Anonymous
04/13/2020 12:18
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drivers have a responsibility to obey the speed limit...
AND...
pedestrians who choose to walk in the street have a responsibility to watch for oncoming traffic...
No, we don't.
Way to both sides everything, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
This is a typo, correct. They are not actually arguing that the pedestrian does not need to watch for traffic while in the road????
I am the FIRST person to believe that pedestrians should use the roads as social distancing maneuver area. But the idea that I would not look both ways before jumping in the street or look at the traffic patters just seems insane. Protect yourself by being smart. Don't rely on a driver to see you stepping out between two parked cars. Darwin people.
I walk with my little one all the time and I constantly say, 'Look both ways and then cross'. I am not saying. 'It is COVID season, the rules do not apply, traffic has a moral obligation to stop for you.'
I look both ways, because I want to reduce the chances of a driver running me over.
Nonetheless, drivers actually do have a moral obligation to stop for people, regardless of what the people may or may not have done. Both when there's a pandemic, and when there isn't a pandemic.
At the end of the day the highest responsibility lies on the the individual to protect themselves. Walkers need to walk places that keep them safe, not necessarily where they are or aren't allowed. Rules are a guide not a shield
Drivers should watch out for stuff they don't want to hit but if they don't, the stuff needs to watch out for their own ass. Because you're the one who will pay. Let your kids play in the road in AU park all you want, sure the driver might get some time but you'll lose a loved one.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 11:04
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Vehicles, particularly those cutting across residential side streets as shortcuts, should not be using the crisis to speed and to avoid stopping as stop signs. Yet drivers are doing so.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 09:13
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drivers have a responsibility to obey the speed limit...
AND...
pedestrians who choose to walk in the street have a responsibility to watch for oncoming traffic...
No, we don't.
Way to both sides everything, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
This is a typo, correct. They are not actually arguing that the pedestrian does not need to watch for traffic while in the road????
I am the FIRST person to believe that pedestrians should use the roads as social distancing maneuver area. But the idea that I would not look both ways before jumping in the street or look at the traffic patters just seems insane. Protect yourself by being smart. Don't rely on a driver to see you stepping out between two parked cars. Darwin people.
I walk with my little one all the time and I constantly say, 'Look both ways and then cross'. I am not saying. 'It is COVID season, the rules do not apply, traffic has a moral obligation to stop for you.'
I look both ways, because I want to reduce the chances of a driver running me over.
Nonetheless, drivers actually do have a moral obligation to stop for people, regardless of what the people may or may not have done. Both when there's a pandemic, and when there isn't a pandemic.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 09:11
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Yeah, people are driving like crazy on the Beltway and 270 too. I put my cruise control on at 68 and people are passing me at easily 80.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 09:08
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MYOB
It's definitely a lot more my business than yours particularly since almost all of the obnoxious & dangerous drivers on the streets in my NW neighborhood come from MD.
Unfortunately most of our incompetent police are also from MD and don't want to be bothered with enforcing the cities driving laws, coronavirus or otherwise.
NP. First, I don't think this is the time to say anything about our police but praise them.
Second, in my neighborhood, all drivers are being obnoxious and dangerous, because it's just so exciting to have the road to yourself, and be out of the house and away from those you've been cooped up with. So that includes the DC dads of the DC kids who are riding bikes.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 09:04
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drivers have a responsibility to obey the speed limit...
AND...
pedestrians who choose to walk in the street have a responsibility to watch for oncoming traffic...
No, we don't.
Way to both sides everything, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
This is a typo, correct. They are not actually arguing that the pedestrian does not need to watch for traffic while in the road????
I am the FIRST person to believe that pedestrians should use the roads as social distancing maneuver area. But the idea that I would not look both ways before jumping in the street or look at the traffic patters just seems insane. Protect yourself by being smart. Don't rely on a driver to see you stepping out between two parked cars. Darwin people.
I walk with my little one all the time and I constantly say, 'Look both ways and then cross'. I am not saying. 'It is COVID season, the rules do not apply, traffic has a moral obligation to stop for you.'
Anonymous
04/10/2020 08:54
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Please answer the previous question.
If I'm driving, and I run over somebody who's in the street, that's on me. Of course it is. My most important responsibility as a driver is to not injure or kill other people.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 08:43
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Drivers are both legally and morally responsible for a whole lot more than just obeying the speed limit.
Also, obeying the speed limit means driving no faster than the posted speed limit, and likely slower, depending on conditions. Obeying the speed limit does NOT mean driving less than 12 miles per hour faster than the posted speed limit.
They should lower the speed limit city wide, except for emergency vehicles--which could even drive a little slower. They are not getting slowed down by traffic so could make it up there.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 08:38
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Please answer the previous question.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 07:29
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Drivers are both legally and morally responsible for a whole lot more than just obeying the speed limit.
Also, obeying the speed limit means driving no faster than the posted speed limit, and likely slower, depending on conditions. Obeying the speed limit does NOT mean driving less than 12 miles per hour faster than the posted speed limit.
Also, obeying the speed limit means driving no faster than the posted speed limit, and likely slower, depending on conditions. Obeying the speed limit does NOT mean driving less than 12 miles per hour faster than the posted speed limit.
Anonymous
04/10/2020 07:20
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
You're not actually saying that pedestrians bear no personal responsibility for their own safety when walking in the street???????Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Drivers have a responsibility to obey the speed limit...
AND...
pedestrians who choose to walk in the street have a responsibility to watch for oncoming traffic...
No, we don't.
Way to both sides everything, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
Anonymous
04/09/2020 21:40
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Drivers have a responsibility to obey the speed limit...
AND...
pedestrians who choose to walk in the street have a responsibility to watch for oncoming traffic...
No, we don't.
Way to both sides everything, especially in the middle of a pandemic.
Anonymous
04/09/2020 21:15
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:MYOB
It’s my business if someone is speeding while I’m trying to cross the street. For that matter, I now run in the street when I’m out for exercise, so I don’t run the risk of breathing on someone who’s walking on the sidewalk, so it’s definitely my business how the cars are being driven.
Anonymous
03/31/2020 23:36
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:MYOB
It's definitely a lot more my business than yours particularly since almost all of the obnoxious & dangerous drivers on the streets in my NW neighborhood come from MD.
Unfortunately most of our incompetent police are also from MD and don't want to be bothered with enforcing the cities driving laws, coronavirus or otherwise.
Anonymous
03/31/2020 23:33
Subject: Please slow down, folks!
Anonymous wrote:Man, don’t give Q7 owners a bad name. Cmon now.
That train left the station a long time ago but anyone who defines themselves by what they drive is an insecure douche regardless.