Metro Board Approves Eliminating the Grosvenor Turnback Beginning December 2018

For Immediate Release: Thursday, July 12, 2018

The Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA) Board took final action today to extend continuous Red Line service to Shady Grove. This service improvement will begin in December 2018.

“For ten years, Montgomery County has made it a priority to eliminate the Grosvenor turnbacks,” said Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett. “I am gratified that the Metrorail board has acted to provide continuous service on all trains for riders to White Flint, Twinbrook, Rockville and Shady Grove. We are grateful to WMATA board members Michael Goldman and Kathy Porter as well as Montgomery County Department of Transportation staff for their hard work in this regard.”

Currently, about half of the trains traveling to White Flint, Twinbrook, Rockville and Shady Grove turn back at Grosvenor.

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Release ID: 18-615
Media Contact: Lorraine Driscoll 240-777-6533