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Sinkhole detours: Monday traffic mess greets feds returning to work

By Jack Pointer

WASHINGTON — The 17th Street sinkhole has been complicating downtown travel since it dropped in last week — back before the partial government shutdown ended.

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“Even when it happened during the shutdown, it caused massive backups,” said WTOP Traffic Reporter Mary DePompa. And on Monday, it served as yet another obstacle for federal workers who just wanted to get back to work: 17th Street Northwest remains closed between C and E streets Northwest, and D Street is closed between 17th and 18th streets. At10 a.m. Monday, DePompa said the ripple effect from the work site was impacting feeder routes from north of D and even in from Virginia. Southbound 17th is diverting at New York Avenue. Northbound traffic is being diverted at C.

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Unfortunately, commuters will have to contend with the detours for the next few days. In a statement last week, D.C. Water said that a sewer line needs to be repaired after it was damaged by falling concrete. Those repairs are complicated by nearby power lines (which fortunately weren’t damaged). Once the sewer line is fixed later this week and power is restored through those lines, work on the sinkhole itself can begin.

One attack, many Americas: Why 9/11 and its many griefs land differently 25 years later

By The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — When the planes crashed and the buildings fell on that sunny September morning 25 years ago, the shock waves of dismay and grief went far past downtown New York City, rural western Pennsylvania and just outside Washington, D.C. They radiated through every part of the United States in communities large and small, tearing at Americans' sense of safety and their place in the world. Hearts were broken across the nation, not just of those who lost their loved ones but among strangers who mourned for them, the Sept. 11 attacks leaving no one unaffected in an unwanted moment of horrifying togetherness. A quarter of a century later, the effects linger. We all live in a post-9/11 world, with its security strictures and surveillance. But here's the thing: Americans don't all live in the SAME one. What the attacks and their aftermath have come to mean isn't a single viewpoint shared by everyone, for reasons chronological, political and personal. It's a tapestry of meaning and grief as varied as the nation in which 9/11 took place.
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