Five Orange Line stations will close from May 28 through Sept. 5, as Metro completes the final phase of its Platform Improvement Project, the transit agency announced Thursday.

The New Carrollton, Landover, Cheverly, Deanwood, and Minnesota Avenue stations will all be closed. No Orange Line trains will run between Stadium-Armory and New Carrollton during the closure. In the meantime, Metro will provide shuttle buses from each closed stop to the Stadium-Armory station, and will offer free parking at all five stations.

In the weeks leading up to the closure, riders can expect further disruptions (as if Metro riders didn’t expect that already), while crews prepare for the construction work. On March 5-6, May 7-8, and May 14-15, rail service will be shut down between Stadium-Armory and New Carrollton.

According to Metro, this closure will mark the final installment of the agency’s Platform Improvement Project — a multi-year effort to upgrade the platforms at Metro stations, replacing crumbling concrete and adding features like slip-resistant tiles, new security cameras, USB charging stations, and new passenger information screens. So far, the southern ends of the Blue and Yellow lines and the west end of the Orange Line have been completed, and work on the Green and Yellow lines wrapped up last fall.

Metro is forging ahead with the tail end of the project, despite the months-long 7000-series train debacle that’s left more than half of its trains out of service. Earlier this year, former Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld announced that none of the 7000-series trains, which were pulled from operation after a derailment in October 2021, would be returning to service until at least mid-April. (Wiedefeld announced his retirement days later.)

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