Tuesday Metro Schedule

Metrorail

On Tuesday, Feb. 9, the Metrorail system will open at 5 a.m. and may close early depending on Tuesday’s weather conditions. Trains will operate at 30-minute intervals and travel at 35 miles per hour. Train lengths are expected to be six- and eight-car trains.

Metrorail service will operate as follows:
Red Line Limited Service: Medical Center to Union Station and Glenmont to Forest Glen
Blue Line Limited Service: Franconia-Springfield to Stadium-Armory
Green Line Full Service: Greenbelt to Branch Avenue
Orange Line Full Service: Vienna to New Carrollton
Yellow Line Full Service: Huntington to Fort Totten


Metrorail stations that will remain closed on Tuesday include Shady Grove, Rockville, Twinbrook, White Flint, Grosvenor-Strathmore, New York Ave-Florida Ave-Gallaudet U, Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood, Brookland-CUA, Takoma and Silver Spring on the Red Line and Benning Road, Capitol Heights, Addison Road-Seat Pleasant, Morgan Boulevard and Largo Town Center on the Blue Line due to snow drifts on the tracks of three to six feet.

Approximately 75 percent of Metro parking spaces will be available for parking.


Metrobus
Metrobus will operate a modified schedule on the following bus routes beginning at 5 a.m. Tuesday:


District of Columbia
31 (Friendship Heights to Foggy Bottom-GWU)
32 and 36 (Friendship Heights to Potomac Ave)
34 (Archives to Branch Ave)
52 and 54 (From 14th Street and Colorado Ave to L'Enfant Plaza)
64 (Fort Totten to Georgia Ave-Petworth)
70 (Silver Spring to Canal and P Street, SW)
71 (Silver Spring to Archives) will terminate at Canal and P Street, SW
79 (Silver Spring to Archives)
80 (Fort Totten to Gallery Pl-Chinatown)
82 (Rhode Island Ave to Gallery Pl-Chinatown)
P6 (Anacostia to Eckington)
S4 (Silver Spring to Federal Triangle)
U8 (Capitol Heights to Benning Heights)
X2 (Minnesota Ave to Union Station)
V7 line (Deanwood to Potomac Ave)


Maryland
J2 (Bethesda to Silver Spring)
P12 (Eastover to Addison Road), bypassing United Medical Center
Q2 (Silver Spring to Wheaton)
Y5, Y7 and Y8 (Wheaton to Liesure World)
Z8 and Z9 (Silver Spring to Briggs Chaney Road Park and Ride


Virginia
1C (Fair Oaks to Dunn Loring)
2C (Washington Boulevard to Vienna)
16 line (Pentagon to Baileys Crossroads)
28A (Alexandria to Tysons Corner), bypassing Seven Corners and Southern Towers


Bus routes are subject to change depending on road conditions.


MetroAccess
MetroAccess will operate limited service between 8 a.m. and noon Tuesday for customers whose trips are associated with life-sustaining medical needs such as chemotherapy and dialysis. After 12 p.m., MetroAccess will provide return-trips only to help get customers home.

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MORE SNOW EXPECTED TUESDAY! 10 - 20 INCHES

From the National Weather Service

Event: Winter Storm Warning



Alert: ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY TO 7 PM EST


WEDNESDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A
WINTER STORM WARNING FOR...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TUESDAY
TO 7 PM EST WEDNESDAY. THE WINTER STORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.


* PRECIPITATION TYPE...SNOW.
* ACCUMULATIONS...10 TO 20 INCHES.
* TIMING...MID-AFTERNOON TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
* TEMPERATURES...TEMPERATURES NEAR FREEZING AT THE ONSET TUESDAY


AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE UPPER 20S TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY.


* WINDS...LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS TUESDAY BECOMING


NORTHWESTERLY 15 TO 25 MPH WEDNESDAY.


Instructions: A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. THE COMBINATION OF SNOW AND STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS.


