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Published July 10, 2012 at 12:00PM | Updated June 29, 2018 at 3:24PM

Workers will be installing cable to provide better cell phone coverage along the Blue and Yellow lines, in addition to doing work on ties and insulators. Starting at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, July 13, and continuing through closing on Sunday, July 15, free shuttle buses will replace trains between Pentagon City and Braddock Road on the Blue and Yellow lines. The Reagan National Airport and Crystal City stops will both be closed.

Blue Line trains will operate in two segments: between Franconia-Springfield and Braddock Road and between Pentagon City and Largo Town Center, at regular weekend intervals. Yellow Line trains will also operate in two segments: between Huntington and Braddock Road and between Pentagon City and Mount Vernon Square, at regular weekend intervals. Customers traveling through the work zone should allow about 30 minutes of additional travel time.

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Morning Poll: Metro’s Rush Plus Service

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Published June 25, 2012 at 9:24AM | Updated June 29, 2018 at 3:25PM

Designed to reduce the rush hour “Orange crush” by adding three additional Orange Line trains per hour, Rush Plus accomplished the enhanced Orange Line service by directing three formerly Blue Line trains per hour over the Yellow Line bridge into the District.

Metro billed Rush+ as “rush hour reinvented,” promising to “reduce crowding and provide new transfer-free travel opportunities.” Has it lived up to expectations?”

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Metro Rush Hour Changes Begin Monday

By Katie Pyzyk

Published June 15, 2012 at 10:30AM | Updated June 29, 2018 at 3:25PM

Rush+ will be in effect Monday through Friday, from 6:30-9:00 a.m. and 3:30-6:00 p.m.

Orange Line customers who use stations west of Rosslyn should notice three more trains per hour in each direction. Metro estimates the change will allow for an 18 percent increase in capacity on the Orange Line, which would benefit more than 46,000 customers.

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Transit Alert: Metro Delays Due to Person on Tracks

By Katie Pyzyk

Published March 8, 2012 at 2:57PM | Updated March 8, 2012 at 9:54PM

Update at 3:10 p.m. — WMATA reports the Foggy Bottom station has reopened.

Earlier: Metro riders should expect to experience delays on the Orange and Blue lines due to a person struck by a train at Foggy Bottom.

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Reminder: Major Track Work to Snarl Metro Travel

By Katie Pyzyk

Published February 3, 2012 at 3:45PM

The closures will be in place starting at 10:00 tonight and continuing until the system closes on Sunday. WMATA says workers will renew rail fasteners, replace insulators and remove sludge from the tunnel beneath the Potomac River.

Orange Line trains will be split into two segments. One set of trains will run between Vienna and Court House every 20 minutes, and another between Foggy Bottom and New Carrollton at normal weekend service levels.

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Blue Line Changes Will Relieve ‘Orange Crush’

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Published October 14, 2011 at 12:00PM | Updated June 29, 2018 at 2:51PM

Starting mid-2012, six additional Orange Line trains will be put in service each peak hour, three in each direction. Those trains will run from West Falls Church to Largo Town Center, which is normally a Blue Line station. To allow that to happen — the Orange Line tunnel between Rosslyn and Foggy Bottom operates at capacity during peak hours — six Blue Line trains will be diverted over the Yellow Line Bridge.

Those “former Blue Line trains” will operate between Franconia-Springfield and Greenbelt, a Green Line station. The trains — three in each direction during peak hours — will be identified as Yellow Line trains.

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Morning Poll: Proposed Changes to Blue, Orange Lines

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Published March 9, 2011 at 10:12AM | Updated June 29, 2018 at 2:52PM

The plan, however, is a bit more complicated than it initially sounds.

The shift would only happen during rush hour. The affected Blue Line trains would travel from Franconia-Springfield, across the Yellow Line bridge and over to Greenbelt via the Green Line.

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Morning Notes

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Published October 15, 2010 at 8:04AM | Updated June 29, 2018 at 3:28PM

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