#PBOT has a problem where they all spend effort shuffling around projects trying to catch potential funding sources falling from the sky and then don't really do basic things on the ground about what it's like to ride a bike in this city. #Portland#pdxBikes#Vision60or70something#ClimateDenial
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.
Just had to ride an orange bike across the street to get a speeding #pbot employee to yield to a couple people in a marked crosswalk #portland#Vision60or70something
Yet another "safety" project where the deadly status quo has been maintained for years while #PBOT wrings their collective hands about how to do it without impeding cars.
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
Watch for the BikeLoud sweeper in your neighborhood! Volunteers are cleaning up the bike lanes before you get any more flat tires. PBOT needs 2-3 weeks to get a sweeper to every bike lane and many protected bike lanes are difficult for most of their equipment.
#PBOT can't clean many of these lanes during the day with big sweepers that would get stuck in #pdxTraffic! Sweepers on #pdxBikes can be out here taking the edge off of it every day and make a safer ride for everyone in #Portland.
#drivers always have trouble getting traction here. I think #PBOT should close the left turn from Terwilliger that brings them to this spot, but what do I know about #SafeRoutesToSchool etc
Steel Bridge lower deck closure 7am-6pm starting Monday #pdxBikes, thru Friday the 22nd - You can take the upper deck "Bikes May Use Full Lane" or narrow sidewalk, or your next two closest bridges are Broadway and Burnside (via stairs only, if you're on the eastbank esplanade) #PBOT's 3:45pm Friday newsletter 😒
#pdxtraffic backed up on Terwilliger because some drivers broke a traffic signal and #pbot doesn't know how to detour traffic at an earlier point that would handle the volume 🙄
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
"Why we don’t take a cue from NYC and use jersey barriers, is beyond me. This constant cycle of the city installing flimsy bollards and drivers plowing through them is madness." #pdxBikes#NaitoParkway
#PBOT once again learning that their kid-glove treatment of drivers isn't working.
8% of streets cause the majority of fatal crashes but does anyone understand that making those streets safe requires getting people out of cars? #VisionZero needs #VMTreduction, not flashing lights.
#transportation utility fee as a replacement for the #gasTax is a terribly unpopular idea because we're tired of subsidizing #carSupremacy. Crank up the fucking gas tax until drivers are breaking even, and then ask me about creating a source of funding that will still work when you make people quit driving. 🙄 "Portland Bureau of cart befOre The horse", here. #PBOT#FuckCars
#PBOT: "free #parking so please bring your cars and make downtown less pleasant to be in, so people will come to our downtown" 🤦 Mapps has no clue about how cities work, so of course he thinks he can be the mayor of #Portland.
News from @ShawneMartinez that #SWTFpdx speed limit has been lowered to 30mph... What year is it? #pdxBikes, #VisionZero, and #ClimateAction plans should have Taylors Ferry Rd's yellow centerlines removed and made a 20mph #AdvisoryBikeLanes years ago. Why are Engineers so confident in the abilities of drivers to go fast safely and yet #PBOT is afraid to move their safety plans forward any faster than a streetcar stuck in traffic?