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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]pretty gross how the bicyclist crowd always tries to exploit the death of people in accidents...[/quote]

This is their go-to move. They blame cars for everything, try to make it seem like reckless drivers are omnipresent, etc. [/quote]
Uh, are you saying they are not? I've lived here for 20 years as a pedestrian, have had a car for 5, and yes reckless drivers are omnipresent.[/quote]

There were 34 traffic fatalities last year, according to the police department.

How many people drive every day in Washington D.C.? Probably close to a million people.

Not exactly omnipresent. [/quote]

I work at home and I hear tires screech to a halt at least once per week -- and at 20 miles per hour, there should not be long screeching stops. Once a month that is followed by the sound of impact. It doenst need to be a fatality to be a huge problem.

Personally I blame DC's over reliance on traffic cameras. They no longer seem to police driving, and everyone knows where the cameras are, so people speed everywhere they aren't. Counterintuitive, perhaps, but that's what I see.[/quote]
I’ve lived in DC since 1998, before there were traffic cameras. MPD have always infrequently made traffic stops in most parts of the city, except Wards 7 & 8. In fact, when I first moved here the big scandal was Park Police were the primary imitator of traffic stops in NW DC and they were mainly just making pretextual stops of Black people. Thankfully Park Police are no longer broadly policing DC neighborhoods.

I’ve always juts presumed that MPD are less likely to pull people over in areas where there is no shoulder or space to safely pull over to effectuate a stop. Otherwise they are going to block all traffic on a street for 10 minutes just for a citation for not coming to a compete stop at a stop sign. [/quote]

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