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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,613 posts) Tue Aug 20, 2019, 11:38 AM Aug 2019

Pennsylvania Ave. in front of White House to close for seven months for security fence construction

Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to close for seven months for security fence construction

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Pennsylvania Ave. in front of White House to close for seven months for security fence construction (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2019 OP

We should start a petition to get Pennsylvania Ave renamed President Barack Obama Ave. Meadowoak Aug 2019 #1

Is the fence designed to keep tRUMP on the White House grounds? abqtommy Aug 2019 #3

Why? matt819 Aug 2019 #2

I think the purpose is to lock the view from the wh to the public. notdarkyet Aug 2019 #4

Some details.... dixiegrrrrl Aug 2019 #5

Thanks. matt819 Aug 2019 #6

Meadowoak

(5,560 posts)

1. We should start a petition to get Pennsylvania Ave renamed President Barack Obama Ave.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Aug 20, 2019, 11:42 AM

Aug 2019

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)

3. Is the fence designed to keep tRUMP on the White House grounds?

Reply to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 20, 2019, 11:49 AM

Aug 2019

I can hope...

matt819

(10,749 posts)

2. Why?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Aug 20, 2019, 11:48 AM

Aug 2019

Has there been a problem with people trying to scale the fence that's already in place?

Were the hordes trying to scale that fence not observed by police or Secret Service?

What's this going to cost? Who got the contract? What's it going to look like? When was it last replaced.

And you know full well that there's going to be concertina wire.

What a farce.

When I lived in Canada, I would see the PM walking his dog. The gate to his house as open. Granted, Canada is not the US, but still.

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)

4. I think the purpose is to lock the view from the wh to the public.

Reply to matt819 (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 20, 2019, 12:36 PM

Aug 2019

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

5. Some details....

Reply to matt819 (Reply #2)

Tue Aug 20, 2019, 02:54 PM

Aug 2019

The current stone wall and metal fence — at a height of about eight feet — will be replaced by a fence that will be about 13 feet high. It will include an 18-inch, aboveground stone base at the bottom, a 10-foot, 7-inch metal fence and a one-foot-tall “anti-climb feature” at the top.

The new fence, according to the planning commission, will meet “contemporary security standards while recognizing the historic and symbolic importance of the White House and the surrounding grounds.”

The agencies began working on plans for a new fence in 2014 and a contract was awarded last summer. Construction is expected to start this summer and continue into 2021, although officials did not know the date when the construction would begin.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/construction-will-begin-this-summer-to-make-white-house-fence-taller/2019/05/24/f7468594-7cb3-11e9-8bb7-0fc796cf2ec0_story.html?noredirect=on

matt819

(10,749 posts)

6. Thanks.

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 20, 2019, 04:33 PM

Aug 2019

So it looks routine and not some hare-brained scheme by the buffoon-in-chief. Though I'm sure a few things will happen.

One, there will be some sort of fuck-up. Don't know what kind, but there will be. Over budget. Problem with fraud on the part of the contractor. Attempts by the buffoon to change things.

Doesn't matter what. The buffoon will blame Obama.

And/or he will take credit for the security improvements that the Obama regime overlooked or didn't care about.

I probably should have found the info you found. Lazy of me. Thanks.

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