Previously, we reported that VDOT had been supposed to install a traffic signal on Route 234 where one or two drivers hit and killed Miguel Zelaya-Jovel on October 15. We just received even more tragic news: Mr. Zelaya-Jovel was a VDOT contractor who was actually there to install the signal.

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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.