[Scan-DC] Blue Angels for Woodrow Wilson Bridge flyover

[dehm]

All,

Correction to b_thom's post...

May 11th - 8:59am

 WASHINGTON (AP) - Regular drivers won't get to use part of the new
Woodrow Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River until next month, but it
will be open next week for officials who oversaw the project.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, the governors of Maryland
and Virginia and D.C. Mayor Tony Williams will join several members of
Congress at a 1,000-person invitation-only gala next Thursday. The
ceremony will feature the Navy's Blue Angels and the Air Force Band.

After a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the first car to cross the bridge
will be Woodrow Wilson's 1923 Rolls Royce.


The Outer Loop of the Capital Beltway will be rerouted onto the new,
1.1-mile-long span in early June. Inner loop traffic will be routed
onto the new bridge in July, and traffic will run both ways on the new
six-lane span until a second new span opens in 2008.

The bridge has been almost 20 years in the making.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

This takes place TOMORROW Thursday the 18th some time..

On 5/16/06, b_thom at juno.com <b_thom at juno.com> wrote:
> The WaPo says that the Blue Angels will fly over the ceremonies marking
> the (sort of) completion of the outer loop span of the new Woodrow Wilson
> Bridge on Thursday, May 17. The completion is only sort of, because it
> won't open for traffic for another month.
>
> I can't believe the Blue Angles would show up solely for a bridge
> opening, and I am certain that they were already scheduled to be in the
> vicinity for graduation ceremonies at the Naval Academy.
>
> I don't have the schedule or frequencies for that, but that shouldn't be
> too tough to come up with.