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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused why a thread about traffic enforcement turns into an argument about bikes. You're all just rich talking heads who don't even live in the areas of the city where traffic safety issues are a concern.

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There is no part of DC where traffic safety is not a big concern.

MD drivers aren't magically transported downtown or to Capital Hill - they have to get thru Wards 3 and 4 and 6 to get there and there are equally dangerous everywhere.[/quote]

Actually looking at the map in this Post article, it's predominantly not ward 3, but all the anti traffic safety people who spend time complaining about bikes seem to live in ward 3. On a thread about general traffic safety which includes far, far, far more than just bikes, they literally cannot stop complaining about bikes of all things.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/02/23/dc-traffic-deaths-highest-record/

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"The Southern Avenue corridor, which separates D.C. from Maryland’s Prince George’s County, accounted for nearly 1 in 5 traffic deaths in the city last year, The Post found. Among those killed were two pedestrians struck in the same block — one while crossing the street and the other a victim in a hit-and-run — about eight months apart.

Ward 3, which contains many of the city’s Whitest and wealthiest neighborhoods in upper Northwest, had no traffic deaths last year. Cases have often garnered more attention in wealthier areas, where advocates and residents are more vocal on social media, at vigils and during government hearings."

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"Four of the five neighborhoods with the most deaths over the past eight years are home to majority-Black residents, according to The Post’s analysis, while at least 58 percent of victims citywide were Black — a number that’s likely higher because records in many cases don’t identify race or ethnicity.

By contrast, five majority-White and higher-income neighborhoods — Kent/Palisades, Chevy Chase, Barnaby Woods, Mt. Pleasant and Georgetown — had no traffic fatalities during the eight-year period. This analysis uses boundaries established by the D.C. Department of Health, which delineates 51 “statistical neighborhoods” for research purposes.

Wards 7 and 8, with a population that is about 90 percent Black, combined for 19 traffic-related deaths last year as Ward 3 had none. In the past eight years, Ward 3 recorded seven crash deaths, while wards 7 and 8 had 53 and 60, respectively."

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Combined fatalities and accidents with both severe and minor injuries for both bicycles and pedestrians in 2022 give a good indication of the geographic pattern where traffic enforcement should be prioritized and it’s not what you are saying.

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