Friday, December 7, 2012
Look for members of the Cathedral Choral Society on Friday at the Dupont Circle Metro.
As you make your way home from work Friday, you may want to consider a detour to the Dupont Circle Metro Station on the Red Line: a group of carolers will be singing at the station's exit. The Cathedral Choral Society has three metro performances planned for the weekend. Friday's caroling event at the Dupont Circle metro station will begin at 6 p.m. at the Q Street entrance/exit and is expected to last an hour. Look for the carolers at the following locations over the weekend: The public caroling precedes the choral group's annual holiday concerts series. The Washington's National Cathedral will be the venue for part of this year's series, The Joy of Christmas. According to a press release, The Joy of Christmas, "features the traditional …
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Officials cut a ribbon Sunday to mark the completion of the nearly nine-month project.
Sunday marked the end of nearly nine months of construction at the south entrance to Dupont Circle where crews replaced three escalators, ranked among the "least reliable" in the entire system, according to a Metro press release. The escalators were notorious for breaking and repairing them was challenging because they were custom-made and the company that made them went out of business. The new "transit-grade" escalators took nearly nine months to install, during which time customers had to rely on the north entrance to access the red line Metro station. "Too often, customers who use this station were faced with the unpleasant choice of climbing 85 feet and more than 100 steps to the surface, or turning back and using the north entrance …
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Metro announced Thursday plans to accelerate repairs and replacements of area metro escalators.
Metro will bring on additional outside help to service and repair escalators and plans to accelerate current efforts to replace escalators at the Foggy Bottom and Dupont Circle stations, according to a news release. Metro will release a request for proposals later this week to contract additional personnel to service Virginia metro stations, including the new line to Dulles “While we have made progress towards our maintenance compliance goals and improving the quality of repairs, we need to expand our efforts to give customers the safe and reliable escalators they deserve,” said Metro General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Richard Sarles in a statement Thursday. “Simply put, we need more people power to catch up and recover from years…
Shaun Courtney
11:29 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
I just heard back from the Cathedral Choral Society: they will be performing at the Q Street exit/entrance to the Dupont Circle Metro station. Look for them from 6 to 7 p.m. -Shaun more ›