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SOUTH CAPITOL SPEED CAMERAS: MPD has announced the
latest batch of speed camera deployments, and it includes South Capitol Street between O Street and Potomac Avenue--alongside
Nationals Park and just north of the Douglass Bridge--in both directions. "The 30 day educational phase, or 'warning period', will commence on or about March 23, 2015. During this period, violators will receive warning citations. After the 30 day warning period, MPD will begin issuing live moving citations to violators."
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NATS PARK MAGNETOMETERS: There was a media event on Monday to
unveil the new magnetometers at all entrances to
Nats Park. (I'll note that
this sign about the procedures will probably not be met with glee.) I wasn't at the event, but I did get my own shot on Sunday of the new installations at the Center Field Gate, as you see at right. The new security screening procedures will be in place starting with the April 4 exhibition game against the Yankees. Arrive early! (
WaPo)
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US-NY CIRCULATOR CHANGE: "From 3/29, catch the Union Station bus to Navy Yard only at Mass Ave and Columbus Cir 1st & 2nd St stops discontinued." (
@DCCirculator; more here)
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YARDS PARK WORK: "We're almost ready for Splash Season! Please 'pardon our dust' as we prepare the water features and basin. We'll update here when finished!" (
@YardsPark)
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PEEKING AT CSX: At right is a shot of the now-cleared area just south of the freeway and behind the
70 and 100 Capitol Yards apartment buildings. This work has had hearts aflutter that there could be some new development coming there, but it is actually just CSX clearing its considerable tract of land as prep work continues for the
Virginia Avenue Tunnel.
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PEEKING AT EVERYTHING ELSE: I'm going to have to recalibrate my normal mission to over-document projects in blog posts, given the breadth of work underway in the neighborhood. That said, I can't pass up a quick sharing of the cellphone photos I took Sunday afternoon while peeking through fences at the
Homewood Suites,
82 I,
Hampton Inn/Ballpark Square, and
909 Half sites. (Click all to enlarge.)
It would have been even better if I had included the other holes in the ground, at
1111 New Jersey,
800 New Jersey, and
Florida Rock, but I failed.