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Discussion related to DC area passenger rail services from Northern Virginia to Baltimore, MD. Includes Light Rail and Baltimore Subway.

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 #1267907  by JDC
 
Per Dr. Gridlock, at this Thursday's Metro hearing the Board will hear a presentation about changes to Metro's policy on weekend track work. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dr- ... work-plan/.

Some changes: weekend station closures will not begin until midnight, rather than at 10 p.m. Friday.; station closures will not occur on consecutive weekends, an exception being a major project (switch replacement, for example); and considering ways to resume weekday midday track work, though restricted to locations that would have minimal impact on riders.

Metro will also unveil its summer-fall 2014 schedule of track work.
 #1268043  by JDC
 
Troup discusses in his presentation Metro's thinking on track work: http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/board_ ... EVISED.pdf. A flowchart on pg 13 shows how a weekend shutdown works.

Page 16 shows how the midday weekday shutdown already identified is between College Park and Greenbelt for 7000-series testing track work.

Starting on page 20, the appendix shows the July-December 2014 weekend track work schedule.