The city hosted a media event earlier this week to hype the impending start of construction on the 11th Street Bridge Project. Workers are set to start pile driving in the Anacostia River for the foundations of three new bridges – one for local and two for freeway traffic – that together add up to a massive, $300 million project, which you can read tons more about here.

Initially the District planned to take reporters out on a boat to show them the entire construction site, but wind conditions prevented that from happening. But we didn’t want to let DCist contributor Jeff Martin’s photos from the day go to waste, so below, find a brief glimpse of the site of this huge, three-year construction project, which will see the new bridges erected in-between the existing ones in an effort to double the current vehicle capacity while at the same time installing a 14-ft. wide bicycle and pedestrian path.