Metro Goes Techie and the Green Line Forecast

Fasten your seat belts techies, Metrorail and Google have teamed up to provide subway, rail and bus information through Google Maps.

So if you’re headed out from Greenbelt this weekend, let’s say to see Bernadette Peters at the Kennedy Center, for example, you can find out your transit specifics by pulling up Google Maps. Click the Get Directions tab and be sure to click the bus icon in the area just below it.

Once you type your to and fro points, stand ready to be amazed with a combination of walking, subway and bus details, that cover your entire commute including bus and train arrival and departure times, what bus number to meet at what street corner and even an estimated walking time once you land at your last metro station. Wow!

You can also get Metro details on Google Maps for mobile.

Before I start sounding all geeky (too late), let us go to the weekend weather report for the Green Line – fair skies. According to Metro, we Greenliners will get yet another weekend with no scheduled maintenance, but be on the lookout if you’re transferring to the Blue, Red, Yellow and Orange Lines, which are all slated for work.

Blue and Yellow Line Service

Blue Line trains will share one track between the Stadium-Armory and Addison Road-Seat Pleasant stations as personnel repair the floating slabs beneath the rails.

Blue and Yellow Line trains will share one track between the Braddock Road and Pentagon City Metrorail stations as personnel reapair the aerial structure near the National Airport station and work to improve cell phone coverage.

Metro recommends customers who normally use the Blue and Yellow Lines build additional time into their travel schedules.

Red Line Service

Red Line trains will share one track between the Grosvenor-Strathmore and Twinbrook Metrorail stations as personnel continue to repair the White Flint platform. Red Line trains also will share one track between the New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U and Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood stations as personnel upgrade the aerial structure outside the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood station. Be prepared for some delays.

Orange Line Service

Orange Line trains will share one track between the Ballston-MU and West Falls Church-VT/UVA Metrorail stations for construction activities related to the Dulles Metrorail extension and for replacing cross ties.

On Saturday and Sunday, every other Orange Line train traveling to the Vienna-Fairfax/GMU station will terminate at the Ballston-MU station and return to the New Carrollton Metrorail station. For people traveling beyond the Ballston-MU station towards the Vienna-Fairfax/GMU Metrorail station, Orange Line trains will operate approximately every 24 minutes.