DC Car Violence
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Reporting on the continued epidemic of driver violence via automobile in Washington, D.C.
Joined December 2021
I don’t think it’s possible for Tyson’s to become walkable without basically redesigning everything about it
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The train! It drops! You off! At the! Airport! Right there! At the! Airport!.
The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority appears to have a plan to address parking shortages at the increasingly busy National Airport. The solution: a garage it can later move.
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I am trying to imagine Mayor Bowser doing this and it is hurting my brain.
Absolutely LOVE this series, the Mayor of Boston @wutrain is taking public transit with different residents to learn about their commutes and how to make the systems/city work better for people! . Watch complete video here (this app makes you trim):
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The first time you ride an ebike is like taking drugs.
I also don’t think people have fully internalized how much an ebike levels the city and outcompetes driving and transit. The red line shut down sped up my commute home from work.
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Cybertruck. Parked illegally. Illegal tints. This is gonna kill someone. Needs be towed and impounded.
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Oooooh.
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Give me my $7500 for not owning a car please.
If there are going to be climate-justified subsidies for owning electric cars, there should be subsidies for not owning cars at all.
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If retractable bollards are good enough for City Center (the rich), then it’s good enough for Adams Morgan Day or H Street Festival (the poors). Bonus: does not require police overtime to stop rogue/dangerous drivers.
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Tony P was against congestion parking. Now he loves it. He’s as milquetoast as it gets so you know this is good policy. DC next!
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Killing the circulator bus so that a non-DC resident can get $515 million is wild. You have to be mayor for the city, not the region.
Other big cuts include the entire elimination of DC Circulator service, saving the city roughly $32M. And there's a massive cut to the Access to Justice service, which provides low-income people with attorneys. @DCATJComm said this would have "catastrophic consequences."
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A checkpoint on North Capitol would impound hundreds, if not thousands, of cars owing thousands, if not tens of thousands of fines, the very first day. The very first day. It would be a huge public safety success.
Date: 9/11/2024.Location: North Capitol near Riggs Rd. Issue: Expired MD plate with $3,390.00 in unpaid DC fines.
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Frankly this is real crime and should be dealt with.
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embarassing stuff. Asking for more parking and delivery space when, due to extra pedestrian and bar space outside, Adams-Morgan is the best it’s ever been.
Madam’s Organ Owner: “We, local businesses deserve better, and you, the Adams Morgan community, deserve better”
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Get rid of I-66 near Kennedy Center and this is ours.
This Providence before/after is the best I've seen in its genre. It's not unrealistic to think Grand, Walnut, and Wyandotte could all look like this someday.
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East Hall open at Union Station! Beautiful room; wish it was an oyster bar with stiff drinks!
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Frequently metro bus card readers don’t work.
BREAKING: Metro GM Randy Clarke just announced the week after Thanksgiving Metro will launch an effort to go after fare evasion on Metrobus. It will involve uniformed & undercover police and video. Clarke says #wmata will focus on the lines with the “lowest compliance” on fares.
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Bowser is not only a terrible administrator she also sucks at poker. $500+ million to Monumental when they were NEVER moving to Alexandria. Leonsis spends $5 million on architects and PR and gets 100x return. Brilliant 🤮🤮🤮.
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U street should be pedestrianized with trees, benches and stuff for kids to do along with restaurants and bars for adults. All I see here is cops making a racket.
UPDATE: @DCPoliceDept today said this large police response last night was one tactic to help enforce youth curfew during summer months. "We are not stepping down, we are actually stepping up,” Chief Pamela Smith said. STORY: @wusa9 . Another video 🔽
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Very supportive of Metro, generally, but a reminder that it is free to drive into and around DC. This is not equality.
Starting Monday, MTPD will be taking additional steps to address fare evasion in the District following the passage of the Secure DC Bill. Paying your fare on Metrorail and Metrobus isn’t just a good idea - it’s the law. #wmata
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Talking with an Amtrak friend this past week and he was effusive about how fixing the Baltimore stretch (the new tunnel) will be incredible - cuts like 30mins from the journey. Acela DC-NYC will be 2:15 instead of 2:45.
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A checkpoint on New York Avenue would impound hundreds, if not thousands, of cars owing thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of fines, the very first day. The very first day. It would be a huge public safety success.
A checkpoint on North Capitol would impound hundreds, if not thousands, of cars owing thousands, if not tens of thousands of fines, the very first day. The very first day. It would be a huge public safety success.
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Absolute wrong way to think of “equity.”.
D.C. task force gave up on trying to address the fake temporary tags on vehicles. Some drivers of these vehicles act recklessly with no repercussions bc they can't be traced by photo enforcement. Some have racked up 10s of thousands of dollars in speeding fines.
