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    WMATA Columbus Day Work # 2

    Alert Date/Time: 9/9/2009, 8:04 AM

    Description:

    Throughout the next several weeks, Metrorail Green and Yellow Line riders should build 45 minutes to their weeknight, late evening trips as the transit agency conducts late-night preparation work leading up to the Columbus Day Weekend projects.

    Green and Yellow Line Delays from Sept. 13 to Oct. 8

    In preparation for the Columbus Day Weekend station closures on the Green and Yellow lines, Green Line trains will share one track between the Navy Yard and Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St- Convention Center Metrorail station, and Yellow Line trains will share one track between the Pentagon City and Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metrorail station during the following dates and times:

    • Sunday, Sept. 13, to Thursday, Sept. 17, from 9:30 p.m. to closing (midnight).
    • Sunday, Sept. 20, to Monday, Sept. 21, from 9:30 p.m. to closing (midnight).
    • Wednesday, Sept. 30, to Thursday, Oct. 1, from 9:30 p.m. to closing (midnight).
    • Sunday, Oct. 4, to Thursday, Oct. 8, from 9:30 p.m. to closing (midnight).

    During this time, all Yellow Line trains will operate between the Huntington and Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metrorail stations. Customers traveling north of the Mt. Vernon Sq/7th St-Convention Center Metrorail stations will need to catch a Green Line train to the Greenbelt Metrorail station.

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