The city’s entire traffic signal network, which includes 1,650 signals, will be in sync by early next year.

Beginning tomorrow.

This is part of an “initiative to make the District’s traffic signals safer and friendlier for pedestrians, improve bus running times and overall traffic flow and reduce vehicular traffic emissions.”

Image from GGW 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….

Photo by angelakleis. The last 48 hours have been rather calamitous, even by D.C. standards. It started with the rain, torrential rain, many inches of it, which snarled traffic all over, and stranded three drivers in flooded roads in D.C. today and three in Beltsville last night. Flash flood warnings have been extended to tomorrow morning. This morning, a manhole fire on Harvard Street cut power for about 1,600 customers, disrupted traffic lights on…

Photo by erin*carly DDOT is reporting a power outage that is affecting traffic signal operations in Northeast D.C. The following traffic signals are not working as of 10:35 a.m.: 6th Street, C Street and Maryland Avenue NE 11th Street and Maryland Avenue NE 12th Street and Maryland Avenue NE East Capitol Street, 11th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE 8th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE There’s also a reported signal outage at 9th Street and…