MEDIA ADVISORY:  METRORAIL MODIFIES RAIL SERVICE DUE TO ACCIDENT INVOLVING METRORAIL

March 15, 2010

METRO is single-tracking rail service for northbound travel between the Downtown Transit Center and the UH-Downtown station. Patrons can board a train heading northbound via the Downtown Transit Center northbound platform.

Patrons can board a southbound train at the Downtown transit center southbound platform.

A bus bridge is in place for patrons traveling the stretch between the Downtown Transit Center and the UH-Downtown station. METRO buses are picking up patrons on Travis for northbound travel and Fannin for southbound travel.

Eighteen people have been transported to various area hospitals, reportedly with non-life threatening injuries resulting from an accident involving a METRORail train and METRO bus this afternoon at Main at St. Joseph.