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All U.S. Open Metro Shuttle Passes Sold Out

And if you were lucky enough to snag one, expect delays on the Red Line this weekend.

Sunday passes for shuttles to the U.S. Open at from the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro have now sold out, according to Transportation Management Services (TMS), the company that contracts with the United States Golf Association (USGA) to run the service.

By about noon on Thursday, all passes for Thursday, Friday and Saturday had been sold, according to Mike Moulton, who runs the project for TMS. 

By 7 a.m. Friday, all the passes for Sunday were also gone, Moulton said. The shuttle buses are run via a reservation system.

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3,500 daily passes had been available with an additional 800 weekly passes that allow passengers to ride any day of the week. Along with the daily passes for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, all of the weekly passes are sold out as well, Moulton said.

With all the passes sold, there's the potential for the Metro shuttles to reach their full capacity—4,300 riders daily.

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"It' s been very busy this morning," Moulton said.

Full buses were leaving from Grosvenor about every five minutes, he said.

"The highest percentage of people travelling to the championship is in the morning so we were able to accommodate the needs of a good number of people [Thursday,]" Dan Hubbard, a spokesman for USGA wrote in an e-mail to Patch yesterday regarding Metro riders.

RideOn and passenger, taxi or limo drop-off at the Norwood School are other options for spectators who aren't driving to the event, Hubbard said. Drivers are encouraged to use off-site parking lots in Gaithersburg.

The Metro shuttles were designed to handle only about a tenth of the total 35,000 daily expected spectators for each day of the tournament. Tickets for the tournament are sold out for each day of the championship.

“Due to our distance and the logistical challenges we would have in trying to transport people from Metro stations, it really is much more of a supplemental option for us,” Reg Jones, senior director for the U.S. Open,

If you already have a Metro shuttle pass, be prepared for delays on the Red Line this weekend. Track work will mean trains are sharing a single track between Van Ness-UDC and Friendship Heights station. Throughout the weekend on the Red Line, trains will be running about every 24 minutes, according to a WMATA press release. Additional service will mean trains will run every 12 minutes between the Van Ness-UDC and Takoma stations, but not in the Montgomery County portion of the Red Line.

WMATA is telling all Red Line riders to add 20 minutes to their commute this weekend.

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