Metro will open two hours early to help runners get to the Rock 'N' Roll Marathon in Washington this weekend, but many area roads will be closed.
Metro says it will open at 5 a.m. Saturday. Most of Metro's five lines will have regular weekend service. That includes the yellow and orange lines.
Riders traveling on the blue line will have regular service except at the Franconia-Springfield station, where trains will arrive and depart every 20 to 25 minutes between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
On the green line, riders can expect regular service except buses will replace trains at the Greenbelt station only.
Red line riders will see trains every 16 minutes, or every 10 minutes from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. between Farragut North and Silver Spring.
Road closures will begin at midnight, and are expected to be reopened by 2 p.m. The closures follow the marathon route, listed below.
Marathons will form at Constitution Avenue, NW, just east of 14th Street, NW:
- Start on Constitution Avenue, NW just east on 14th Street, NW
- Right on Virginia Avenue, NW
- Right on 18th Street, NW
- Left on E Street, NW
- Left on Virginia Avenue, NW
- Right on 19th Street, NW
- Right on Constitution Avenue, NW
- Left on 23rd Street, NW
- Enter Memorial Circle
- Exit Memorial Circle
- Arlington Memorial Bridge
- Left on Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
- Merge left on Shoreham Drive, NW
- Right on Harvard Street, NW
- Right on 5th Street, NW
- Merge onto 4th Street, NE
- Left of Bryant Street, NW
- Right on North Capitol Street, NW
- Left on K Street, NE
- Right on 4th Street, NE
- Left on H Street, NE
- Right on 13th Street, NE
- Left on Constitution Avenue, NE
(Full Marathon/Half Marathon Split)
Half Marathon Turns ONLY:
- Left on North Capitol Avenue, NE
- Merge onto C Street, NE
- Merge right onto 22nd Street, NE
- Right on East Capitol Street, NE
- HALF MARATHON CONCLUDES
FULL MARATHON CONTINUES:
- Right on 14th Street, NE
- Right on North Carolina Avenue, NE
- Left on 13th Street, SE
- Right on East Capitol Street, SE
- Right on 11th Street, NE
- Left on East Capitol Street, NE
- Right on 2nd Street, NE
- Left on Constitution Avenue, NE
- Merge right on Constitution Avenue, NW
- Merge left on Constitution Avenue, NW
- Left on 9th Street, NW
- Right on L’Enfant Plaza
- U-Turn on L’Enfant Plaza (in front of USPS)
- Right on 9th Street, SW
- Left on Maine Avenue, SW
- Right on 6th Street, SW
- Left on Water Street, SW
- Merge onto the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
- Merge onto P Street, SW
- Right on 2nd Street, SW
- Left on V Street, SW
- Left on First Street, SW
- Right on Potomac Avenue, SW
- Left on South Capitol Street, SW
- U-Turn on South Capitol Street, SW
- Cross the Frederick Douglas Bridge
- Left onto South Capitol Street, SE
- Left on Douglass Bridge access road
- Right on Anacostia Drive, SE
- Full loop around Anacostia Park skating Pavilion on Anacostia Drive, SE
- Left on Nicholson Street, SE
- Left on Fairlawn Avenue, SE
- Right on Pennsylvania Avenue, SE
- Left on L’Enfant Square, SE
- Left on Minnesota Avenue, SE
- Right on East Capitol Street, SE on ramp
- Right on East Capitol Street, SE
- Merge left onto C Street, SE
- Merge left and enter in to lot 7 of RFK Stadium
- MARATHON CONCLUDES
Bump Routes are as follows:
- 6th and East Capitol Street, NE
- 8th and East Capitol Street, NE
- 4th and East Capitol Street, NE
- 10th and East Capitol Street, NE
- 8th and H Streets, NE
- 15th and North Carolina Avenue, NE
- 17th and C Streets, NE
