Posts tagged Enforcement
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Who’s blocking L Street today, and what can we do?
Who’s blocking the L Street bike lane today? A delivery driver, most likely. That’s the conclusion I’ve reached after 4 months of chronicling obstructions in the city’s newest bike lane. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Surprising popularity
Reservations over Reservation 13; Traffic cameras are popular; MoCo CaBi coming; Floreen wants lanes; Do we need another highway?; Walk the long way to VRE; More power for ethics?; Small units get big; Safer without stoplights; And…. Keep reading…
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Instead of tickets, turn lights red for speeders
Opponents of speed cameras often insist that they don’t want drivers to speed — what they object to is the revenue-raising function of the cameras and their invasion of privacy. There may be a way to give these critics what they say they want, at least on some roads, while curbing excess speed more effectively. How about wiring radars to turn the next traffic… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Here we go again
White House floats 2014 budget; MoCo ped enforcement to target drivers, too; Charter preference lives; Area home prices reach historic highs; “ABRA-ization of development”?; Greenway drivers seeing red; Baker gets partial school control; How’s the gender gap?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Stay safe
Safe at night; Walk safe in Fairfax; Faster police; Going off the rails; Don’t forget bikes; No FBI HQ at GPO; Georgetown wants the streetcar; BID up Southwest; No-no go-go for park?. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: While there’s time
MD Senate funds transportation; Let ANCs talk more?; A stop for super stops; Keep Arlington in the loop as you bike; Anacostia Playhouse gets green light; People want a safer Bethesda; Fences get cut on MBT; Who got tickets?; And…. Keep reading…
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Gray will maintain most lower traffic camera fines
In the budget released today, Mayor Gray has allocated money to keep many traffic camera fines, which DC recently lowered, from automatically rising again. He will also propose raising fines a tiny bit for moderate speeding and considerably for major speeding. Last year, Councilmembers Tommy Wells, Mary Cheh, and Marion Barry introduced a bill to lower fines for speeding up… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: War on the war on cars
Parking minimums are obsolete; Pay up, Maryland drivers; Townsend watch; Fairfax sneers at PG; Waterfront defended; Murals popular, except on the Hill; MoCo still very dangerous to walk; Air travel doesn’t break even, either; Candidates pull in money. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Better biking and those who fume at it
L Street lane could get a curb; Benches, CaBi at Commerce Department; AAA vs. safe driving; DC #1 at not being like Texas; Cuccinelli’s gas tax plan; Miller intros transportation plan; FBI would hurt Loudoun?; And…. Keep reading…
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Is ped enforcement campaign “blaming the victim”?
District agencies are running a much-needed, but brief, sting operation today to enforce the laws against making U-turns across the Pennsylvania Avenue bike lanes. Meanwhile, a number of readers have written in with worries that a pedestrian enforcement campaign is targeting the wrong people for the wrong behavior. Keep reading…