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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not even kids or pedestrians. It's that DRIVING in this city is stressful because of other DRIVERS who don't follow the rules of the road! It's that most days of the week, I go to pull onto a major DC road where at least one day a week a car runs the red light as I'm about to pull out on the green. It's drivers who run a stop sign when you're about to proceed after you actually legally stopped. It's drivers that go 50mph down my tiny neighborhood street, sometimes the wrong way on a one way. Near misses are annoying enough that there could be zero pedestrian accidents and I'd still want more enforcement because DC area drivers are such a sh*tshow. .

The fact that we have a freeforall, break the law with no repercussions, governance for traffic violations doesn't help.[/quote]

I don't think enforcement is the panacea that will solve all of your problems.  Are you ok with physically slowing down cars?  Speed bumps?  Raised crosswalks?  Narrower lanes?  I think it does work out overall for safety, but it comes at the cost of some convenience while driving.[/quote]

Yes. I'm actually hoping for speedbumps on my street and an extra stop sign nearby. Yes I'm ok with raised crosswalks and narrower lanes, especially with the way drivers in SUV have stopped too far into the crosswalk when I'm crossing holding hands with my kids who are below their line of sight (even my 8 year old is below the line of sight for some cars).

I have kids so I don't care about losing a bit of convenience. I think the people who don't care about even a handful of kids dying on DC streets are straight up selfish aholes, that's honestly what I think. [/quote]

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