Photo by Brian Allen

Photo by Brian Allen

White Flint, Grosvenor-Strathmore, Medical Center, and Bethesda stations will be closed this weekend as crews work on a maintenance project that includes rail tie renewal, joint elimination, and leak mitigation.

Red Line passengers will have to take free shuttle buses between Friendship Heights, Bethesda, Medical Center, Grosvenor-Strathmore, White Flint, and Twinbrook.

Crews will also be working on rail, fastener, and grout pad renewal on the Orange Line, which will cause single tracking between Cheverly and New Carrollton and 20-minute wait times.

There’s no other scheduled maintenance on Metrorail this weekend.

Red Line

Buses replace trains between Friendship Heights and Twinbrook. | 7:00 a.m. Saturday through closing Sunday

Red Line trains will operate at regular weekend intervals between Shady Grove & Twinbrook and between Friendship Heights & Glenmont. Additional trains will operate between Silver Spring & Farragut North between 9:00 a.m. & 9:00 p.m.

Free shuttle buses will operate between Friendship Heights, Bethesda, Medical Center, Grosvenor-Strathmore, White Flint and Twinbrook. Please allow 10 minutes of travel time for each station stop.

Stations closed: White Flint, Grosvenor-Strathmore, Medical Center and Bethesda.

To allow for shuttle bus connections, the last trains will depart:

  • Shady Grove at 11:45 p.m. Saturday, 9:45 p.m. Sunday and Monday, 40 minutes earlier than normal.

  • Glenmont at 12:33 a.m. Saturday, and 10:33 p.m. Sunday and Monday, regular time.

Work performed: Rail tie renewal, joint elimination and leak mitigation.

Tap your SmarTrip card each time you enter and exit the Metrorail system. Riders traveling through the work zone will be charged for a single, continuous trip.

Orange Line

Trains every 20 minutes | 10:00 p.m. Friday through closing Sunday

Single tracking between Cheverly and New Carrollton to allow for rail, fastener and grout pad renewal.

Silver Line

Regular weekend service

Blue Line

Regular weekend service

Yellow Line

Regular weekend service

Green Line

Regular weekend service

Filed Under: obligatory metro track work, obligatory track work, track work, weekend track work,