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15 minutes a day for some commuters. Wow.
Metro regulator approves increasing speeds on the Red Line. Much of the Red Line outside downtown is built for 65-75 mph operation. But WMATA limited speed to 59 mph since 1986. With computer guidance and automatic door operation, this could cut 7 minutes off Red line runs.
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Ready for DC to do a congestion charge. Now.
Imagine how many double-wide bike lanes, bus lanes, wider sidewalks and public plazas could fit in these now-empty streets!.
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Wild that Interim @DDOTDC thinks that a $200 ticket for blocking a bus lane is "inequitable." What do you call one car blocking 40 people on the bus, but "inequitable"?
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Post does a medium to mediocre job at what it should be best at: covering DC, Maryland and Virginia.
Washington Post's traffic has gone from 22.5 million daily active users in 2021 to about 3 million in 2024, per Semafor. damn lol
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Pedestrian zone around National Portrait Gallery is a no-brainer.
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Driving is a licensed activity. Why is it not incumbent on the licensee to understand *fully* what is required to keep that license? Insanity.
This is a gut-punch. I’ve been looking forward to this for some time. Pedestrians and cyclists will continue to look over their shoulders and be victimized at most DC intersections by drivers attempting to turn right.
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Imagining this on 14th Street….
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please. throw in a TJs and we're cooking with gas. I'd love to live here - imagine having the Mall as your lawn!.
In recent months, momentum has been growing behind the scenes for a large-scale redevelopment of a cluster of aging, underutilized federal office buildings in between the National Mall and the Wharf. My latest:
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New Year’s resolution for dc.
"A vehicle is seized by police. allegedly for having both front and rear license plates bent to avoid congestion pricing tolls.". This is the way.
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Really been thinking about and I think a license plate cover should be automatic impoundment and just a massive, massive fine. The driving equivalent of tax evasion PLUS possible/let’s be real, likely, crime evasion.
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Pedestrianize the streets and ppl will.Come in droves.
"Creating more street-level activity outside the arena is a major goal." -CapOne Arena owners. Promotions with nearby bars, etc. Pretty thin on details. But the right goal, at least.
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Forgive me for paying taxes and expecting competent service in return. We’re not talking about rockets to mars; this is safely making transit accessible for everyone in all modes.
DC is unique because a significant portion of its white-collar workforce spends an inordinate amount of time and energy frustrated that blue-collar workers don't perform mundane local government tasks with clinical precision.
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The age old question for bar/restaurant owners: do I want to park in front of MY bar or do I want business to go up 25%?
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295 needs to get ripped up because it prevents river access for W8 residents. It's not fair that Georgetown gets a waterfront and Ward 8 doesn't.
DC should rip out 295 and 395 tomorrow.
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H street could be trees and tramways with grass, like in hundreds of developed cities. Instead, noise pollution. Car pollution. Great.
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Biked again down 14th and still not a single bike lane is plowed. Some of the lanes are melted. But you can tell nothing has been plowed.
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One way to think about this is if a traffic camera is spitting out a million tickets, that part of the road is unsafe and needs to be redesigned immediately.
These are the 5 most ruthless traffic cams in DC right now. One camera was responsible for 33,682 tickets in three months. 😳.
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Need this down 16th, Georgia and NY Avenue yesterday, today and tomorrow.
The latest three-day crackdown on "ghost" cars and serial toll evaders at MTA bridges and tunnels led to 50 arrests, more than 1,800 summonses and the confiscation of nearly 200 vehicles, the MTA said Sunday. The crackdown on June 14, June 15 and June 17 focused on the RFK,
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jesus h christ this is obscene.
Bike lane in Columbia Heights is a cruel joke. @DDOTDC it’s way past time to move the bike lane to the INSIDE of the parking/ unloading zone.
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Union Market needs either 4th Ave or 5th Ave (dealer’s choice) to be a pedestrian mall with a ton of trees. Would complete the neighborhood and offer case study for the rest of the city.
Update: three more apartment buildings are complete at @UnionMarketDC including a whole row of retail spaces behind the market where they plan to activate the connecting plaza.
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Getting shot or stabbed is much less likely than getting run over WOW
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It is a great thing that condos will be built on the parking lot opposite Union Market. I hope they are 30 stories tall.
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The bus lane is painted red and says "bus lane." What else do you need to educate about?
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11 minutes on a @bikeshare e-bike from Columbia Heights to West End and the mayor is kowtowing to car idiocy.
