Public Safety
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A closer look at who's responsible in pedestrian crashes
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The District's data from 2004 to 2010 breaks down how and where walkers and drivers ran into one another.
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Here's the 28 Metro stations with anti-sexual harassment PSAs
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WMATA responded fast to claims that the transit agency wasn't doing enough to combat sexual harassment and now offers new ways to report harassment and campaign outreach in more than two dozen stations.
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Metro opens doors
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WMATA admits a Red Line train's doors opened while the train was in motion this morning. What will that mean for Rush+?
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The plight of the Mall's pedicabbers: 'If I see you again, I'll just arrest you'
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New videos reveal the ongoing tension between the Park Police and D.C.'s various pedicab operators as we enter summer.
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When heart attacks strike, what should riders expect of Metro?
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The batteries failed in one of WMATA's 46 automated external defibrillators when a Yellow Line rider experienced a heart attack and died Monday. Years of neglect have slowed the transit agency's AED program.
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Transparency alert: WMATA resumes its monthly crime blotter
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Riders, learn of all the alleged offenses happening at your local Metro station. WMATA again lists the monthly infractions throughout the system after leaving the blotter dead for more than half a year.
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11,000 people a month walk and bike D.C.'s Met Branch Trail
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The eight miles of trail are thriving in countless ways a year and a half after its debut. See how many people take to their feet and bikes to travel it every single day.
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Women make the 'vast majority' of D.C. taxicab complaints
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D.C. residents submit about 130 complaints a month to the Taxi Commission, and most are from women. "Women do not feel safe late at night," Chairman Ron Linton declared. Here's why.
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What Van Dorn Street Metro was like moments after this morning's suicide
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A Blue Line rider was on the train that struck and killed a 56-year-old Alexandria woman this morning. What was WMATA like in the moments after her death? He shares a troubling account of what happened at Van Dorn Street.
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MetroAccess driver allegedly sleeps at the wheel amid holiday exhaustion
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Did a MetroAccess driver fall asleep at a red light last Friday? Perhaps. But MV Transportation insists that no one worked a shift of more than 15 hours over the recent holiday period and that the service is safe, despite the doubts of its drivers' union.
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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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CDC report: Men responsible for 81% of drunk driving episodes
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That's just one of the many questions raised by glancing over the CDC's report from earlier this week about drunk driving in America. The number of drunk-driving episodes has gone down over the last five years but 11,000 people still died as a result of drunk driving last year.
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