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After two weeks last year in Rocky Mountain NP, Tetons, et al, we're currently planning our family summer National Park(ing lot) tour.
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Without taking a hard position on the busway fracas yet, I would note that "lane enforcement" is doing a lot of work here. Lane enforcement on non-protected lanes is currently a fantasy.
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It is not a great busway project. It lacks a passing lane and I’m not seeing significant travel time benefits vs. H/I streets with signal priority and lane enforcement. The lack of service plan is also concerning given fewer rush hour and commuter buses post pandemic.
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Washington, DC every night for two weeks on either side of July 4.
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Minnesota traffic deaths had been declining for decades.
Between 2019 and 2021 they rose almost 25%.
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Abandoned car w/ flat tire hasn't moved since August 2022 but has unexpired tag so not eligible for removal. Should neighbors
• Drag it slightly into street ROW, call for a tow
• Remove all wheels, call it disabled
• Push it 10 ft into illegal parking zone & 📞 parking enf
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US pedestrian and cyclist deaths are at a 40-year high. I don't understand why skipped over that in its big press release about crash stats.
The release doesn't even mention the words "pedestrian" or "cyclist."
ghsa.org/resources/Pede
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NHTSA needs to stop lumping all crash deaths together.
While *total* deaths were flat in 2022, didn't mention pedestrian & cyclist fatalities.
All data suggests fatalities among peds/cyclists are still rising fast -- unlike for car occupants.
nhtsa.gov/press-releases
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I used to love living in the city but one day I couldn't park right in front of _____ like in every TV show ever and then I realized life in the city is really a drag
Honestly, the best part of this whole thing is that the “parking all the way around the corner” is half the distance as the middle of a Home Depot parking lot
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Repost from @MotenSpeaks discussing the detrimental effects bike lanes are having on culture and business in some parts of the city. I agree 100% with his commentary. #dontmutedc
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Ah yes, that classical vibrant downtown main street where sidewalks are so narrow that groups of 3-4 can't walk beside each other in order to preserve The Motorist Experience®
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The future of downtown, includes enhancing our public space. Here is a great look of the K Street Transitway with improved curbside access and enhanced cafe space on sidewalks. #DCsComeback
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Increase your parking minimums.
I've always wished there was more of a historical acknowledgement on the old site by Howard. A plaque, a model, something. Always felt like a missed opportunity.
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As is the cut in the stands on the first base side at Nats Park.
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The split in the upper deck at #Nationals Park is a homage to Griffith Stadium (top), former Senators home.
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A few rowhouses and a tree north of the U Street alley that the owners couldn't buy resulted in a weird jog in the RF fence. Jog in the Nats Park fence near CF is an homage.
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Griffith was the home of the Washington Nationals, the Negro League Homestead Grays, and then the Washington Senators. Torn down even before the Senators bolted for Texas.
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In case you want to see a better overview of where it was in the street grid.
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I stumbled on these embarassingly bad overlays I made in photoshop with Google Earth in probably 2007 after discovering some of the history soon after we moved here in 2006, and wanting to visualize it.
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Did you know that DC once had it's own Wrigley-esque neighborhood baseball stadium? Griffith Stadium, in use from 1911-1965, was on the site of today's Howard U Hospital, in/near Ledroit Park.
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Stoked for to be a part of Adam's latest piece for the NYT on the huge disparities in who gets killed while walking in the US.
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These neighborhoods are “much more likely to contain major arterial roads built for high speeds and higher traffic volumes at intersections, exacerbating dangerous conditions for people walking,” according to a recent report from @SmartGrowthUSA smartgrowthamerica.org/dangerous-by-d
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NHTSA: It's **extremely** dangerous to use your phone while driving.
Please, use this giant iPad instead.
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Good news: Automakers are finally realizing that car touchscreens are a disaster.
Drivers hate them, and they're also dangerously distracting. Buttons and knobs are poised for a comeback.
Me, in @Slate
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Almost as exciting a signing as Leonard Pajoy a few years ago. Just stellar stuff here #DCU
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Update: Now it's looking like D.C. United did get the Erik Hurtado transfer over the line in time. Awaiting details ... #dcu #mls #usl twitter.com/SoccerInsider/…
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Nearly 17 years after moving to DC, I finally got the chance to hike Old Rag last Friday. I now understand why it's such a bucket list hike around here. Hard, fun scrambles on the ridgeline, gorgeous views!
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This was an incredible graf about the way tech has evolved from services to augment our real lives into efforts to displace them entirely.
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Favorite thing I read this weekend was not transportation-related: 's ode to the end of an era with Netflix's DVD service shutting down.
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[taps earpiece] I'm being informed that safety is definitely somewhere in the top ten.
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I mean, who wouldn't want to send their kids out on their bike to stand in the middle of 9 lanes of speed traffic with cars going straight on one side of you and double right turn lanes on the right of you.
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Trying to determine who “owns” a term like “complete streets” distracts from the far more important fight against the agencies designing unsafe, incomplete streets that prioritize speed over safety
I love most things about the new Franklin Park, but this bare wall facing Eye street on the new building was a real whiff on the urban design front. No windows, no permeability, nothing to look it. Feels like downtown Atlanta.
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Who to blame when transportation agencies build unsafe, high-speed streets and call them "Complete Streets."
pinned blame on advocates while letting the transportation agencies off the hook.
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Is NHTSA trying 64 percent harder to address the root causes of the 64 percent increase in pedestrian deaths?
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Data issues aside, the real lede should be that deaths of people walking are up 12 percent from 2020 to 2021, and an astonishing 64 percent since 2011.
Q: Has our response kept up with the scale of the crisis?
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15 months after 2021, we finally have final (albeit limited and inadequate) federal data on people struck and killed while walking that year. We can’t say we care about a crisis that we are failing to measure well. /
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According to their new provider of automated enforcement tech (), looks like DC is the first city in the U.S. to enforce bus lane incursions w/ bus-mounted camera systems coming to Metrobuses. Fully operational by end of this year.
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When the cherry blossoms on the tidal basin pass their "peak" and the tourists move on, locals know the best ones are just getting started. #kwanzans
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My 8 yo is crazy allergic to oak pollen and the last 2 weeks have been just sheer misery for him. 2 showers a day sometimes. OTC meds just keep his eyes from swelling closed.
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Tree pollen in the DC area is VERY HIGH at 3138.7 grains per cubic meter of air! Oak alone was 2,327 grains.
This is the highest daily count since 4/6/2010 when it reached 4147 grains. #peakpollen #dmvwx
I don’t have a take on this particular cap park. But it’s just amazing that we’ve let state DOTs dump responsibility for remediating the harm caused by urban highway segments onto private philanthropy and local budgets.
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Officials: Highway-capping HUB404 project has bagged $1.2M in private funds. Now, grassroots campaign seeks more on #Atlanta's #404day. atlanta.urbanize.city/post/buckhead-
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