Posts tagged Road Safety
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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…
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Breakfast links: Forgiven
Metro news; Forgiving vs. self-explaining roads; Manhattan’s “vertical cul-de-sac”; Develop here, not there; Leventhal and Knapp’s own windshield perspective; More progress at 15th and W. Keep reading…