Posts tagged Road Safety
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Mean streets: Tragic tracks this week
Last week was a tragic one for Metro, with two suicides. A man jumped in front of a Red Line train at Gallery Place and a 15 year-old committed suicide at the Columbia Heights station. Since these events, Metro has partnered with suicide-prevention groups to train station staff to identify and help those in distress. While speaking openly about what can be done to curb suicide is essential,… Keep reading…
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Outrage against enforcement is unsafe at any speed
Over the past few issues of themail@dcwatch, longtime DC activist Gary Imhoff has defended speeding as acceptable behavior on city streets. On September 13, he referenced a Washington Times editorial which noted that the District’s speed and red-light cameras issued slightly more than double the number of tickets they did two years ago. The editorial also complained about… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Government keeping you down
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Mean Streets: Hit-and-run becomes kill-and-run
Last week’s controversy surrounding the removal of the ghost bike should remind us that people from all walks of life die every day while using our region’s transportation system. While we often hear of car crashes or injury on the roads, the impact of these tragic occurrences often becomes dulled by their regularity. Therefore, we’re inaugurating a new… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Routes to school and the route for a school
Bright future for Hine; Stifling routes to school?; Buses vs. people; Camper bike; Wisconsin without Circulator?; Not your father’s affordable housing; McCain, Coburn: Everything but highways is “wasteful”. Keep reading…
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Driver’s will
Here’s a very amusing traffic safety film from Belgium. It starts out a bit slow but you’ll get the point by around 2 minutes in, by which time it gets really entertaining. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Back in the east
Live to teach; Still the only way on WTOP; Is it working?; Social pressure another weapon against distracted driving; “Ghost bike” intersection gets a sign; Not loving the heart sculptures; Meccarail; The really conservative position. Keep reading…
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Rail implicated falsely by reporters’ use of active voice
Writers and commenters here at Greater Greater Washington frequently note the onset of the windshield perspective in reporters, columnists, and other bloggers. In news stories, drivers are frequently left out in favor of their car, which seems to have been the sole party in the accident. Recently, I’ve also noticed a frequent misleading use of verbs or the active voice to… Keep reading…
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Mean streets: Ghosted bike
The most striking traffic safety issue this morning isn’t a fatal crash or dangerous intersection, but the removal of a ghost bike memorial to Alice Swanson, who was killed just over a year ago after being run over by a garbage truck at 20th and R streets, NW. City Paper has the most complete account of what happened to the ghost bike; it seems DPW removed it after receiving complaints… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links II: Human power
Let ‘em walk?; Laurel walking ahead; Quick links; RT seen my bike?; Two bicycle fatalities in Virginia; CNN aired graphic video; ‘Accident’ out at NY AAA; MoCo plans on Kojo. Keep reading…