Good morning, commuters! We’ll be keeping an eye on the roads and rails this morning, reporting any delays or issues — and we will need your help. If you hear about any congestion, delays, problems or anything at all, tell us in the comments section below or by tweeting @drgridlock.

May ends with a breezy, warm and pleasant day, according to the Capital Weather Gang. June begins tomorrow with lots of rain, so enjoy this while you can.

So far:

— An accident on I-66 East at the Beltway is blocking the left two lanes. Traffic is getting by in the right lanes, but there are already major delays.

— VRE Fredericksburg train 302 is having equipment problems and is stopped south of the Fredericksburg station. Train 304 will pick up passengers waiting for both trains 302 and 304, so you should expect over-crowded conditions on train 304.

VRE riders could instead wait for train 306, which leaves at 6:05 a.m. Also an option: Metro. The Metro option has been opened, so just show your VRE ticket to a station manager.

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8:30 A.M. Update:

The accident on the westbound Suitland Parkway at Branch Avenue is now just blocking the right shoulder. The right lane has reopened.

An accident on the outer loop of the Beltway at New Hampshire Avenue is blocking one of the outer loop lanes and one of the shoulders.

A Metro worker was hit by a train early Tuesday afternoon in a maintenance yard near the Shady Grove station, according to Metro and rescue officials. The worker, who is a mechanic, suffered serious injuries, but he was reported to be conscious and alert, officials said.

The mishap occurred just before 1 p.m., officials said. Rescue workers were called to the yard — where trains are washed, maintained and repaired — and found the victim trapped by the train, said Capt. Oscar Garcia, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. The yard is in the 15900 block of Somerville Drive.

Big traffic delays are likely to result from paving work this weekend on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. By Monday morning, the inner loop’s THRU lanes in Virginia will be in their final configuration, but this is just the beginning of a busy season of paving and lane adjustments along the Beltway.

By the end of the summer, the LOCAL and THRU lanes on both sides of the Beltway should be completely open, leaving Telegraph Road’s reconstruction as the last major element of the massive project, scheduled to be completely done by mid-2013.

The most significant impact on drivers this year will be an end to the bottleneck that prevented outer loop traffic from getting the full benefit of the new Wilson Bridge.

But that’s still to come, during the summer. (See more about the project’s schedule on this coming Sunday’s Commuter page.) Of more immediate concern is the possibility that this weekend’s inner loop paving will back up traffic across the Wilson Bridge and into Maryland. Here are the details.

Lane changes

Beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday, the inner loop THRU lanes will be reduced to a single lane between the bridge and Telegraph Road.

A temporary second LOCAL lane will be opened between Route 1 and Telegraph Road to ease traffic congestion. That lane will be open until Monday morning. Project managers encourage drivers to use the inner loop LOCAL lanes during the day on Friday.

From 8 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, all THRU lanes on the inner loop will be shut. The inner loop LOCAL exits to Pershing Avenue and Telegraph Road North also will be closed.

8:30 A.M. Update:

Remember, today’s public viewing honoring Chuck Brown will be held at the Howard Theare (620 T Street) from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. This is going to lead to street closures and Metrobus detours, so expect traffic issues and crowding in the area.

The street closures:

• T Street NW will be closed from Seventh Street to Florida Avenue until midnight.

• At 9:30 a.m., the T Street closure will expand two blocks west, and it will be closed from Ninth Street to Florida Avenue.

• Seventh and Eighth streets NW will be closed between Florida Avenue and S Street from 9:30 a.m, to midnight.

• Wiltberger Street NW between T and S streets also will be closed between 9:30 a.m. and midnight.

And the Metrobus detours:

• Metrobuses 70 and 79 to Silver Spring are detouring at 7th and O Streets NW and resuming their regular route at V Street and Georgia Avenue.

• Metrobuses 70 and 79 to Archives are detouring at Georgia Avenue and V Street NW and ending the route at 9th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.

8:25 A.M. Update:

Red Line delays continue en route to Glenmont due to an earlier train malfunction near Medical Center.