Update – 10:45 a.m. – Metro reports normal service has resumed at the Bethesda Metro station.
Red Line: Normal service has resumed at Bethesda.
— Metrorail Info (@Metrorailinfo) January 21, 2016
Original report – Shuttle buses are transporting Metro riders from the Medical Center station to Bethesda after an escalator outage once again closed the Bethesda Metro station.
Trains are bypassing the station due to the escalator outage, which happened around 9 a.m. Metro routinely closes the station if an escalator in either direction is out because of the significant length—106 feet—of the escalators.
Metro is currently working on replacing the three escalators at the Bethesda station and completed the first escalator replacement in August.
Escalator outages have caused the station to close several times in the past year, including twice in a one-week span in August.
