Jonetta Rose Barras: Washington needs more cameras

So, there you were minding your own business, riding the S2 north on 16th Street toward home, looking out the window, checking out the azaleas in bloom, bicyclists whizzing by, mothers pushing prams. This time of year the city makes you swoon like a high school girl.

Your reverie was interrupted at 16th Street and Columbia Road when a van nearly collided with the bus. Within seconds, you and the Metro operator made the same discovery.