There's Going To Be Some Major Track Work On Yellow And Blue Lines This Weekend

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JAN 9, 12:50 PM

There’s Going To Be Some Major Track Work On Yellow And Blue Lines This Weekend

Gear up: there’s some complicated stuff happening on the Blue and Yellow lines this weekend.

The Pentagon, Pentagon City, and Crystal City stations will all be closed so that Metro can complete some major lighting upgrades, install cables to allow for cell service, and generally perform rail maintenance. Shuttle buses will replace trains on three different routes between National Airport and Rosslyn: the Blue Line Shuttle will travel between Braddock Road, Crystal City, Pentagon City, Pentagon, and Rosslyn, with no stop at the airport; the D.C.-Airport Express Shuttle will travel between the airport and L’Enfant Plaza station; and the Pentagon-Airport Shuttle will travel between the airport, Crystal City, Pentagon City, and Pentagon stations.

It’s the same deal on the Yellow Line. The final trains on both lines will depart about 25 minutes earlier than usual, to accomodate shuttle bus times.

At least we can count on the other lines to cart us around this weekend: Only the Blue and Yellow lines have station closures or any kind of delay. All the other lines will be running regular weekend service.

Here’s more detail from the transit agency (be sure to check out its route suggestions, depending on where you’re trying to get):

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[Recursion]

1. Hope they know it's going to be snowing (nt)

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2. The work is being done underground.

The Pentagon, Pentagon City, and Crystal City stations will all be closed so that Metro can complete some major lighting upgrades, install cables to allow for cell service, and generally perform rail maintenance.

And yay! for extending the wifi to serve the portion of the line between stations on the Yellow and Blue Lines in Arlington County. Wifi between stations was just added on the Orange and Silver Lines in Arlington:

Cell phone service is now available in more Metro tunnels

I use my Kindle Fire a lot when I'm on Metro. Underground stations in DC have wifi, but when the train enters the tunnel between stations, the connection drops out.