Pedestrians
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D.C. hopes to make Maryland Avenue safer for pedestrians
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The District Department of Transportation has embarked on big plans to make pedestrian life safer for our city's residents, and the next meeting will focus on how to transform Maryland Avenue NE.
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Picture of the day: Beware the dogs of Petworth
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The pedestrian menace of pet excrement haunts a Petworth block. Luckily, a new sign warns dog walkers that if they don't scoop, they'll receive a serious fine.
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Metro history: D.C.'s cars and streets once poisoned us with lead
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No one wants to believe the ground beneath our very feet is dangerous. But more than three decades ago, people feared the lead that was building up in the District of Columbia — it was worse here than anywhere, some believed.
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Here's where the D.C. government is planting more than 3,000 trees
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The District of Columbia plans to add thousands of trees in 2012. See what types are coming to your neighborhood and even consider adopting one.
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Inside North Korea's colorful, strange Pyongyang Metro and traffic, Part 2
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The country may offer a Metro but hundreds of thousands of people also walk, bus, streetcar, and even drive through the capital city. Sounds norml enough, right? At first ... until you realize the city lacks traffic lights.
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Councilmember Tommy Wells recognizes D.C.'s walkability heroes
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Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells is holding the fifth annual Livable, Walkable Awards at the Hill Center on Pennsylvania Avenue SE starting at 6:30 p.m. It's little surprise that Wells hosts these awards, also known as the Brickies.
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Our capital's history of car, bike, and pedestrian violence, mapped
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What does a decade of road violence look like in Washington, D.C.? The imagination no longer has to suffice in answering this question — an interactive map of the death data from Jan. 1, 2001 to December 31, 2009 has emerged thanks to UK-based transport information specialists at ITO World
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Metro history: Cars ran down more than 300,000 pedestrians in 1931
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Traffic safety has been a concern for a century now. How much closer are we to making the roads a secure place for drivers, pedestrians, and all others who navigate our transportation system?
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Pedestrian safety tips from the Alexandria Police Department
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A man assaulted a jogger this morning and prompts police to encourage vigilance when running throughout the D.C. metro region, useful wisdom for joggers and pedestrians alike.
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Street Smart kicks off its fall 2011 pedestrian awareness campaign
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Expect more citations, more cautionary advertisements, and more efforts to get people to be more careful on the road. Yet will all these gestures, often appealing in fear, ever really end these pedestrian dangers?
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Momentum builds for the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail
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As a ribbon-cutting ceremony attracts powerful officials from the region, a new stretch of the trail signals a powerful and public commitment to the $50 million boon for our pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Watch out for dimmer November commutes after daylight saving time, pedestrians
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November is an especially dangerous month to be a pedestrian. There's less daylight to enjoy, which is of course depressing, but there's also typically a spike in pedestrian deaths as commuters get used to the dimmer rides home.
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15 miles/hour? Why we shouldn't lower D.C.'s residential speed limits
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The D.C. Council is considering a new law that would force us all to drive slower through the city's neighborhood. Of course drivers should behave more carefully .... but why don't we just enforce the limits we already have?
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Making sense of Occupy DC's weekend traffic collision
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A car struck three Occupy DC protesters over the weekend and caused a storm of emotion amid the warring narratives of what happened. Here's what we know so far.
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Picture of the day: Visions of DDOT's Rhode Island Ave. Pedestrian Bridge
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Pedestrians and bicicylists should get excited for the improvements coming to the blocks around the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station. A new pedestrian bridge will help people find the nearby Met Branch Trail.
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District bicyclists to D.C. Council: Yes, we need protection from angry drivers
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Today councilmembers heard from many of D.C.'s bicyclists about the failures of our roads — including the bicyclist struck in the well-publicized video of the Rhode Island Avenue accident. How should the Assault of Bicyclist Prevention Act of 2011 move forward?
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What Gabe Klein is brewing up in Chicago: Pedestrian-safety mannequins
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The former director of the District Department of Transportation has set up 32 dummies throughout Chicago to represent the pedestrian lives lost last year. In our own city, 89 pedestrians and cyclists are killed every year on average. Should D.C. attempt a similar campaign?
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Mapquest ranks the District's most and least walkable neighborhoods
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Is Georgetown a walker's heaven and Deanwood a walker's hell? MqVibe, a new tool from Mapquest, ranks all the District's neighborhoods in terms of edginess, burbiness, and most importantly for pedestrians' sake, walkability. Find out where yours ranked.
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