19th and N Street, NW
Update from MPD:
“MPD closes this intersection during the overnight hours to mitigate traffic exiting the Dupont Circle nightlife corridor. Recently, the cruiser was inadvertently left in place during the morning hours. The issue has been addressed, and the road will be open earlier moving forward. We apologize for the inconvenience.”
“Dear PoPville,
The police have started frequently parking an empty police car in the crosswalk of N St NW, and blocking off the entire road between 19th and 20th on weekday mornings for no apparent reason. Nothing going on. No police officers present. It’s just a randomly parked empty police car blocking the road.
This is a block of office buildings, with underground parking garages, and people have to circle the block and drive the wrong way up a one-way street to get into the garages (which creates a dangerous situation for pedestrians..) We’ve tried calling the police and asking them to move their abandoned cars, and they don’t give any explanation and just say they will send someone to move the car, which they often don’t get around to until 10 am or later. Right now, it’s almost 9 am, and the empty car is still just sitting there.
What is the point?!!?”