Washington, D.C., Metrorail temporary delays May 21-23
Written by jrood
Customers can expect lengthy delays of up to 30 minutes May 21-23 as old track components are replaced on Washington, D.C., Metrorail's Red, Orange and Green lines, causing inbound and outbound trains to take turns sharing one track on portions of the rail system.
Metrorail customers
traveling between the Grosvenor-Strathmore and Medical Center Metrorail
stations should expect lengthy delays this weekend and should add at least 20
minutes to their travel time because Metro will replace aging rail fasteners
with new ones to stabilize tracks in that area of the Red Line. Trains will
share one track between these locations from 10 p.m. May 21 to closing
(midnight) on May 23.
Metrorail customers
traveling between the New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U and Rhode Island
Ave-Brentwood Metrorail stations should add at least 20 minutes to their travel
time because Metro will be conducting maintenance on a portion of elevated
tracks that cross a bridge outside the Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood Metrorail
station. Trains will share one track between these locations the entire.
Metrorail customers
traveling between the East Falls Church and Ballston-MU Metrorail stations
should add at least 20 minutes to their travel time because Metro will be
replacing old crossties with new ties and welding new rail on the tracks in
that area. Trains will share one track between these locations the entire
weekend.
Metrorail customers
traveling between the College Park-U of Md and Greenbelt Metrorail stations
should add 20 minutes to their travel time because Metro will be welding new
rail on the tracks in that area. Trains will share one track between these locations
on May 22-23, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
There will be no train
service between the East Falls Church and West Falls Church-VT/UVA Metrorail
stations during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, (May 29-31), and the first
two weekends in June (June 5-6 and June 12-13) to allow the Dulles Corridor
Metrorail Project to undertake the first in a series of major construction
activities that will eventually connect the new rail line to the existing
Metrorail system.
For three consecutive weekends, the Orange Line will be
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 East Falls Church and West Falls
Church-VT/UVA Metrorail stations will remain open.
