Red Line Single Tracks for System Upgrades
Red Line passengers should allow for about 10 minutes of additional travel time this weekend, Metro advised.
Red Line trains will single track between Judiciary Square and Rhode Island Avenue this weekend, starting at 10 p.m. on Friday, March 8 and continuing through closing on Sunday, according to Metro's website.
The single tracking will occur to allow for track renewal and communication system upgrades, Metro reported.
Throughout the weekend, Red Line trains will operate every 20 minutes, with the exception of between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, when additional trains will operate between Shady Grove and Judiciary Square, resulting in service at about every 10 minutes between those stations, Metro added.
Metro advised Red Line passengers to allow for about 10 minutes of additional travel time.
Read more about scheduled track work on all lines this weekend on Metro's website.
Ian Cooper
8:54 am on Saturday, March 9, 2013
I still find it hard to figure out how it can possibly take a metro train a total of 20 minutes to go a mere 7 miles from Silver Spring to Metro Center in DC. I mean, that's 21mph. If they simply scrapped the trains and converted the metro to an underground bike path, I could make that journey faster on my bicycle!
It takes my wife an hour to go from our home to her work in DC using public transportation, while using her car gets her there in half that time. Where is the incentive to use public transportation and decrease the gridlock? It's no wonder DC is so overrun with automobiles when the Metro system can barely match cycling commute speeds.
When are all these 'system upgrades' going to result in reduced commute times so that our public transportation system becomes at least a match for those of some European countries? It's scandalous that many of us work in the capital city of the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth, yet our commute times are equivalent to those of a Third World nation.