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.
@garyshaff How does it make sense, under a #climateEmergency declaration, to prioritize the pavement maintenance of multiple redundant car lanes over the usability of bikes and transit? The existing funding is creating the problem, so it's simply absurd to try to fix it with more funding without changing the carway layout. Our miles-traveled is flat because we haven't added or removed car lanes, to get #VMTreduction we have to cut back on car subsidies. I'm already at #DefundDOTs and #BanCars.
kinda grossed out by the regional #transportation plan #RTP Hunger Games thing but maybe if enough people tell them to #BanCars we could be getting somewhere? None of the projects on this list will move #Portland into the future, & the game behind this public comment theatre is that they can't afford every oversized car project that they might like to build in the name of safety, so some people are just going to have to keep getting killed while trying to get somewhere.
#Portland#congestionPricing policy being updated in the metro Regional Transportation Plan, needs public comment supporting this #SafeStreets policy and a switch from car-centric measures to "new mobility policies based on system completeness, #VMTreduction, and reliability"
Some fellow anti-car folks are upset about Jalopnik Editor-in-Chief Rory Carroll's piece doubting whether the US will go much beyond 6% adoption of electric cars/SUVs. But they seem to be missing this quote:
"I personally think we need to be thinking in terms of radically reimagining and drastically shrinking the global vehicle fleet as opposed to just replacing todays fleet with an electric one. I don’t see a way for us to consume our way out of climate catastrophe."
@capntransit With the #ClimateAction / emergency directives and adopted #VisionZero plans, I would expect to hear more about #VMTreduction from cities, and see DOTs optimizing for person-trips. Without some mandate to manage those two variables, all of the declarations and plans are hollow.