Posts tagged Distracted Driving
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Virginia renews its push to ban cell phones while driving
Road safety advocates are hopeful that 2020 will be the year Virginia requires drivers to put down their phones. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Schools fuel housing discrimination
Test scores and housing values; Three strikes, you’re out; A fix ‘cause it’s no fare; Rockville Pike’s transformation; New subway line for NYC; Gentrification, Soviet style; Planning for climate change. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Track and trail work
Primetime for the track work plan; From A to Z-turn; A tale of two states; SelectPass selections; No neighborhood left behind; New pedestrian bridge; Crash map for Fairfax; A game of chicken; Where’s my dam train?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Jack and the giants
Congress vs. WMATA; Watch the region grow; Stadium parking; No Metro, slower travel; In the crosshairs of the crosswalk; Chevy Chase, aka Snobsville?; Go green to fight crime; And…. Keep reading…
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California is using this cheeky video to encourage safe driving
One of the biggest dangers of riding a bike is drivers who pass way too close. This video uses people who clearly don’t get the concept of personal space to illustrate what a safe passing distance is and is not. Keep reading…
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Montgomery’s most walkable streets are also its safest
Downtown Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Rockville are where it’s easiest to walk around in Montgomery County. They are also where drivers are least likely to kill someone on foot. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Take me to your leader
A new GM, again; Stadium-Armory progress; Here comes the highway bill; Future DC is all TOD; It’s all about the beer; Unemployement inequality; A morbid map. Keep reading…
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Video proof neon clothes don’t stop careless drivers from driving into people
Have you ever seen a traffic safety campaign that reprimands you for not wearing bright colors every time you cross the street? Of course you have. Here’s video proof that’s a load of bollocks. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Autumn of our discontent
What’s next for Museum Square; Red card Buzzard Point; Fight fires not parking tickets; Don’t blame pedestrians; Salary standstill; Uber to the rescue; Two wheels or two feet?; Which city?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Spring forward
The SSTC, finally!; Crime keeps climbing; Stagnating rents; What’s next for White Flint; Cities bring safer cycling; Remembering Marion Barry; Make the peds pay; Houston, we have a solution; And…. Keep reading…