“We’re always going to have potholes, we just have to be more diligent about repairing them quickly and repairing them better.”

A Silver Spring native once featured in a classic short documentary about heavy metal fandom has reinvented himself as a luthier.

DGS has undertaken a citywide effort to install stations with an air pump and retractable tools.

If you don’t often drive through or near Rock Creek Park on your daily commute, the fact that Broad Branch Road reopened to traffic today might not be a big deal. But for those that do, it’s a huge deal.

Starting tomorrow, the Dupont Circle Metro station’s southern entrance will close down for at least eight months so three escalators can be replaced.

A cracked rail at the Rosslyn Metro station is causing delays on the Orange and Blue lines today.

If you’re an aspiring shutterbug with some time on your hands this morning, you might want to make your way over to the National Cathedral — crews are currently removing a portion of the building’s pinnacle which was damaged by the earthquake on August 23.

UPDATE: (6:15 p.m.) More information just in from D.C. Water — Heymann tells DCist that D.C. Water crews are excavating at this moment to start the repair on the broken valve. The best guess on the water shut-off is approximately 4-6 hours, and that it will mostly affect businesses on the east side of 18th Street NW between Florida Avenue and Columbia Road. DDOT has opened one lane of Florida Avenue to traffic in each direction.

While we were resting our hangovers yesterday, we missed word via the Examiner that River Road was at last reopened, a full eight days after a massive water main break caused flooding, substantial damage and led to the rescue of 15 people by boat and helicopter. The delay in reopening the road occurred after engineers discovered three cracked pipes that needed to be replaced in addition to the one that caused the flooding. The…