Action Committee for Transit

A beaver at the edge of a pond with streetlights on the far shore in the background

Beaver post!

On Thurs 2/19/26 8:10 pm
the driver (31/M) of a 2012 Mazda 3
going west on Spectrum Ave at Paramount Park Dr
hit & injured 2 pedestrians (31/F, 31/M)
crossing properly in a marked crosswalk.
Gaithersburg PD (EJ7918000J) found the driver at fault: failed to yield ROW.

On Thurs 2/19/26 4:49 pm
a hit & run driver in the driveway from Woodmont Park Apartments on Rockville Pike/355
hit & injured 2 pedestrians (22/F, 32/F)
walking properly on the sidewalk across the driveway.
Rockville PD (DD5673002R) did not find anyone at fault.

Google Streetview of the five or six story parking garage, the multi-story hospital, and the covered crosswalk connecting them.

On Wed 2/18/26 10:47 am
the driver (59/F) of a 2009 Honda Accord
turning right in the parking garage of Adventist White Oak Hospital
hit & seriously injured a pedestrian (79/F)
doing nothing improper, going to/from transit [?].
Police (MCP29740062) found the driver at fault.

Or wait for someone important (= person in a motor vehicle) to come up behind you (and hope they don't rear-end you) to trigger the 🟢 light.

Apparently wearing hi-vis on a cloudy, dry mid-morning was not #BeSafeBeSeen enough for this [probable] recycling collection worker.🤷

Google Streetview of a T intersection of unmarked two-lane streets with curb and gutter and sidewalks on both sides and curb parking and detached 1990s houses in yards with driveways and garages.

On Tues 2/17/26 9:58 am
a 2022 Honda Pilot driver (40/F)
going east on Yellow Leaf Way
hit & injured a [recycling collection worker] (50/M)
who was doing nothing improper, wearing reflectors.
Police (MCP2761007R) found the driver at fault: inattentive/careless/negligent/erratic driving.

We have a lot of these.
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Maggie is the #TransitCat of the day, she prefers train travel to car travel, just look at her!💜

This small black dog wearing a beige winter overcoat, who is a good boy, is the #TransitDog of the day!💜

a black and white photo of a boy with the words please sir may i have some more below him Alt: Scene from the Oliver Twist film where a boy asks, "Please, Sir, can I have some more?"

Do drivers in cars need to push a button? No. Do pedestrians? Yes.

Beg button.

beg button beg button beg button 🙃

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They do do something: in this location, unless you push the beg button, you will never ever ever get a walk signal.

Saying WAIT is doing too though, for people with visually impairments.
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Design roads that are safe enough for your favorite 70 year to cross any time of day or night.

Now wondering about usage of Britishisms vs USAmericanisms on Al Jazeera...

Have often heard that nobody benefits from denser land use except developers, warriors on cars, and communists who want to force us all to eat bugs.👀

Beg button: WAIT! WAIT! WAIT!
Everyone: *doesn't wait*

This is a facility designed to kill people. It kills people as an expected & accepted failure mode of its design, in very much the same way that things like manufacturing machinery might be designed to fail *without* killing people.

"Traffic engineering" is a corrupt profession.

We should not have to pay for safe streets with blood.

It's not a failure, it's a byproduct.

Vehicle delay, though, that's a failure.

Study: Autonomous cars will massively increase VMT & congestion:
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A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

"These are not accidents, they are results." Exactly this.

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Satellite image of an enormous complicated T intersection with two slip lanes on the north side, and traffic signals. On the south side, next to the sole marked crosswalk across the big road (Norbeck Road/28), there is a bus stop, consisting of a sign on a pole next to the side of the road. This is the same as the next bus stop to the east, at Avery Road, where a driver hit and killed a pedestrian on March 1, 2026.

These are not accidents, they are results.

MCP1227000R On Thurs 8/16/2018 4:01 pm
the driver (68/M) of a 2016 Jeep Cherokee
going east in the right lane of Norbeck Rd/28 at Gude Dr
hit & killed a pedestrian (34/M, Julio Danery Rodriguez-Gonzalez)
crossing in a marked crosswalk.

The 1967 Master Plan of Highways for Montgomery County, Maryland, envisioning a ludicrous number of ludicrously large roads, many going through stream valleys.

More stupid 1960s plans for Big Fast Roads Everywhere, completed in the early 1980s.

Google Streetview of a five-lane divided high-speed road with a wide median and a wide shoulder, approaching eastward to a T intersection with a traffic signal. The intersecting road is on the left. The bus stop is on the right, in the wide shoulder, next to a guard rail. The sole marked crosswalk is on the west side of the intersection and has school crossing signs.

This is the bus stop for the RideOn buses going east to Glenmont Metro or Wheaton Metro. The speed limit used to be 50 mph, but SHA recently reduced it to 40 mph.