UPDATE 9/14/16 3:15 p.m.: Metro announced the track work changes Wednesday afternoon. to read more about the schedule changes.
WASHINGTON 鈥� Metro is set to announce changes no later than Thursday for its upcoming round-the-clock work zones that will include extensions of the “surges” announced earlier this year, sources said.
Several sources told WTOP they expect an announcement Wednesday afternoon.
Rep. Barbara Comstock, R-Va., and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., each put out statements late Wednesday morning referencing “the announcement that SafeTrack construction will occur longer than originally planned.”
After WTOP contacted Metro about the pending announcement, the agency that new dates for 2016 surges would be released by Thursday. There are additional surges scheduled next year.
Metro is extending specific surges to address safety issues tied to the interlockings where trains cross from one track to another, such as the location where a train . Metro is not ready to say exactly when the last of the original 15 surges will be completed.
Last month, Metro announced that the was in flux after concerning findings about track safety and a .
The next scheduled surge after the work that was a shutdown of the Red Line through Brookland and Rhode Island Ave. That work is now expected to include for a bridge holding up the outbound tracks.
