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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:11 PM
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D.C. Traffic circles form Satanic Pentagram
Keep it under your hat, we don't want Tommy_Carcetti to find out.








Northwest
Anna J. Cooper Circle – Intersection of 3rd and T Streets.
Blair Circle – Intersection of 16th Street, Eastern Avenue, Colesville Road, and North Portal Drive. This circle is only half within the District; the other half is in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Chevy Chase Circle – Intersection of Western and Connecticut Avenues, Chevy Chase and Magnolia Parkways, and Grafton Street. This circle is only half within the District; the other half is in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Dupont Circle – Intersection of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire Avenues and 19th and P Streets, with an underpass for Connecticut Avenue and an express lane for Massachusetts Avenue.
Grant Circle – Intersection of New Hampshire and Illinois Avenues and Varnum and 5th Streets.
Juαrez Circle – Intersection of New Hampshire and Virginia Avenues, 25th St, and Interstate 66, with an underpass for Interstate 66. Virginia Avenue cuts through the center of the circle.
Kalorama Circle – Intersection of 24th Street and Kalorama Road.
Logan Circle – Intersection of Rhode Island and Vermont Avenues and 13th and P Streets.
Observatory Circle – Intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and 34th Street. The roadway does not form a complete circle. (See United States Naval Observatory and Number One Observatory Circle.)
Peace Circle – Intersection of First Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Pinehurst Circle – Intersection of Western and Utah Avenues and 33rd and Worthington Streets. This forms a semicircle along the border with Maryland.
Plymouth Circle – Intersection of Plymouth Street and Sudbury Lane.
Scott Circle – Intersection of Rhode Island and Massachusetts Avenues and 16th Street, with an underpass for 16th Street.
Sheridan Circle – Intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and R and 23rd Streets.
Sherman Circle – Intersection of Kansas and Illinois avenues and Crittenden and 7th Streets.
Tenley Circle – Intersection of Wisconsin and Nebraska Avenues, Fort Drive, and Yuma Street.
Thomas Circle – Intersection of Massachusetts and Vermont Avenues and 14th and M Streets, with an underpass for Massachusetts Avenue.
Thompson Circle – Near the intersection of 31st Street and Woodland Drive.
Ward Circle – Intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues.
Washington Circle – Intersection of New Hampshire and Pennsylvania Avenues and K and 23rd Streets, with a K Street underpass.
Wesley Circle – Intersection of Massachusetts and University Avenues and 46th and Tilden Streets.
Westmoreland Circle – Intersection of Western and Massachusetts Avenues, Butterworth Place, and Wetherill Road. This circle is only half within the District; the other half is in Maryland.

Northeast
Columbus Circle – Intersection of Delaware, Louisiana, and Massachusetts Avenues and E and First Streets. Union Station and its access roads interrupt this circle on one side.
Truxton Circle – Now defunct, existing only as the name of a neighborhood; formerly the intersection of Florida Avenue, North Capitol Street, Q Street NW, and Q Street NE. This circle lies on the border of Northwest and Northeast Washington. There are possible plans to rebuild the circle.

Southeast
Barney Circle – Intersection of Pennsylvania and Kentucky Avenues and 17th Street, with an underpass for the Southeast Freeway.
Bass Circle – Near the intersection of Bass Place and Bass Court.
Ellicott Circle – Cloverleaf at the interchange of Pennsylvania Avenue and the Anacostia Freeway.
Randle Circle – Intersection of Minnesota and Branch Avenues, K and 32nd Streets, and Fort DuPont Drive.

Southwest
Benjamin Banneker Circle – Off L'Enfant Promenade, south of Interstate 395.
Garfield Circle – Intersection of First Street and Maryland Avenue.
Lincoln Memorial Circle – Intersection of 23rd Street, Henry Bacon and Daniel French Drives, and the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Surrounds the Lincoln Memorial and is divided between the Southwest and Northwest quadrants of the city.
Unnamed circle at the western end of Arlington Memorial Bridge connecting the bridge to the George Washington Memorial Parkway, Memorial Drive (which leads to Arlington National Cemetery), and Washington Boulevard (Virginia State Route 27). This circle is located on Columbia Island in the Potomac River, and thus falls within the District of Columbia.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:16 PM
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1. The Pentagram is not satanic in and of itself.
Such a sigil may be mis-used, of course.
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:17 PM
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2. That city's traffic grid has never been anything less than diabolical.
Edited on Tue Dec-08-09 03:17 PM by Tommy_Carcetti
Yes, TZ, I know, I know, if you divide the square root of the number of syllables in the street name with the longitude level you currently are located at and then multiple it by the year the street was most recently paved and then add it to the average water temperature of the Potomac River in degrees Kelvin, you'll know exactly where you are. Sheesh, you don't have to be such a no-it-all all the time.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:25 PM
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3. The Satanists did it on purpose.
A north-south, east-west grid pattern is easy to navigate, but being satanists they made it more confusing by superimposing a another square pattern over the original pattern, yet tilting it slightly.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:33 PM
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4. North South streets are numbered chronicologically
East/West are alphabetical. You have 4 quandrants that converge on Capitol Hill NE, SE, NW, SW...Its really NOT that hard if you can keep this straight. I've done alot of walking around the Capitol Hill/Mall area on foot and its quite easy to find stuff that way....
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Chan790 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:45 PM
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8. Yes...but.
As a semi-native, I'm embarrassed to admit that on more than one occasion I've been in the wrong place by being at the right address in the wrong quarter.

