April 11, 2008
Navigating This Weekend's Parade and Games
The Cherry Blossom parade will modify many downtown Metrobus routes this weekend. The parade starts this Saturday at 10 a.m. and marches on Constitution Avenue between 7th and 17th streets, and will force the 5A, 13, 32, 34, 35, 36, 52, 54, 66, 70, 80, P6, S2, S4 and V8 to alter their routes until about 1 p.m. If you plan on taking any of these buses tomorrow, you should expect delays.
Metro also says it is prepared for the crowds for this weekend's Nationals, Capitals and Wizards games, plus the aforementioned Cherry Blossom parade. During the weekend, Metro will have 20 additional trains ready to be dispatched, but will otherwise run its standard afternoon rush hour service.
For those visiting the Verizon Center, Metro advises use of Gallery Place's 9th and G Street or 7th and H Street exits. Nationals fans heading to the Navy Yard can also use the less crowed New Jersey Avenue exit, which is only two blocks from Nationals Park. Lastly, those attending the Cherry Blossom parade should use the Smithsonian or Federal Triangle stops. Metro will also have additional station managers and transit police on hand at those four stations.
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In honor of all the games and events, Jim Graham will be hosting a ceremony to rename the Gallery Place station "Gallery Place/Chinatown/Penn Quarter/Fustercluck Central" I predict five-deep lines for the ticket machines and LOTS of standing on the right.
And the thing I hate the most about that fade-in washington.org banner ad is the two clever looking white guys playing chess in Dupont. Every guy I'ver ever seen playing chess by the fountain looks either like a homeless card-counting grifter or an forty-something idiot savant who lives with his mom.
But I dig on the skank with the bedroom eyes sipping the blue drink. Nothing like cleaning curacao vomit off the toilet after an evening's three-way with a couple of guidos. That's class.
I don't live with my mom any more...
Its great though to see DC become a busy place again. I was in Cleveland when they got smart and built the new football, baseball, and basketball arena's downtown..totally reconstructed downtown and brought people back...