They just need to put in dozens of these #modalFilter things until the people who want to turn left across a busy intersection and drive two blocks to park for free just give up and walk or ride a bike, golf cart maybe... #PBOT#bollards#pdxBikes
#PBOT's "traffic calming" projects are such kid-gloves weaksauce that doesn't pretend to control the kinds of drivers who are actually making our streets feel unsafe. Their machines are 5-7000lb lumps of steel being flung around at 30mph with 400hp and Portland has, after a decade of organizing by neighbors and careful work by professional #trafficEngineers, delivered like a dozen rubber bumps and some paint. #tacticalUrbanism is this stuff but overnight, & then iterate
Also, the solution to traffic speeds and volumes is diversion / a #modalFilter that forces people in cars to drive around an extra block or back to the main streets instead of letting everybody and their uncle cut through every neighborhood and then try to slow them down. Absolute amateur hour here at US urban DOTs, we've never heard of anywhere in the world that dealt sternly with cars.