- TBD wrapped up its big Metro escalator investigation. Results? 13 percent of the system’s 588 moving stairs were idle at some point over the last three days. Meanwhile, the Metro board revealed today that, as part of their own inspection into all 588 of their machines, they have replaced brake pads on 40 escalators and taken 16 out of service.
- Westbound Interstate 66 at the Dulles Connector Road will close at 11 tonight to allow work on the Metro extension to Dulles to proceed. The highway will reopen at 5 a.m. While we’re talking about suburban interstates, Interstate 270 will be widened, despite protests from transit and smart-growth advocates.
- Still no verdict in the Chandra Levy trial; the jury resumes deliberating tomorrow.
- A woman who claims that a cab driver abandoning her in a dangerous neighborhood led to her being sexually assaulted is suing Arlington Blue Top Cab for $5 million, reports ARLnow.
- Wale and John Wall will be handing out turkeys tomorrow.
- Prince of Petworth appears to have debunked his scuttlebutt that an H Mart will be filling the space that the Secret Safeway used to occupy.
- Mary Cheh has proposed legislation to allow the District to clean up contaminated properties along the Anacostia River before the Environmental Protection Agency seizes them.
- We Love DC suggests that the D.C. Democratic State Committee turn the appointment process for Kwame Brown’s soon-to-be-vacant At-Large seat into a winner-takes-all reality show. Yeah, we’d watch that.
- Vince Gray doesn’t need any more volunteers.
- Kids these days: two Maryland kids apparently stole, among other animals, a Madagascar hissing cockroach from a nature center in Baltimore.
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