Traffic Safety

Officials unveil a slew of plans and proposals as critics press for results

An increase in traffic fatalities in the District is prompting Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and police to consider several new enforcement strategies, including restricting right turns on red and limiting left turns at some intersections to make…

D.C. is looking at both fast fixes and longer-term policy changes to combat the recent uptick in traffic, bike and pedestrian fatalities in the District. Representatives from more than a dozen city agencies met for two hours Monday to talk…

D.C. officials are considering banning right turns on red in some parts of the city as a way to increase street safety, News4 has learned. "No Right Turn on Red" could be the law of the land in the downtown Central Business District and be…

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) voted 29-2 Wednesday to approve Visualize 2045 — a regional plan for $291 billion worth of projects to optimize transportation for the additional 1.2 million people projected to live…

Opaline Bar and Brasserie at Washington D.C.’s Sofitel Hotel was too crowded, so I’d gone out to find another breakfast spot. I wasn’t dressed for the autumn morning chill—the temperature must have dropped 30 degrees from the day before,…

Thomas Hollowell was a grandfather, a husband and a Smithsonian museum employee. And during the Thursday evening rush hour, his grandchildren, wife, co-workers, friends and strangers — more than 250 in all — rode their bikes from Farragut…

After Areeg Abu El Hawa and a friend were hit by a car while in a Tenleytown crosswalk, all she could think about was her suddenly numb arm. She is studying medicine with dreams of being a surgeon. After being sent airborne by a car as she…

WASHINGTON — D.C. police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the car responsible for a Sept. 5 hit-and-run in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest. The video shows a car turning left from Albemarle Street onto Wisconsin…

WASHINGTON — D.C. residents and officials envision a time when the number of pedestrian deaths falls to zero, but with several recent fatal collisions, many are beginning to question why progress has been so slow. At a joint public…

Four people have been killed on bicycles and scooters over the past few months, and 27 total people killed on DC roadways this year. In the shadow of those tragedies, advocates and councilmembers packed a hearing to express frustration at…

Two traffic-related deaths in the past week have kindled anger and doubt over D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s “Vision Zero” plan to reduce traffic deaths. Meanwhile, the mayor has asked the D.C. Council to consider increasing fines for…

On Friday, September 24, an SUV in Dupont Circle hit 20-year-old Carlos Sanchez-Martin as he rode a rented electric scooter from Lime, a San Francisco-based startup whose vehicles have popped up in cities across the nation in recent months.

If you exceed a D.C. speed limit by more than 25 mph, it could cost you $500; roll through a right-turn-on-red and it will cost you $100; and if you fail to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk, you could get a whopping $500 ticket under…

Council Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) says city needs more bike lanes, especially the kind that separate bicycles -- and maybe scooters -- from vehicles

The District issued more than 1 million speed-camera tickets last year, according to data released Wednesday, a record high for a city that has built a reputation as a “speed trap” for motorists in the nearly two decades since the automated…

Many of my neighbors and I were alarmed to see a message on our neighborhood email list near the start of September. Doug Hollis, Deputy Chief of Operations and Programs for DC Public Schools, wrote: "In the first 7 days of the traditional…

I drive from Capitol Hill to Dupont Circle and back again every day. The traffic is grueling, made worse by all the people trying to stop to let someone out, to pick someone up or to deliver something right in the middle of the street. The…