For those of you who remember The Jetsons, can you believe we don’t have flying cars yet? Forget driverless cars, my kid-of-the-70s imagination was sure we’d be taking to the air to get to work each day. Sigh. There are miles to go on truly diversifying our commuter routes, but the District Department of Transportation […]
We all have a choice: Do the exercise or sit on the couch. Burn the calories or store them on your bottom. Sometimes, the good choices are no good. But, if anybody’s going to be able to do a knockout downward dog, I expect this gal can. Thanks for tagging us @summittosoul. We’d love to […]
Karen Ramsey has been a DC area resident off and on since 1994 and is currently a denizen of Trinidad neighborhood. There is now a white painted bicycle at the intersection of H Street and 3rd Street NE. The evening of June 23, 2018, Malik Habib was killed there after a charter bus driver struck […]
In researching these pieces, there are a few sources to which I keep coming back. One of the oldest of these is a map drawn and printed in 1857, almost certainly the oldest of these sources. Today, I will look a little at this map and the man who made it. Albert Boschke (pictured) was […]
Pedestrian and bike casualties have increased in the District over the past two years, according to data in a recent Washington Post article. Incidentally, Vision Zero also started campaigning for safer streets two years ago. It appears that Vision Zero is just not a very successful program, at least in the biker and pedestrian deaths metric. The […]