Reader T reports from Maritime Plaza that demolition has begun on the decommissioned ramps between RFK and the
11th Street Bridges. (You can see
some photos in the archive or
check out the Google Maps overhead view if you're not quite placing them; they're the ones that bend east from 11th Street, not the ones that bend west across 11th.) This is a first step in the five-year plan to reconstruct the 11th Street Bridges and the various approaches; there are also plans to eventually bring the sunken spur of the freeway that goes to Pennsylvania Avenue up to street level as a boulevard, but that's not part of the bridges project. See my
11th Street Bridges page for more on the project; it's expected that initial in-water work on the bridges reconstruction
will begin in August.