Posts tagged Traffic Cameras
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Breakfast links: Heroes and scofflaws
Leon Swain the hero; The ticket collectors; Bicyclist killed because he was riding in the road?; Sustainable transportation program is not sustainable; Down from the summit on texting; Automated announcements?; Watch for falling gas. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You break it, you buy it
Metro sues for Orange Line damage; Not the right route; No more E-Z perks; Vacuum chic not cycle chic?; Riders would pay for bikes on Amtrak; Speed cameras working, mostly; Commuters find a way around I-66; Thanks, states. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bumps in the road
Keep on Circulating; Bumps cause conflict in Chevy Chase; National Harbor II; No houses without massive road construction; MWAA, the Major Widening Aspirations Association?; Md. cameras will come slowly; Failing not bailing the housing market. Keep reading…
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What if we counted people like we count vehicles?
Of all of the disparities between different transportation modes, one of the most important and least talked about is the disparity of information. Right now in American cities we have an enormous and expanding set of knowledge about how cars and trucks move, yet we know almost nothing quantitatively about how pedestrians and bicyclists use the infrastructure. Cameras and… 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: We all need a little calming
Head under la hood; A fancy bridge doesn’t make it green; Breaking out of “two leg perspective”; Speed cameras working; How about in Southeast?; Not a ham sandwich; Our streets belong to drivers. Keep reading…
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Breakfast Links: The cyclists are naked and rolling
Rolling stops in Loudoun: The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office ticketed a number of cyclists last weekend who were participating in a muscular sclerosis charity event. In defending the citations for riders in the event who had slowed to 1 mph at a stop sign, Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson noted that “[t]hey forget the fact that they’re sharing that road with… Keep reading…
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Entitled Driving Journalist Syndrome reaches epidemic at WTOP
Public health researchers have been tracking a variant of “road rage” in the Washington region, surfacing as a recent outbreak of Entitled Driving Journalist Syndrome (EJDS), a close cousin of Entitled Driver Syndrome. The latest reporter to fall victim to this nasty bug is WTOP’s Adam Tuss. Those of you who drive have probably caught a mild version of EDS. Keep reading…
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Some cities reduce traffic camera safety for profit
Studies have questioned whether red-light cameras increase safety, arguing that they cause motorists to stop too quickly. One thing’s for sure: if the city deliberately makes the yellow light extra short to catch motorists and raise revenue, that definitely hurts safety. And it turns out some cities did just that. Via BoingBoing. Keep reading…