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JOHN KELLY: Why are Arlington’s fire hydrants the colors they are? – The Post
Minutia lovers will probably enjoy this Answer Man column about the color scheme of Arlington County fire hydrants.
Having read Answer Man, you are able to ascertain your whereabouts. You know that in Fairfax County, fire hydrants have a silver barrel and [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. — Around 9:30 a.m., I followed up my earlier Alexandria reading with one from the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington. I’m calling that 1 inch.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The strange, heavy-at-time, rain storms on Friday resulted in rainbows throughout Northern Virginia. I saw one to the north from my office building window in Tysons, but the ones I saw driving to Ballston along Route 267 (Dulles Toll Road) and Interstate 66 were quite impressive:

Traffic was moving very slowly if [...]

Oh, flickr.

I think it’s great the flickr thinks Arlington County is worthy of Explore, but if they are going to do that, they ought to use a photograph from Arlington. The George Washington Masonic Memorial is located in the city of Alexandria which is adjacent to Arlington and also worthy of Explore.
The great photo shown [...]

My seemingly weekly look at Google Maps errors is a little more sympathetic this week. I recently noticed that Virginia Route 237 is incorrectly marked on Washington Blvd. east of Glebe Road (VA 120). That is an understandable though — VA 237’s actual route doesn’t make any sense.
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VA 237 begins near the Fairfax [...]

Photo by roger4336 on flickr
I stumbled on a great flickr group recently, Arlington, VA before 1990. I didn’t spend a lot of time in Arlington before 1990 (or even 2000 for that matter), but I still recognized a number of things like the old Putt-Putt in Ballston which I went to once, not too mention [...]

Bryce Harper Invited to Become Volunteer Firefighter in Arlington – ARL Now
In a recent Q&A on the MLBlogsNetwork Curly W Live, Bryce Harper mentioned that if he wasn’t a baseball player he would probably be a firefighter and elaborated that he was “going to get my EMT and do the firefighting thing” in the offseason. [...]

My previous post about US Route 50 in Illinois on Arlington Blvd. got picked up by ARLNow.com. In the comments, more problems were posted, like this one for US 1 over the 14th Street Bridge (specifically the Arland Williams Bridge which is I-395/US 1 northbound) between Arlington, Va. and Washington, D.C.:
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There are [...]

UPDATE 08.05.2011: It appears this has been corrected. Sorry I didn’t get the screencaps…
Google Maps is imperfect. For example, for last year all of US 30 had an extra label – Quebec Route 366 (Map of the Week). Closer to home, I noticed another transcontinental route had a labeling problem while looking for local directions:
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JOHN KELLY: Why is the Roosevelt Bridge missing its sculptures? – The Post
The Theodore Roosevelt Bridge which carries Interstate 66 and US 50 across the Potomac River between Arlington, Va. and Washington, D.C. was originally slated to have sculptures. Kelly explains why it never happened:
Mrs. Fraser’s design called for four plaques symbolizing Teddy Roosevelt’s character [...]