Metro's website at metroopensdoors.com.

News release issued at 10:14 am, June 9, 2011.