Community Corner
Street Closures for Park Police Funeral Procession
Roads leading into downtown D.C., including parts of Rock Creek Parkway near the National Mall, will be closed around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The funeral procession for United States Park Police Sergeant Michael Boehm will close roads in the District near the Memorial Bridge, including a portion of Rock Creek Parkway.
Sgt. Boehm died in the line of duty .
Sgt. Boehm's funeral mass will take place at the Church of the Nativity in Burke, Va. and will be followed by a funeral procession that will go past the USPP headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to a release from the USPP.
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The processional is expected to leave the church at about 11:30 am and surrounding roads will be closed for an estimated hour and a half. The closures will be be “rolling” though some routes may be closed for longer periods of time, according to the USPP.
The route is as follows:
Exit the church making right turn on Old Keene Mill Rd
Left on Fairfax County Parkway
Left on ramp to I 395 north HOV
Left on exit ramp to Washington Blvd/VA Rt 27
Washington Blvd/VA Rt 27 to Memorial Bridge
Across Memorial Bridge into Washington, DC at the Lincoln Memorial
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South on 23rd Street on the south side of the Lincoln Memorial
Left turn eastbound Independence Avenue to Maine Ave
Maine Ave to East Basin Dr heading towards the Jefferson Memorial
South on Ohio Dr towards Hains Point
Right turn west onto Buckeye Dr and past US Park Police Headquarters
Right turn onto Ohio Dr along Potomac River, across Inlet Bridge,
through West Potomac Park heading back towards the Lincoln Memorial
Left onto Ohio Drive/Rock Creek Parkway behind Lincoln Memorial to make
ramp back onto Memorial Bridge returning into Virginia
Memorial Bridge to south on George Washington Parkway to south VA Rt 27
to I 395 south HOV
South on I 395 HOV to Fairfax County Parkway
Left exit onto Fairfax County Parkway making right onto FFX Parkway
itself
Right on Braddock Road
Left on Burke Station Road
Right turn into cemetery: Fairfax Memorial Park 9900 Braddock Road Fairfax, VA 22032.
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