Posts about Roads
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You’re free to mow down pedestrians in Prince William
In Prince William County, apparently it’s completely legal to kill any pedestrian, anytime, if they are in the road but not in a crosswalk. All you have to do is not drive away afterward and be sober. This morning, a pickup truck driver and possibly also the driver of another box truck hit and killed a man crossing Virginia Route 234 near US-1 in Dumfries. We don’t… Keep reading…
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What will autonomous cars mean for cities?
Google revealed this week that it is working on autonomous cars, and making a lot of progress. While it’s what engineers call a nontrivial problem, making a car drive itself is ultimately just a matter of engineering, and will sooner or later become a reality. What will it mean for our cities? Will cars that drive themselves lead to more driving or less? More sprawl or more… 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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Breakfast links: Local developers learning
Parking minimums can bring profit maximums; Scaling down with the Joneses; Health projects funded instead of BRAC; “Hipster Express” ties U Street, Brooklyn; Food fights; Not another Adams Morgan!; Drivers not behaving in bike lanes, so remove the lanes?; Sincerest form of flattery. Keep reading…
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Vacation behind missing Struck in DC tweets
There wasn’t a grand conspiracy behind DC Fire & EMS stopping tweeting pedestrians and cyclists struck; the employee who does it, Pete Piringer, was just on vacation. He said he does them whenever he notices one in the reports, but is working to make it more automatic. Sadly, the reports of pedestrians and cyclists struck have already resumed. Keep reading…
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Let’s convert Scott Circle into Scott Square
Scott Circle is the worst of downtown’s five main roundabouts. The roads are a hostile mess that pedestrians avoid at all costs, and the green spaces are chopped into such small and disconnected fragments that there’s not a useful park among them. There isn’t even a single marked crosswalk leading in to the circle itself. In its current form Scott Circle is… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Cabinet shuffling
Rheesigning; Peck for City Administrator?; Road rash of crashes; VA liquor plan gets worse; Get yer historic DC maps; Ban stoplights?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Dangerous for pedestrians and Transformers
Struck in Montgomery County; Transformers unscripted; Virginia to keep WMATA seats for now; The Monday Metropocalypse that wasn’t; Exercising her right to pee; DC a bargain for singles, PG for families; Chevy Chase retail less limited; Step it up. Keep reading…
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Struck in DC this week: Unknown
Unfortunately, the DC Fire and EMS Twitter feed has stopped reporting ped and cyclist struck incidents. Therefore, the statistics Struck in DC has been gathering on a weekly basis are no longer consistent or accurate and we won’t be mapping this week’s incidents. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: The (hazardous?) future of cars
This car really could hit a pedestrian; More driving distractions or a ban?; Not enough money for transit; DC spares federal bike funding; More highways not the only choice; Drill, baby, drill; An IBM planet?. Keep reading…