“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.”
"...I want to note we’ve been here before,” Lauritzen continued. “We’ve been at somber events, we’ve been at memorials where we say the work is important…that loss of life is terrible. And yet, here we are again.” #CarSupremacy#CarsRuinCities
This decade of status quo prolongment brought to you by failed mayor ted wheeler, sitting on his hands exactly like his owners elected him to do.
#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
@tk what says they can't drop some asphalt on the street and make a raised crosswalk across every offramp? This thing where we accommodate as much car traffic as we see and leave room for a little extra 🙃 is not working.
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??
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
I'm not sure if they had technically stepped past the curb, standing on the yellow ramp deferring to cars as so many people do, but it drives me nuts when people do this and I'm on a bike, like why are you standing there quit being weird, just walk. Our infrastructure is so stupid, and that you have to dare to stand halfway out in a 60ft street to activate the crosswalk law.
😞 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.
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
ICYMI, the commission seats are appointed by the mayor, with #transportation always being assigned either to his political rival, or someone planning to retire anyway. We voted to change this but a city manager and new bureau director are basically going to continue the status-quo unless the vast majority of council keep them under a lens 🧐 and demand specific changes (#bollards)
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
Does nobody in PBOT leadership see the money we're dumping into maintaining asphalt? The transportation leaders in a city surrounded by suburbs need to default to an anti-car attitude in the same way that you would expect retail employees to not sell merchandise below cost. This is probably true for suburbs and small towns too, but Portland invites the burden of car traffic into itself from all sides.
"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?
@urbangr well there's definitely not anyone tied to the other track and the actual trolleys we do have aren't killing 60-some people yearly in Portland.