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I asked because I'm genuinely curious; I don't ride in the city these days but the fatal collisions that I've seen circulate this year seem to happen...

I should also add in the 5-10 minutes that I was taking pictures of Memorial Bridge construction and crossing on the upriver side, I saw two people...

DC did end contributory negligence (I think it was two years ago). But a lawyer's gonna argue anything that he or she can and it just takes...

There's no way to know in advance what place will be cheapest, though it's probably best not to go to the very high end shops. And you don't save...

Usually traffic fatalities are multifactored and speed can be one contributing factor. Tom Hollowell was killed by a red light runner who was also...

We are talking about two different crosswalks, you are showing the one to the North of the rotary, I am talking about the temporary one to the West...

I'm doing the Lime Connect Century in Reston on 11/3 and a "Ride your Age on your Birthday" metric plus on 11/2. I'm sure I'll need a late...

Thank you, Sanyata, for flagging this event. I registered and am looking forward to it.

That's about the standard speed on small residential streets and U.S. military bases in Germany (actually 30 k/h or 18/19 mph).

As much as I dislike that crossing and agree with your assessment of enraged drivers, there is no reason that a dip in the road there should cause...

At their advocacy trainings, WABA provides some useful charts on the probability that a cyclist will be seriously injured or killed by a driver based...

Also have not done any comparisons, and I'm definitely preaching for my own local bike shop, but I find that the folks at Proteus Bicycles in College...

To pour gas on the fire, it's not enough that the drivers are enraged at the bottlenecks on Memorial Bridge, I DROVE my car last night from the...

Thanks, it appears from the other side that it would take longer. I would say at least 10 days:

They're in public space, so DDOT regs, but a private group like the BID might augment signage in coordination with DDOT.

We wouldn't want one of the newbie downhillers to head down that. As happened to me once at Seven Springs, when QOTM was rather more evil than she is...

.. with strong emphasis on "inclination."

Ya know, that may very well be true for the District. Negligence was one of those things I learned about years ago and I tend to overdo the...

Who actually controls the paint on the PBLs? WharfDC? SWBID? DDOT?

I really wanted to ride to work today. But between the effing Memorial Bridge abomination, the 14th St bridge clusterf#ck, and the Four Mile Run...

I'm no lawyer so don't ride according to anything I state, but it's my understanding that DC is no longer operating under contributory negligence....

Note well, a collision CAUSED by something other than speed can be aggravated by speed. Also I think (no data handy) that running red lights is more...

I was happy to see that NYC has no-right-turn-on-red citywide unless otherwise posted. I have no idea if it's enforced enough to matter. Street...

What would concern me about such features is that in the event of an accident, the cyclist can be assessed with some degree of contributory...

How many of the pedestrian/cyclist fatalities this year have been due to speed versus things like turns at intersections and running lights and such?

Just to piggyback on Judd (RAAAAAAWR) I had to go through this effing abomination this morning and was nearly peace-outed at least twice. Drivers are...

There's really only one way to fix this--national driver licensing with testing and re-certification for motor vehicle drivers every two or three...

I grew up (and first learned to drive) here. I can assure you that I quickly figured out how to drive an automatic (granted, a 1972 Impala) at less...

Personally I am more interested in raised crosswalks these days than speed humps/tables. A raised crosswalk, in addition to serving as a speed...