This summer, Penn Quarter hosted a variety of street festivals. This fall, the neighborhood will continue to party all holiday-weekend long with the Taste of DC. But good times also mean street closings.
As usual, the U.S. Capitol Police will close most of the streets near the Capitol this evening for the State of the Union address. Unless you’re an “authorized pedestrian,” you won’t be able to access Capitol Square starting at 6 p.m., while the following roads will be closed between 7:00 p.m. and the conclusion of the speech.
Chain Bridge will be closed again this weekend, from 9 p.m. on Friday, May 21 through 6:30 a.m. on Monday, May 24. District Dept. of Transportation officials say that, weather permitting, this should be the final weekend of the major part of the bridge overhaul. When it reopens Monday morning, the traffic pattern return to what it was before construction began: two lanes for inbound rush hour traffic in the morning, and two lanes for…
D.C. police have closed 16th Street NW between S and R streets for a suspicious package investigation. MPD spokesperson Lt. Nicholas Breul said this was the second suspicious package police had responded to in the area this morning. No details were available on the nature of the package. That block of 16th Street is directly adjacent to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry headquarters. UPDATE 10:45 a.m. The package has been deemed safe. WMATA spokesperson Ron…
Several street closures are in effect this morning in Foggy Bottom due to a water main break in the area. Two westbound lanes on Pennsylvania Ave. NW at 20th Street are closed, as are parts of I Street between 20th and 21st NW, and all southbound lanes at the intersection of 21st and K streets NW. Authorities expect the general vicinity of 21st Street between K and Pennsylvania to remain a mess throughout the morning….
Photo by hannah.rosen A few lane and road closures to be aware of this weekend, courtesy DDOT. Lane Closures on Kenilworth Avenue (DC 295) As part of the ongoing reconstruction of the Eastern Avenue Bridge, a new traffic pattern on is being established on southbound Kenilworth Avenue NE. On Saturday, May 15, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., drivers should expect a temporary lane closure on the left side of the roadway. Crews will…
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…
The 5th Annual SunTrust National Marathon is happening this Saturday, March 20, lasting from approximately 7 a.m to 1 p.m. Temporary, intermittent street closings will occur along the race route (which includes the 26.2-mile marathon, a 13.1 mile half-marathon, and relay races) starting at 6:45 a.m. East Capitol Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic from 13th Street NE to 2nd Street NE from 6:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Residents who normally use East…
Mother nature just didn’t seem to want to let the city close Chain Bridge for an entire weekend of reconstruction work earlier this year. Work on the bridge was originally scheduled for late January and early February, but freezing temperatures, several snow storms, and last weekend’s lengthy rain storm prevented it from getting back on track. But the District Department of Transportation says that finally, weather permitting, the work is a go for this weekend….
