Posts tagged Enforcement
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It’s not the funeral lane
Reader Sean sends along this particularly egregious example of bike lane blocking. A whole row of cars parked in the bike lane in front of the church at 14th and Corcoran, NW. This was for a funeral, and while my condolences go to the family, that doesn’t constitute an exception to the rule against parking in the bike lane. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Scolding all around
Bad Apple; Bad planning; Bad anti-planning; Bad candidate; Bad parker; Good blogs; Good slate. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links I: Park and ride
No parking including city employees; Enforcing on the enforcers; Parking tickets aren’t taxes; Pay to valet; Krugman looks where Samuelson doesn’t; What’s really inefficient is freeway building; Baltimore testing smartcard; If you’re happy and you know it ride the train. Keep reading…
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Bicycles, drivers, and pedestrians all have their reckless minority
The eternal debate about the role of bicycling reached the Post this weekend. An editorial praises the rise of bicycling, pointing out how many more bicycles a street or parking space can hold compared to cars. WashCycle writes, Keep reading…
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Revenue increases should also internalize environmental externalities
This week, the DC Council will decide how to close a $190 million shortfall in the FY2009 budget, and discuss how to begin tackling the additional $150 million projected gap for 2010. Lawmakers are inevitably going to look for a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases. This morning, Jenny Reed suggested ending the special tax exemption for other states’ municipal bonds as… Keep reading…
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Lunch links: Feel the power
It runs on STEEM; House not so into sharing; Loudoun cyclists get lower fines; Virginia’s 15th Beltway, 2135?; Zero texting tolerance; Barclays-Atlantic-Pacific; And…. Keep reading…
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Bike news
The DC Bicycle Advisory Council met on Wednesday, and DDOT revealed lots of interesting news, which WashCycle kindly wrote up in great detail. Some of the highlights: Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: The cyclists are naked and rolling
Rolling stops in Loudoun: The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office ticketed a number of cyclists last weekend who were participating in a muscular sclerosis charity event. In defending the citations for riders in the event who had slowed to 1 mph at a stop sign, Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson noted that “[t]hey forget the fact that they’re sharing that road with… Keep reading…
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Let’s talk about enforcement
Councilmember Jim Graham is eager to create a DDOT bicycle-mounted enforcement squad. Depending on whom you ask, this squad might be designed to mainly enforce laws against cyclists, or to enforce laws against both cyclists and drivers. We need even-handed enforcement of dangerous behavior regardless of the type of vehicle. And we definitely need more enforcement. Keep reading…