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College Park Metro Station Closed During UMD Commencement Weekend

Three stations will be closed along the Green Line in Prince George's County the weekend of May 17-19, according to WMATA.

If you were hoping to avoid some of the traffic along Route 1 this weekend, when thousands of University of Maryland students and their families will be on campus for commencement, take note that three Metro stations will be closed along the Green Line.

According to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, College Park metro station will be closed this weekend along with the Greenbelt and Prince George's Plaza stations while crews perform track upgrades—"including tie and insulator renewal, interlocking maintenance and work associated with construction of a new test track for 7000-series railcars."

The stations will be closed from 10 p.m. Friday through Sunday and will reopen Monday morning.

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However, if you must use metro to travel, WMATA said there would be free shuttle buses available between the Greenbelt and West Hyattsville stations. Commuters should add 35 minutes to their travel time.

“If we rescheduled rebuilding work every time there’s a major event, we’d never get any rebuilding done,” Dan Stessel, a Metro spokesman, told The Washington Post. “There are major events every weekend. But this work has to get done, and weekends are when it happens.”

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According to the Post, a university spokeswoman said they were only just made aware of the closure.

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