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Despite the hubbub that initially came pouring out of Metro's board this week after WMATA announced it would close three Metro stations, including the one that serves National Airport, for the entire Labor Day holiday weekend, the closures are set to go into effect tonight at 9:30 p.m. A majority of the board got on the phone with Metro General Manager John Catoe last night for a conference call (a seekrit conference call!), and the consensus is reportedly that they agree with the decision to do the major track work in question this weekend (Labor Day, it turns out, is one of the slowest holiday weekends for WMATA), but are now pledging to make sure the public is given more notice before anything like this happens again.

You already knew that the Secret Service had ordered the Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter and the Smithsonian Metro stations to be closed on Inauguration Day, Tuesday, January 20, for security reasons. Now comes word that two additional stations, Judiciary Square and Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St Convention Center, will also close for part of the day due to their proximity to locations hosting Inaugural Balls.