Dear Adam Tuss and Mark Segraves,

This evening, walking home from the Metro, at one corner I saw three cars run a red light. One bus (a private bus, not a Metrobus) entered the intersection as the light was yellow, just clearing it as the light turned red. Then, two cars in a row made a right turn without stopping, despite a “No Turn On Red 7 AM - 7 PM” sign. After that, a third driver (whose car had DC plates) jammed on the accelerator from outside the intersection, after the light was already red, and gunned it through the intersection after a pedestrian had already started to cross on the far side, just to screech to a halt behind the bus which was waiting at the next corner a short distance away.

Please feel free to come stand on this corner and provide a live radio report about the cars going through the light.

Love,

Greater Greater Washington

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.