Does anyone know whats going on with the tall wooden fences/construction next to the Mt Vernon trail, between the humpback and Arlington Memorial bridges? What is being built there? (Or: is the river just being widened there, and they don’t want us to know?)
You may have noticed the new fence along the Mount Vernon Trail just south of Arlington Memorial Bridge. This is a staging area for materials and equipment we are using for our rehabilitation of the bridge.
You should expect intermittent temporary closures on the trail as workers move heavy equipment into the staging area. You should also expect traffic entering and exiting the George Washington Memorial Parkway over the trail. We do not anticipate closures lasting longer than about 15 minutes. Traffic may affect the trail until the project is done in early 2021.
Great newsreel of Memorial Bridge in action at its dedication. Not only does it show incredible engineering, but it also shows us something about lane markings. No lane markings on the bridge, not even a double yellow. The bridge pre-dates lane markings. You only needed one rule: stay to the right except to pass and then pass with caution. Watching the old cars navigate the bridge without lane markings is kind of trippy.
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Great newsreel of Memorial Bridge in action at its dedication. Not only does it show incredible engineering, but it also shows us something about lane markings. No lane markings on the bridge, not even a double yellow. The bridge pre-dates lane markings. You only needed one rule: stay to the right except to pass and then pass with caution. Watching the old cars navigate the bridge without lane markings is kind of trippy.
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How many points do I get?
They’ve got it wrong, the bridge is not in Arlington!
So I had not seen any info that the MVT would ever be closed for this–perhaps I missed it. Anyway, coming home from the DC United game last night sometime around 10:30-11:00, there were bright lights and equipment working and a sign saying the trail was closed ahead. The parkway was down to one lane and backed up a bit so I figured I’d grass it over to the road make the traffic deal with me since I had probably had about as much to drink as they had, but the workers waved me through at the stop sign and all was good in the end.
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