This Weekend to Bring Big Metrorail Changes
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FIRST, METRO EXTENDED the Yellow Line from Mount Vernon Square. Now the transit agency will be running trains all the way to Greenbelt, at least for this coming weekend. A major switch replacement adjacent to the Arlington Cemetery station will force Blue Line trains to enter and exit the District via the Yellow Line's bridge over the Potomac River starting at 8 p.m., Friday. Shuttle bus service will run between the Pentagon and Rosslyn stations, serving the Arlington Cemetery station, which will be closed.
The service alterations will bring about other changes for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day three-day weekend.
» Yellow Line trains will run from their normal Huntington terminal in Virginia to the Green Line's Greenbelt terminal in Maryland.
» Orange Line trains will alternate their final Maryland destiantions between the line's normal New Carrollton terminal and the Largo Town Center station, which would ordinarily only be served by the Blue Line.
» The Red and Green lines will run on their normal routes.
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I hope the District gets a break on paying for that Yellow line service to Fort Totten for the period when the Metro Map is FUBAR'd like that.
By Phil Lepanto , Posted January 11, 2007 10:39 AMI can understand the juggling of lines to accommodate track work. My question is why is the Metro operating on a normal schedule today? I'm one of the unfortunate few that has to work on this Federal Holiday, and the Orange/Blue and Red lines were ghost towns during the morning rush hour. Even through downtown - L'Enfant Plaza, Metro Center & Union Stations - were practically empty like a Sunday morning...and the Metro wonders where the money is going? You can't convince that Metro isn't losing money on a day like today. Almost every other major connection to Metro - MARC, VRE, etc - is operating on some sort of modified or holiday schedule.
By Darth Bane , Posted January 15, 2007 12:55 PMI am proud of every single one of this people who are buried in this cemetery!
By Cerena , Posted February 28, 2008 2:19 PM