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[quote=Anonymous][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]

St. Paul is the crossing for Kensington Heights Park.

St. Paul is a crossing for many kids to go to Einstein High School.

St. Paul is the closest crossing to the East of the 7-11. Einstein kids living south of University all live east of St. Paul so it’s the nearest crossing en route.

St. Paul is the crossing for many to get to the public bus stops there on both sides of University.[/quote]

St. Paul does not cross over University.  That is why there is not a traffic light.

The neighborhoods on both sides of University were developed to be inward facing and are not connected.

The entrace to Kensignton Heights Park is not on University.

Crossing University there is a short cut but the area was not planned or developed to have that as a regular crossing.

There is a good case to be made for connecting the roads on either side of University.  It is odd that none of the streets cross over along that stretch.  There is also a good case to be made for a pedestrian triggered stop light, assuming that connecting the roads on either side is too difficult, but not an always on one.

But, these sort of solutions can't happen when there's a subset of people flooding the messaging with exaggerated and f-cars bs.[/quote]

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