Target Area: District of Columbia

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River East Snow Removal: Pass or Fail?

Include your comments/reviews in the comment section below. With almost no bus service East of the River and very limited subway service River East residents are depending on the roads being cleared in a big way.  For those of us with cars if metro service does not resume tomorrow we may be forced to drive on dangerous snow covered streets in order to get to work or run errands. For those without vehicles the consequences may be dire - go without another day of work or unable to run the most basic of errands.

If you are requesting snow removal service for your street please include the street address.

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IN PICTURES: Henson Ridge in Congress Heights

These photos were taken Sunday, Feb 7th of the Henson Ridge development in Congress Heights.  Photos courtesy of Christopher Roell. Please send your photos to congressheightsontherise@gmail.com.

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Limited Metro Service on Monday, Feb 8th

From www.wmata.com

MetroAccess service will not be available

Metrorail
On Monday, Feb. 8, the Metrorail system will open at 7 a.m. and run underground only at 30-minute intervals. Underground-only rail service is as follows:


Yellow Line – Pentagon to Crystal City
Red Line – Medical Center to Union Station and Glenmont to Forest Glen (not reflected in the service map)
Orange Line – Ballston to Stadium-Armory
Green Line – Fort Totten to Congress Heights
Blue Line – Ballston to Stadium-Armory


Metrobus
Metrobus will operate limited service from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 8, in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. The following routes will operate on snow emergency routes (main roads) only:


District of Columbia
64 line (Fort Totten – Georgia Ave-Petworth) will terminate at Georgia Ave-Petworth Metrorail station.
50 line (14th and Colorado Ave) will terminate at Archives-Navy Memorial Metrorail station.
70 line (Silver Spring – Archives) will terminate at Canal and P St.
S4 line (Silver Spring – Federal Triangle) will terminate at Archives-Navy Memorial Metrorail station.
30 line (Friendship Heights – Potomac Ave) will terminate at Potomac Ave Metrorail station.
X2 line (Benning Road - H Street)


Suburban Maryland
Z2 and Z8 line (Silver Spring), will terminate at Briggs Chaney Road
P12 line (Eastover – Addison Road).


Northern Virginia
16 line (Pentagon – Baileys Crossroads) will terminate at Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike.
28A (Alexandria - Tysons Corner)


These routes are subject to change depending on the conditions of the road.


MetroAccess
MetroAccess will not operate on Monday, Feb. 8.


For more information visit www.MetroOpensDoors.com  and refer to the latest news release.

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Sat, Feb 20th: Leo Alexander's River East Community Meet and Greet @ Big Chair Coffee

DC 2010 Mayoral Candidate

Leo Alexander

Cordially Invites

The River East Community At-Large

to

"Leo Alexander's River East Community Meet & Greet "

Saturday, February 20, 2010

3PM Until 7PM

Big Chair Coffee n' Gill

2122 MLK, Jr. Avenue, SE WDC - 20020

(202) 525-4287

Light refreshments will be served compliments of the "Leo Alexander For DC Mayor 2010 Campaign"

*Congress Heights on the Rise has not endorsed any candidate and is providing the information for the community* 

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WASHINGTON SYNDICATE: National Guard escorts MPD around city streets

From the Washingoton Syndicate:

Information was provided to The Syndicate via the H-DC listerv.

Guard Supports Washington Blizzard Response



American Forces Press Service


WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2010 More than 100 soldiers and airmen from the District of Columbia National Guard were on duty yesterday and today supporting the district’s emergency response to a weekend blizzard.


The Guard members are transporting patients and doctors to area hospitals, taking Metro Police officers to and from work throughout the city and even transported Metro Police Chief Cathy Lanier to a shooting scene on Stanton Avenue.


Officials said Guard personnel are expected to remain on duty through Feb. 9 in support of one of the worst blizzards in the history of the national capital region

Go HERE to continue reading.


