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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People in my neighborhood don’t even slow down for stop signs. Has anyone in DC ever been stopped by a cop for a traffic violation? Of any kind? Maybe the city government should focus on enforcing existing laws before inventing new ones[/quote]

I live off a slow street and love it!  I feel much better letting the kids bike in the street. [/quote]

Glad it’s working for you. The one by me is also a street with a DPR rec center and playground on it. Out of curiosity I have loosely tracked the cars while sitting at the playground with my kids on multiple different days. All but 1 car had Maryland plates and zero of the cars gave a crap about the speed limit and “no through traffic” signs at either end of the block. If we want streets to be kid and pedestrian friendly I agree with previous folks who mention enforcement (and I don’t mean cameras), or actually blocking off all traffic and making them fully open. I realize that’s a whole other conversation but my point is that the “slow streets” initiative is just a way for Bowser to check a box without doing anything meaningful or effective. [/quote]

We have so many of these slow street signs on the Hill that they are virtually meaningless - and if you actually adhered to them you couldn't drive anywhere (they don't account for one-way streets, etc.). If you want to slow the traffic, add speed bumps - we keep begging for them on our block and they instead put them in the block before and after ours, so the cars speed on our stretch of the road. I would like a full street of rumblestrips around every DPR center.[/quote]

I also live on the Hill and don't totally agree with this. Some of the streets they picked were really smart. Namely -- 12th Street from Lincoln Park to Florida. I've completely stopped driving on that street now. And because it hooks up with Lincoln Park, it's also become our favorite way to get from H Street to the park on foot or bike. It feels noticeably calmer and I feel like there's always lot of people out walking and biking, and tons of kids. I've incorporated it into my running routes as well because it's so nice now.

So I think they just need to see what's working and what's not, and maybe put up more permanent barriers on streets like 12th while dropping the designation on other streets where people don't follow it.[/quote]

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