Closed section of Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)

This portion of Pennsylvania Avenue was closed to vehicular traffic after the Oklahoma City bombings and never reopened. After the September Eleventh attacks ushered in the "New Security" era in the USA, aerial photos of this area were censored. In a recent compromise, overhead photography has been re-allowed, but only if old. Thus, until 2010 even though the traffic markings and blacktop pavement surface had been gone for years, map websites continued to show this "time machine" view into the street's past life (see photo, circa 2009). For a decade, the actual surface resembled a cobblestone or brick street made of tightly-packed pedestrian walkway paver-stones ---no traffic marking paint despite almost a decade of double-yellow line being visible on some map-servers. Late 2010 GoogleMaps views show the paver-stones.
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Coordinates:  38°53'55"N 77°2'11"W

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