pazzo83
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it's amazing the excuses we hear. when you are driving around pedestrians, bikers, road workers, etc - the driver needs to be the most responsible one because they are operating the machine that could easily kill everyone else. and we wonder why this country has the highest rate of vehicle-related injuries and deaths in the developed world.
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yeah but there is action for tickets that go unpaid. DC can't enforce any of that with out-of-state drivers.
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71 here as well - yeah I feel like by late March most of the records are gonna be 80+.
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Should be opening in May they say - although the board argued today whether it would turn back at Mt Vernon Sq or at Fort Totten.
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I think Metro is getting there (yesterday they recorded 404k trips, which is about 65-70% of prepandemic ridership) - the new GM gets it. We'll see how the next year goes. Paul Wiedefeld - the prior GM - really left the agency in a cluster with the 7000-series trains. They have finally found the issue with that, so 100% of trains should be available by late spring.
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Of course you do some of this stuff, and some people complain "oh what about my parking" or "now this is so inconvenient for me!" - as if folks' lives are less important. I mean for fuck's sake, you live in a major city - it's not all about you and your personal vehicle.
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the pressure is definitely ratcheting up on the mayor and the city to do something about it - we'll see what happens. I mean there are ways to redesign streets in a way that forces people to slow down - and some of that is happening - but you also have to get the lawless drivers off the roads as well.
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lol - doesn't stop folks here!
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it's actually much much worse - it's almost $1 billion ($890 million). https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/dc-millions-dollars-unpaid-tickets/65-9620d760-a06c-451e-b173-25125f75779b
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DC has an issue where there is no reciprocity with VA and MD, so camera tickets you get in DC don't do anything to your points if you are a MD or VA driver. And DC doesn't have the resources to boot/tow every car with this level of violations (it's an ongoing discussion here). The frustrating thing here is that most of these insane levels of violations are from out-of-state drivers where DC has limited resources to go after them.
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it's horrific - and some people say, "oh what's the big deal they had some tickets" - of course until something like that happens. I think about it every time my kids cross the street.
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that said - if one of the cars ended up as it it did, someone was traveling too fast. I think folks forget that when they are driving, they are operating a massive piece of machinery that can easily kill other people (or themselves). Too many people are killed on our roadways.
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if the driver survived they need to be charged with murder
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California's been getting some Day After Tomorrow-like shit this year lol
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weather-wise, living in Boston for the winter would be nice. But their spring is a dealbreaker. Nope.
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it's way way worse the further north you go. There were many April days where we'd be stuck in the 40s/50s in NYC while you all would be basking in the 70s and 80s. And then up in Boston that shit lasts until late May.
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i loathe MD but I was actually pulling for them. The game just got away from them in the 2nd half. But they are on the rebound - too bad the left the ACC.
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Metro might actually hit some pre-pandemic numbers (right now they are around 300-330k / day during the week vs 600-650k in early 2020).
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almost entirely.
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Arlington and Alexandria were already populated in the 1950s (albeit smaller than present day). DC actually was larger (804k people in the 1950 census). It's not like it was farm land around DCA in 1950. In other words, the UHI already existed by then in and around DCA.
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the built environment around DCA isn't dramatically different from 1950 to the present. Some place like IAD? Definitely. But your core urban stations (DCA, NYC, etc) were already built up by the 50s.
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yeah that was a wild one. We lived on the top floor of a downtown apt building, and man you could hear it once the wind really picked up. The next day they closed the pedestrian bridge connecting the Tysons Corner silver line station and the plaza by the mall and office buildings.
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had some brief flakes or frozen precip of some kind in NW DC into Bethesda, but obviously nothing really of note.
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Feel like we need to start talking about drought. I'm only at like 4.5" of precip since Jan 1.
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there are prob 3 cities in the country that see our traffic and are like, yeah that's ok. ATL is one of them.
