My OperaConvention Center 18-Wheel Meltdown
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:10:00 PM
The editor was out exercising the camera this morning about 7:45am. He walked up Ninth to M Street, and saw something he doesn't recall: Total meltdown in 18-wheeler staging discipline for the Convention Center. The last time he saw this was here, about three years ago at this time of year.
Trucks all the way down the 900 block of M:
Some licenses:
and
Normally, the trucks are supposed stand by farther out New York Avenue. This time they did it under the M Street tunnel. It essentially closed off the eastbound lane of the 700-800 block of M Street.
A police utility vehicle was forced to do the traffic equivalent of go up the down staircase (not that he stopped, or anything):
And some poor little sports car must have been late for something really important.
The editor just bets that the traffic management types at the convention center were blindsided by this. He would just love to hear the phone calls to the people organizing the trucks. Then again, it's probably just bleep sounds.
Trucks all the way down the 900 block of M:
Some licenses:
and
Normally, the trucks are supposed stand by farther out New York Avenue. This time they did it under the M Street tunnel. It essentially closed off the eastbound lane of the 700-800 block of M Street.
A police utility vehicle was forced to do the traffic equivalent of go up the down staircase (not that he stopped, or anything):
And some poor little sports car must have been late for something really important.The editor just bets that the traffic management types at the convention center were blindsided by this. He would just love to hear the phone calls to the people organizing the trucks. Then again, it's probably just bleep sounds.
