A scheduled shutdown on four WMATA Green and Yellow Line stations next summer has been canceled.

WMATA announced on Wednesday that its Platform Improvement Project will rebuild the deteriorating platforms at Vienna, Dunn Loring, West Falls Church, and East Falls Church on the west end of the Orange Line with plans to improve infrastructure.

But the Green and Yellow Line work is being pushed back.

Metro spokesperson Dan Stessel said in an emailed statement to WAMU that the transit agency “made a strategic decision to reprogram the work.” Signal work along that stretch will be needed in the coming years, he said.

“In the interest of minimizing customer inconvenience and to be cost-effective, we want to align these projects and tackle them at the same time,” Stessel said. “It is our expectation that the Green/Yellow stations will ultimately be reprogrammed somewhere between 2022-2027.”

WTOP reported that internal memos suggest WMATA did not fully grasp the scope and cost of work at Greenbelt, College Park, Prince George’s Plaza, and West Hyattsville stations.

Stessel pushed back on that assertion: “The reporting claiming, ‘Metro did not fully understand the scope,’ is simply wrong.”

The Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation knew of the changes since October, but they had not been made public until now, spokeswoman Paulette Jones told WTOP on Wednesday.

The agency first announced plans to address structural deficiencies on platforms at 20 stations in 2018.

Six stations at the Virginia end of the Blue and Yellow Line were worked on this summer. But Virginia riders will once again be forced to deal with a summer-long shutdown.

More information will be made available in March and Metro advised customers ahead of time that Vienna, Dunn Long, and East Falls Church stations will be closed between Memorial Day and Labor Day 2020, according to the press release. West Falls Church station has two platforms that allow for reconstruction one at a time and will remain open during the project.

WMATA will partner with local jurisdictions to offer alternative travel options, such as buses, during that time. Those plans will also be announced in March when the agency is set to conduct outreach efforts to raise awareness of the project’s impact.

Other outdoor stations are slated for 2020-2021.

The project is focused on utilizing short-term 24/7 shutdowns as opposed to single tracking to minimize inconvenience, allowing crews to work around the clock.

This story originally appeared on WAMU.