Four stations closed since July will reopen Saturday after upgrades to track and communication cables.
Four Maryland Metro stations that have been closed since late July for track upgrades and installation of fiber optic cables will reopen this weekend ahead of schedule, Metro said Tuesday.
The Green Line stations — Greenbelt, College Park-University of Maryland, Hyattsville Crossing and West Hyattsville — will reopen Saturday, three days earlier than planned, after being closed since July 22 for a project that transit officials said replaced worn track parts and boosted Metro’s radio and signal capabilities.More than 21,000 linear feet of fiber-optic cable was laid between the Green Line’s two tracks, work Metro said could only be completed while no trains were operating.
“We are proud of the important infrastructure improvements we made this summer, which will benefit our customers with more reliable and timely service for years to come,” Metro’s chief of infrastructure, Andy Off, said in a statement, adding that the project also was completed under budget.
The miles of fiber-optic cables will assist in real-time communications, higher-quality surveillance video and train automation. Metro is switching to a fully automated train system this year. Metrorail operated on automation until train control was ceded to operators after a fatal collision in 2009, despite multiple investigations showing automation did not contribute to the crash.
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