Posts tagged Traffic Cameras
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Breakfast links: Rage, rage
Two drivers pull weapons; Driver who hit cyclist takes plea; Cheh wants safety not money; Brown is out; Only one brain cell open at BOE; CaBi grows; Fewer new condos; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: While there’s time
MD Senate funds transportation; Let ANCs talk more?; A stop for super stops; Keep Arlington in the loop as you bike; Anacostia Playhouse gets green light; People want a safer Bethesda; Fences get cut on MBT; Who got tickets?; And…. Keep reading…
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Gray will maintain most lower traffic camera fines
In the budget released today, Mayor Gray has allocated money to keep many traffic camera fines, which DC recently lowered, from automatically rising again. He will also propose raising fines a tiny bit for moderate speeding and considerably for major speeding. Last year, Councilmembers Tommy Wells, Mary Cheh, and Marion Barry introduced a bill to lower fines for speeding up… Keep reading…
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NBC story on cameras actually discusses safety
Something astounding has happened: A news story about speed camera tickets actually discusses whether or not they deter drivers from speeding, one of the acts which makes roads unsafe. Mark Segraves dug up some information on whether drivers get more repeat tickets at DC or Maryland cameras: Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Big transportation progress
Hope for Maryland transportation; Bus to Silver; Mario-themed morsels; Metro lots fill up; AAA still misleads; Don’t widen 410; Baker wants the schools; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: “Snowquester”
Snow; Residents win the war; Issa endorses better design; Prince William vs sprawl; Preserve “Mad Men” era buildings?; Fairfax considers red light cameras; Bad ideas for FBI; A sport looking for space; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: On the waterfront
Who wants the FBI?; Gondola to Georgetown?; Camera camera works; The Warren Quarter; Narrow thinking on “safety”; Jury excuses killing cyclist; Eyes on the street, not?; And…; And and…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Suddenly there came a tapping
The Post in DC nevermore?; Gandhi’s tell-tale heart; PG schools would purloin your letters; The facts in the case of M. Driver; Retail bugs Golden Triangle; The premature burial of pedestrian safety; Prevents the descent after the maelstrom; The system of reaching Doctor Tarr; The fall of the house-ownership myth; Quoth…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro plan reactions
Can Metro get its billions?; Build high to dig deep; Police harassed sexual assault victims?; Alexandria to ax bike registration; Cafritz in trouble?; Credit card readers delayed; Hill East gets one bid; Oregon Avenue won’t get bike path; Runaway train never going back; And…. Keep reading…
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Can we get more proportionality in criminal justice?
I was heartbroken to read that Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet freedom activist, author of RSS, and Reddit cofounder, killed himself on Friday. I’d met Aaron a few times; on April 6, 2009, he emailed me to ask about books he should read on city policy issues. Aaron clearly suffered from depression, but his family, law professor Lawrence Lessig, and many others are also… Keep reading…