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PSA 705: The first PSA in River East to have 100 enrollees in the DC Alert program

The Advoc8te is amped as resident of PSA 705 to see PSA 705 to be the first PSA in River East (Police Districts 6 and 7) to reach the 100 mark in the number of enrollees in the DC Alert program. Hopefully this will encourage more folks to sign up for the program that sends real time email and text message alerts about important things going on in your neighborhood.  While reaching the 100 mark is a great accomplishment for PSA 705, River East still has a long way to go - we lag far behind the rest of the city in terms of enrollment in the DC Alert program. I am including enrollment figures below. Shout out to ANC Commissioner Sylvia Brown for sharing this information. *Enrollment numbers are as of January 26, 2010.

Group Name

Number of Users
+------------+-----------------+
PSA 101
1497
PSA 102
371
PSA 103
226
PSA 104
707
PSA 105
282
PSA 106
303
PSA 107
164
PSA 201
130
PSA 202
247
PSA 203
178
PSA 204
464
PSA 205
293
PSA 206
618
PSA 207
901
PSA 208
1531
PSA 301
94
PSA 302
225
PSA 303
290
PSA 304
157
PSA 305
243
PSA 307
456
PSA 308
137
PSA 401
146
PSA 402
110
PSA 403
95
PSA 404
150
PSA 405
55
PSA 501
358
PSA 502
85
PSA 503
43
PSA 504
189
PSA 505
75
PSA 601
34
PSA 602
56
PSA 603
75
PSA 604
36
PSA 605
55
PSA 606
49
PSA 607
55
PSA 701
65
PSA 702
31
PSA 703
54
PSA 704
39
PSA 705
100
PSA 706
54
PSA 707
67
+------------+-----------------+

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IN PICTURES: 2010 Snowmaggedon Snowball Fight in Randle Circle

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SNOW FREE ACTIVITY: Scrabble

Request for snow pictures of River East and the great snowball fight in Randle Circle.

As I was wrapping a Calvin Klein scarf around my dogs neck just to take him on his walk -10 feet from my front door - I realized chances were rather slim I would make it to today's River East snowball fight in Randle Circle in Fort Dupont Park. According to the snowball fight Facebook page there appears to be a lot of trash talking. As of 12:30pm about 36 die hard snowball fighters have RSVP'd with another 55 "Maybes". It also sounds like another snowball battle is being coordinated at the Hillcrest Rec center which is more accessible by the folks at Fairfax Village and Naylor Gardens - both who seem eager to deliver a snowball sandwich to each other. Let the games begin!

Stay tuned for all the snow day festivities.

Please send your snow day/fight pics to congressheightsontherise@gmail.com.  Please include the location and your name if you want photo credit.

Brrrr!
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IN PICTURES: Friday 11:30am, Giant on Alabama Ave SE

Ft Dupont Park/Randle Circle Snowpocalypse Celebration this Saturday at noon! Spread the word River East!

River East lets get together for one massive snowball fight/sledding/snowman making celebration this Saturday in Fort Dupont Park in Ward 7! Come celebrate the Snowpocalypse River East style (sorry -no gun toting cops allowed).  Lets get together for a great fun filled afternoon enjoying the snow. So spread the word and come out and have a great time! Maybe we can have a friendly Ward 7 vs. Ward 8 snowball fight lol.

The Ft Dupont Park/Randle Circle Circle Snowpocalypse Celebration

Saturday, Febuary 6th 2010

noon - 2pm

Directions to Park

The Ft Dupont Park/Randle Circle Circle Snowpocalypse Celebration even has a Facebook page -  - http://tinyurl.com/y9pbyvr . You can RSVP and invite your Facebook friends. If  you spread the word on Twitter please include #rivereastdc and  #snowpocalypse in your status message.

Holla!

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RIVER EAST IDEALIST: Prosperity in River East: Part 2 - Wealth Creation and Debt Avoidance

Braveheart has written Part 2 of her "Prosperity in River East" series and it is great. Check it out. Excerpt and link is below.

Go HERE to read the full article.

