“Scooters, sidewalk chalk and laughter have replaced idling cars outside a central Hamilton elementary school. It’s called a ‘school street,’ and it’s the city’s first.”
At least one blockface of every school should be car-free #SchoolStreets. It's so stupid that we leave our street grids wide open to this free-for-all arms race of SUVs, knowing that it leads to frustrated and harried drivers endangering families and kids on bikes as they lurch about trying to either: a) cut through at top speed or b) find somewhere to park their truckload of convenience.
"A huge thank you to @purpleclarence for this awesome @streetfilms video highlighting the work of so many folks who are leading #BikeBus routes and/or working to make their communities' streets safer AND to @transalt for making the "How to Start a Bike Bus" field tour a reality. #SchoolStreets
Paris now has 180 gorgeous ‘#schoolStreets.’ They are pedestrianized and landscaped streets around schools - to mitigate crashes, prioritize walking to school, reduce noise and air pollution. No brainer, really.
Person gets hit biking on left sidewalk / counterflow, because driver turning right out of parking lot onto busy street was only looking left. Do we think this is a driver error? (Driver was not cited. 🙃) Street has four lanes for trucks and none for bikes. 😞 infrastructure damnit #crashNotAccident
@bluGill yes but I bet if we had infrastructure which caused damage to the car when you make those mistakes, we would get the insurance companies to put that together for us. We could put buckets of sand in the street with a flag in them & be having some car-free #schoolStreets tomorrow #tacticalUrbanism, pilot projects, #StuffInTheStreet needs to be the way we do transportation project design + outreach, as operational problem-solving on a #SafeRoutesToSchool scale that gets kids out of cars.
Sign this letter to let #Portland leaders know you support the Safer #SchoolStreets Pilot to not only enhance the safety, physical health, and academic performance of our children, but also contribute to the overall sustainability and livability of our city by reducing traffic, carbon emissions, and promoting #community connections. #ClimateAction#pdxBikes#BikeBus#FreeRangeKids#SafeRoutesToSchool
Who TF are these people cutting-through the neighborhood past the schools at dropoff time? Passing me on a blind curve and then here we are 1min 48s later she's yet another road hazard and congestion at the school crosswalk. #trafficEngineers need to run the cost-benefit analysis on this BS behavior. We need #SchoolStreets to make these people go another way around, open up some car-free space so we don't have a mess of cars everywhere on the "#SafeRoutesToSchool"
"I don’t understand the #bancars hashtag [because his profession is not allowed to tell cars no]" #DefundDOTs#PBOT#pdxTraffic planner here
"Banning cars now would be like building cities in space and then banning spacesuits. We need to build places where people can actually live without cars." 🙄 uh, we already built those places and they have too many cars on them, then car apologists came & bulldozed more of it for free parking. Can we ban cars from #SchoolStreets?
@bluGill have you never seen the #SchoolStreets hashtag? This is not a hard problem, at all. Dropping your kids off a block from school is fine if there are no cars on that block. Most kids would rather bike or walk with their friends, so there won't be "all those cars", by about half, and the rest are dispersed over a wider area instead of jammed into that space.
@enobacon@bluGill we're still waiting on the final report, but the School Streets closure at our school this year was tremendously popular with kids and parents. There was definitely hesitation going in, but once everyone saw the benefits of closing a street down, the minor inconveniences were largely forgotten.
I'm pretty sure this has been the experience in London and Paris too, which has rolled out much more comprehensive #SchoolStreets than we've experimented with in Vancouver.