Street Justice: : New Pick-Up/Drop-Off and a Weak Press Conference

Gordon Chaffin is a freelance journalist who focuses on infrastructure and traffic news and insights for Street Justice. You can support independent journalism by subscribing to Gordon’s newsletter. He’s offering a 20% discount to THIH readers. –Maria Helena Carey What is “Traffic Calming?” Many of the transportation projects we cover in Street Justice involve something called Traffic Calming. What’s that? Well, it’s street design to slow motorists down. Why slow cars down? Vehicle speed is the […]

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Remembering Jewel Hall, Neighbor and Michael Jackson Fan

On Saturday around 11 a.m., Jewel Hall, one of our neighbors, was crossing H Street NE at 10th Street. According to reports from NBC and the Washington Post, a gray Honda Oddysey traveling south on 10th, struck and killed Ms. Hall. Eyewitnesses saw people fleeing from the car. It’s unclear from the reports whether the driver […]

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Hill Buzz

Stanton Eastbanc Launch Leasing Efforts for Hine Project Retail/Office Space – Latest Renderings (Capitol Hill Corner) JBG plans to sell over a dozen assets (Curbed DC) City Advances Shotgun House Project – Sends Shakespeare Plan Back to Drawing Board (Capitol Hill Corner) How DC’s central and outer neighborhoods differ, in 3 maps (Greater Greater Washington) […]

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Upcoming Meeting on Intersection of 18th Street SE and Potomac Avenue SE

Tomorrow, July 22, at 10am, ANC Commissioner Brian Flahaven will host a meeting to discuss options for improving the safety of the intersection of 18th Street SE and Potomac Avenue SE, which is the entrance to Congressional Cemetery. In a post on his blog, Flahaven explained, “Numerous vehicle accidents have taken place at 18th and Potomac, […]

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Tell DC How to Make Ward 6 Streets Safe

The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced today that it is holding 10 public events spanning all eight wards to kick-off public engagement for Vision Zero, an initiative to eliminate all deaths and serious injuries to users of the District’s transportation system by 2024. The city plans to accomplish this through the use of data, enforcement, […]

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