Additional delays @ Cheverly due to an interlocking (crossover) issue preventing the #wmata ROCC from remotely setting routes for trains to follow. A supervisor is on scene to manually crank/clamp switches so trains can move.
Orange Line riders, beware: select east-bound trains may offload @ Stadium-Armory and turn around before reaching New Carrollton due to this unannounced trackwork and a signal problem at Cheverly.
No, this is incorrect. Orange Line trains have been single-tracking between Cheverly and New Carrollton since before 8a this morning due to unannounced maintenance of way work. Trains are just now experiencing add'l delays due to a signal problem.
#wmata Orange Line trains continue to single-track without advance notice from @Metrorailinfo between Cheverly and New Carrollton due to vegetation removal around the tracks. Expect delays and note *very* poor schedule adherence.
#wmata's eastern Orange Line terminus (New Carrollton) has apparently missed 3 dispatches in just the last two hours, per @dcmetrohero, meaning these trains are not available to transport riders west towards Vienna.
...and, for unknown reason, @Metrorailinfo is also running fewer Silver Line than scheduled - about every 18 minutes, rather than the scheduled 12. #wmata
#wmata updated wmata.com/weekday silently after their weekly service alert email went out to note single-tracking Tuesday-Friday this week (though even the website is misleading, w/trains running less frequently than every 16min)
1:45pm Orange/Silver line silent service reduction update. Silver line trains are running about every 15-19 minutes. Orange line trains are running about every 21-23 minutes.
#wmata is performing single-tracking between Cheverly and New Carrollton until 5pm each day this week.
#wmata added two weekday "track maintenance" lines to its trackwork calendar (wmata.com/service/track-…), neither of which cover the current week's single-tracking.
After Orange Line single-tracking (Cheverly to New Carrollton) which apparently was uncoordinated within #wmata, someone at the agency has made the decision to run Silver Line trains back at their normal frequencies (12min), vs the ~20min headways they've run most of today.
After all-day unannounced vegetation clearing between Cheverly & New Carrollton, @Metrorailinfo has concluded single-tracking and is beginning to return Orange Line service to normal. #wmata
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#wmata has begun today's unannounced single-tracking b/t Cheverly and New Carrollton. Expect Orange/Silver line trains to run less often than normal - even less so than @Metrorailinfo says on its service alert page, if this past week is any indicator. wmata.com/service/status…
Yikes. @Metrorailinfo Silver Line trains are running less often than they do on weekends - headways currently above 20 minutes. #wmata
Good morning, @Metrorailinfo#wmata has begun day #3 of unannounced single-tracking. Like yesterday, there is no Metro Alert or other communication from the agency via email, social media, or in-station PIDS. Here's how this played out yesterday:
#wmata again appears to be arbitrarily cutting Silver Line service due to single-tracking which only affects the Orange Line between Cheverly and New Carrollton.
#WMATA is at this exact moment running Orange Line trains every 20 minutes.
#wmata says the DC region is getting $830.7M of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSSA)'s $14B allotted to transit, $714M of which is heading to Metro (enough to complete FY22 w/o service cuts, tho below my earlier estimate)
#wmata FY22 budget recommends pushing Silver Line Phase II opening to January 2022.
Latest #wmata Silver Line update notes 17 open issues - 9 "unresolved" - with MWAA/construction, including 1 issue (cracked 3rd rail coverboard brackets) new since last month's update. The line will open no sooner than 3 months after handover from MWAA. wmata.com/about/board/me…
#wmata appendix lists all currently-open issues. Cracked concrete panels no longer on this list (which WMATA OIG issued its own report about - ggwash.org/view/78978/met…)
#wmata's "available track" metric came in better than expected in part due to Purple Line delays (shutdowns/single-tracking that would've impacted the Red Line for integration). wmata.com/about/board/me…