Posts tagged Bike Safety
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This Capitol Hill throughway will get safer for bikes and pedestrians, but some say not safe enough
A dangerous stretch of Maryland Avenue NE, a street that runs diagonally through Capitol Hill, will soon narrow from four lanes to two, with a 10-foot median and painted bike lanes. The people making the changes say there isn’t enough space for protected bikeways, which would separate cyclists from cars, but bike advocates disagree. Keep reading…
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DC could end its most unjust rule of the road now. Ask the DC Council to delay no longer.
A man named Kevin Washington was riding his bike on 19th Street NW toward M Street NW. As far as anyone knows, he was obeying every traffic law. He was in the street; he was in the right lane; he wasn’t speeding. A trash truck was in the middle lane, the one to his left. Suddenly, it turned across his path and hit him. In a subsequent lawsuit, DC’s highest court ruled that… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Who gets the blame
You’re fired; Silver Line scapegoat?; Metro’s disability dilemma; Is standing on escalators better?; Big plans for Grosvenor; Big garage, big impact; Flexible transit benefits?; Victims’ struggle; VA expands road & rail; Go home when?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Kaya calls it quits
Kaya Henderson leaving DCPS; Streetcar going strong; Hogan fights for roads; Library relocation; What’s in a name?; Flow or foe?; And…. Keep reading…
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DC’s harmful traffic law needs to go, one way or another
If a driver hits you while you’re walking or biking in DC, the law makes it almost impossible to collect from the driver’s insurance. A bill to fix that is suddenly in jeopardy just hours before a scheduled vote. Please ask the DC Council to move it forward. So the months long effort to reform D.C.'s contrib negligence law could unravel hours before the vote. #bikedc—… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: New name, same taxi game
Taxicab commission changes; Fairfax ups FAR; Plans to hold back the floodwaters; Georgetown connects the bike trails; Still stuck on SunTrust; More residential for Woodley Park; Bike theft doesn’t discriminate; Hit and run; Bike commuter benefits; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safety and SafeTrack alternatives
No stop as yield in DC; A promenade for who?; VRE as a SafeTrack alternative; CaBi key fobs on the spot; One-way Zipcar; Farewell parking, hello mixed-use; No charges in Alexandria crash; The cost of sprawl. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: All about access
Office space shift; Capitol B for bike; Dedicated funding from the Dome; Cycling stress no more; Taxi tastes; A peek at the pier; DC, fitness king; Two stories too tall; City slides over in Sweden. Keep reading…
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How healthy is bike commuting? More than you might think.
An article in today’s Post Express says bike commuting is more dangerous than you’d think. That may or may not be true, but even if it is, it ignores years of studies that show the benefits outweigh the risks, and on the whole biking is statistically far more likely to adds years to your life than to harm you. Keep reading…
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A law that blames you, instead of the driver who hit you, could soon meet its end
In 2008, a driver in a minivan hit me (Tracy) when I was riding my bike on Connecticut Avenue, fracturing my pelvis in three places. The driver’s insurance company denied my claim because of a law that says if you’re even 1% at fault, you can’t collect anything. The good news? DC is moving to change this. Keep reading…