Van Ness Main Street’s new executive is scheduled to speak at the first ANC 3F meeting of 2016. We’ll also get an update on the ongoing Van Ness escalator replacement project from WMATA and hear more discussion of Chick-fil-A’s plans to move into spot Burger King now occupies. The meeting on Monday, January 25th will […]
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What the last Van Ness Metro escalator project looked like
What will Metro’s three-year Van Ness escalator project look like when it gets well under way? Its photos of a previous project at Van Ness offers some hints. The Van Ness Metro station’s east entrance closed for four and one-half months in late 2013-early 2014 so both entrance escalators could be replaced. These photos were […]
Metro’s Van Ness escalator project running on time
Metro’s contractor reopened the west entrance to the Van Ness entrance last week. The timeline of the project had called for closing the entrance from February/March 2016 to May while the second long escalator to be replaced was pulled out, and the new escalator parts brought in. The stairs will remain open through the summer […]
Metro’s new plan for 3-year Van Ness escalator rehab keeps west entrance open at times
by Marlene Berlin If you’ve been to Van Ness today you’ve seen it: WMATA has closed the west entrance of the Van Ness Metro station to begin the three-year process of replacing four escalators. However, Metro now says we’ll regain use of the entrance after about two months, not three years. At ANC 3F’s June […]
ANC 3F asks: Do you support closing Van Ness Metro on weekends to speed escalator work?
Do you support closing the Van Ness Metro station on weekends if that would speed up work to replace four of the station’s escalators? ANC 3F wants to hear your opinion ahead of a special meeting next Tuesday, May 26th. At this week’s regularly scheduled ANC meeting, WMATA’s lead escalators engineer told commissioners that his […]
Will Metro get to start its 3-year escalator project at Van Ness today?
The west entrance at Van Ness Metro, set to close today for a three-year escalator replacement project, was still open as of 9 a.m. Will it close later today? A DDOT representative said last Thursday that the agency would suspend WMATA’s public space permits until further notice, which would prevent Metro’s contractor from bringing in […]
Van Ness Metro’s west entrance to close for three years of escalator work
by Marlene Berlin In November 2013, when Metro closed the eastern entrance to the Van Ness Metro station to replace the escalators, the project’s five-month timeline seemed an eternity. I was also concerned about the increased potential for conflicts between pedestrians and drivers as more people would have to cross Connecticut Avenue to enter the […]
In 1967, the Giant Food in Van Ness was chandeliered and swanky, and above it was DC’s first indoor mall
by Ann Kessler I miss the Van Ness Centre Mall. Granted, it only existed for 16 years, but from 1967 on through 1983 it was part of the community and a major convenience for shoppers in the neighborhood. Now, only the original ground floor tenants of the mall remain: Giant Food, CVS (formerly Peoples Drug […]
Van Ness Metro west entrance reopening March 24
The west entrance to the Van Ness Metro station is reopening well ahead of schedule. The entrance first closed in June 2015 so it could be used for staging what WMATA predicted would be a three-year escalator replacement project. Under a revised plan negotiated with community leaders dismayed at losing the western entrance for so […]
How Metro moved the second biggest crowd in its history (via @GGWash)
We’re extending our usual scope outside the neighborhood to Greater Washington, and specifically GreaterGreaterWashington.org, which recently published a remarkable piece on how Metro managed the million-plus trips on the day of the Women’s March on Washington. They’ve given us permission to share it with you, and we hope you’ll check out the original and leave […]
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