photo by Nick Carton

“Dear PoPville,

The last couple of weekends, I’ve noticed the loop around Reagan National Airport become a parking lot and a nightmare for anyone arriving or departing. The traffic is so bad that cars can’t even leave the airport after picking someone up from arrivals.

This seems ironic since the whole arrivals area was just redesigned. Is this a tragic design flaw or is there another event that is clogging up the airport traffic?”

Nick wrote: “Friday evening mess at DCA. Complete gridlock. No Ubers available. Cab line 200+ people deep. Going the metro route!”

DCA reported last week: (more…)


Sunday around 6am a reader reported: “Narrowly avoided being hit by the black Kia at a red light, only for it to cause a massive accident at the next intersection of North Capitol and Michigan. Everyone was OK, aside from being very shaken. There were three what looked like children driving the black Kia. (more…)



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