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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And now compare this with Chevy Chase MD. There are like 4 F cameras on CT Ave in both directions between EW and Western/DC line. There is also one camera on CT between Jones Bridge and I-495 ramp. Then a few more further north on CT Ave between Beach to Knowles. Why aren't there that many on University? Contact your elected officials. They should be doing their job! Contact Marc Elrich. Contact Superintendent Taylor. Appalling. [/quote]

Because there's no businesses or churches on those blocks.  Heck, most of the houses there don't even face University and the side streets don't cross over it. 
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Sorry maybe I’m confused. Are you saying University doesn’t have or need cameras because there are no businesses or churches? Like the 7-11 a kid got killed trying to get to? There’s also a bank, a vet, and a church on University. Plus kids crossing to get to Einstein. South Kensington also has pedestrian activated crossings and regular traffic lights to stop traffic allowing pedestrians to cross. University Blvd has none of that for approximately 3/4 of a mile. [/quote]

Both Einstein and the 7-11/Bank are different intersections. All the intersections you are talking about have streets that cross University and are commercial areas.  That stretch has neither.

It was a horrible tragedy and my deepest sympathies and condolences go out to the family but that is not an intersection that needs a traffic light and none of the comparable stretches of either University or Connecticut have one.

What that stretch needs is better lighting not another traffic light in a location without a cross street.[/quote]

It feel like we are talking about different areas. Because they DO have signalized crossings in south Kensington and none of the commercial areas that University does. Do they have a park at those lights? A high school? Both areas should have controlled crossings. And someone shouldn’t have to die to get them.

University Blvd. has no signalized pedestrian crossing for over 3/4 of a mile. People trying to cross anytime, let alone at night, literally risk their lives. I tried it once near the CVS and never again. It doesn’t matter that 7-11 and Einstein are at different intersections, they have crosswalks and people want to cross there. They should be able to do it safely. [/quote]

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