Posts for the Politics/Issues Category
Latest Blog Posts- Metropolitan Branch Trail – construction update October 9, 2009As 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 [...]
- Metropolitan Branch Trail – DDOT drops the ball September 5, 2009UPDATE: 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 [...] […]
- Metropolitan Branch Trail – Late Fall ‘09 August 24, 2009More than a month after the July 22 contract deadline, Fort Myer Construction has yet to complete the Metropolitan Branch Trail and DDOT had yet to offer any update of the schedule to the public or the Mayor’s office. Today, the new website went live, but there is really no new information to anyone following [...]
- Metropolitan Branch Trail – construction update October 9, 2009
- Eckington-Bloomingdale Blogging
