#Portland's new Deputy City Administrator of Public Works will start July 1, in transition to the new form of government adopted by the charter reform measure. Public Works will include Water, Environmental Services, and #Transportation bureaus (which will be run by a City Administrator rather than elected commissioners of our current system.) #pdxBikes
Let’s hope that whatever administration we end up with can quickly catch on about how PBOT’s current project delivery process was designed to build and maintain streets for cars. They’re failing to deliver on #VisionZero because they insist on everything being cast in concrete after years of “outreach” that never reaches actual users on the street. Changes on the street need to happen now, match the timeline where we're suffering through #Vision60or70something becoming #Vision70or80something
“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.”
@bluGill how about a dedicated left turn lane to the bar that served the driver who killed the guy biking on SW Multnomah, and make it the controlling design element of this Major City Bikeway intersection leaving no room for protected bike lanes? #Vision60or70Something
Listen to Portland's failed mayor co-opt #VisionZero to justify criminalizing #homelessness while the rate of traffic deaths has continued increasing and been completely unaffected by that stupid policy.
Dan Ryan worries about "car shaming" and then Portland's most useless council in history votes yes on basically changing nothing and taking tomorrow off. 🙃 #Vision60or70something
#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??
This block of Taylors Ferry between Virginia and LaView was supposed to have a protected bike lane years ago. Why is this stuff so slow to get onto the ground? #SWTFpdx#pdxBikes#Vision60or70something
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
😞 in yet another edition of Cars Ruin Portland, the drunk mom who needed to take her kids somewhere last night and killed her 4yo while fleeing a hit-n-run fender bender with the driver following her #Vision60or70something#FailedMayor and wtf hit a Tesla? Bad choices by mom but where were her other transportation options? Ted will blame her drinking and dust his hands of it like "yeah streets are just deadly if you're not sober". Infrastructure. Dammit.
But at least some separation there... Why don't more people bike from #Portland to #Beaverton? Could it be the way ODOT sits on this segment like a selfish old dragon, the way it does all of the deadly urban #stroads in our metro area? #Vision60or70something#ODOTGTFOpdx
Pavement being destroyed by speeding drivers, crumbling the foundation to sand before ODOT'll hand it over to local jurisdictions. Right lane is effectively bus-and-turn only, just paint it red some and let's go. #VisionZero
@rjsheperd "the city responded with a pilot program for a safer street design" if that means they're putting actual stuff in the actual street instead of just talking about it and scheming to raise money "for safety", they're ahead of #Portland. When will our leaders actually take action on #VisionZero? #Vision60or70something
Does it make #BarburBlvd more inviting to bike on, knowing that a pedestrian was killed while walking in this missing bike lane, and they blamed the driver and nothing has changed? "Safety is job one", right after they get five car lanes in. #ODOTGTFOpdx#Vision60or70something#Portland#ORpol
I've long said that #Portland's #VisionZero problem is that we let the cars decide how we build & maintain our transportation network. If everything is decided by manual + procedures with no single person being held accountable for these choices, the bureau runs itself primarily by corruption / whatever forces are incentivized to maintain the #Vision60or70something status-quo. The smart move as commissioner is to pull the handbrake, but who can see that in the 1st year
Watch #Portland's mayor require someone to explain to him how crosswalk daylighting is #ClimateAction, then the #transportation commissioner Mapps says stuff and commits to nothing. I hope they at least send some cones to that corner where a kid was hit with a car yesterday. 😞 embrace yet another day of status quo #Vision60or70something. #VisionZero
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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
"Nearly $30 million in safety changes is good news, but we won’t see the results for at least 3-4 years. That means 10-15 more people are likely to be killed while we wait." #Portland#VisionZero#Vision60or70Something
#Portland 😞 #Vision60or70something "third [sic] consecutive year of failure for #VisionZero, an ambitious and expensive 2016 policy that included a goal of eliminating traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2025... Officials had hoped that an increased police presence would be the missing ingredient to reduce fatal crashes." wtf who thought cops were going to help our #infrastructure design problems that we never adopted REAL policy requiring #trafficEngineers to fix?
#VisionZero would be if they closed a lane to cars whenever someone got killed with a car. Cleaning up the blood and re-opening the street to traffic is #Vision60or70something
"122nd Avenue has been the focus of many speeches and plans over the past decade; but it remains a ticking time bomb of traffic tragedy and we’re years away from completion of infrastructure changes."
#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
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