Late-night drivers should be prepared for delays during the next drawbridge opening on the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge.
The drawbridge will open between 10 p.m. Thursday (Sept. 10) and 5 a.m. Friday (Sept. 11) for maintenance work. According to AlertDC, multiple bridge openings and intermittent traffic stoppages will occur.
Drivers are encouraged to use alternate routes during the time frame of drawbridge openings.
The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River connects Virginia and Prince George’s County, Md. via the Capital Beltway. The bridge management occasionally opens the bridge for taller vessels to pass underneath, as well as for maintenance work.
When the reconstructed drawbridge opened in 2006, it reduced openings from roughly 260 times per year to about 60 every year.
