Metro Opening Early on Saturday for Race

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IF YOU PLAN on traveling on the Red or Green lines this weekend, be prepared for delays due to scheduled track maintenance and rail car testing. However, if you're up early for the 18th annual Susan G. Komen National Race for the Cure, you are in luck. For the 11th straight year, Metro will open at 5 a.m. to accommodate walkers, runners, volunteers and spectators turning out for the event.

According to Metro, Participants attending the 6:45 a.m., pre-race rally should use either the Federal Center SW or Judiciary Square stations. Participants arriving for the 8 and 8:15 a.m. race starting times should use either the Metro Center, Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter or Federal Triangle stations.

Riders heading through Bethesda on the Red Line can expect 15 minute delays between the Friendship Heights and Medical Center stations due to track maintenance. Trains between those stations will share a track starting around 10 p.m. today through 3 a.m. Saturday, and again from 10 p.m. Saturday until 10 a.m. Sunday.

Those traveling on the Green Line in Southeast D.C. between the Navy Yard, Anacostia and Southern Avenue stations should add 15 minutes to trips for scheduled track maintenance. Trains between those stations will share one track from 8 p.m. to midnight on Sunday.

Also on the Green Line in Prince George's County, riders should expect 10-15 minute delays between the Greenbelt and College Park stations for regular rail car testing. Trains will share a track during testing, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.

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