Hello Friends,

This is the second installment of black Prosperity in River East. Earlier this week, Michelle Singletary, syndicated personal finance columnist with the Washington Post, delivered a Black History Month presentation at my agency. The title of her presentation was “Are you in the Black?” Her points were so powerful that I will share some of them with you in this post and incorporate my observations in River East. To put this blog post in perspective, please let’s refer back to Dr. King’s Mountaintop Speech April 3, 1968:

“Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. [But] Never stop and forget that collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. That's power right there, if we know how to pool it.”

The problem: 42 years after Dr. King's speech, us black folks STILL haven't figured out how to pool our money and create wealth! Here are some suggestions:

1. Stop Attending Colleges we Can't Afford


We all want to show off and challenge ourselves by attending old guard private universities. Unless you're independently wealthy, chances are your mama took out loans, your grandmama took out loans, and you worked part time jobs to make ends meet. Nonetheless you still graduate with $50,000 in undergraduate debt. In my opinion, it's not worth it. We need to encourage our younger brothers, sisters, cousins, and proteges to keep it real and attend a school he/she can afford with scholarships.

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CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW: Feb 7th: Opening Reception of East of the River: Continuity and Change

The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.and the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum

cordially invite you to attend the opening reception of

East of the River: Continuity and Change

February 7, 2010

from 1:30pm to 3:30pm

at

Historical Society of Washington ,D.C.

801 K Street Northwest

Washington, D.C. 20001

RSVP at 202.383.1828 or

By email: rsvp@historydc.org

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OPERATION COMMANDER N' COFFEE: Can we get the Obamas at Big Chair Coffee?

The Advoc8te dreams big - real big. It's what got me to move to Congress Heights and definitely what got me to start Congress Heights on the Rise. I think moxie + vision = success. That's what makes Big Chair Coffee n' Grill so great and what makes them a perfect candidate for one of those very coveted, very high-profile and very surprising visits from the The President and First Lady.

Can you imagine what it would mean for Anacostia Ward 8 River East for Barack or Michelle Obama (or be still my beating heart- both) to travel east of the river to Big Chair Coffee for a café latte and some onion rings? One of those visits can literally launch a small business - and an underserved neighborhood -  into the stratosphere. The only thing that would be more money than a presidential visit to Big Chair is if yours truly just happened to be there when it happened and-The-President-and-I-just-so-happened-to-order-the-same-vanilla-flavored-hot-chocolate-with-an-extra-shot-of-vanilla-and-then-we-laugh-about-the-coincidence-and-then-President-Obama-invites-me-over-to-their-table-to-discuss-my-community-improvement-ideas-over-coffee-and-then-Michelle-leans-over-and-insists-I-and-my-dog-Teddy-must-join-her-and-Beau-for-a-doggy-play-date-at-the-White-House-and-then …okay I totally just got carried away there for a minute. Whew!

We CAN do this River East! Can you imagine if we started a blogging/Twitter/Facebook/Myspace/email/carrier pigeon/chain letter campaign to get The President and First Lady to pay a visit to Big Chair Coffee n' Grill? Big Chair Coffee may be in Historic Anacostia and I live in Congress Heights but let’s face it – Big Chair’s hot chocolate is way better than IHOP’s although Operation International House of President does have a pretty nice ring to it. :)

Teddy longs for his White House invitation

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Thurs, Feb 18th: 11th Street Bridge Project Vendor Day

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IN PICTURES: Washington Highlands: Let it snow

Riding down 600 block of Brandywine St. SE

Washington Highlands neighborhood in Ward 8

Credit: Southeast Jerome

 
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IN PICTURES: Washington Highlands Covered in Snow

700 block of Brandywine St.
Washington Highlands neighborhood in Ward 8

Photo courtesy of  Southeast Jerome

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Tonight's ANC 8C meeting has been canceled

According to Commissioner William Ellis's blog tonight's ANC 8C meeting has been rescheduled due to the weather. The rescheduled meeting will be next Wednesday.


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