DC Area's Metro Installing Cable in Tunnel To Improve Radio, Wireless Coverage
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority started a capital improvement project to install radio cable along 100 miles of tunnel walls throughout the underground system, Metro said in a news release Wednesday. The project will result in improved radio coverage…
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for Metro and the Washington, D.C., region's first responders, as well as wireless technology coverage within the tunnels, it said. Engineering and production tests are underway in a 6,000-foot-tunnel segment between the Glenmont and Forest Glen stations in Maryland, to develop project design specifications, it said. Metro will install dual radio and cellular cables on the walls in 100 miles of tunnel, it said: The system will be easier to maintain than the current radio system as critical equipment is moved to where it will be accessible at all times without track outages. The underground portion of the work will be funded through Metro’s capital improvement program and is estimated to cost $120 million, it said.