Posts tagged Road Safety
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Breakfast links: Making and fixing mistakes
Safe but illegal routes to school; Highways becoming safer, still dangerous; Single tracking, here we come; Following in our mistakes; We’re like California, but at least we’re not like New England; Only Boston is more Luddite; And…; Bleedin’ billboard. Keep reading…
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Land-use transformation to reduce teenage deaths (a personal plea)
I am terribly saddened by the death of my brother’s and sister-in-law’s niece, 16. She died a week after a severe car crash on March 22 that was survived by the three other teens who were in the car. She was a passenger in the rear seat. Keep reading…
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Safer driving is more than just buckling up in the event of a crash
As part of the national “Click It or Ticket” campaign each May to encourage car drivers and passengers to buckle up, DC and Prince George’s County police are out stopping drivers and ticketing them for not using a seat belt, as reported by Bob Barnard of Fox 5: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Solutions on the horizon
Fix Baltimore yourself; Eurotrains ready to cross the Atlantic; Why Metro is greater than BART; Fairfax funding Tysons walkability; The last cyclist at Bethesda Naval has been silenced; Fenty kills lab, but person struck by vehicle; Experts push for transit funding; Arlington gets more buses. Keep reading…
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Before DDOT got to improve safety, a pedestrian was killed at 15th & W
Like the Starburst Interection on H Street NE, many roads come together in a similar shape where New Hampshire Ave, Florida Ave, and W Street meet 15th Street, NW. Saturday’s fatality may earn it the nickname Death Star. The MPD news release explains the basics of what happened during broad daylight on Saturday morning:… Keep reading…
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Press reports avoid human agency for cars but not motorcycles
As we’ve discussed in the past, reporters have an unusual habit of avoiding any implication that a driver of a vehicle had anything to do with that vehicle’s hitting people or objects, running off the road, or any other activity. That’s often not the same for bicyclists or motorcyclists. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: High-speed to stupid town
George Will hates Portland, facts; How about just old-speed rail?; Cops upset they can’t park illegally; DC Beltway neither skinny or obese; Mixed-use beats a dead mall; Third Church redevelopment economically uncertain; Jaywalker strikes speeding SUV. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Old news and new news
More bikes on and around trains; Screen not on the Green; Mies box or transit stop?; Few MoCo employees using car-sharing, yet; Press article uses active verb for crash!; Bus stop answers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Carnage and enforcement
Driver acts responsibly after hitting cyclist; Driver faces no consequences for killing cyclist; MPD ticketing rolling stop; PG working on poor safety record; More Metro Kiss & Park; Pick the worst housing project. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving right through
Klein reveals stimulus grant priorities; Drive-thru, not bike-thru; Metro route choice survey back; Construction closes both sides of 6th Street; Banning throwing away clean bags?; Green buildings versus green cities; What do we do about crime?. Keep reading…