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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) they are required: "The law mandates that riders under 16 are required to wear a helmet while cycling in the District of Columbia."

2) a bigger concern is the DC drivers who are speeding and don't even know how to properly come to a full stop at a stop sign. So sick of people in giant SUVs stopping in the middle of the crosswalk like they apparently never went to driving school or stopped caring or both.

Before anyone accuses me of being a bicyclist activist, I do not bike, but I do have kids (who wear helmets).

DC does pretty much no traffic enforcement. We have speed and red light cameras but there's barely any repercussion if you even get tickets and don't pay them. There was an increase in booting recently (good) but it was barely anything for awhile. 2 people for the whole city with millions of dollars in unpaid tickets.

It's basically a free for all for people to drive like complete jerks. Really, you want to start a thread about kids wearing helmets?[/quote]

The streets here aren't nearly as dangerous as all the hyperventilating here suggests, but if they were, it would beg the obvious question: What are earth as people doing taking children into all of that? And why aren't there more rules protecting those kids from their parents' poor choices? [/quote]

If you listen to people in DC communities, they want safer streets. You personally may not care, but you're in the minority on that. I care, my neighbors care, and we will continue to vote accordingly and hope our representatives and the DC council heed the numerous concerns of their constituents. Generally speaking, DC residents favor traffic safety improvements rather than the freeforall "it's fine, do nothing, ever" attitude you espouse.[/quote]

Free for all? Do you even live here? Traffic accidents are extremely rare in Washington D.C. It's hard to speed because the congestion is terrible and traffic cameras are everywhere and the police are omnipresent. We have the biggest police force in the United States. If that's not enough, the blocks here are short, which means there are stop signs or traffic lights every five feet, with plenty of speed bumps in between. [/quote]

You must live in a different Washington DC than I do.  Maybe even an alternate dimension?  Or, you just don't view 10-15mph above the speed limit as speeding, or rolling a stop sign, stopping in the crosswalk instead of behind the bar, buzzing pedestrians in the crosswalk... etc as problems.[/quote]

Honesty, I've posted this before, but all these "it's the parents and kids and pedestrian, not the car" people are just rich *holes who live in expensive real estate in NW where the rate of traffic accidents is the lowest in the city ANYWAYS WHERE THEY ALREADY HAVE BETTER TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS and are used to getting their way. Any obstacle, including a little speed bump, is difficult for their "I get what I want for my entire life" egos. They're just ridiculous.[/quote]

Oh, like this: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/dc-4-year-olds-mom-pleads-safety-changes-after-son-hit-and-killed-by-car/65-1d036b36-2f32-4791-8b13-e28f1474bb4b

Like the kids hit on Southern Ave?

You really should think about who you are as a person.  It's not good right now.[/quote]

Yes, I'm saying the victim blamers who say "it's the pedestrian or the biker" and "where are their parents" don't want road safety improvements are jerks. I'm not the one blaming the pedestrians, it's some other person on this thread. I'd like safety improvements, raised crosswalks, more speed bumps, more cameras, and more enforcement. I think the people who argue against these improvements are entitled jerks and often enough, they seem to live in the affluent parts of the city that already have better road improvements.[/quote]

Seriously, you seem like an obsessive creep. Maybe worth talking to a mental health professional.[/quote]

You're hilarious, ND![/quote]

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