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  jw October 30, 2012 at 10:24 pm

  I assume it’s “Don’t Block the Box.” (see http://38.106.4.205/Modules/ShowImage.aspx?imageid=1382)
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  gdopplerxt October 30, 2012 at 10:37 pm

  They recently completed the same thing at the Georgia & Kansas intersection. Not totally sure but my guesses are: 1) for aesthetic reasons 2) maybe to calm traffic or encourage driver awareness, since it does rumble your tires a bit when you drive over it.
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    anonymaus October 30, 2012 at 11:46 pm

    Spoke w/ a gentleman in a hardhat when they were doing GA&KS, and he said it was all aesthetic, and then asked if I was DC taxpayer…
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  dat October 30, 2012 at 11:21 pm

  Did they just do this today? HUGE fan of the colored crosswalks. I can’t wait to check this out tomorrow AM on my way to work.
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  Sayso October 31, 2012 at 12:18 am

  Actually sidewalk aesthetic’s are really good, they reworked all the sidewalks in Miami and Downtown Miami to give it a unique look and make people feel calmer about walking around Downtown Miami.. which is unsafe as hell..lol
  But they did more of brick and concrete.

  Example:
  http://structurehub.com/blog/2009/10/miamis-biscayne-boulevard-finally-looks-like-a-burle-marx-landscape/
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  Anonymous October 31, 2012 at 7:37 am

  rumble the tires…that will be fun to bike through. if it’s regular road paint, if will be slick in the rain, too
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    JP October 31, 2012 at 8:22 am

    I’ve biked (road bike) over the one at KS & GA several times and its smoother than many of the bike lanes around town. For me the grid pattern is very slightly visually disorienting if I look at it while moving.
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  o2bncdg October 31, 2012 at 8:14 am

  Obviously it’s a giant net, like in a Tarzan or Indiana Jones movie. It will be covered with fake paving, and then when an unsuspecting car driven by bad guys goes through, special pulleys will pull up the 4 corners and that car will go flying.
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  orderedchaos October 31, 2012 at 8:42 am

  It’s a glitch in the Holodeck program… just pretend it isn’t there.
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  thor October 31, 2012 at 8:48 am

  It’s The Grid.
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  SG October 31, 2012 at 8:48 am

  I asked a worker. It’s to slow down traffic coming along Georgia Ave.
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  GeoPenguin October 31, 2012 at 9:43 am

  I live right above the intersection of Georgia and New Hampshire Avenues, and I have been watching them do this construction project for the past couple of weekends.

  The work they are doing is for aesthetic reasons, I can only assume. When they are done (which I hope is soon because I get woken up from their noise at 7:30am on Saturdays and Sundays), there will be a black tiled intersection. The white lines are not paint; they are a plastic grid that is temporarily filling in the space between “tiles.” I say “tiles” because the workers are actually just melting the asphalt to make indentations in the pavement.
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    textdoc October 31, 2012 at 10:01 am

    I thought this kind of work wasn’t allowed to be done on Sundays. No?
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      JP October 31, 2012 at 10:13 am

      Why?
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        Anonymous October 31, 2012 at 12:41 pm

        So that legions of churchgoin’ folk from PG can triple park at every intersection, without any fear of any accountability?
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          Boom October 31, 2012 at 2:20 pm

          I didnt know that the MD tags now denote the driver’s home county…i’ll be on the lookout from now on………..
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        textdoc October 31, 2012 at 12:45 pm

        I thought it was a condition of the permits the city grants, although maybe it’s different if the city itself is doing the work.
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          JP November 1, 2012 at 6:16 am

          The thing I thought when I passed them working on a Sunday was that we must be paying a fortune in over-time.
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  Kvatch October 31, 2012 at 9:59 am

  “It’s The Grid”

  Actually… The Matrix.
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  djdc October 31, 2012 at 10:40 am

  Look at the poor median in that photo. Too many people tromping on it as they cross the street?
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  sbc October 31, 2012 at 1:20 pm

  I agree with folks that it will make the middle of the crosswalk look like cobblestones or bricks or something. But I wonder if they’re setting it up to be a Barnes Dance like the one at 7th & H NW? That would be great for that intersection, I think.

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