Metro, along with the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), Montgomery County, and the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) will offer a range of travel options for customers affected by this summer’s closures on the Red Line starting Saturday, June 1 through Saturday, August 31.
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Metro will preview the upcoming summer construction work on the Red Line from Glenmont to Fort Totten on Tuesday morning at the top-level of the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center in Silver Spring at 11:30am. Dates of station closures available in the image above.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services (MCFRS) responded to the North Bethesda Metro Station (formerly White Flint) at approximately 8pm on Sunday, April 14, for the report of a pedestrian struck by a train. (more…)
Update: WUSA 9 reports that the person was pronounced dead at the scene.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services (MCFRS) responded to the North Bethesda Metro Station (formerly White Flint) at approximately 8pm on Sunday, April 14, for the report of a pedestrian struck by a train.
On Monday, customers may notice doors opening faster on some Blue, Orange, Silver, Green and Yellow line trains as Metro begins certifying operators who have been trained to use the Auto Doors function. The certifications will happen over the next few weeks. This is the second stage of rollout for the system. Metro began Auto Door use on the Red Line last December and has had “more than 750,000 successful, safe, and faster door openings.”
Starting in summer 2024, construction will begin on a new mezzanine at Silver Spring Station to provide access between Metro and the future Purple Line, which will be owned and operated by the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA). A portion of the Red Line will be closed due to construction this summer.
Officials representing the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) Board of Directors and the Metro Board of Directors today announced they would convene the two bodies to launch a new joint initiative to develop a unified vision for transit service in the region.
Metro has released an update stating it has “seen positive trends in recent months with growing ridership and more customers paying their fares, showing efforts to reduce fare evasion and increase safety are working.”
April is Autism Acceptance Month, and for the second year in a row, Metro has partnered with the Autism Transit Project to highlight the special bond children with autism often have with mass transit systems. In acknowledgment of that connection, Metro invited 25 children with autism to record boarding and safety announcements that will be played throughout the Metrorail system the entire month of April.
WMATA, the DC Metro system, has created a realistic, but fun video introducing “Metreau De Parfum”- a made up series of Metro-inspired scents for April Fool’s Day that has led to dozens of comments in response. Below, you can see the video, as well as a few of the comments that have received the most attention (good and bad):
Metro is currently offering a property for development, located in the Eisenhower Avenue Corridor in Alexandria with a mix of residential, retail, and business development. The approximately half-acre site is a short walk from the Eisenhower Avenue Metro Station on the Yellow Line, and next to the Metro Building at Eisenhower. New development solicitations are expected soon for a North Bethesda site as well.
