A series of weekend closures will disrupt Metrorail trips to Reagan National Airport as a second entrance is built at the Crystal City Metro station.
The Crystal City station will close Saturday for the holiday weekend and then again the following two weekends. Then March 7-8, the National Airport and Potomac Yards stations also will close before Metro takes a break for cherry blossom season.
Closures resume at all three stations for May 9-10 and May 16-17 and just at Crystal City May 30 through the next four weekends.
“We do know these impacts will be serious for some people that travel to the airport,” Metro GM Randy Clarke said.
“We’re going to be putting up actual steel, and the way this station is formed, we wouldn’t be able to safely run trains and have customers in there while we do this,” he explained.
Track work also is part of the plan.
So, instead of getting to DCA by train, Metro will run buses.
Twenty percent of people who fly out of DCA take the train to get there. On Saturdays, that’s about 5,000, and on Sundays, 7,000 riders.
The closures could add about 15 minutes to trips, Metro said.
The new entrance at Crystal City is expected to cost about $150 million and open in spring 2027. The project is being funded by Arlington County and will be transferred to Metro once completed.
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