Posts tagged Road Safety
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Breakfast links: Greener except on the Green Line
Uncutting transit; No Metro after late Nats games?; Good job Cavan!; FOX supports transit yesterday; Moran introduces national bag fee; More for the Mall; Vehicle hits man, reporter ignores driver; Too aggressive; UMD deletes garages; How about zig-zags?; Fenty’s $4,000 bike and other facts; Shopping to housing in Germantown; Not what we meant, Mendo. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running into walls
Anti-soccer or just generally anti-people?; Carnage in Prince George’s; Groups want smaller, greener White Flint; Potomac Yard Metro Alternative Analysis; Can BRT be great?; That’s not treading lightly; CirculatorTube. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not an accident
Police won’t charge Swanson’s killer; Really not an accident; They need Leon; ZipSegwayCar?; Kauai residents repair road themselves; Vacant schools draw bids; Splitting comments should be fixed. Keep reading…
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Two cases where reporters, police don’t dismiss crashes
This morning’s Washington Post car crash story, the latest in a sadly regular chain, avoids the “man killed from striking fast-moving bullet” fallacy, the excessive passive voice, and the misleading use of the word “accident” that mar much traffic crash reporting. The story still doesn’t assign any criminal responsibility, since that’s… Keep reading…
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Excessive passive voice, linguistic detachment observed in Culpeper road fatality
No news story ever began saying, “A person was killed yesterday when he collided with a bullet moving at high speed in the opposite direction.” Yet that’s exactly how news stories about traffic “accidents” often begin, like this Post story: Keep reading…
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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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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…