Heather Curtis
WMAL.com
WASHINGTON -Metro announces changes to its Safe Track maintenance schedule Wednesday.
Surge 10, which was originally scheduled to start Oct. 10 and run through Nov. 1, now starts Oct. 29 and ends Nov. 22.
There will be no train service on the Red Line between NoMa-Gallaudet U and Fort Totten stations.
The Rhode Island Avenue and Brookland stations will be closed.
Surge 11 will start Nov. 28 instead of Nov. 2 as originally planned.
That surge will have continuous single-tracking between the East and West Falls Church stations on the Orange and Silver lines.
Surge 9 starts Thursday, as already announced, with a whopping 42 days of single tracking on the Orange
There will be four surges in 2016.
The first will have continuous single-tracking on the Blue and Yellow lines between the Braddock Road and Huntington stations on weekdays starting in early January.
There will be no service between those stations on weekends.
Then in late January, there will be no service between the Rosslyn and Pentagon stations on the Blue Line.
In March there will be single-tracking between the Braddock Road and Van Dorn Street/Huntington stations on the Blue and Yellow Lines weekdays.
Service between those stations will be suspended on weekends.
The last surge will have Green Line trains single tracking between Greenbelt and College Park weekdays. There will be no service between those stations weekends.
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority said in a press release it will announce exact dates for those four surges this December.
WMATA is urging riders to find a different way to get to work during all Safe Track surges.
