Via JDLand, we find this YouTube video a resident made of an incessant beeping noise emanating from the general direction of the Department of Public Works equipment staging area at 900 New Jersey Ave SE. According to the Capitol Riverfront BID, that site is eventually set to be redeveloped into housing, but in the meantime, the resident who made this video says the beeping has been going on for at least two weeks. We're checking with DPW to see if they know anything about it. That would drive me absolutely bonkers if it was happening right by my house.



Sounds like someone left the keys in one of those work trucks, and left the door open.
Molly!
Old news. The beeping was stopped yesterday and DPW says it was a collision attenuator.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmWWePoYHYk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edaJP3Lp0Gg
That's the DPW "everything's fine" alarm. It beeps so long as everything is fine and stops beeping when something goes wrong. Which, given the harried pace of water main breaks lately, means it must be broken.