Perhaps the greatest thrill LL experienced during the inaugural madness wasn't chatting up Joel Klein at the 9:30 Club, or accosting Ben Affleck at the HuffPo ball, or even sitting yards away from Barack Obama as he was sworn in.
Nope, it just might have been cruising through the Third Street Tunnel on his bike.
Now, LL [...]
A number of our readers have voiced their displeasure with the Metro Authority's new bag check policy. Steven Silverman of Flex Your Rights and his army of interns know how you feel, and they've got some words of wisdom: "We encourage people to say–clearly, calmly, repectfully–'officer, I do not consent to any searches.'"
Watch out, area commuters–there's a do-gooder nonprofit that wants to mess with your route.
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) has released a list of the country's Top 10 "Freeways Without Futures." These are the spots, according to the CNU, where "the opportunity is greatest to stimulate valuable revitalization by replacing aging urban highways [...]
That would be Delegate and Republican senatorial candidate Bob Marshall of Prince William County. Today, on WTOP's Politics Program With Mark Plotkin, Marshall was a guest, and Plotkin asked what he, as the junior senator from Virginia, could do to help Virginia's notorious transportation problems.
Volunteered Marshall, I'd build I-95 through D.C.
Let's set aside for a [...]
I think there was a seventh standing somewhere nearby.
Some smarty has started a petition to get Google Maps to add a "Bike There" feature that would allow those of us on two wheels to get there without ending up on a freeway. (Which is what happened to me when I first moved here and took my scooter on "Pennsylvania Avenue" toward Accokeek. Turns [...]
Note to so-called sanitation engineers the region over: You've got nothing on the City of Alexandria's Department of Transportation & Environmental Services, Solid Waste Division. Every Thursday morning I watch these monsters of refuse collection fly up my street, leaving it cleaner than Mel Gibson's urine.
The only guys faster than my garbagemen are the [...]
This doesn't sound good.
WASA just put out a press release about a possible rupture in a 60-inch sewer line underneath the Anacostia River. The pipe runs from the O Street pumping station on the west bank of the river (near the baseball stadium) down to the Blue Plains treatment plant in the city's southern corner.
Press [...]
Two D.C. firefighters were injured when the roof collapsed in a raging fire at 2627 Adams Mill Road, a condo building that was almost certainly destroyed this morning. Things could have gone worse, of course, since no residents were hurt or killed, but things could have decidedly gone better. But don't worry, folks. Jim Graham [...]
Shaw resident and provocateur Ray Milefsky is proposing a solution for how citizens can band together to clean up accumulated trash on city streets. On the Third District community Listserv, he writes: “I am thinking a trip to deliver it to Jack Evans’ and Mayor Fenty's homes à la Michael Moore would be effective with [...]
So the city's suing the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition over their hard-to-remove posters, which they've stuck to lampposts, electrical boxes, and other pieces of street furniture. Good for D.C.
A long time ago, as part of a community-service project, I was tasked with cleaning a wall full of similar posters. Lemme tell you, getting that shit off ain't [...]
In its most recent issue, the InTowner fronts news stories on the deployment of police officers on foot patrols and a neighborhood dustup on P Street NW. Strong editorial decisions, those. Cop deployment and noise problems on commercial corridors are staples for loyal readers of the 38-year-old monthly.
Only the InTowner's most dedicated readers—and I'm one!—caught [...]
What's the deal with all the antennas and dishes and stuff up on Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown? You know, right there by Wilson High School and Fort Reno? And what are all those towers for, anyway? One of ‘em looks like it isn't even finished.
And it never will be: On March 17, the District agreed [...]
