Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Hope You've Got Some Time On Your Hands

Okay, this is crazy! It's a blog post from Greater Greater Washington about an intersection in the Washington, D.C. area that takes 8 1/2 minutes to cross legally to the other side of the road. And in the course of that crossing, you traverse 28(!!) lanes! No wonder two pedestrians were severely injured crossing the street there last week. Here's the story.

2 comments:

Barb Chamberlain said...

On a related note, Streetsblog is looking for the worst intersections in the US: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/01/31/poll-the-hunt-for-the-worst-intersection-in-america-continues/

SRTC Staff said...

Wow, that will be interesting (and scary) to see what they come up with!


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