"Public Safety"

So, DC likes to deploy commercially-operated speed-camera cars on major roadways through DC. For a long time, they used to station vehicles on I-295 near the Pennsylvania Avenue interchange. Right now, however, that area's under massive construction and there's no longer shoulders to station the camera vehicles on.

It seemed, for quite a while, that this prevented them from running their cash-collection scheme. Hadn't seen the camera cars in months (or the brakelight evidence of their presence). But, clearly, with city finances "public safety" at stake, this was a situation that couldn't be allowed to last. Well, tonight, I noticed that they found a new place to park their camera vehicles: just north of where I-295 South widens to three lanes before the new Woodrow Wilson bridge.

No, they didn't flag me. I noticed brake lights and a white flash (apparently, someone didn't notice soon enough). I'm so glad to see that "public safety" is being restored.

FiOS DC Network Issues?

I noticed that my browsing speeds were slow and, at best, spotty. So, decided to hit SpeedTest.Net to see what's up. It looks like my connectivity to the (geographically) local test server.

This didn't look too awful for my service tier. So, I thought, "hmm... Might wanna check to see if there might be something NOT reflected in local tests." So, I tried tests to several different locations and got the following:

So, best I can guess is that there's a problem leaving the VZ networks (or at least their DC area links)