I put the camera down so I could get a photo of the sheath with its bollard missing, and the SUV that is now able to get beyond it because UC Davis driving employees take these bollards out and (in this case) make them go missing. #UCAccessNow#CarCentrism#Urbanism#Cycling@fedibikes@mastobikes
Yesterday I discovered the bollard from a major path entry to be missing again. I looked around to see if car-centrists had left it out for their convenience. Instead, I saw it tossed over a fence into a dry creek bed. I took a significant risk for myself to get it in the fading sunset light, hanging onto the fence for dear life. I managed to get it, toss it back over the fence, and reinstall it for safety.
@mastobikes@fedibikes Both UC Davis and City of Davis workers frequently leave the bollards out, not caring about the risk this increases for this high traffic mixed use path. This is the first time I've found the same kind of sabotage I see on campus where they toss the bollard somewhere people can't easily get it to put it back in. The 3 seconds it would take to take it out or put it back again is just too onerous, in their estimation. #DavisCA#CarCentrism
I'm sad to report that "Bike-Friendly" Davis has at least one Incel Camino. I'm so glad I wasn't on my quad at the time I spotted this. #CarCentrism#DavisCA
The slow, silent ride will start at the Davis Bike Collective (1221 1/2 4th St ) this Wednesday 5/15 and will visit 4 different locations in Davis where people have been killed while riding their bikes
The route will be 7.5 miles and is expected to take ~1.5 hrs. We will have some flowers to distribute but feel free to bring your own offerings as well.
@elliots Good sentence to quote when people are talking about how entitled and dangerous cyclists are:
"Many parking officers, though, believe that the intensive enforcement will lead to assaults and threats from drivers while they are on the job." #CarCentrism#VehicularViolence
Is there someone here who knows what part of CVC the Davis PD are referring to which apparently allows rich people/corporations to ignore the signs saying "No Parking At Any Time"?
"Platinum Bike-Friendly" #DavisCA still hasn't replied to the email I sent about the rampant scofflaw parking in the cycle lane. I just sent them more photos today of the same corporation's vehicle parked illegally, blocking visibility & endangering people at an intersection.
The new account timeline feels so empty, so pardon me while I furnish it with this @Vox infographic of how the US had somewhat decent passenger rail and got rid of most of it. #Trains#Transportation#CarCentrism
"That sign doesn't apply to me because I'm seeking profit" strikes again.
I've emailed in flagrante delicto photos of businesses flouting the law, but our business-owner city councilman (and now mayor) does not feel like holding business people to the same standards as poor people.
@glightly Same overall corporation to blame here. They were already there blocking the way for cyclists & pedestrians when I rode around them at 11:30am and they were still blocking visibility and egress when I finished my shopping at 11:54am.
100%. Even when they closed a couple blocks off to car traffic (which I'm in favor of), they not only didn't plan for accessibility, nor non-commercial uses of the space by the actual public, they didn't plan for cycle logistics for delivery.
These businesses predicate their business models on breaking the law and abusing public resources, expecting the public to pick up the tab.
This entrance at UC Davis' Equine Athletic Performance Laboratory shows how ableism & car-centrism often overlap, which creates conflict not just between abled & disabled, but car-centrists & everyone else.
(BTW - A dedicated building for racehorse health...there's still no Disability Cultural Center in UC Davis' Cross Cultural Center.)
The inaccessible "lightning bolt" rack was built especially for a narrow range of thin unladen upright bikes. It's not accessible to many of the frame designs disabled cyclists use.
(2) The length between the rack and the start of the pathway is not great enough to fit a standard upright bike, even.
(3) The rack placement seems to assume cyclists hover down from the skies over the rack. They usually ride to the rack before dismounting. This means riding over the pathway pedestrians & mobility aid users are using.
Because car-centric & ableist planners rarely consider disabled people (whether arriving by car, mobility aid, OR cycle) or cyclists, both overlapping groups get a minimal amount of consideration and space. In the case of wheelchair/mobility aid users, it's whatever the legal minimum that's actually enforced is.
These infrastructure decisions put these "second class" groups in conflict with one another.
Here, better would be:
Accessible rack designs (U-rack, Sheffield rack), sited accessibly (far from barriers, far enough from each other that two fat cyclists on two fat quadricycles could lock up at the same time without bumping into one another).
Separate approach to cycle racks from approach to bldg entrance so that even folks who ride fast up to the rack are not harrying or inadvertently blocking mobility aid users & pedestrians on their way to the entrance.
UC Davis employees keep taking out and leaving out the bollards meant to protect the cycle/pedestrian/wheelchair priority paths around campus.
Which leaves the way open for jackasses like this one to cruise through. Unfortunately, too fast for me to get a license plate. But he caught my eye and had no remorse. #CarCentrism#DavisCA#UCAccessNow#Cycling
Today I was in Woodland, CA, which is the county seat of Yolo County. Many UC Davis folks live there as the rents & home prices are cheaper. It has a teensy bit of influence from Davis regarding cycling, but outside of its pre-automobile downtown, it is a fairly typical rural industry sprawl town.
This was the lovely walk I got to take while waiting for a repair. Note the developer annexing the entire sidewalk on the left. Where do wheelchair users go? Note how WIDE that stroad is #CarCentrism
We as a society have allowed ourselves to become used to rich people and businesses annexing or abusing public property/services/goods.
WHY is this developer's construction crew allowed to annex most of the sidewalk here next to an incredibly dangerous stroad?
Everything about the infrastructure here says "Everything for cars. Nothing for people. Everything for the rich, nothing for the public." #CarCentrism#Ableism#Classism#Urbanism
So on with what the infrastructure revealed on my walk. Not just car-centrism but ableism. This one is a good example of why you shouldn't take base level compliance with ADA as being "accessibility".
Here's the same Suburban Propane lot with the giant hedge and missing sidewalk viewed looking the other way.
Do you think it's more likely that public authorities just neglected to get this particular property for sidewalk or more likely that Suburban Propane's owner annexed public property by pretending to "plant pretty plants" that just happen to be over public property where sidewalk should be?
This forces mobility aid users and pedestrians onto the lot,which means #Ableism#CarCentrism
...that Suburban Propane could technically call the cops on them for trespassing that SP forced on pedestrians by annexing the public sidewalk. But SP never gets nabbed for theft from the public. #Ableism#CarCentrism#CorporateCrimes
I didn't get all that far on my walk because there were honestly a lot of hazards. I don't yet need to use a wheelchair and I'm not blind. But I had to tread very carefully and while my photos often catch the road empty, there's actually lots of speeding drivers driving petromasculine behemoths.
Note the structure around the fire hydrant. There were several of these. My take is that trucks going into and out of this business sheared off the hydrants so often... #Ableism#CarCentrism