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The 2016 Nuclear Summit is taking place March 30 – April 1.
Photo courtesy Paul Ruppert D.C. police and emergency crews racked up nearly 52,000 hours of overtime during April’s Nuclear Security Summit, which adds up to $4.4 million, Bill Myers reports in the Examiner. The White House has already promised to reimburse the District for the costs, as well it should. What we’d still like to figure out is whether the economic impact of having the summit in the middle of downtown was a net…
Image courtesy WABA The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has just posted some photos to its Facebook page of a white “ghost bike” placed at the corner of 12th Street and New York Ave. NW in honor of Constance Holden, who was killed Monday evening after a collision with a D.C. National Guard truck. The bicycle is currently locked to a street sign right beside some temporary fencing in place for the Nuclear Security Summit,…
Constance Holden, courtesy AAAS The Metropolitan Police Department has identified the cyclist who was struck and killed in a collision with a D.C. National Guard truck at 12th Street and New York Ave. NW Monday evening. Constance Holden, 68, was officially pronounced dead on the scene and later transported to the D.C. Medical Examiner’s Office. Holden was a science reporter for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s journal Science. The AAAS has…
The 1200 block of New York Ave. NW is closed at this hour, following what appears to have been a fatal collision between a cyclist and a security vehicle associated with the Nuclear Security Summit. The cyclist, who is believed to be female, was struck at the intersection of 12th Street and New York Ave. NW, D.C. Fire/EMS spokesperson Pete Piringer said. Piringer could not confirm that the woman had died, but he said it…
Courtesy Marriott Wardman Park Everyone knows to steer clear of the Washington Convention Center today and tomorrow; the Nuclear Security Summit and its 47 visiting delegations have prompted road closures and parking restrictions around Mt. Vernon Square. But there are also other places you might want to avoid getting too close to — hotels. The majority of the District’s finest hotels have become secured urban fortresses themselves, with black SUVs and limos parked on…
Photo courtesy Paul Ruppert The massive Nuclear Summit heading to the Washington Convention Center next week is bringing along with it major road closures, barricades, checkpoints, bus rerouting, the shuttering of an entire Metro station, and all sorts of other headaches for the Mt. Vernon Square, Shaw and Chinatown neighborhoods. For all the specific details on what will be closed and when, see our earlier post and map. The first barricades were already going…
View Nuclear Summit road closures in a larger map 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…