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In addition to the nationally televised Nationals opener at the new ballpark Sunday, tomorrow will bring an exhibition game between the Nats and the Orioles, the start of the Cherry Blossom Festival and the National Marathon.
The events will bring thousands of fans and tourists to the city and a potential traffic and parking nightmare.
If you insist on driving, avoid the Mall, Tidal Basin, the area near the new ballpark and anywhere else tourists or runners might be. Which is pretty much everywhere this time of year.
"Take Metro, take Metro, take Metro," said Karyn LeBlanc, spokeswoman for the District’s Department of Transportation.
Metro will open two hours early tomorrow to get people to the National Marathon, which starts at 7 a.m. near RFK Stadium and the Stadium-Amory Metro station. Several thousand runners are expected to gather for the race, which winds through the city and ends back at the stadium about 1 p.m., accompanied by massive road closures.
Then the National Cherry Blossom Festival — one of the city’s biggest events of the year, with more than 1 million visitors — kicks off at 10 a.m. with the annual Smithsonian Kite Festival on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
The first pitch of the invitation-only Nats-Orioles game is at 6 p.m. tomorrow; Sunday’s season opener begins at 8:05 p.m.

washingtonpost.com


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