'SUVs and vans with a hood height greater than 40 inches are about 45% more likely to cause fatalities in pedestrian crashes than cars and other vehicles with a hood height of 30 inches or less and a sloping profile.'

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This is a big part of the problem on Connecticut Avenue - businesses over estimating the need for parking - DDOT did two Cleveland Park studies & both showed that 80% of customers to CT Ave businesses are walking and only 10% are driving!

David Alpert My hunch is that the increase in enforcement (certainty) is doing most of the work.

This is brilliant.

That elevated highway rendering is just what Mexico City looks like btw (and traffic is still terrible).

And the bit about the highway through the zoo - motorists seeing park spaces as they zoom by really is the National Park Service philosophy about DC parks

The seeming handful of excellent remaining full-time reporters are trying to hold up an entire region’s worth of stories on their backs while wondering if they’ll still have a job next week.

With the gutting of the Post’s local newsroom, shuttering of DCist, and majority of quality substantive stories behind paywalls, crime feels like it’s just about the only beat left for the public en masse to consume. It’s awful not just for individual readers but for society.

Lately, scanning news websites from across the region, I’ve had the recurring thought that, “No wonder so many people think urban areas = crime and nothing else.”

New York City, which has much lower crime rates than DC, is a good example of how incremental improvement over time can make a real difference.

New York isn't perfect but getting even halfway to their crime rates would be a massive improvement for DC. (1/