Posts tagged Windshield Perspective
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Breakfast links: Who to hire?
Gray picks public safety chiefs, Lanier to stay; WMATA needs drivers; Capital region commuters drive less, ride more; Housing harder to afford; Transit backlog thanks to ICC; MWAA will likely drop closest Dulles station proposal; Adams Morgan hotel gets support; Va. Beach light rail hits a snag; And…. Keep reading…
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A conversation with a traffic engineer
A number of people have sent this hilarious xtranormal video where a traditional traffic engineer tries to explain a street “improvement” project to a resident of a nice, safe neighborhood street. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Power struggles
Pepco has reliability problems; Orange Crush will continue; Fairfax Fire and Rescue wants design by fire truck; Education advice for Gray; Traffic deaths down in DC; More pay-by-cell parking in MoCo; Ghost bike in Fairfax; A responsive transit agency in Rhode Island; And…. Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Laws police don’t enforce
Police assume cyclist at fault; Police don’t punish their own; Barracks solution possible but complex; “This is a New Jersey-bound 7 train”?; Let them build roads, says Post; AJC unabashedly deserts city of Atlanta; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Not entirely effective
‘Effective’ DC teachers not effectively distributed; Metro escalator model problematic; Embassy wants parking to buy more cars; LA TV has windshield perspective too; Street crossers like lemmings?; ICC part 1 opening soon; NYC gets camera-enforced bus lanes; Suburban poor struggle in recession; And…. Keep reading…
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Petula Dvorak puts a few minutes’ convenience over Montgomery residents’ lives
How many people worry about strangers kidnapping their children and lament the loss of life in Iraq, but then put other people and their children in danger the moment they get on the road by speeding, and become apoplectic if the government tries to get them to stop? Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak demonstrated this “windshield perspective,” which we sometimes… Keep reading…
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Tell Ashley Halsey cars aren’t the only users of our streets
The Washington Post’s Ashley Halsey poses this question to readers: The Washington region is notorious for congested traffic. Is one intersection worse than all the rest? If you know of one, tell us in two sentences, where it is and what makes it the worst. Send your reply to: transportation@washpost.com The biggest problem intersections I experience are those… Keep reading…
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Gaithersburg police target people in the way of cars
“Gaithersburg police declare pedestrian safety is top issue along 355,” a recent Gazette headline announced. But “Gaithersburg police target people on foot who get in the way of people in cars” would have been more like it. According to the Gazette, Gaithersburg police used a grant from the Maryland State Highway Administration to issue more than… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: More security
Naval Observatory getting more security; CaBi’s the latest example; Foreclosures down, short sales up; More credit card meters; Putting Twitter to good use; Southwest gets closer to National; Windshield perspective for couch potatoes; Masdar on the rise; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: A difference of opinions
Tyranny of the minorty; Back and forth on parking minimums; Political soap opera; Trading barbs; The road not driven; Ban overboard; Feet in an actual street. Keep reading…