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??
"In 2022, cars killed 7,508 pedestrians, the equivalent of 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashing with zero survivors. That means a pedestrian died roughly every 70 minutes, with no breaks in the tide of fatalities for weekends or holidays."
@haraldkliems@TheWarOnCars Oregon leg. voted but it's currently just a planning activity & we're maintaining the deadly status quo throughout the process. Reluctance to make #busLanes/turn-only the existing curb lanes of all four-lane #stroads (including ones #PBOT fully controls) is the actual hold-up. Cowardly leaders + traffic Engineers afraid to actually change, even though adopted #VisionZero and #ClimateAction plans purport to value safety and mobility over car speed and volume counts.
#PBOT, the bureau of transportation, could not figure out how to make this part a bus lane, and the bike lane is the rightmost 3 inches on the white stripe unless you want to chip your teeth riding over that culvert. #pdxBikes#PDX#BusLanes
Here is the type of "hustle" that can be achieved in Eric Adams' dysfunctional #NYC.
A tour bus operator introduces a cute "tea around town service." But the bus needs to be replenished after each run. So the company sets up a food truck in the 42nd Street #buslane , all day every day. The bus then parks behind the truck to take on provisions. The food truck has blocked every a.m. and p.m. bus commuter for over 2 weeks.
An environmental group in the Portland suburbs is having an electric car parade. Yay now everybody get your cars out of the #BusLanes (if the paint is worn off, go ahead and write "bus and turn only" on the curb lane anytime you see extra lanes on a street.)