DC Metro Service Status: Delays and Track Work
Current DC Metro service, planned track work, and where to check live alerts before you travel.
Service monitoring
Washington DC Metro status
Service status · updated in real time
Shady Grove ↔ Glenmont
Downtown Largo ↔ Franconia-Springfield
New Carrollton ↔ Vienna/Fairfax-GMU
Downtown Largo ↔ Ashburn / New Carrollton
Branch Ave ↔ Greenbelt
Huntington ↔ Greenbelt
DC Metro service status right now
This board is a quick summary. WMATA publishes the authoritative live position, including elevator and escalator outages, on its own site and in the Metro app.
Current disruptions
Weekend track work
Track work is the most common cause of a slow trip in Washington. Most weekends at least one line is single-tracking somewhere, which typically stretches the wait to around 20 minutes on the affected stretch, and occasionally a segment shuts entirely with free shuttle buses in place of trains.
WMATA publishes the work schedule in advance and revises it frequently. We deliberately do not copy the weekend list onto this page: a track-work notice that is a week out of date is worse than no notice at all.
How to check before you travel
Elevator outages. If a working elevator is essential to your trip, check before you set out rather than at the station. WMATA lists every elevator and escalator that is out of service, and an outage at an interchange can mean a long detour.
Real-time train arrivals are shown on platform displays, in the Metro app, and in Google Maps and Apple Maps, all fed from the same WMATA data.
Alerts by text or email are available free from WMATA for the lines you choose, which is the most reliable way to hear about a problem before you are standing on a platform.
Frequently asked questions
The board on this page gives a quick summary by line. For the live, authoritative position – including individual elevator and escalator outages – check wmata.com or the Metro app.
Track maintenance. The Metro closes overnight rather than running 24 hours, but heavy work still needs longer windows, so WMATA single-tracks or shuts segments at weekends. Expect waits of around 20 minutes where it is happening.
Yes, and they are free. On a longer shutdown WMATA usually runs both a local shuttle calling at every closed station and an express between the two ends of the closure.
Use WMATA’s customer service channels – our complaints page lists the phone number, the online form and the lost property route. We are an independent guide and cannot pass a report on for you.