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The 2010 Nuclear Security Summit is heading to town next week, and local law enforcement agencies are gearing up to make traveling to or around the Washington Convention Center a living nightmare during that time.

The summit itself runs Monday and Tuesday, April 12-13, but road closures and transit route alterations will begin as early as 10 p.m. on Sunday, April 11. WMATA is planning to shutter the Mt. Vernon Square-7th St-Convention Center Metro station starting at midnight on Sunday, April 11. Green and Yellow line trains will be able to pass through the station, but passengers will not be allowed to access the platform until the station reopens at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, April 14. Thirteen Metrobus routes (the 42, 63, 64, 70, 71, 79, 80, D4, G8, P6, S2, S4, and X2) will be detoured around the area starting at 9 p.m. on Sunday, and two Circulator routes will be altered — the Georgetown-Union Station line will be divided into two separate sections, and the Convention Center/SW Waterfront line will terminate at I Street NW.

Planned road closures around the convention center will begin Sunday night and last through 8 p.m. on Tuesday. There will also be a heavy police presence along with fencing and other physical barriers placed in the affected roads. The MPD plans to go so far as to limit pedestrian traffic inside the secure area to only residents and owners/employees of area businesses. So make sure to carry ID with you if you live or work inside the zone.