The transit agency is planning to replace rail, install fiber-optic cables and make other station improvements
Construction projects this spring and summer will create waves of Metro delays and station shutdowns as the transit agency tries to balance service with needed upgrades and repairs.
“In the infrastructure business, resting on your laurels is not a good recipe for future success,” Andy Off, Metro’s vice president for capital delivery, said Thursday at a Metro board meeting. “We want to continue our aggressive focus on providing reliable infrastructure as at the end of the day, it really underpins our ability to deliver a safe and reliable service on a daily basis.”
Metro officials said the work will both modernize the system and boost safety by replacing vulnerable rail and adding needed fiber-optic cables to allow workers to communicate more clearly with each other — a deficiency that Metrorail’s regulator cited last year.Between May 12 and May 22, Metro said, workers will be making improvements to roofs at the Minnesota Avenue, Deanwood and Cheverly stations.
It will be the second time in three summers that stations in the area will close for work, coming after platform replacements in 2021. Metro officials said fiber-optic cable couldn’t have been installed at that time because it requires taking track apart, which was in use to move equipment.“At the end of the day, if we didn’t do this work in a 44-day shutdown, it would take approximately six months of every-weekend shutdowns,” Off said.
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