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The_Sauce_DC t1_iuhm9yl wrote

“Visible involvement from the Metropolitan Police Department, he added, could be a game-changer.”

You’re going to need to let MPD impound for owed tickets, fake tags, etc and make room at Blue Plains or open another lot so they can hold these cars until tags obtained, insurance obtained, tickets partially paid,etc.

Theres going to be a lot of screaming and complaining from the progressive non-Urbanist set because the demographic numbers that this will effect will probably be lopsided and skewed towards the poor. Ultimately both wings of the progressive political spectrum and DC are going to have to find a middle ground to make Vision Zero work because half of the traffic deaths are in poor black areas despite a smaller population share:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/10/27/dc-vision-zero-traffic-deaths/#:~:text=The%20city%20recorded%2040%20traffic,year%2C%20D.C.%20police%20records%20show.

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Evening_Chemist_2367 t1_iuhtel1 wrote

They also need to get enforcement deals in place with Maryland and Virginia. I don't even buy that it's about poverty. If someone's resourceful enough to be able to recurrently get an authentic looking, weather-proof temp tag then they should also be resourceful enough to get a real one. I think it's more about knowing it's easy to skirt the laws in DC and knowing you can get away with all kinds of shit in DC and not face any consequences. Just look at all of the carjackings as yet another example. That idea of zero meaningful consequences needs to end.

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celj1234 t1_iuivg6i wrote

Political suicide for any VA or MD politician to make that deal.

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mr-sandman-bringsand t1_iui9zx6 wrote

I am confounded by people explaining why we shouldn’t enforce safety rules - people of all colors/varieties are run over by cars at the end of the day - in fact it probably hurts poorer communities worse

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Potential-Calendar t1_iuikjai wrote

Yep, wards 7 and 8 have by far the highest fatality rates, but disingenuous people who just want to be able to endanger everyone with no consequences will hide between words like equity. Beyond ironic and into disgusting when you look at the actual inequitable rates of pedestrian fatalities.

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pengo242 t1_iuht0vg wrote

Ugh, yes they will whine, but too bad, being poor or black isn't an excuse for not following laws

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