Andrew Saltz

One week in and it's clear who keeps this city running. The workers of DC 33 deserve a fair contract and workplace protections, and we stand with them.

My new old man-ism is bars that serve their beer too cold 😤

A screenshot of text from the #ArlingtonVA #VisionZero team: Speed Before/After Studies: What We've Learned Since the adoption of Vision Zero, Arlington has implemented several initiatives to reduce speeds and improve safety on arterial roads throughout the County. Speed is important to our Vision Zero goals because the higher the speed, the higher the potential for injury or death. After gathering data from before and after implementations, we’ve reviewed how effective these initiatives have been at reducing driver speeds. In 2020 and 2021, we installed “$200 Additional Fine” signs on 12 roads. We found that the addition of signage alone had minimal impact on driver speeds. In 2021 and 2022, we reduced the speed limit on 14 roads. We found that reducing the speed limit alone had little to no impact on driver speeds. From 2018 to 2022, we reconfigured the lanes on 14 roads. We found that changing the physical characteristics of the road helped to reduce driver speeds. In summary, findings showed that neither the addition of signs nor speed limit reductions alone were effective in significantly lowering driver speeds. What was effective were projects that physically changed the roadway such as: Roadway narrowing Addition of bike lanes Curb modifications New crosswalks All-way stop controls

Speed Management Pilot Safety Project info sheet Pilot Objective This pilot works toward Arlington’s Vision Zero goal by testing different speed management tools on arterials and assessing how they impact driver speeds in Arlington. Background • Driving fast leads to injury. One out of three critical crashes in Arlington is the result of speeding. • We are limited in what tools work to reduce speeding on arterial roads. o Speed limit reductions and $200 fine signs show minimal speed reductions. o Roadway reconfigurations show meaningful speed reductions but are large-scale projects that require time, funding, and outreach. o Speed safety cameras are permitted on arterial streets but are limited to school zones. • Arlington is looking for quick-install, low-cost ways of reducing speed.

A map of pilot locations: Pilot Locations We selected locations for the pilot based on two considerations: (1) speeding-related crash histories and (2) locations where data indicate frequent speeding drivers. Additional locations may be added as the pilot progresses. Locations include: • Washington Boulevard, Arlington Blvd to N Pershing Dr • S Eads St, 23rd St S and S Glebe Rd • 23rd St S, S Arlington Ridge Rd to S Joyce St • 10th St N, Arlington Blvd to Washington Blvd • N Lynn St / N Meade St, Fairfax Dr to 14th St N • S Hayes St, Army Navy Dr to 15th St S • Wilson Blvd, N Nelson St to Washington Blvd • S George Mason Dr, 4th St S to Columbia Pike • S Walter Reed Dr , S Quebec St to S Wakefield St • Williamsburg Blvd, N Edison St to George Mason Dr • S Courthouse Rd, 5th St S to 8th St S • N Carlin Springs Rd, N George Mason Dr to Arlington Blvd* • N Sycamore St / N Roosevelt St, Washington Blvd to Wilson Blvd* *Longer timelines due to coordination with ongoing projects.

Examples of speed management controls include wider edge line, optical speed bars, transverse markings, rumble strips, speed limit markings, and narrowing with flex posts

Nice to see the county collecting data about what actually changes driver behavior:

❌ Higher fines
❌ Reduced speed limits
✔️ Altering the physical characteristics of the roadway

The new Speed Management Pilot Safety Project will focus on arterials. Info here: www.arlingtonva.us/Government/P...

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

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Greatest city in the universe

Prom is amazing because the kid who spends all week like "this shit gonna be a 🔥 MOVIE 🔥" is doing the cha cha slide in their socks by 8:30pm

Every one of this guys tweets can be voiced as a 19-year-old screaming out of the mom that they're out of pizza bagels

Wow you can post a lot of pictures here

Hello! Some of you follow or used to follow me on The Bad Site. In case you were curious, I found some of the best reactions to Larry krasner's victory, and I'll share them here! so you don't have to go back

i have voted for larold "larry" krasner and so should you

HOW?!!

I am having an exceptionally hard time reading this conclusion as anything other than "racism is true but we should be careful to talk about it publicly because if we're too impolite about it we might become nazis"

pairing "there's not perfect racial balance in everything, like advanced math enrollment" and "we don't try to get white kids to play more basketball" makes it perfectly clear what you believe, sorry

this yglesias post is insane, the whole thing is him trying to square the fact that he quite obviously believes in hanania-style scientific racism and thinks trump isn't racist-racist with the need to not agree with nazis

I'm cackling

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Got a cab today. It was cheaper than Lyft/Uber. Driver was great. Hope we get more of this in the Second American Republic!

Removing every single New York and Florida Democrat from leadership would be an instant and dramatic upgrade

The police are defunding you

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democratic voters immediately after cory booker appeared to try to make a stand

The Republicans and some Dems are proud to announce that everyone's stoop in alleyway is now a consumption site

Imagine reading this as an editor

My favorite part about this article is that it makes it sound like the poodle was an accomplice, somehow also also complicit in the hit and run.

He seems cool

They're gonna do the "Victims of Bike Lanes Museum" on top of dirty franks I bet

Gotta be enforced

Also I'd bet some companies are just eating the price of a ticket

Check out the crew who thinks "tyranny" means not getting a personal loading zone
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My G-d this is cathartic to read