Throughout the Renaissance Tour, Beyoncé and her team have made an effort to support those in the cities in which she is performing. In London, the BeyGood Foundation gave a Nigerian restaurant the £8,000 it needed to keep up financially. More recently, her husband, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, joined her during her time in Chicago and supported a Black-owned, soul food restaurant. During her most recent stop in Washington, D.C., she found a new way to help out those around her.
On Sunday, August 6, Beyoncé planned to wrap up her run of shows at FedEx Field in Maryland. Unfortunately, the start of her show was delayed until after 10 p.m. EST due to inclement weather. Due to the show’s delayed start, some concertgoers began to ask, “How am I going to get home if the show started after 9 p.m. and the public train system is set shutdown at midnight?” Fortunately, she answered all of those questions by offering the $100,000 needed to keep the train system in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and northern Virginia area open for an additional hour.
“The additional hours will be funded by the Tour to cover the $100,00 cost to run more trains, keep all 98 stations open for customers to exit, and other operational expenses. During the extended service period, customers will only be able to enter at Morgan Boulevard, the station closest to FedEx Field. All other stations will be exit only,” a statement from Jordan Pasacale of WAMU in Washington, D.C. reads.
“Metro previously announced a 30-minute extension of the last trains to ensure customers could get home after the concert. The late closing, sponsored by the Tour, adds another hour to extend the last train time from Morgan Boulevard to 90 minutes after the normal schedule.”
