My city's looking to get rid of an ordinance that prevents sign content from changing faster than a minute (or thereabouts), to allow signs to flash & change at any speed.
This is the sort of thing I would've put out on twitter back in the day... Mastodon, watcha got for me?😃
‘Beyond parody’: Saanich raises road to slow ‘fast-moving’ cyclists – not drivers
One thing I want to add: it wouldn't even make it to the news if the cycle path crosswalk wasn't raised.
Unsignalized crossings are often terrifying because of wide roadways, absence of refuge islands or markings, obstructed views, big traffic volumes, large vehicles. At least some of the issues were fixed here.
the home addresses of the #drivers, who see you and your kid approaching the #crosswalk but "technically they don't have to stop if they get there first", and are speeding 😠
I’m always amazed at how the #renderings that transportation departments do look nothing like the real world when they’re built. I was searching for alternatives to #asphalt buffered #bikeLanes and found this project in #Portland, Oregon, where they decided to use #concrete instead... #BikeTooter
The NE leg of this intersection has a signalized #crosswalk w/ beg button. Town staff just converted it to rest-in-walk, which is lovely. But there's a permissive yellow that allows drivers from the arterial to turn left while the #walk sign is active.
We may have the option to* either*:
keep the rest-in-walk
or
eliminate the permissive yellow but lose the rest-in-walk
Dear Friends, #ClimateDiary 1/3
PM2.5 (particulate matter, 2.5 micrometers) was 151 at 06:00 when this photo was made. These particles are from #Quebec, #Canada#WildFires. In Quebec the rate of wildfires so far this year is 600x more than average. 160,000 hectares have burned. #Pennsylvania and #NewJersey are at very high fire risk. Risk is added by chances for #DryThunderstorms. They are a feature of #desert climate.
#ClimateDiary 4/3
Of course, the irony here is that the #jogger, the #pedestrian and #bicyclist all offer clues to a piece of the solution. Improved #infrastructure to support #GreenTransport. In the post 1 if you look down the sidewalk you can see a utility pole right in the middle of it. In post #2 in the #sidewalk foreground, you can see it simply ends in a dirt trail. In post #3, at least there is a #crosswalk, but there are no protected #bikelanes.
I created this #video a year ago to help address the ridiculous conditions US #roadways impose on #pedestrians. This is a 2-stage crossing on the way to my kid's elementary school. Complying with the #walk signal here means a 3-minute crossing, including a substantial wait in an unprotected refuge island.
Thanks to @tomflood for help on crafting the message.