“It’s absurd for ODOT to claim that their proposed $1.9 billion 10-lane highway is in compliance with the city’s existing plans for #climateAction, sustainable #transportation investment or neighborhood development. We filed this lawsuit because state law requires ODOT to follow the city’s #cleanAir and climate goals. ODOT shouldn’t be allowed to advance a project that brazenly violates the city’s adopted plans.” -- #NoMoreFreeways#ODOTGTFOpdx#Portland
Grim news from the Burnside Bridge design team about the costs of any connection to the esplanade from 55+ft above. The nine (9) southbound freeway lanes right next to that seem to be a complication in getting structure onto anything seismically sound. #noMoreFreeways#MarquamBridgeIsFallingDown#Portland#transportation#ODOTGTFOpdx
I'm having a hard time believing, not that a #transportation agency would come up with a plan that was to sweep the broken glass and gravel off of the sidewalks and leave it in the bike lanes for a few days before sweeping it up, just that it wasn't done with intentional malice or disdain toward people on bikes. (months after it snowed and they graveled everything while plowing the snow onto the sidewalks) #BarburBlvd#pdxBikes#Portland#BikeTooter#ClimateDenial#CarSupremacy#ODOTGTFOpdx
@sam wonders how to respond after a bad driver interaction:
Q6. When you have a dangerous interaction with a driver that doesn't involve a crash (drivers throwing things, pulling in front of you and getting out of their car and attempting to stop your bike, etc.) do you call the police, file a report later, get away and then do nothing, or something else? What factors go into making your decision?
@rowdypixel@Brownian_motion@ascentale@sam@bikenite there's a stretch of Naito where it splits off of Barbur Blvd that's got no bike lane and the right car lane frequently backed-up at a standstill for the Ross Island bridge (#ODOTGTFOpdx), one day I'm riding down the left lane (posted speed 40mph or so) and there are two ladies with a guidebook at the unmarked crosswalk stairway peeking from between the cars, so I slow, like are you going to cross, hear screeching tires behind me (nobody...
hundreds of millions of dollars of federal "investment" going to freeway overpasses and seven-lane car-centric intersections with painted bike lanes are not "reconnecting communities". You're just putting a veneer of modernity on the wall of cars that separates kids and other non-drivers from independence, keeping the vast majority of people enslaved to #motoNormativity. #ClimateDenial#transportation#carSupremacy#ODOTGTFOpdx#legalizeBikes
ODOT seems to be spending a lot of money on concrete sidewalks out here in the SW #Portland metro area but everywhere is "bike on roadway" signs and 4-5 lanes of cars with 30-50mph posted speeds. I saw a woman walk out into the street to get around one of the work zones and the idea that anyone might travel through here without a car right now was generally neglected. 😒 #ODOTGTFOpdx
The idea that you can have transit extend the range of walking distance without embracing bikes as a transportation utility, in the sprawling american suburbs, is just delusional. But it's the delusion that most of our city budgets and plans are built on. Biking in Portland is faster than walking+transit for most values of A to B but I can nearly guarantee you need to elbow your way through car traffic somewhere on that trip. Land use and transit need bikes for glue.
We talk about bikes a lot, spend money on transit somewhat, but at the end of the day, we give most of the #transportation money to ODOT and #Portland looks like this to most people. #ODOTGTFOpdx
final day to provide feedback about the 82nd Ave Major Maintenance Project. #PBOT’s current plans do not include improvements to a majority of sidewalks or any accommodations for people riding #pdxBikes along #SE82nd at all, no #BusLanes for the bus line with the highest ridership in #Oregon??
"tolling as proposed just incentivized finding alternative routes using the region’s arterials and collectors" yes, so we should correctly manage our stroads and correctly price congestion, #ODOTGTFOpdx
But at least some separation there... Why don't more people bike from #Portland to #Beaverton? Could it be the way ODOT sits on this segment like a selfish old dragon, the way it does all of the deadly urban #stroads in our metro area? #Vision60or70something#ODOTGTFOpdx
Pavement being destroyed by speeding drivers, crumbling the foundation to sand before ODOT'll hand it over to local jurisdictions. Right lane is effectively bus-and-turn only, just paint it red some and let's go. #VisionZero
Does it make #BarburBlvd more inviting to bike on, knowing that a pedestrian was killed while walking in this missing bike lane, and they blamed the driver and nothing has changed? "Safety is job one", right after they get five car lanes in. #ODOTGTFOpdx#Vision60or70something#Portland#ORpol
neat, how the unemployment office is across seven lanes of #stroad (and down a block behind the gas station) from the bus stop. #ODOTGTFOpdx#BarburBlvd