Blog — "Dullog"

The folks in Washington DC certainly know how to celebrate the ordinary. Yesterday a special ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the reopening of the city's subway escalators at the Dupont Circle South Entrance:

The entrance was closed for 8.5 months for a complete rebuilding of the escalators.

It's exciting to read about how the work was done, as reported in huffingtonpost.com:

"Working in a narrow space with the proportions of a drinking straw, the old escalators, each weighing nearly 55 tons, had to be cut into 24 separate sections and individually moved out of the entrance on three separate cranes. Then each section of the new escalators had to be installed 24 sections in all, each traveling on 3 cranes. In total, there were nearly 150 crane picks during the project, many happening late at night with 19th Street closed to vehicular traffic."

Additional articles about this are in myfoxdc.com and in washingtonpost.com.

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