DCist is happy to hear that after being stopped for security checks on Capitol Hill, District fire trucks and emergency vehicles can now avoid the sometimes lengthy delays that drivers near the Capitol have faced since the Homeland Security Department placed the financial institutions on Orange Alert. The W.Times says that District emergency dispatchers will now radio Capitol Police in advance, alerting them that an emergency vehicle will be passing through their jurisdiction….

When the Capitol Police released a bland list of intersections where they would implement checkpoints, the District’s media organizations were quick to create helpful graphics. However, not all checkpoint maps are made the same. Let’s take a quick look at what the mediasphere had to offer. To see the sources, click on any of the graphics. We’ll start with the Post, which produced a graphic you might expect from the District’s largest newspaper. Their graphic…