Photo by Aziz .We’ve tried to remind you over the course of the last month, but as one final, last-minute notice: WMATA will not be operating Blue and Orange Line service between the Federal Center SW and Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road Metrorail stations this weekend.
Between at 10 p.m. tonight and ending at closing on Monday, May 30, WMATA will offer no train service along that section of track and the four stations between — Capitol South, Eastern Market, Potomac Avenue and Stadium-Armory — will all be closed for the entirety of the three-day weekend. The closures will allow Metro to continue its rigorous “state of good repair” program — the agency says that over Memorial Day, it will “replace four track switches at the Eastern Market Metrorail station, replace 4,700 fasteners, make repairs to the aerial structure outside the Stadium-Armory Metrorail station, lay over 5 miles of communications cable to upgrade cell phone access throughout the Metrorail system and make repairs to 21 escalators and 8 elevators.”
All the details on the this weekend’s delays, closures and shuttles can be found at Metro’s website.