Posts about Public SafetyRSS
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Breakfast links: Stupidity and violations
Move cars faster, geese or no geese; Bus not a good getaway vehicle; You’d get there slower in Zipcar marketing’s brain; Bad driver, bad rider; Three Steeple Square?; Bike & ride the Alleghany; New York’s planning drama in books. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The blind spot
Found it; Turns out it was unsafe after all; Against big government, except at VDOT?; Sun says “lose the lanes”; Now the traffic and megachurch reserve?; Tidbits from a secret meeting; One intersection “repaired,” more to go; Your childhood neighborhood affects your income. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Maryland train to crazy town
Red and Purple together; Single tracking??!?; MTA out of the spying biz; Crime down, experts happy but baffled; The street e?; 1000s in train middles not a new idea; Walk or bike to Metro?. Keep reading…
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Morning links: Don’t walk here, bike over there
Reckless walking; Giving a lane to bikes makes all traffic better; Berliner calls for “sustainable transportation corridor”; Secret affordable housing; Walking through 16th and Park? We don’t care; Not even pretending anymore; On the slow track; Not necessarily the best car; Bike to brothel. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Attention deficit
MATD?; Unsafety in College Park; Fairfax County City?; Metro bits; Council clippings; Cities growing, but anti-city assumptions still exist in reporters’ heads. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: 14th, car-centrism, and you
Noise on 14th, from bars and politics; Huge garage better than daytime neighborhood activity?; DC, MD fix it first; VA widens it first; Pedestrian strikes front of fast-moving police cruiser; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bike lanes and pushy drivers
Road dieting is healthy; Hoboken Hobikelane; Police to ticket aggressive drivers; Offices in the west; Cruzing on the Hill; Around the region; Across the nation. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Taking aim
Shooting in Columbia Heights; Dissecting the transportation bill; Dulles United? Wheaton United?; Finally thinking about peds and bikes; Green Falls Church?; Stopping “jamitons”. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Hitting back with words and song
Woodley Park smackdown; A balanced view of the “war on drivers”; Singing about zoning; Catoe is tops; NextBus in one month; Trains are the future for airports; MPD nixes broadcast. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Running away with it
What about those old car dealerships?; Navarro wins; Transit bait-and-switch; MARC gives the wrong information; Gas prices going up; Outdoor classrooms; What a robbery looks like. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: High-speed to stupid town
George Will hates Portland, facts; How about just old-speed rail?; Cops upset they can’t park illegally; DC Beltway neither skinny or obese; Mixed-use beats a dead mall; Third Church redevelopment economically uncertain; Jaywalker strikes speeding SUV. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Survey says
The transit divide; Suburbanites want more city amenities; Bag fees would cut bags 80%; Roads don’t pay for themselves; Open Champlain, already; Look at those cute bicyclists!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Carnage and enforcement
Driver acts responsibly after hitting cyclist; Driver faces no consequences for killing cyclist; MPD ticketing rolling stop; PG working on poor safety record; More Metro Kiss & Park; Pick the worst housing project. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Moving right through
Klein reveals stimulus grant priorities; Drive-thru, not bike-thru; Metro route choice survey back; Construction closes both sides of 6th Street; Banning throwing away clean bags?; Green buildings versus green cities; What do we do about crime?. Keep reading…
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Dinner links: Visions of transportation
WABA action: restore Columbia Road bike lanes; Trail users “undesirable” to one Vienna councilmember; Making Thomas Circle a usable park; Baltimore Red Line fight looking a lot like purple; Cheaper gas changing little; Zoning Commission hears from proponents; DC unveils artistic bike racks; At least we’re not in London; People near transit own fewer cars. Keep reading…
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Weekend reading: Bikes, trikes and automobiles
Bikes becoming fashionable in NYC; Arlington pushes trikes; Montgomery pushes cars; No eating unless you’re a cop; Lewis calls out the antis; What’s wrong with Franklin Square?; Rail should replace short flights; Short buildings equal job sprawl; Korea has “women-only” parking spaces; Bags for the City. 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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Breakfast links: pigging out
Where’s the food court?: One reason for the new signs on the Mall: tourists not only often don’t know what the tall obelisk is in the center, for example, but officials “often get calls from the public asking if there is a Nordstrom on the Mall.” (Post via BeyondDC) Keep reading…
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Task force addressing juvenile crime in DC
While crime in the District is generally decreasing, crimes committed by juveniles remains a significant problem across many DC neighborhoods. Some crimes committed by juveniles appear to be growing in their intensity and violence. Adolescence is marked by frequent turning points that can bring about positive outcomes, such as entering a high performing school or finding part-time… Keep reading…
