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An interesting historical note is that one of the properties that has become four circles parts. We will begin to study the near and long term needs for pennsylvania avenue between the white house and the capital. We will develop a new vision for this iconic street, which is home to so Many National treasures, including this bui building, the National Archives. I want to extend a special thanks to the National Park service which is the steward for four circle parks and especially peter may. He i...

Kind of oversaw the fortifications during most of the war, as they redid and reconstructed some of these forts, he decided new guns would go in and help cover this which it wasnt doing before. So your plans for the fortifications, the system of fortifications did change over the four years of the war. Coming back, i told you we would stop and i would show you what some of the 360degree angle guns look like. See, the carriage is a little bit different, but this shows you, and you notice the botto...

Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated ...

President will say, mary would not make a very good soldier, as she swooned. So while the president has been under fire, a man has been shot near him, and by 4 00, the 6th corps is ready to take the offensive. And they will move out from in front of fort stevens, moving across the ground that slopes down to where walter reid is now, beyond battleground cemetery, where 40odd men of the Union Soldiers who were killed here are buried and the union troops and the confederates pulled back. Lincoln wi...

Surviving forts with dale floyd from the National Park service. Right now were in the museum which has a variety of different artifacts. One of the nice things is we have a map of the fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. Fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. And today we are also going to go to fort foot which is down here. And all the way up to fort stephens which is up there. The reason that the forts were built was basically...

Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this...

Can go to costco to buy things and safeway to buy things [inaudible] and family members. [inaudible] heard that the bus stop in the building its going to be terminated. [inaudible] set up the two bus stop [inaudible] by van ness an vallejo so the citizens can move around more conveniently. Low income seniors we dont have our own car. We need Public Transportation and its our right in this country for us to move around freely. And i hope the [inaudible] will support that too [inaudible] citizens ...

Traffic and transit lines,you cant do better without compromise to the other crosslines in traffic. A ten point penalty would be assessed for this plan due to low commercial speeds. Basically its not rapid transit. [inaudible] bike or other muni trips, but auto transit time is 2 3 of the brt time. This is not transit growth. Aversion from walk, bike does not make sense. More than 50 percent of the trips which start in the corridor are already walk or bike. Its the greenest most economical choice...

[inaudible] new system will stet up the bus stop at vallejo and van ness north and southbound. I hope the supervisors will support this motion, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. [inaudible] i request to set up the bus stop at vallejo and [inaudible] and van ness. Because the rez tent there are seniors, they are did i did difficult in mobility. Some of them have [inaudible] because they use their walker and [inaudible] and some fall because they use the wheelchairs, moving difficulty. [inaudibl...

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