Breakfast links: Drive safe

The stats on crashes

A new report on traffic crashes from DDOT found that distraction is a major source of crashes, and speed makes people much more likely to die. Many types of crashes have increased, but injuries have not. (Post)

The crashiest intersections

The intersection with the most crashes in DC is at New York and Bladensburg; the most crashes adjusted for vehicle traffic, 14th and U. (Post)

Make one-way two

An advisory group will recommend eliminating one-way streets in downtown Bethesda. The current one-way streets force drivers to circle to reach destinations and encourage speeding. (Bethesda Now)

Check out no parking

A new hotel in Chinatown will be built without parking. Instead, the hotel will provide Capital Bikeshare memberships to guests and employees, bike parking, and car sharing memberships to its employees.  (District Source)

Heliport or not?

A moving CEO wants to build a heliport to fly from his 540-acre Purcellville farm (which he also will protect against future development) to Gaithersburg and other locations. Some neighbors are organizing to oppose it. (WBJ)

Andy Harris, fix my pothole

Supporters of DC budget autonomy will bring everyday DC constituent service issues to Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) to protest his efforts to overturn DC’s local law decriminalizing marijuana. (DCist)

Construction kills fish

A contractor for CSX killed hundreds of fish in the Anacostia River’s Northeast Branch, according to Maryland state regulators. The contractor was working to expand a freight rail bridge near Hyattsville. (Post)

The Bike Lobby brainwashes reporters!

The satirical Bicycle Lobby Twitter account, which arose after Dorothy Rabinowitz attributed Citibike to an all-powerful “bicycle lobby,” tripped up reporters at the AP and Daily News who mistook a joke tweet about white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge as serious. (Streetsblog)

And…

What happens when The Wire creator David Simon encounters Martin O’Malley on a train? (Post) … The region is the worst in the nation for late mail delivery. (Post) … Could DC soon get a bike factory? (City Paper)