Just another spring weekend in the DC. The gentle lapping of the Potomac, cherry blossoms bobbing in the breeze, police barricades across major thoroughfares …. Festivities start with the Southwest Airlines National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade®. Festival Grand Marshal: Alex Trebek. Forget about driving on Constitution Avenue from 7th to 17th streets, NW.
The Sakura Matsuri (Japanese Street Festival) will be on Pennsylvania Avenue between 14th & 10th Streets NW and 12th Street between Pennsylvania and Constitution NW.
The day ends with three simultaneous pro sports events: basketball ( Wizards at Verizon Center), soccer ( DC United at RFK Stadium), and baseball (Nationals at Nationals Park). Metro promises extra trains.
Road closures, parking restrictions, traffic jams, Metro crushes and crowded sidewalks.
I’ll take “Spring in DC” for a hundred, Alex.
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April 7, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Love your visuals, kiddo. In Houston they blocked off our street without notice all the time and we had to show our ID’s to get home. On July 4th, witnessing the greatest land-based fireworks show in the US (next door) we were actually fenced inside for 12 hours. Gotta talk to Pyro Paula to see if Chevy is going to use our taxpayer bailout dollars to fund this in 2009.
No traffic here, just geese and ducks and Sandhill cranes. And mountains. Incredible. Cheers, Dee