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WASHINGTON (WMAL) — Metro will be limiting the number of Red Line trains for the next few days.
It’s due to a 40 year old communications cable that needs to be replaced.
Starting on Wednesday, one train at a time will be allowed on each track between Brookland and Fort Totten and between Fort Totten and Takoma. Fewer trains will be operating throughout the line – trains every ten minutes between Shady Grove and Glenmont, with extra trains between Grosvenor and NoMa, resulting in trains every five minutes between those stations, Metro said.
Metro says it plans to replace the cable over the weekend, resulting in a full closure between Silver Spring and Rhode Island Avenue, with buses replacing trains. It will be the fourth straight weekend of a Red Line closure through Silver Spring, following a project to repair an interlocking outside Takoma Station. Metro said the cable problems are not related to the recent contruction.
Part of the stretch of track at issue was also closed for a month late last year as part of SafeTrack Surge Ten.
A previously scheduled single-tracking project on another stretch of the Red Line this weekend between Farragut North and Judiciary Square has been canceled, Metro said.
Metro said normal service could resume on Monday, should repairs go as planned.
For more information on exact impacts on trains, see Metro’s full statement here.
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