I moved across DC this summer, and the amount of red lights I saw completely ignored was astounding. I would drive two or three carloads of things every day, and over the course of a week I said fuck it and found a route between my two homes that was less terrifying. Especially sickening was that the worst intersection where this was happening already had a ghost bike.

The off road part of the trail ends at the noma station, but it's a protected lane from there to union station (iirc)

One time, a man turned left at a red light while I was crossing the street. He followed me for a block to scream out his window. I just don't get it. You're in such a rush that you have to run a red light, but you have enough time to follow someone walking for a block? The worst part is that this isn't the first time a driver has followed me for one or more blocked because I existed in public on foot or on my bike. In fact, it's the third time.

I'm fresh out of fucks to give when it comes to coddling drivers and their fragile egos. If they fuck up they can (and regularly do) kill other people. Fuck em.

Yup. I'm hoping for some specific recs because I'm totally unfamiliar, but would like to give it a shot. I don't know which routes are going to be great or if I'm picking an area where some jerk in his emotional support truck is going to try to roll coal on me.

Oh? I'm listening.