A heads-up to RKV riders:
The Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has just posted this announcement that there'll be no Metro service at the Rockville station for 3 months, starting Sept. 11, during canopy reconstruction: Metro to begin three-month closure to replace aging platform canopy at Rockville, with additional station improvements to Shady Grove starting September 11 | WMATA. (The Shady Grove station, terminus of that line, is also affected).
"Amtrak and MARC service will continue to operate during construction with no service disruptions at Rockville [RKV]." Nice to know, though limited practical help for rail passengers who transferred to Metro at RKV. A shuttle bus to Twinbrook, the next operational station on the Red Line, is at best inconvenient and at worst feels risky in this pandemic with an unenforced and widely-flouted mask mandate.
The Washington Metro Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has just posted this announcement that there'll be no Metro service at the Rockville station for 3 months, starting Sept. 11, during canopy reconstruction: Metro to begin three-month closure to replace aging platform canopy at Rockville, with additional station improvements to Shady Grove starting September 11 | WMATA. (The Shady Grove station, terminus of that line, is also affected).
"Amtrak and MARC service will continue to operate during construction with no service disruptions at Rockville [RKV]." Nice to know, though limited practical help for rail passengers who transferred to Metro at RKV. A shuttle bus to Twinbrook, the next operational station on the Red Line, is at best inconvenient and at worst feels risky in this pandemic with an unenforced and widely-flouted mask mandate.