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Mar 13, 2008 8:00 pm US/Eastern

Metro Plans More Trains To Move People To See Pope

WASHINGTON (AP) ―

Metro plans to run extra trains to help a huge crowd attend the papal mass at Nationals Park on April 17.

The transit agency says it expects to carry at least 25,000 people early that morning to hear Pope Benedict XVI at the 10 a.m. event.

Trains are expected to be busiest from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m.

Patrons attending the mass are scheduled to arrive by 9:15 a.m.

Metro officials say they will have extra personnel on hand to help guide riders at the Navy Yard Metrorail station.

The newly expanded west entrance of the station will be used as an exit only before the mass and for entry only after the mass.

Metro also will sell a commemorative $9 pass that will be good for the entire day.

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