Metro: Single Tracking Causing Delays on Red Line

November 1, 2012 6:21 PM

Filed Under: Friendship Heights, Medical Center, metro delays

Commuters ride in a metro train in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2011. Washington, DC has the second highest percentage of public transit commuters in the US, behind only New York City. AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

Credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Metro’s Red Line is single tracking between Friendship Heights and Medical Center causing delays of up to 20 minutes for commuters.

Metro says the trains are single tracking because of a track problem – something Metro is calling an “Arching Insulator” – that caused sparks on the track and may have left behind some smoke.

Customers heading to Shady Grove are experiencing delays of up to 20 minutes.

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