Of course PBOT is going to immediately launch operation "think about it for a while" after driverists cut down their signs they stuck in the street for telling cars what to do, not like they always send crews out ASAP removing any guerrilla devices that potentially obstruct cars (oh wait...) Department of Letting Cars Boss Us Around here needs a better acronym. #Vision60or70something#PBOT#Portland#transportation#LowTrafficNeighborhoods#CarSupremacy#pdxBikes
What is it going to take to get through to elected officials and progressive transportation planners, that they're working with a machine that's been designed to build freeways through poor neighborhoods and coerce anyone who could afford it into cars? A machine made of #trafficEngineers and #police which then accreted a century of CYA, cultural, legal, and bureaucratic armor against change? Giving the DOT more money for safety won't ever get us out of #carSupremacy. It's designed to not.
I haven't looked at this yet but I'll bet "stop spending all of the money on making cars kill people" is not an option offered #DefundDOTs#PBOT#CarSupremacy
I am so tired of hearing about the "privilege & #ableism of the bike community" as an excuse for not investing in protected low-stress bike infrastructure. Those assholes buzzing you on a path (or when you're in the bike lane on streets with no sidewalks) are #drivers on bikes, not members of my bike community. I'm taking my kid to a doctor appt and #CarSupremacy is squatting on 130ft and 65ft swaths of asphalt while we share scraps of space with people walking their dogs. #BikeTooter
> Why are we ok with using public funds
> to build infrastructure that requires an entry ticket
> that costs tens of thousands of dollars and
> comes with the very real risk of accidentally killing people?
Here comes Byron's DGAF, stinking his way past two schools and over a hill to avoid some traffic signals on the way to make a U-turn and then fill a yard with fumes on the other side of the neighborhood. Shovels sticking out behind the foldaway mirror probably won't fold the same. Might need a #trafficEngineer to look at what traffic this Local Service Traffic Street is carrying. #BanCars#SafeRoutesToSchool
“For years, advocates have been sounding the alarm on the worsening epidemic of traffic violence in our community and proposing solutions which have been ignored by the City Council,” Sarah Iannarone, executive director of nonprofit The Street Trust, said in a press release. “Of course the problem continues to worsen.”
"...I want to note we’ve been here before,” Lauritzen continued. “We’ve been at somber events, we’ve been at memorials where we say the work is important…that loss of life is terrible. And yet, here we are again.” #CarSupremacy#CarsRuinCities
This decade of status quo prolongment brought to you by failed mayor ted wheeler, sitting on his hands exactly like his owners elected him to do.
"a 10-year, citywide push to reduce traffic deaths" #VisionZero is not something that takes ten years. Either you adopted a policy to immediately prioritize people and tell cars to get bent, or you're just stalling and propping up #CarSupremacy while talking about "safety" or wishing for "safety funding" that won't reduce the number or speed of cars. The real solutions are cheap, concrete-filled steel bollards, planters, and similarly stern stuff for modal filters. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/most-dangerous-intersections-data-18665443.php
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
@activetowns we need to rethink the notion that "better road designs and public transit will require significant up-front investment" and learn to see the 3-5 redundant overbuilt car streets that are available to serve any given trip vs the unbuilt bike/walk networks that are largely disconnected by the #carSupremacy of these 4-lane stroads. Network-wide quick-build bike connections and bus/turn-only the outside lanes of stroads by shifting operational funds to prioritize people, then iterate.
There is not a path to reduced #ClimateChange emissions and a sustainable #transportation system that allows our species to survive #GlobalWarming while maintaining #CarSupremacy with its glut of empty passing lanes and free #parking where all options to choose #eBikes or #transit have been cut off by walls of traffic (cars always either at a standstill or moving at deadly speeds, averaging 20mph.) Many people need to change their plans and stop driving, many car lanes need to be repurposed.
PBOT working overtime to clear five car lanes by piling the snow and cut wood in the bike lanes is peak #climateDenial#CarSupremacy just keep serving up half of GHG emissions #GlobalWarming and wonder why people won't get out of their cars. #pdxBikes#Portland#pdxtst
#independenceDay thought about #FreeRangeKids: Can we just put one of those chalk markers on every kid's #bike and give them an unlimited supply of chalk? Then your #transportation dept can follow them around with cones, and viola you have a complete and connected #bikewayNetwork. To get out of the #carSupremacy rut, start with at least one car-free day per month and give the kids bikes + lessons if they need them.
Analyzing these car-on-bike #crashReports with @bikeloudpdx is wild. Bike rider is sitting at a stop sign waiting to cross SE Stark on 2nd and "car [driver] turned into him" (I guess turning left from eastbound Stark, illegally wide). <- Officer did not record or clarify the geometry in any way. "It was indeed raining very hard and visibility was poor." FFS man we need to fix the infra not just expect people on bikes to get hit with cars in the rain. #VisionZero#ACAB#CarSupremacy#pdxBikes
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