Sweet baby L’Enfant, Metro has just released some good news! After what has felt like a solid year of delay-eriffic major weekend track work (especially the last four weekends with the switch replacement on the Red line), WMATA has decided to suspend weekend track work for the next four weekends in a row. The timing couldn’t be better, too, considering we’ve got NCAA hoops action in town, the upcoming National Cherry Blossom Festival, the National Marathon, and opening day at the new Nationals stadium all bearing down on us.

“We would like to thank our customers for their patience as we continue to upgrade the Metrorail system,” said Gerald Francis, Metro’s Deputy General Manager and Chief Operating Officer, in a statement. “We know weekend track work can be an inconvenience, however this work is necessary to ensure the safe operation of the Metrorail system now, and into the future.”

Metro said it would continue to do preventive track maintenance overnight during the suspension, and that repair personnel are still available in case of emergencies.

And with that, DCist declares that spring is officially here, a few days early.

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