Contact (Media Only): Erik Linden, erik.linden@dc.gov or Karyn LeBlanc (202) 671-3490

(Washington, DC) The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) today announced it has expanded its online historic photo gallery on the DDOT Web site, creating a unique journey through the District’s transportation past.

The new posted images include Wisconsin Avenue during “rush hour” in 1960 (a nearly empty Wisconsin Avenue compared to today’s rush hour), South Capitol Street near the new Nationals ballpark, H Street NE, and Pennsylvania at Minnesota Avenue, Southeast.

In addition to 25 historic photographs posted on the DDOT Web site earlier this year, DDOT yesterday posted an additional 25 photographs taken from the DDOT archives.

The people, buildings, street signs, cars, streets, highways, trucks, streetcars, traffic patterns and street lights are captured as they were in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

“These historic images are a fantastic way for the public to view the history of transportation in the District of Columbia,” said Emeka Moneme, Director of DDOT. “From Wisconsin Avenue to Pennsyvlania Avenue, from Northeast to Southeast, these fantastic images illuminate our city’s transportation history. Tracking our transportation history helps us learn from the past and look into the future.”

The images help document the District’s transportation history and are one aspect of DDOT’s preservation efforts to collect and conserve photos, studies, reports, plans, design and construction documents, drawings, and artifacts.

These preservation efforts are part of a history project sponsored by the DDOT Research and Technology Development Office with support from the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).

To see the Archival Historic Photos, go to www.ddot.dc.gov , click on "Transportation Planning & Research", and click on Historical Photo Archives.

Residents interested in more information or interested in contributing information on this project please contact: William P. Carr, at williamp.carr@dc.gov or (202) 671-1371. Media contact is Erik Linden (202) 438-7719.