Posts tagged Ddot
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Breakfast links: What’s in store?
No more Walmarts; Harris teetering?; Where’s the bridge?; Waiting on Purple; Hail drunk driving declines; Map the crashes; Stand on the left?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Jim or Jack?
More new leadership for WMATA; Thumbs up to bikshare; Metro fares; Tree house trouble; How Virginia gets to work; Crystal City housing; Crime in 2016; A streetcar in NYC?; Fair pay for Uber; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: All together now
Wholesale overhaul; McDuffie vs. Bowser; Sue me; Where has my bus bench gone; Underground McMillan party; Build on a parking lot; First family settles in; Council tweets for the tweeple. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Safety and security
WMATA safety; Anxious riders; Smoke scare; High fines, nope; Bad landlords face the music; Morbid start to new year; Higher gas taxes for NoVA?; Stadium deal scrutiny; Navy Yard grows; Taxis claim harassment. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Waterfront renaissances
The buzz on Buzzard Point; Fresh plans for Baltimore’s waterfront; Skin in the game; Standing up for statehood; Redesigning Southeast Boulevard; Housing in the new year; Gems of DC; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Are you ready to ride?
DC Streetcar opening February; Not in your backyard; A dedicated rowing lane; Fight Baltimore’s blight; Reston speed bump; Walk dangerously; The math on housing policy; Wi-Fi in the City; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not so grand
Vision 1000?; Housing heats up; Where Lyft takes you; The eggcellent Echo; Winter riding; Math fail; Forget shiny noses; And…. Keep reading…
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DC’s traffic cameras could reduce deaths if they were more swift, certain, and fair
This is part 2 in a series on traffic enforcement. Read part 1 on DC’s proposed fines. DC plans to raise traffic fines as part of its Vision Zero plan. But criminology research says that “swift, certain, and fair” punishments work better than infrequent, highly punitive ones. Traffic cameras offer a way to make enforcement work, if done correctly. Keep reading…
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DC may raise traffic fines. Criminology says that’s unhelpful.
DC’s new plan for Vision Zero, the effort to reduce road deaths to zero, contains significant steps forward like lowering some speed limits and trying out protected intersections. It also raises some fines by 350% to 1000%. Is that wise? I’m not convinced. Here are some of the old and new fines: Offense Old fine New fine Speeding 26+ mph over… Keep reading…
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Bad pedestrian design mars the intersection where Vision Zero launched
On Wednesday, DC officials unveiled the Vision Zero plan to make roads safer for walkers and cyclists, as well as drivers. But at the very intersection DDOT made the announcement, pedestrians are already getting short shrift. Keep reading…