According to D.C. officials, about 700 pedestrians a year are hit by cars in the District, which factors out to about two a day. Wikipedia says there are currently about 580,000 of us living here, so that means the next time you step outside your door you have about a 1 in 83,000 chance of getting hit by that idiot who always runs the red light down the block.

Given those rather grim odds, we were excited to learn via WTOP that DDOT is moving forward with its pedestrian master plan.

This plan aims to coordinate a series of safety proposals including new signals, completed sidewalks and a focus on what the department calls “priority study areas” to protect us from being the next victims.

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