Posts Tagged ‘safety’
Cyclist Struck Twice and Killed in Southeast DC
‘Ghost Bike’
courtesy of ‘eldan’
Sad news to start out the week: Friday night around 10:45, David Haywood Williams was riding his bike along Southern Avenue SE when he was struck by two separate cars and killed. The driver of the first car stopped, but the driver of the second car sped off when paramedics arrived at [...]
Top Five Ways to Get Killed After a Craptacular Snow Storm
Walk in the street.
Walk in the street two abreast.
Drive too fast on slick roads.
Ride your bike like a jackass in these conditions.
Cross the street against the light.
Let’s be careful out there, folks. Safety is a shared responsibility. I have seen blatantly stupid behavior out there. If you are driving, slow down and accept that traveling [...]
More »Live Metro Chat on Friday
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courtesy of ‘Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie’
WMATA is hosting a live chat with John Catoe this Friday from noon-1pm. This chat will be in the wake of the Thursday board meeting, during which general cuts to service are expected to be announced. Metro is dealing with a $40 Million deficit, which the blame largely on [...]
Fed’s Takeover Move Triggered by Metro Crash
‘Wednesday Morning on the Metro’
courtesy of ‘Photos by Chip Py’
The Washington Post wrote Sunday about the Obama administration’s intent to push Congress to implement a large change in how subway safety is regulated and enforced across the country by DOT. Currently, the feds really have no power to set regulations what so ever on subway [...]
Don’t get shocked
‘Crecent Lightning’
courtesy of ‘Cazimiro’
It looks cool but it’s less pleasant to get hit by it. According to Pepco lightning strikes kill 400 people in the US every year – most of them in June, July, and August. So they’ve offered up this selection of tips for how to stay safer in a storm.
They don’t offer [...]
New Metro Video!
Metro has released a new video for riders, providing instructions for riding Metro the same way a flight attendant provides airplane safety instructions. In the same part creepy/part really entertaining/part informative mix of Metro’s other videos, this one includes a computer-generated flight attendant and four Metro passengers. My favorite part is when the three remaining passengers [...]
More »SUV vs. Traffic Island
Snow. It turns us into adventurers. Some of us bundle up to walk the chill, white, stormy landscape like Arctic explorers, braving wind and cold for photos or milk and bread.
And others among us get adventure by roaring out of parking spaces and skidding over slush so that our big black Nissan Pathfinder SUVs end [...]
