#Portland 😞 #Vision60or70something "third [sic] consecutive year of failure for #VisionZero, an ambitious and expensive 2016 policy that included a goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2025... Officials had hoped that an increased police presence would be the missing ingredient to reduce fatal crashes." wtf who thought cops were going to help our #infrastructure design problems that we never adopted REAL policy requiring #trafficEngineers to fix?
@danlyke "a level playing field" is never fair when cars are allowed, unobstructed, in the same space as unarmored people.
"We need rules and designs that control the most powerful road users, and protects and empowers the most vulnerable." 👆 #bollards to constrain car speed and limit the unprotected space to one lane with a refuge between lanes, where you can look the other way and deal with one driver at a time.
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
@daihard yeah it needs to have a bypass so you can keep riding while oncoming drivers deal with each other only, instead of trying to beat you to it, or some other nonsense where they are in your way. It's not rocket science, but it does require a DOT to remember that bicycles exists, which is an advanced skill. #BikeTooter#TrafficCalming#Bollards#Bollards#Bollards
Smaller cars are easier to manoevre and park. Smaller cars are cheaper to maintain (unless, of course, you're talking about Porsches). Smaller cars are more fuel efficient. To top it off, smaller cars are safer for the non-car people around them.
It shouldn't even be possible to pull the bollards out like this. They're supposed to be chained & locked to the sheaths. But they're not because at heart UC Davis is a car-centric university.
I put this bollard back in just yesterday. It's already out again. The reasons the ones next to it are shorter is because UC Davis drivers ran into them and broke them. Lives put at risk, taxpayer money 💸 That's the real UC Davis.
Concrete bollards are currently being installed on #BurnfieldRoad near my house in Glasgow. At least this section of pavement will be #pavementparking free, but we have so many parking-occluded pavements to liberate. A welcome initiative though. #bollards#WorldBollardAssociation#bollard
"This is the standard method that the Netherlands uses to prevent people from driving through a neighborhood, and they make the streets safer and more enjoyable for everyone who lives there."
Someone at this meeting, who says he rides a bike, brought up how people on #bikes don't follow traffic laws 🙄 . At least the #transportation commissioner pushed back with the fact that drivers do it more so and more dangerously, sadly he did not comment that all people on bikes follow the laws of physics and too much of our "bike infrastructure" does not respect that. If you want people to follow rules, don't make the rules and environment work against them. 🤷