* The ANC 6D agenda for its meeting on
Monday Oct. 20 has been sent around (though not yet
posted online). There will be a discussion of the
Ballpark Traffic Operations and Parking Plan as it relates to Southwest, plus public space requests for building signage at
909 New Jersey and "Brick Walls for Trash Enclosures" at
Capitol Quarter. (These are also on the
Oct. 23 agenda of the city's Public Space Commitee.)
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The short list for a design/build team to reconstruct the
11th Street Bridges is out--Shirley Design-Build LLC, Skansa/Facchina, Archer Western Contractors LLC, Perini/Parsons Joint Venture, and KCA Constructors Joint Venture. According to the
procurement schedule, a draft RFP should already be out (haven't found it online), and final RFP should be issued by the end of the year, with a contract signed with the vendor by June 1, 2009.
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Metro announced yesterday that 53 percent of baseball game attendees this year arrived at
Nationals Park via Metrorail. That's 1.8 million bodies, averaging 23,000 people entering and exiting the Navy Yard station at the 80 home games in 2008. (It apparently doesn't count people who took the bus or walked down from Capitol South.) In the last two years at RFK, only 38 percent of attendees took the subway.
Marc Fisher has some thoughts on it all (including some questions on Metro's math).