Reduced Silver Line Metro Service Begins Tuesday (ICYMI)

MCLEAN, VA -- Northern Virginia rush hour Silver Line service will be cut in half starting May 16 for SafeTrack. Silver Line service is impacted by the shutdown of Orange Line stations east of Stadium-Armory Station. The SafeTrack work will run through June 15.

As part of the second-to-last SafeTrack surge, rush hour service is cut in half west of East Falls Church Station (from McLean to Wiehle-Reston East). Trains will run every 12 minutes between Wiehle-Reston East and Stadium-Armory.

The following stations will be closed May 16 through June 15: Minnesota, Deanwood, Cheverly, Landover, and New Carrollton. Rush hour Orange Line service will be every 6 to 8 minutes between Vienna and Largo Town Center. Blue Line service will run as usual. After 10 p.m. trains will run every 20 minutes.

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The soon-to-be shut down Maryland and D.C. stations were originally planned to single-track during the SafeTrack surge, but Metro found significant track problems, according to WTOP.

Metro said in a statement last month, "Metro today announced service information for the final two SafeTrack surges on the Orange and Red lines. "In order to minimize the customer impact elsewhere on the system and to maximize productivity, the surges, which were originally planned as continuous single tracking, will instead be 'line segment shutdowns,' where buses will replace trains at selected stations."

After this SafeTrack Surge, Metro's last project is on the Red Line in Maryland, with no train service between Shady Grove and Twinbrook stations.

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