Mass Ave. in particular is my nemesis...if you're at the right address on the wrong side of N. Capitol, inevitably getting to the right place means either full-out sprinting across Union Station during a rush-time or taking a 4 block detour in grid-lock around Union Station.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:54 PM
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9. That happened to me trying to find the Capitol Hill police garages
Edited on Tue Dec-08-09 03:54 PM by arcadian
aka, temporary detention. I was in the wrong quadrant, the garages are in Southeast.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:13 PM
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19. It's happened to us all. You just admit it. Others do not. I got on the wrong train going the
wrong direction at Metro Center. I made the mistake of entering the station from an unusual direction.

When I realized my mistake and got off the train two stops later, I noticed it was also marked wrong!!!
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:56 PM
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10. Lots of cities use the NE/SE/NW/SW quadrant coordinates. That's not the point.
The point is that DC's streets are so filled with one-ways, detours, traffic circles, and non-90 degree intersections that it is almost inevitable you'll get lost in that place.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:12 PM
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17. And three alphabets cover the horizontal streets. nt
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:35 PM
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5. It's said that DC was designed to be intimidating to visiting heads of state.
I'm not a head of state, but it intimidates the hell outta me every weekday.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:41 PM
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6. Kidding aside
It completely screws up my sense of direction.

I'll be standing across the Potomac in Arlington from the Lincoln Memorial, and I know from maps that the National Mall, Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol are all to my east. I know this. It just won't register. D.C. to me "feels" north of that spot.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:10 PM
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13. I have a similar problem if I'm facing the Truman Balcony.
The Lincoln Memorial should be behind me to the south, dammit, beyond the National Phallus, not to my west. It's weird.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 03:44 PM
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7. hmm, the pentagram's center has all the K Street LOBBYISTS!
work of the devil, indeed.

The problem with this diagram is that the southern point is never really completed, as both Connecticut and Vermont end at H street and don't cross Lafayette Park and on to the north lawn of the White House.

The work of the devil is incomplete, I guess.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:04 PM
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11. no it doesn't.
some of those red lines do not run along streets.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:11 PM
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15. At those points you are supposed to jump on the Metro.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:06 PM
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12. Wasn't DC one of the first "planned cities"?
Where the grid was worked out in advance, before they drained the swamp? Rather than just sort of evolving over time?

I recall reading where the planners were freemasons, and the city's layout is filled with little freemason symbols and signifiers.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:15 PM
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20. Yeah, because it has no long-term history. Based on Paris. We can blame the French for it. nt
Edited on Tue Dec-08-09 04:15 PM by Captain Hilts
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:11 PM
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14. How exactly is Mount Vernon *Square* a "traffic circle"?
:shrug:
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:12 PM
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16. Not if you drive 'em right! Which I can do, by the way!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:37 PM
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22. hey I just noticed your sigline...
:rofl: :thumbsup:
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:42 PM
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23. It's barely 10 minutes old. nt
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:13 PM
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18. Wasn't it Aleister Crowley who said, "Drive where thou wilt"?
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 04:18 PM
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21. As above,
Dupont Circle; so below, Farrugut West Metro Station.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 05:54 PM
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25. LOL! And "Love is all under the the Law...and the legal speed limit"
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 05:11 PM
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24. I've always said they were evil. I've driven on them enough.
If you don't know IN ADVANCE how many spokes to pass before diving off, you're thrown off into God knows where DC. The "must turn right" lanes don't help any.

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kimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 07:05 PM
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26. ALL the streets in DC are too narrow as well
Made for horses and buggies. Which I'd rather see in my rear-view mirror than a Hummer, anyway.
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arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 07:14 PM
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27. The height of buildings in D.C. are determined by the width of the street they are on.
It's why there is no building taller than 12 or 13 stories. Does not include ornamentals/
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