Results tagged “mixingbowl”

Once again, the country is in a tizzy over a conservative Republican senator doing naughty things. According to a Post report, Sen. Larry Craig (R-Id.) was arrested earlier this month in an airport bathroom in Minnesota after he became a little touchy with an undercover police officer. (Similar allegations were made against him here, though they allegedly occurred in a Union Station bathroom.) Our favorite part? That during an interview with police after the...

The Washington Post ran a lovely Metro section article this morning chronicling progress on the mammoth effort to re-engineer the Mixing Bowl from a slapdash mess of on-ramps, merges, exits, and bottlenecks into 50 graceful bridges and 24 streamlined lanes of traffic. As we read the first few sentences of this little human interest-style puff piece, a curious trend jumped out at us.When Woodbridge resident Kit Oliva first drove across the new Springfield interchange ramp,...

Good morning, Washington. So... did you participate in Bike to Work Day? And wasn't it surprisingly pleasant? We hope the answer to both questions is yes. Here's one more reason to pick up the habit: yesterday WTOP reported that Metro will be replacing its old bike racks with ones that are more spacious and secure. Wilson Bridge Dedicated: The Post paints the scene at yesterday's Wilson Bridge Dedication ceremony. Governors! Giant flags! Woodrow Wilson's Rolls...

Our schizophrenic winter continues this morning as a confused mess of frozen and unfrozen precipitation falls across the region. I woke up early enough to catch a few flakes falling in Brookland, but it appears to have now switched over entirely to rain. Yippee. Tangherlini to Improve MetroAccess: Metro had often cast itself as the wronged when facing accusations of poor MetroAccess service, but with a new man at the helm, the transportation agency is...

A bleary-eyed good morning to you, Washington. Thanks to everyone who came out to DCist's first birthday party at Stetson's last night. Although this DCist was stuck out of town, he's confident that a good time was had by all. The evidence will no doubt trickle into Flickr over the course of the day — dcJohn already has the first two such pics here.

WMATA Grapples With Gas Prices: Escalating diesel prices are affecting the transit agency's bottom line, producing a looming $22 million shortfall. Officials are sensitive to the recent frequency of fare increases, however, and say that in order to make up the difference they intend to leverage diesel futures and to make internal cuts rather than raise prices again.

Dupont Killer Convicted: Just over a year ago, Dupont waiter Adrian Alstad was shot to death in a crime that shook Northwest residents' conception of the area's safety. Yesterday one of the men responsible for his death, twenty year-old Kurt Williams, was sentenced to twenty-two years for the crime. Williams didn't pull the trigger, however; the man who did was a minor at the time, and will be released when he turns 21.

More Mixing Bowl Delays Ahead: We remember when VDOT promised that the worst of the I-95 delays were over. That may have been technically true — or perhaps we just dreamed it. Either way, we foolishly took it to mean that driving through that godforsaken expanse of asphalt would somehow become bearable. Not so. In addition to last night's detours, this weekend will see the interchange closed from 8:30 p.m. on Saturday until 10 a.m. Sunday.

Briefly Noted: Rabid fox attacks Fredericksburg boy... Street vendor beating victim "Grandma" returns to work... Collision with horse kills Maryland motorist... D.C. likely to get more dog parks... Northeast gets three new traffic cameras...

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Whether you agree with highway expansion or not, the new Springfield Mixing Bowl interchange (where a worker was killed this weekend) and the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge under construction are impressive pieces of infrastructure considering the amount of concrete and engineering ingenuity that have gone into the projects. The Capital Beltway connecting the two chokepoints is slated for some major improvements as well, and one of the most controversial is how Virginia is planning...

Good morning Washington. Normally DCist won't use our platform to ask you for help in a personal matter. But we must turn to you and say: "Help, our keg was stolen last night!" To celebrate good weather, 10+ DCists, surrogates and friends gathered at the Columbia Heights home of one of our contributors to eat, drink and plot how to introduce blogging to Loudoun County. And when we were all inside (we let our guard...