I think I've written before, as a motorist, that if the design speed for a road is X, then the speed limit ought to be X, or at worst, X minus 5 mph. You can't stop drivers from going 60 on a street designed for 70, nor should you. The better approach is to design the road for the speed you want the motorists to use, and there are a lot of techniques to do that, as you well know. It's a design problem.
The wayfinding in DC is really not very good. Maybe Gabe Klein will take a hard look at the signs, and the capabilities of the DDOT sign shop, and deliver a better result. I don't have high hopes because signs are way more expensive than they ought to be--they ought to put that 3M material in the public domain--and the "professionals" who do wayfinding projects are way overpaid. Wayfinding is the kind of problem that a crowd-sourced application is meant to solve.
I know the hospital complex gets a huge amount of traffic from regular patients, and that implies that a good public transportation route to that area is needed.
If my kid gets hit by a bus, however, I'm going 90 mph up North Capital, and speed cameras be damned.
Keep up the good work Richard.
W. hospital center should have a light rail that connects up to Brookland Metro station. At present they have free shuttle buses that pick you up at Metro to go to the Hospital center. I bet it costs them quite a bit for this service.
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