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It is very weird that the success of Union Station appears to be measured by retail operations and not, you know, whether it is a good train station or not (it’s ok).
With DC commuter rail and Metro ridership still far below pre-pandemic levels, the ABP branch has gone dark at Union Station, joining the adjacent cafe and former H&M store, closed since the pandemic, and the more recently shuttered Starbucks. This whole front hall is now vacant.
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“Becoming more like a city has made Arlington less and less hazardous for drivers, pedestrians and bikers, with its mortality rate from traffic accidents falling about 80% since the 1980s.”
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It’s going to be 100+ tomorrow and DC is just not prepared on an infrastructure level for either tomorrow or the future. Example: almost no trees or shade covering and streets way too wide/too many car lanes at 18th and Florida. Many such places like this in the city.
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Something that once you see a couple of times you will never unsee. I don’t recommend it 🙃🙃🙃.
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Incredible that this happened. Incredible that it took until today. Let's go!.
The DC Council passed legislation cracking down on fake tags today. The bill "gives @DCDPW and other enforcement agencies authority to immediately tow and impound cars whose owners have blatantly flouted the law by having clearly counterfeit, obscured, or long-expired plates."
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the issue with bike lanes (NOT) being plowed is larger than whether we actually can bike in them with snow. it's that local government is not effective at responding to citizen needs and doesn't care to get better.
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Columbia Heights is hot as hell anytime it’s above 85 and a lot of that is due to insufficient tree cover.
People often think building setbacks are necessary for creating room for street trees. But instead of taking living space from people you can use public space that would otherwise store private cars. 🌳 🌳 🌳.
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No. Cars in the bike lanes and blowing over bollards are endangering cyclists. Bad headline @DCNewsNow.
DC residents say New Jersey Ave bollards are endangering bicyclists cc: @DDOTDC @DHamburgReports.
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No bus lane on Irving equals ambulances stuck in car traffic. Car sewers are good at being car sewers when constructed like so.
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Metro and Bikeshare are not in competition; they form the perfect symbiote!!.
About one person is taking a bike trip in DC for every four people who are taking a Metrorail trip anywhere, and other findings on the District's recent explosion of two-wheeled trips:
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my plan for violence interruption is to raise crosswalks at all intersections. i'm big on making it harder to get away via car from crimes.
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Favorite part of taking the train at Gallery Place is having absolutely zero idea what time the train is coming. @wmata how about some additional signs?
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The crazy thing about the cars yesterday on 395 and by Tidal Basin is that they are entirely bad for DC. It’s not like they are parking and spending money at restaurants or stores. Only gawking. So DC eats the pollution and congestion and gets nothing in return. Bad for business.
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Metro exists.
Coordinating lunch with people in the DMV goes like this “Think there are some cool restaurants in old town . can do DC though not trying to get carjacked”.
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Mayor Muriel Bowser and her Parks and Rec Dept Present Triangle Park: An Icy Disaster. It’s the end of the week and this is a broken wrist and pelvis waiting to happen!
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we need to start treating MD/VA drivers the way they treat us.
$14 Million in fines issued In first 9 months since @DDOTDC & @wmata began using cameras on buses to enforce priority bus lanes. The District has issued 147,251 tickets for $100 each. Maryland tops the list w/ 51,978 D.C. 41,703. Virginia 38,908.@nbcwashington
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Parents protecting their children when DC govt will not. Good to see.
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Zero enforcement of anything related to automobile use in DC leads to all sorts of negative outcomes: like dogs getting stolen. It's much harder to successfully walk off with a stolen dog versus putting it in a car. Probably impossible.
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"[H]e said that he is one of the very few that proactively enforce fake license plates, deliberately obscured license plates, and parking in the bike lane. This officer has given out over 1K combined tickets. "
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It's happening: "Another provision of the measure would create a pilot program in which speed governors would be installed in the vehicles of drivers who commit serious speed crimes."
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10 zillion cars enter DC everyday without paying tolls. Not paying their fares accounts for a $1 billion loss yearly for Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority.
Roughly 40,000 trips go unpaid every weekday. Not paying their fares accounts for a $40 million loss yearly for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
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I wouldn’t care about $500k here and there if Bowser had put in bike lanes on Conn Ave or was a better administrator to literally any program or hadn’t killed the Circulator. But since she sinks everything she touches, here we are.
Lede sentence: The District has quietly hired a consultant via a sole-source contract to begin laying the foundation for how the city could build and finance a new stadium for the Washington Commanders. Didn’t DC taxpayers already pay for a study on this?.
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I hope Trayon White gets expelled because it is unsafe to walk, bike and drive in SE and as long as he is in power, it will remain that way.
