Posts tagged Public Safety
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A new short documentary highlights the dire consequences of DC’s maternal care desert
The result of hospital closures in DC is a maternal care desert for women who live east of the Anacostia, who now have to trek half an hour by car or more (and further by transit) to access a maternity ward and prenatal care. A new seven-minute documentary from The Atlantic highlights the deadly, discriminatory consequences of these closures. Keep reading…
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Some people created a guerrilla bike lane in Dupont Circle
The DC Department of Transformation, a “tactical urbanist organization,” recently posted about a guerrilla bike lane and colorful pedestrian bumpout they created with chalk and safety cones along T Street NW in Dupont Circle. Keep reading…
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A lawsuit alleging a DC landlord uses discounts to circumvent rent control may have gotten a boost
Some DC landlords are giving tenants rent discounts, called “concessions,” then raising the price higher than the tenant might expect after the resident has lived in the building for a year. Now a lawsuit DC Attorney General Karl Racine (D) filed over this practice in a rent controlled-building is making its way through the court system, and may have picked up support from a DC agency decision. Keep reading…
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Richard Rothstein lays out the reality of government-mandated segregation in “Color of Law”
The government's explicit role in building and enforcing segregation has been largely obscured, and it has done comparatively little to rectify the harm it's caused to African-American communities — harm which deeply resonates into the present day. Keep reading…
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Bills cracking down on sex work won’t help trafficking victims, but more housing will
The problems facing sex workers, sex trafficking victims, and the Ward 6 residents who don’t want to find condoms on their lawn are all rooted in the same thing — homelessness. If we want to make DC’s public spaces safer, especially for those most likely to experience physical and sexual violence, we need to make sure that everyone in our city is housed first. Keep reading…
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A Metro rider fell between rubber railcar barriers to the roadway, but escaped major injury
Another incident of a person falling between train cars onto the tracks resurfaces concerns about 7000-series railcar safety, first raised back in 2016 when a visually impaired man suffered a similar accident. Keep reading…
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The long road to pedestrian safety east of the Anacostia
Local ANCs worked with the community to produce a letter detailing 23 infrastructure trouble spots in northern Ward 7. Rather than focusing on one intersection, community leaders opted to identify similar issues across the region. Unfortunately, Kenilworth Terrace’s problems aren’t unique for minority communities. Keep reading…
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People parking on the 4th Street NE bikeway is a problem. What are we going to do about it?
Bicycle planners talk a lot about the E’s: education, enforcement, and engineering. This is a scenario in which all three Es have been tried, but to no avail — drivers keep parking on the 4th Street NE bikeway in DC. Keep reading…
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A salmoning cyclist made me break my jaw; I blame the infrastructure
Riding the wrong way might irk the living daylights out of rule-abiding cyclists. However we shouldn’t deride the people who do it without simultaneously treating its prevalence as a referendum on our unacceptable, unsafe infrastructure. Keep reading…
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Here’s what you should know about DC’s Metro Safety Commission nominees
The two new nominees will join the commission — when it’s finally set up — to oversee Metro and ensure the agency’s operations stay safe. Keep reading…