The Post has more, but there are few details of what exactly happened. This was a private garbage truck, not DC’s. What will it take to make our streets safer? If we do something, will the Post call it a “war on garbage trucks”? Update: her name was Alice Swanson.

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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.