Breakfast links: Metro riders should expect big disruptions this year
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Metro lays out plans for major maintenance work this year
Over the summer Metro will close Rhode Island Ave and Brookland stations for 45 days and single track from McPherson Square to Smithsonian for 16. In the fall, National Airport and Crystal City stations will briefly shut, and most of the Yellow line in Virginia will close for two weeks. (Martine Powers / Post)
Adams Morgan residents would like to reimagine their streets with fewer cars
Local elected officials in the Adams Morgan Advisory Neighborhood Commission proposed several versions of a car-free or at least car-light 18th Street. Now they are gathering community input on new designs for the nightlife-heavy street. (Nena Perry-Brown / Urban Turf)
DC and Moscow are exchanging barbs via street names
The DC street where the Russian embassy sits was recently named after Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, and now Russian politician Mikhail Degtyaryov suggested Moscow respond in kind and rename the street by the American embassy “North American Dead End”. (Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian)
The new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge breaks ground
The new bridge across the Anacostia River will land by Poplar Point in Southeast DC and include bike and pedestrian crossing. The project will add traffic circles on either side of the span, and redevelop parts of South Capitol Street. (Michelle Goldchain / Curbed)
MetroAccess just lost another top official
The Assistant General Manager for Access Services left MetroAccess abruptly this week after over a decade. MetroAccess is the subject of an investigation from the Office of the Inspector General, and was already adjusting to new leadership after the previous director left amid harassment allegations. (Faiz Siddiqui / Post)
The FBI is definitely staying in downtown DC, and Maryland representatives are angry
Instead of building in Greenbelt or Landover, the FBI will stay on Pennsylvania Avenue. Maryland politicians from Steny Hoyer to Ben Cardin disapprove, deriding the wasteful search and pointing at the insufficient size of the DC building. (Daniel Sernovitz / WBJ)
A regional agreement to avoid bidding wars over football won’t materialize this year
There will not be an official compact this year between DC, Maryland, and Virginia, after the proposal died in committee in the Virginia General Assembly. However, there is still time for the jurisdictions to act before the lease at FedEx Field is up in 2027, and you can join the GGWash campaign on this issue. (Andrew Metcalf / Bethesda Beat)
A new underpass on Georgia Avenue in Glenmont is opening soon
This weekend, the Maryland State Highway Administration will open a newly-built underpass to carry drivers on Randolph Road underneath Georgia Avenue in the hopes of easing backups at that busy intersection. (Andrew Metcalf / Bethesda Beat)
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