PSA: Piney Branch is going to be a mess next week

PSA: Piney Branch is going to be a mess next week

DDOT sent out a notice that Piney Branch, from Arkansas to Beach Drive is going to have temporary lane closures starting Tuesday, May 31st through Friday, June 3rd as they work on the 16th Street bridge repair work.

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Update: Piney Branch Parkway Rehab starts next week

Update: Piney Branch Parkway Rehab starts next week

Piney Branch Parkway, which runs from Arkansas Avenue NW down to Beach Drive, is terrible. The roadway doesn't have potholes, it has some random flat and smooth spots surrounded by gouges, bumps, crevices and canyons. Finally, the National Park Service is getting the road resurfaced, and it all starts on May 29th at 9am.

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Piney Branch Parkway to get repaved, pleasing car struts and driver backs

Piney Branch Parkway to get repaved, pleasing car struts and driver backs

Piney Branch Parkway, the inlet from Petworth onto the Rock Creek Parkway and destinations north and south, is made up of about three feet of flat road surface... and about a mile of holes, gouges, pits, cracks and bumps that drivers either swerve around or sacrifice their cars' struts to the terrible road. It's not a pleasant ride. That’s soon changing…

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