Christy Kwan
@christykwan.bsky.social
Geriatric millennial exhausted by everything but still walking, taking transit, and riding bikes for joy // Ward 6 DC // 💛🚶🏻♀️🚲🦽🛴🚍🚇 // Volunteer Co-Chair of @safestreetsdc.bsky.social
Every time I read something like this I wonder if my son (killed by a careless driver in 2010) is one of the lives that could have been saved
David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 2d agoNew research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...
“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...
How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
ft.com
This week's...advice? is a recommended reading list of books about grief that I'm enjoying, or think should be in your library!
Help! I need something to read!
Nine books about death and grief—that aren't here to tell you how to get over it—to add to your bookshelf.
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Are you passionate about pedestrian safety and accessibility? Do you find value in working with students on local civic engagement? Join us for a special edition of Sidewalk Palooza as part of this year's GW Day of Service on August 22. Reach out if you want to be involved!
👋🏻 @nbcwashington.com some easy investigating would uncover that this vehicle has MANY unpaid violations, including obstructing a fire lane *in the location of this crash.* This is sloppy journalism and unacceptable victim blaming of another child in an unrelated tragedy. bsky.app/profile/brya...
Bryan Hart@bryanhart.bsky.social · last wk.Seems like it should be a minimum for any story about a driver hurting someone that the writer look up and share if there are unpaid tickets associated with the vehicle. A boy is seriously injured because this vehicle and its driver shouldn’t be on the road. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/5...
Seems like it should be a minimum for any story about a driver hurting someone that the writer look up and share if there are unpaid tickets associated with the vehicle. A boy is seriously injured because this vehicle and its driver shouldn’t be on the road. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/5...
5-year-old on scooter in critical condition after Southeast DC hit-and-run
A search is unfolding in D.C. after a 5-year-old on an electric scooter was hit by a driver and critically injured. The driver left the scene after the collision. This is the second case in the DMV re...
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Bad Drivers DC@dc.baddrivers.lol · last wk.Stats for VA plate TAK9548: $4652 in unpaid tickets.
What do you want for the future of H Street NE? The “H Street Landuse and Market Study” is seeking feedback by tomorrow, Sun 7/26. publicinput.com/hstreetstudy...
H Street Study Feedback Survey - PublicInput
English-US Please select from the language option above to complete this form in your preferred language. Spanish/Español Seleccione la opción del idioma arriba para completar esta forma en su idioma ...
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With OUC's sessions on 311 being in person, I'm doing a survey of challenges with the current app! If you have experience with the DC 311 mobile app, I'd appreciate if you'd fill out the below linked survey. I'll be sharing key takeaways with OUC!
I think it’s an underrated or at least under-discussed problem that, like, everything gets counterfeited now. The economics and logistics of counterfeiting have improved so much in the last two decades such that it is now trivially easy to accidentally get a fake version of almost anything
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4w agoCounterfeit air-bag parts are killing U.S. drivers, and regulators are struggling to track them down.
“If some of these plans had been implemented, we may not have lost a life or two,” said Amril Hamer of Baltimore Families for Safe Streets via @thebaltimorebanner.com on the city's efforts to address traffic violence 🗣️ www.thebanner.com/community/tr...
Why Baltimore wants to be more like Hoboken when it comes to road safety
A new draft Vision Zero plan outlines steps including targeted enforcement, more automated cameras and quicker street safety improvements to reduce traffic deaths in Baltimore.
thebanner.com
Walked to get groceries at 10am and it's already dangerously hot outside. No one asked for these flyovers. And not everyone has the luxury to get out of town.
Hockney's Snails Space with Vari-Lites, “Painting as Performance” was my favorite at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It sadly never returned after renovations. This piece was a balm to my soul in the most joyful and difficult times. americanart.si.edu/artwork/snai...
Proud of Allie’s grandpa (aka “GP”) for speaking out about the importance of this bill in saving lives so there aren’t more families like ours, forever missing someone. 🩷
Families for Safe Streets@familiesforsafestreets.org · 2mo agoUPDATE: A NC House committee advanced the SEATBELT Act to require proven speeders to use Intelligent Speed Assistance tech as a condition of regaining their license👏👏 Thank you to the FSS members for your advocacy - NC residents, we need you to call on your state lawmakers to pass HB 1199! ☎️
Our friends at Pedestrian Dignity are soliciting submissions for their civic action zine. Selected contributors get a stipend! Submit your ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Dumb thought as I'm sifting thru questionnaires: What's missing from this election season is a Hot Ones spinoff with DC candidates.
It's not often you get an hour (plus!) to talk about the thing that gets you out of bed every morning with someone who asks thoughtful questions about your research. I don't ever take for granted I get to do this work, and am grateful for those like @activetowns.bsky.social who support it.
Active Towns@activetowns.bsky.social · 2mo agoICYMI: Episode 340 of the Active Towns Podcast, featuring @ashtonindc.bsky.social about her research on the ideology of car supremacy and on reimagining streets as sites of care and community, is now available in both audio-only and video formats: www.activetowns.org/2026/05/24/p...
new in @ggwash.org: i FOIA'd the DMV and they sent me: * every residential DC address to which at least 1 vehicle is registered, as of January 2026 * the # of vehicles registered at each address the data has some limitations & issues, but looking at general trends, a few takeaways 🧵
Greater Greater Washington@ggwash.org · 3mo agoDC's Department of Motor Vehicles provided address-level car registration data. Here’s what it shows.
Great article by @usa.streetsblog.org on @ashtonindc.bsky.social's work on car supremacy usa.streetsblog.org/2026/05/06/m...
Meet the NIMBY's Toxic Cousin: the NOMS (Not On My Street) — Streetsblog USA
A new study argues that the has an equally toxic cousin in the transportation realm: the NOMS, or Not On My Street.
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For roadway safety fans, DMV has issued final regs on Intelligent Speed Assistance Program for drivers convicted of high-speed offenses. dcregs.dc.gov/Common/Notic...
Timeline cleanse with my cat being a little baby angel.
DC Budget update - I added in the BSA and various supporting legislation. I appreciate all of the feedback I've gotten so far. Are there other data sets or ways to sort the data that would make analyzing the budget easier? Drop a comment below! (1/2)
Alton Kelly was killed trying to cross the street in a crosswalk by a driver who was driving more than 20 mph over the speed limit. His surviving wife Deborah interviewed by The National News Desk about #StopSuperSpeeders bills advancing around the country thenationaldesk.com/news/spotlig...
So, Park Police did this. They were hi-speed chasing someone who was ON FOOT and they rammed into a civilian vehicle absolutely destroying it, crashing through a stop sign, another parked car, over the sidewalk, through a home's fence and retaining wall and into their front yard. At 13th & MD NE.
Being into cats feels so debasing. You give everything over to this animal — time, labor, money — but when you want them to sit next to you, they refuse and jump away. When they finally sit on your lap, you sit motionless to the point of physical pain, afraid to disturb them. Humiliating.
Took a walk this morning and encountered this kwanzan cherry tree with pink AND white blooms. 🌸 #bloomscrolling
I started working on this look at speed camera data months before the Post layoffs but holidays, snowstorms, etc. got in the way -- I'm glad we were able to finish it. I'll have one more soon w/John Harden, looking at crash data around schools. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
D.C.’s speed cameras are catching super violators. Most have Va. and Md. tags.
A lack of cross-border cooperation with Virginia and Maryland has allowed habitual speeders from those areas to get away with thousands of dollars in unpaid fines.
washingtonpost.com
Always a delight to find ofos still ofo-ing in the wild.
