D.C. Metro readies for platform rehabilitation

Beginning Friday, Dec. 17, and continuing through January, Metro will conduct continuous, round-the-clock daily platform rehabilitation work at the Shady Grove Metrorail station in Washington, DC, in effort to return it to a state of good repair, to ensure service reliability and improve safety. Metro officials are expediting platform rehabilitation repairs to take advantage of traditionally lighter passenger counts during the holidays and to ensure completion of the work prior to the start of the tourist season. The work involves replacing deteriorated sections of the platform edges with new concrete. Once the platform repairs are made, Metro will turn its attention to replacing the paver tiles with new surface platform tiles in the spring timeframe. The platform repair and rehabilitation work will require Red Line trains to share one track during this rehabilitation effort at the Shady Grove Metrorail station. 
 Metro recently completed 1,200 feet of platform rehabilitation work at the Rockville Metrorail station. The platform work is a small part of the larger $213 million comprehensive Red Line rehabilitation program, which runs through 2013, and is focused on bringing the rail system back to a state of good repair to help ensure and improve service reliability.