#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
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
#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
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
Volunteers from @bikeloudpdx shouldn't need to stand in front of #PBOT contractors' trucks to stop them from removing #pdxBikes infrastructure, but that's where we are with the current dysfunction at city hall. (Yes, even while they scramble to fill a budget hole that will cost union jobs.) Get involved and let #Portland's elected officials know that #ClimateAction, #SafeStreets & #VisionZero are popular + too important to trade for a few free on-street #parking spaces.
"Just today I biked on the new protected bike lanes on SW Broadway and one block was so full of leaves and water that I had to leave the lane and merge into a shared lane... Dirty bike lanes have been a perennial problem and the #Portland transportation bureau has yet to offer a strategy or plan to tackle it." #PBOT#pdxBikes 2021, and this year too.
What an absurd waste of city resources to grind off a #pdxBikes lane because some NIMBY with the commissioner's phone number didn't like it. #PBOT should be grinding off the yellow centerlines, which nobody was consulted on. #Vision60or70something#PredatoryDelay#DefundDOTs
We are ashamed our city is working to remove critical #pdxBikes infrastructure already built and spending their valuable resources on this removal over the much needed and overdue work to make our most dangerous streets safer. In the middle of a traffic violence epidemic, in the middle of #PBOT's own budget crisis.
When was the outreach process about the yellow centerline paint and speeding cars? #ClimateCrisis#VisionZero
#Portland let #PBOT know what you think about #SundayParkways car-free streets and be sure to ask why they don't just leave it up or do it every weekend at least.
holy crap, does anybody at the city of #Portland realize they're spending $2M/day to fill the streets with cars and thusly crush them into gravel? #PBOT needs to acknowledge that every mile driven costs us money.
#PBOT director said the #swBroadway#pdxBikes lane is "mired with controversy." 🙄 which is code for commissioner mapps is trying to woo the business association, or roughly 3-5 millionaires. Regular #Portland#transportation politics, for and by people with their brains stuck in traffic.
#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
#PBOT's Disaster Ride at 10am Saturday from Irving Park #Portland#DisasterPreparedness information, what if you have to ride #pdxBikes in the rain 😂, and learn about our Neighborhood Emergency Team network.
I didn't get much sleep so feeling pretty rough, but what really hurts me today is the bureau of cars #PBOT talking about safety and bike/walk connectivity while planning 💸 for the same old #cars1stAlwaysOnly designs that don't connect out the other end to somewhere people would be safe, and nothing will be on the ground until late 2025 except a few months of #WorkZoneWTF where they probably try really hard not to inconvenience cut-through drivers but just shrug at kids trying to walk to school.