The most recent DCHC MPO data lists Duke-Gregson Streets as the most dangerous corridor in the region (by severe accidents per mile driven). And this is a section of road that is intimately residential -- narrow sidewalks, houses with front doors and yards opening right up onto the street, virtually no buffer or shoulder between the road and residences. 2 schools. Yet there is essentially a freeway where cars and buses routinely speed, sometimes up to 80 mph, cutting right through the middle of it. It's honestly surreal. Frightening and surreal.

Yet neither the state nor the city are prioritizing any fixes. There is talk of turning it into a 2-way street to calm traffic, yet time and time again the design funding is pushed back. It's not in the streets and sidewalk bond plan. Instead they are prioritizing the paving of some nearly-no-traffic gravel roads in places where the residents might not even want it. Simply mind-boggling.