On eve of a DC Council move today to begin possible vote to expel him, W8 Council member was posting on Facebook from the Commander’s game in New Orleans yesterday.
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Streetcars or BRT down Massachusetts, Connecticut and Georgia Avenue would make DC unbelievably better so quickly it would be crazy.
10 US cities with neighborhoods dense enough for fast, frequent rail transit—but no plans for new lines in them, a 🧵. #10.Washington DC. A mid-city line could link Silver Spring, Adams Morgan & Capitol Hill. A circle line could connect Georgetown, Arlington, Congress Hgts & H St
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The parking garage at National unironically rules, mostly because nature is fighting back (and winning???)
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this particular intersection is full of blacked out luxe vehicles driven by assholes who absoutely refuse to stop as required by law for peds in marked crosswalk. prime PRIME place for cameras.
Pedestrians want to cross on a marked crosswalk. Driver wants to go. Road safety is a shared responsibility, so driver just goes and ignores pedestrians.
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Texas got rid of paper tags. DC should, too. A paper tag on a car in DC should mean immediate stop and tow. #carviolence would plummit, IMO.
@myrna38717 @DCCarViolence @dccrimefacts @FakeTagsDC @KXAN_News in TX did a 6 year investigation that ultimately resulted in the law being changed and paper tags no longer being issued (effective in 2025). This is quite the read: @Zuk_DC @tjl @CMBrookePinto @charlesallen @CMCHenderson
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In related news, a ped/🚲 bridge from The Wharf to Hains Point would be the most popular thing to do around here outside of going 16-20 over on 295.
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Removing highways or functional highways in cities is always good. There should be no cloverleafs in DC, period.
Very cool project from @OPinDC. Reimagining the cloverleaf at North Capitol and Irving into a connected, vibrant neighborhood. Combined with the McMillan Reservoir and Armed Forces Retirement Home redevelopments, has the potential to completely transform this area of DC.
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Mayor bowser does the same thing.
Kathy Hochul does this thing where she separates "working New Yorkers, hard working New Yorkers" from people who take the train. As if those people are not workers.
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One picture to show that it's concrete or nothing.
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Absolutely crazy Nats-O’s game last night. But the best part was Dad was absolutely beside himself using a @bikeshare e-bike (first time!!) to lazily get home last night from Nats Stadium. Astounded at Penn Ave center lanes and 15th street, especially. Beautiful weather.
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Looking at this map, seems clear that making the Mall-adjacent streets car free (school/tour buses excluded) would be crazy beneficial, safe and frankly awesome. Look at the mobility use already happening.
Anyone know what street that is in NW, the long straight purple diagonal running downtown? It could be a great arterial with protected micro mobility lanes, sure seems like a great candidate! #BikeDC
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Martin is concerned about this and he lives in Switzerland. Will someone in power who lives in DC care as much as Martin? Unclear.
This driver/car got *29* traffic camera tickets, mostly for speeding, between mid-April and the end of May, with four speeding tickets alone on May 1, two of which were for 25 mph over the speed limit, and *seven* tickets on May 5. All told, 173 unpaid tickets. This is wild.
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🧵 One of the biggest issues IMO with dangerous drivers in DC is illegal window tints—can’t see drivers, drivers hiding guns, general disregard of licensure that portends more dangerous behaviors, etc. Going to guess at least half of cars I see in DC have illegal tints.
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Speed cameras are not sentient. If they “make money” that means that a particular location has dangerous driving and deserves reconstructing to make it less safe.
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This is bad but not why he thinks so.
It has taken me 45 minutes to drive roughly 7 blocks in Georgetown. The red dot signals where I started v. now.
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14th Street, Columbia Road and 17th St bike lanes are 95% NOT plowed. @DDOTDC @BrianneKNadeau.
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Every time I read this I get angry.
Starting next month a law was supposed to kick in, banning drivers in D.C. from turning right at any red light. Now D.C. leaders said they can't enforce it.
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17mins, 17 nice and easy minutes from deep Georgetown to Columbia Heights last night on a @bikeshare e-bike. Living the future.
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A full time city government would be nice.
@oucmecalling311 @KyleEChadwick @FakeTagsDC @SafeSidewalksDC @DCCarViolence Good Evening ! Thanks for the alert. Parking Enforcement does not work on Sunday's that will have to go to DC 911 for non emergency for parking. Have a great day.
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DC is a much richer city if 395 and 295 are ripped up.
chicago, ny, boston, seattle, and sf are richer than every region in europe except munich but the cities are universally shittier because all the money is funneled from the city to highway maintenance and racist exclusionary suburbia and segregated suburban public schools.
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