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MPD officers caught parking in DC bike lane, locals want it to stop
A DC resident took video of MPD officers walking into a Wawa after parking their cruisers in a bike lane. Last year, DC announced it would fine drivers who do so. Author: John Henry Updated: 11:34 PM EST March 3, 2021
WASHINGTON A Northwest D.C. resident wants police officers to stop blocking the District’s bike lanes when they are not responding to emergencies.
On Monday, Logan Circle resident Lukas Pietrzak took video and pictures of Metropolitan Police Department officers parking their cruisers in designated bike lanes on Thomas Circle NW.
Photograph by Adrian Vidal/iStock.
Attending, or, okay, crashing other publications’ holiday parties is a cherished tradition among Washington, DC, journalists. Among other benefits, they present an annual opportunity to, say, spend the next 12 months worrying about how you introduced yourself to Robert Allbritton after you downed several event-specific cocktails and not quite enough hors d’oeuvres. The lack of those big shindigs is admittedly among the less-catastrophic privations of this year but we decided to go ahead and ask dozens of DC-area newsrooms how they plan to ring in the festive season safely.
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