They just need to put in dozens of these #modalFilter things until the people who want to turn left across a busy intersection and drive two blocks to park for free just give up and walk or ride a bike, golf cart maybe... #PBOT#bollards#pdxBikes
"This is the standard method that the Netherlands uses to prevent people from driving through a neighborhood, and they make the streets safer and more enjoyable for everyone who lives there."
A future climate of endless fire tornado plague hurricane earthquakes seems scary but riding your bike a couple miles to the store, I mean what if somebody saw you.
Portland in the news for a crappy design of what was supposed to be a #CompleteStreets project but shoulda been a popup road diet to one-way for cars or advisory bike lanes, like it was on the first day of construction, $26M ago. (ht
urbanists.social/@benfulton/110956047664977933) https://www.autoblog.com/2023/08/23/speed-limits-dont-matter/
Rugged individualism and manliness but you can't even lift your own vehicle bro, and it won't move at all without being attached to mommy big oil's teat.
Here he is, three minutes later, it turns out cars aren't very fast even if you think you're important enough that everyone around you should wait for you while you operate your big stupid vehicle. #SeeYouAtTheNextLight
Serious question: Why is it that bicycle commuters in Paris are in super stylish street clothes, whereas the ones in London dress like they're in the Tour de France?
@peter@brett@davidho yes, and notably Paris has carved the space for low-stress connected network of bikeways out of what was extra lanes of cars and parking, so normies who would previously sit in traffic for lack of better options have left the car for bikes, for trips of 1-3 miles to work, school, shopping, or errands. If everyone on a bike looks like they're dressed for sport, you're seeing only those people who do it in spite of the lack of comfortable and dignified bike infrastructure.
USPS from the other side of Portland to SW, package was sent on Wednesday... the status, last updated Thursday, is "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late". 😒 wtf #FireDeJoy
What is it going to take to get through to elected officials and progressive transportation planners, that they're working with a machine that's been designed to build freeways through poor neighborhoods and coerce anyone who could afford it into cars? A machine made of #trafficEngineers and #police which then accreted a century of CYA, cultural, legal, and bureaucratic armor against change? Giving the DOT more money for safety won't ever get us out of #carSupremacy. It's designed to not.
#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."
Like imagine if someone at your work got sucked into the shreddy machine at least once a week and management's main concern was how to more efficiently clear out the jammed bones rather than putting some kind of guards on the thing.
