Posts tagged Crash Charges
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Breakfast links: What’s a public good?
Taking what’s not his; Omnipresent Internet; Parking for the people?; The rent is too high; But millennials are still coming; No gun necessary, use your car; Criminalized bike commute; Feelings getting in the way?; Red line woes; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Objection!
The Green Mile; Access issues; Northern Virginia drives statewide growth; Plan Orange for Walmart site; Local news coverage takes a hit; Get your hands off your money; Death of a mall; Police blame bikes; Can you get to DHS HQ?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Correlation is not gentrification
Gentrification by the numbers; Living wage debate restarts; Just tickets for cyclist death; DeBlasio plans to increase housing supply; As base grows, so does Columbia; Loudoun contemplating Silver Line loan; NYC releases safe streets design guide; And…. Keep reading…
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“It must have been your fault. C’mon. You are a biker.”
Getting in a crash is one of the scariest things that can happen to a cyclist. Even worse is when police assume that bicyclists are always at fault, even if they’ve got evidence to the contrary. On a pleasant March morning in 2011, I was on my way to work, biking south on 14th St NW in the center of the right lane. As I approached W Street, I looked to make sure I had ample time to cross. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Influence
There is a (little) bike lobby; Is the council too powerful?; Safeway expands, goes mixed-use; Fence blocks the way; No jail for Raquel Nelson; Fraud with disability parking; Education elements; House may scrap Ike design; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Don’t blindly widen
Residents against VA’s Outer Beltway; Unbiased language would be an improvement; Bus loses brakes; Five points against intersection; DIY crosswalk leads to arrest; Why NY elites hate bikeshare; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Disappointing
Loudoun takes bike safety more seriously?; Crosswalks are the danger zone; Wait for
affordableKeep reading…public housing; ANC commissioners, pay attention!; Goodbye, L’Enfant monoculture?; Height limit pro and con; Fewer agencies in Wheaton?; VA funds transportation; It comes down to standing; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rage, rage
Two drivers pull weapons; Driver who hit cyclist takes plea; Cheh wants safety not money; Brown is out; Only one brain cell open at BOE; CaBi grows; Fewer new condos; And…. Keep reading…
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I was in a hit-and-run by a distracted driver
My normal commute between work near Union Station and home in Dupont Circle is 35 minutes, doorknob to doorknob. Tuesday night, that commute came to a grinding halt just 2 blocks from my office. As I crossed the street at 2nd and F Streets NE, an SUV pulled up to the 4-way stop. The SUV stopped at the stop sign, and I began to cross the street in the crosswalk. As I was just in front of the… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Build it at a Metro station
FBI not near Metro?; Hospital at Largo?; WMATA has 11 more in mind; Less for transportation; It’s a “collision,” not an “accident,” in New York; FTC is pro-Uber; Urbanism isn’t new in SimCity; And…. Keep reading…