A series of weekend-long Metrorail closures between Pentagon City and Reagan National Airport will start next month, impacting Blue and Yellow lines departing and entering Alexandria.
Trains on the Blue and Yellow lines will be suspended between those stations during ten weekends this spring, and Metro will offer free connecting shuttle bus services. The closures are planned to accommodate the construction of a second entrance at Arlington’s Crystal City station.
The Crystal City station will be closed for all ten weekends. Three of those weekends will involve suspended services between Potomac Yard and Pentagon City.
The changes are slated to go into effect the weekend of Saturday, Feb. 14, according to a Metro press release. During impacted weekends, both lines are expected to operate in “two segments” outside the closed stations every 12 minutes
Crystal City’s station will close for the following weekends.
- Feb. 14-16 (three-day closure)
- Feb. 21-22
- Feb. 28 to March 1
- March 7-8
- May 9-10
- May 16-17
- May 30-31
- June 6-7
- June 13-14
- June 19-21 (three-day closure)
The National Airport station will close on the following three weekends, with connector shuttles extending to Potomac Yard.
- March 7-8
- May 9-10
- May 16-17
The second entrance at Crystal City is expected to debut in spring 2027.
