The changes also will include more eight-car trains across the system to reduce overcrowding during some peak hours.
Metro on Thursday said it will significantly boost train frequencies next month as it continues to recover from a rail car shortage that began in fall 2021.
The series, Metro’s most advanced cars, makes up about 60 percent of the transit agency’s fleet. Their absence created a train shortage that pushed average wait times on some lines to 20 minutes, although delays have shortened as Metro pulled older cars from storage.Metro officials said Thursday that shorter waits will begin Feb. 7 on the Blue and Orange lines, with average wait times falling from 15 minutes to 12 minutes during the hours of 6 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.
Metro General Manager Randy Clarke said the changes also will include servicing the Orange Line with only eight-car trains, rather than a mix of those with six and eight cars. The number of eight-car trains also will increase systemwide, he said, which is expected to reduce overcrowding during some afternoon peak hours.The changes came after a dispute in recent days between Metro and the safety commission over the interval of wheel inspections for 7000-series trains that are restored to service.
“What is the base service that is needed to still have really good service?” Clarke said. “And where do you have to run a little bit more where demand obviously is?”
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