In today's Post (well, in some of them, depending on which Extra you receive) is "
For Commuters, A New Way to Travel Through the District," a good overview piece about the plans for a new
South Capitol Street/Frederick Douglass Bridge. The article doesn't have anything new, but it brings together all the bits and pieces that have come out over the past months about the new bridge. It mentions the
public meeting scheduled for May 4, and also confirms that sometime this summer two blocks of the "elevated"
South Capitol Street (from O Street to Potomac Avenue) will be dismantled, allowing South Capitol Street to be "at-grade" alongside the
stadium site. And it also says, as we've heard previously, that construction would not begin before 2011; the final design of the bridge will be chosen this summer, after the
Environmental Impact Study is completed. Cost estimates range from $285 million to $392 million, based on the design. Make sure to go to the
poll to vote for your favorite design!