Aggressive Driving?

I report it every time I have something substantive to provide (license plate number).
Arlington tries to pretend that they care.
Falls Church doesn’t do as good a job of pretending to care, but seem to feel bad about not doing a good job of pretending.
DC asks what I want them to do about it.
Fairfax County is interested, listens and often does something about it. On more than one occasion they have sent out squad cars at dinner time to talk to people about their driving habits.

I Fairfax County.

Dirt

You could always post the video on line with some editorial content. Cathartic for you and bit of salacious voyeurism for us. :rolleyes:

The right on red is also a problem at Slaters and GWP that I run into almost nightly. I probably should report it, I just feel like the frequency of the violation is so high that they would have to run ticketing on it for a month straight to even begin to have any effect. It’s also even a problem on green lights when folks don’t yield to pedestrians in the crosswalks, which is also something I see in the mornings riding by. Not sure whose jurisdiction it is either. NPS or Alexandria City.

In general though if someone does something particularly egregious I think it’s worth reporting, especially if they’re aggressively driving because at least the phone call is recorded and if something tragic does happen then there is a small iota of a paper trail.

@rcannon100 37338 wrote:

Unfortunately there is a lot of pedestrian traffic here. This is a common route from these parts east to the Custis Trail. But more importantly this is also a way that students get to HBW School.

In my optimistic view, I am hopeful that getting APS to pay attention to such intersections would be helpful for “our cause”. Because of the enrollment expansion and the bus kerfuffle* that started this fall, there’s a lot of public attention right now given to transportation to/from Arlington Schools. APS is starting a Super Committee to look at the issue. I’m hopeful that the school system can work better with the police and the rest of Arlington County to make transportation to/from schools work better. E.g. APS could point on intersections that are particularly problematic for getting students to school (because, face it, you get more sympathy talking about kids’ safety) and ACPD could prioritize enforcement and ArlCo could prioritize efforts to improve facilities at those places.

Oh, yeah, I am applying for one of the “non-parent” slots on the Super Committee (’cause you only count as a parent if you have a kid in school now, regardless of whether you carried a kid around ALL YEAR and pushed him out LAST MONTH). So if you want to nudge some School Board members to support me, that would awesome. My real name is Gillian Burgess.