Greater Greater Washington reports that DDOT has at last installed "quick curbs" at one corner of the intersection of 15th and W Streets NW, where a pedestrian was killed in May. The intersection is famously dangerous and confusing for pedestrians and drivers alike, as it also meets Florida Ave. in a jumble of diverging one-way traffic patterns. The "quick curbs" are plastic markers designed to steer traffic farther away from pedestrians. Other work that's been completed at the intersection includes a "Turn on Green Arrow Only" sign to prevent drivers from turning right on red onto W Street. GGW also says DDOT tells them that more quick curbs for the remainder of the intersection are scheduled to be installed, as are signal improvements for pedestrians. 
Image from GGW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSSSLEG_hRk&feature=player_embedded
[more]
The Weekly Feed: Experimentation Edition
Morning Roundup: Change Edition
Former Blade Staffers Launch 'DC Agenda'
D.C. Insurance Dept. Denies Birth Control Coverage Meddling
Controversy Over Rhee Now to Include Sex, Congress
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Those things have a way of getting run over by trucks. If all of them are still in place by Monday I would be surprised.
They've been there for weeks.
They were installed yesterday. The white lines have been there for weeks.
Yes/No- these particular ones were installed this week. The ones that form a narrow triangle as one veers from 15th to Florida (east) have been there for several weeks.
I think they're designed to bounce back up when hit.
Kinda like Marion Barry.
Well done!
I hereby propose that those things be renamed Barry Barriers!
Or would Marion Barriers be better?
They look like failed obstacle course markers for fools.
It only took them 4 months.
I forgot what I was going to say due to half naked American Apparel girls.
wow, this site is becoming NSFW...yee haw
WTF happened to the "quick express lanes" on top of pedestrians we were promised? Where the HELL am I sposta park my White Mercedes with the "GBUS4ME" bumperstickers on Sunday? Rest assured I will be registering my anger with Rev. Beecher Hicks and Lord Jeebus.
(drinks strichnyne, rolls on floor, speaks in tongues, soils self)
Why didn't Fenty insist that 14 new speed bumps be installed surrounding the intersection? I thought that speed bumps the solution to the all problem in the district, including primary education and jumbo-slice related crime.
Wow. I need to install a speed bump for grammar. How that should read is, "I thought that speed bumps were the solution to all problems in the district, including primary education and jumbo-slice related crime."