The 5th annual National Marathon will be held March 20, 2010. Most runners think of the wildly popular Marine Corp Marathon as Washington’s race, but this relatively new race is the true D.C. marathon since, unlike the Marine Corp Marathon, the course is entirely within the District. Is is especially noteworthy for our residents since [...]
As Fall settles in, the progress of the Metropolitan Branch Trail construction could be viewed as a half-full/half-empty depending on the observer: Asphalt has been placed from the Franklin St/8th St northern terminus down to the Rhode Island Ave overpass; and from T St down to just before R Street, but, The gap from Rhode Island to T [...]
UPDATE: As DDOT continues to keep silent on the matter, we are left with speculation on what happened to cause this huge delay to the project (Spring ‘10). Read two different explanations: a Rails-to-Trails Conservancy representative commented to this post here and the WashCycle commented to its own post here. … Having sailed by the July 22 [...] […]