A modest proposal for keeping people outside of #cars alive by Dan Marshall @streetsmn
"I’d start with installing Great Big #Bollards at all bus shelters. The fact that we don’t protect #transit shelters tells us everything we need to know about modern American morality... Streetlights, signs and stoplights are all built w breakaway bolts to protect drivers and minimize vehicle damage when hit"
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.
Gonzales fishing for how can we get more money for police 🙄 when what we really need is enough fixed objects in the street for drunks to crash into before they get up to deadly speed. #Bollards
@PedestrianError@CathyTuttle it's some specific men in govt, but also women leaders, who may not realize how much infrastructure exposes women to abuse from #drivers, or how to fix it with #bollards. Roadway design which assumes drivers are all law-abiding rule-followers is too inviting for those who would take advantage of the difference of hundreds of horsepower and thousands of pounds of armor. Separated bikeways would also be more popular, so there's people near you, not cocooned in cars.
while taking this picture of a driver turning left from the right turn and bike lane, it occurred to me that we probably need more #bollards here. #pdxBikes#DriverAccountability
USDOT should just be like here you go cities (and states building highways in cities), all of your funding is in #bollards only now. How does the country that came up with food stamps not apply this nanny state personal responsibility mindset to car infrastructure?
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)
#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?