There wasn’t a grand conspiracy behind DC Fire & EMS stopping tweeting pedestrians and cyclists struck; the employee who does it, Pete Piringer, was just on vacation. He said he does them whenever he notices one in the reports, but is working to make it more automatic. Sadly, the reports of pedestrians and cyclists struck have already resumed.

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David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.