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| Washington D.C. Coronation road closures & traffic report. |
| 2009-01-16 |
| I395 will be closed from the Springfield interchange except for buses, taxis with permits TO THE AIRPORT. The I395 bridges will be closed. The I395 tunnel (3rd St) will be used for PEDESTRIAN access to the mall. ALL TRAFFIC must take the beltway. Memorial Bridge will be closed. Pedestrian traffic only. I66 will be closed from the Beltway. Its bridges will be closed. The Key Bridge will be closed. Pedestrian traffic only. Chain Bridge will be closed. GW Parkway northbound between Alexandria City and I495 (AmLegion Bridge) will be closed. GW Parkway southbound between I495 and I395 will be closed. (this means that all who need to go to the CIA HQ have to take other routes). South Capitol Street and the bridges will be closed. I-295 bridges into the district will be closed. Most of the metro stations near the festivities will be EXIT ONLY. Good planning - you take the metro to the mall - and there is a problem - you can not use the metro to get OFF the mall. You have to hike to an unfamiliar station blocks away through the mASSes. They are talking about untold millions of celebrants. To support those minions there are a total of 5,000 porta-johns. I hope that the porta-johns have wing tanks since they are also emplaced for a concert near the Lincoln Memorial (Sunday) and will probably be unusable by Monday! Not to even think about all the excrement that will be flying in the speeches. I don't know what the poor workers who have jobs in the downtown areas will do - people like the hotel housekeeping staff and waiters and bartenders and etc - since if they need to rely upon anything to go the work it will be nearly impossible to do so. American commerce and the creation of new jobs must await The One! |
| Posted by:Besoeker |