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A reminder for those of you with plans to attend tonight's big Elton John and Billy Joel double bill at Nationals Park (or anyone traveling on the Green Line, for that matter): Metro will be providing extended rail service to reduce congestion after the show, but there will not be any Circulator buses or shuttle service from RFK Stadium, as there normally is for Nationals games. Thinking about driving to the first concert at the new ballpark? As Post reporter Robert Thomson says, "Don't think about parking on the street near the stadium unless you really know where you are and what you're doing." It seems like this one's going to be quite the transportation nightmare, so pack your patience if you're heading down.
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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You're gonna hear electric music
Solid walls of sound
Solid walls of sound
Clearly audible on the corner of South Carolina and 11th Street, SE.
We'll be hearing from lucky Nationals Park area condo residents who had their windows rattled, no doubt.
Well, I live directly across the street from NP and closer than any condo resident. (BTW, those condos are hardly at half capacity despite their "free garage parking for 3 month" hussle). No matter...
Yes my windows were rocked. The neighbors parked their lawn chairs on the sidewalk along SoCap, saving themselves $100. The beauty of outdoor venues.
Some friends and I were watching from outside the Left Field Gate (the one with the smokers holding pen) and you could see most of the video board, but definitely not the stage. But, chance would have it that the event staff let us in for free with a 10 minute time limit to watch from on the concourse. She probably thought that the concert was wrapping up, but it so happened that there were 6 or 7 songs left in Billy and Elton when we got the go ahead to enter and learned that the 10 min guideline was merely that and no one ever asked us to leave. I would have been perfectly content outside the gate, but was pleasantly surprised to actually be able to go in gratis. The woman must have felt that the show was too good to keep us cheap folk out on the sidewalk.
Thus, this was only my second time being inside despite living in such close proximity -- the other time being for Opera in the Outfield, also free. I just may shell out for a cheap nosebleed ticket to an actual game before this summer is over.
As far as parking went, DDOT had put up special cardboard No Parking placards for non-Zone 6'ers and my street was relatively devoid of Virginians despite witnessing a large handful of cars try to skip the exorbitant garage fee by trying their hand on my street. Gotta hand it to DDOT and MPD this time around as they held it down for my neighborhood.