Metro today announced that 15 rail stations that had been closed as part of the transit agency’s Covid-19 response will reopen on Sunday, June 28. In addition, beginning Monday, June 28, buses will be added to the system’s 14 busiest bus lines to provide more capacity and more frequent service as the region reopens. Rail […]
The information below was sent to us from WMATA early this week. The advisory will end by the end of this week: In the interest of public safety and in light of an announced 7 p.m. citywide curfew in the District of Columbia, all Metrorail and Metrobus service will end earlier than normal today, Monday, […]
Starting from tomorrow, Thursday, March 26, 2020, Metro will close 17 additional stations, including College Park. Bus service is also curtailed, and they have also closed some Metro entrances. To get the full list and more info, click here.
The WMATA has recently announced that they have removed the property on Albion Road and Baltimore Avenue from the market. Earlier, the community, College Park City Council, the County Council members, and the 21st Delegation expressed serious concerns about the process surrounding the surplus of the property. The groups asked the WMATA Board to pull […]
At next week’s meeting, the city Council will be sending a letter to WMATA, about the noise barrier and test track in north College Park. Please see the draft letter below. ——————————————————- May 26, 2015 Jack Requa Interim General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Dear Mr. Requa: On Thursday, May […]
Metro is saying the Greenbelt station has reopened and full service has been restored to the Green Line. Crews worked throughout the night to get the tracks ready to safely restore service. Yesterday, a piece of construction equipment hit the pedestrian bridge between Berwyn and Berwyn Heights causing a large piece of it to fall onto […]
Metro’s efforts to rebuild the Green Line will continue over the weekend of May 4-6. The work will begin at 10 p.m. Friday, May 4 and continue through system closing on Sunday, May 6. Buses will replace trains between Greenbelt and Fort Totten to allow for NTSB-recommended switch replacement. The following 4 stations will be […]
Those of you who take Metro at the Greenbelt station, you must have noticed a portable light trailer was set up near the pathway bridge, facing west towards the Lackwanna and 53rd Ave intersection. For the past few days, the lights were on entire night and also late in the morning. The lights were extremely […]
Dr. Fazlul Kabir is a five-term City Council Member of the City of College Park District 1.