Posts tagged Vision Zero
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Asphalt art is popping up at intersections from Logan Circle to Mount Pleasant
As part of a safety and mobility study, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) is putting up art installations at intersections in an area stretching north from Logan Circle through Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant. Keep reading…
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Arlington County moves forward with a Vision Zero plan
Arlington County Board approved a five-year Vision Zero action plan over the weekend, joining other jurisdictions throughout the region that are trying to curb traffic fatalities. The county’s goal is to reach zero traffic deaths by 2030. Currently, Arlington has about four traffic fatalities per year, and about 55 severe crashes. Keep reading…
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Bowser announces traffic safety funding push and moves to make interim DDOT director permanent
Mayor Muriel Bowser made multiple transportation announcements Wednesday that have the potential to affect traffic safety and transit in the District. Keep reading…
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Where DC drivers have jumped curbs in May (so far)
We’re not quite halfway through May, but this month alone it’s evident that you don’t have to be in the street to end up in the path of a motorist. Keep reading…
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Here’s what GGWash’s advocacy team asked the DC Council to pay attention to during its performance oversight hearings
Right before the District’s budget season, the DC Council holds performance oversight hearings, where councilmembers question the agencies they oversee, including the District Department of Transportation, the Office of Planning, and the Department of Housing and Community Development. GGWash’s Advocacy team provided testimony at several key hearings. Here’s what they had to say. Keep reading…
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How DC can reduce traffic deaths and make real progress on Vision Zero
Six years in, DC’s Vision Zero program can only be described as a failure. While there have been some marginal improvements to the city’s transportation infrastructure, it has been nowhere near enough to slow the number of deaths on our streets — in fact, they’ve been increasing. If we are going to engage in a genuine effort to eliminate traffic deaths and injuries, we need bold, system-wide solutions that tackle the District’s biggest safety concerns. We must disrupt an inequitable, environmentally unsound, and car-centered status quo. Keep reading…
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After six years of failure, it’s time to start over on Vision Zero
Six years after Mayor Muriel Bowser committed DC to the goal of ensuring that “no lives are lost on our streets or at our intersections,” DC is on pace for its deadliest year of traffic violence in over a decade. Keep reading…
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Our streets aren’t safe for children
Yesterday, a driver in an SUV killed a four-year-old child at the intersection of Georgia Ave and Kennedy Street NW. It’s not just the one driver who’s responsible for the loss this child, but a whole system that prefers, very demonstrably at the expense of others’ lives, people who are able to afford cars, at the fastest speed possible, on trips that, for the most part, they are making alone. Keep reading…
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The US experienced its highest one-year increase in traffic deaths in almost a century, a report says
The death rate from car crashes in the U.S. spiked 24% in 2020 compared to the previous year — a historic rise linked to an equally historic reduction in congestion that allowed the remaining drivers to race around recklessly on roads designed to prioritize speed above all else. Keep reading…
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Driving badly in DC? You might get a warning text.
If you’re a driver piling up traffic tickets, some researchers believe that you’re at a higher risk of being involved in a serious crash. But if those traffic violations happened in DC, you might get a warning first. Keep reading…