Posts tagged Pedestrians
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Carnage this week: Crosswalk sting edition
The recent post on speeding generated a lot of interesting comments, including this: Keep reading…
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What a difference 5 mph makes
Officer David Baker thinks it’s not a big deal that most of the cars on Connecticut Avenue go 30 to 37 mph in a 30 mph zone. Here’s the difference. Keep reading…
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Seniors testify about vital pedestrian needs
If walking is sometimes frustrating and sometimes dangerous for most citizens, it is especially so for senior citizens. Marlene Berlin is leading a pedestrian initiative for IONA Senior Services, and she and many individual senior citizens testified today at the DC Council’s DDOT oversight hearing. Berlin lives in Ward Three and walks as her “primary mode of transportation. Keep reading…
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Sex and the City: why women and families matter
A recent study at Cambridge University says that urban development projects tend to cater to men. Poor transit systems and lack of schools and daycare near workplaces, it found, restrict women’s ability to balance work and family. How do cities in the United States cater to men and women? In particular, does the physical, social, and economic structure of the DC metropolitan… Keep reading…
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Most people don’t speed. For some values of “speed.”
DC police officer David Baker thinks pedestrians aren’t paying enough attention, writes Michael Neibauer in the Examiner. They cross the street while listening to iPods or checking their Blackberries, contributing to crashes like those on Connecticut and Nebraska. He’s probably right that there are many pedestrians don’t pay attention. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: development delays and bodily wastes
Staying retired, for now: Development at the Armed Forces Retirement Home is now on hold thanks to the bad economy. (Post via Bloomingdale, For Now) Keep reading…
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Not stopping doesn’t make every cyclist a “rogue”
Eric “War on Drivers” Weiss of the Washington Post went after (or should I say, declared war on) “rogue bicyclists” in last Monday’s “Roads and Rails” chat. Keep reading…
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Nobody walks or bikes because there are no paths, so paths are a waste of money
Some members of Congress are reluctant to spend transportation money on walking and bicycling infrastructure, because in their communities, few walk or bike. Few walk or bike, however, because those communities never spent transportation money on walking and bicycling infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Positive resident activism: C Street, NE
Like Dupont’s 15th Street and many others around DC, C Street, NE in the Rosedale section of Capitol Hill is a neighborhood street that traffic engineers turned into a high-speed traffic raceway. After crossing the Anacostia on East Capitol Street, the freeway-like road passing RFK Stadium dumps traffic onto C Street. According to the 2005 Capitol Hill transportation study… Keep reading…