Transportation gets a lot of attention in conversations about decarbonization, and it should. But building materials like cement also need it. The production of cement is responsible for about 8% of global CO2 emissions.
Thanks to President Biden, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for this progress.
Why is it so hard to cross the street at the location/design where multiple people have been killed and the city has done nothing? (because there are too many car lanes)
Great example of urgent action: "when a water line breaks, regardless of what roadway ownership it is, we know how to close off lanes and still the system operates. We have to take those lessons and apply them to daily conditions"
Is there a tool for mapping the range of trips-by-bike where you can compare the range limits imposed by avoiding high-stress intersections like #stroads? e.g. where can I get to in 15min at level-of-traffic-stress threshold of 5 vs 2? Like if you're planning a bike trip with your kids vs on your e-bike alone, but for whacking elected officials over the head with during public meetings #BikeTooter?
Join @bikeloudpdx Hack Night online at 7pm Thursday April 11 and learn how to make fun maps, like everywhere the city of Portland has posted "crosswalk closed" and similar anti-pedestrian signage. 🚷 🚘 #pdxBikes#VisionZero#Portland#OpenData#pdxTech
So the kids who hold the crosswalk flags at the school get a field trip to bribe them into serving car supremacy. What would cars do without this subsidy?
IDK how companies are supposed to pay who money for open source code to get fixed, we should tax them and have basic income and universal health care while we figure it out. Software capitalism is basically a system of those with wealth extracting wealth from those without. With the process of stealing ideas (work) becoming automated for the wealthy, where do we expect this to go? Profits soar for a few as the rest of us get poorer.
Testing this flexible solar panel for the electric bakfiets roof, looking at 20-50W realistic rate with sub-optimal exposure and a lot of clouds, it's a 100W panel. With the 1.6lb box it's 5.2lb, probably 10-12lb by the time I have a stiff enough roof mounted, (articulated?) and charging the bike battery. What should I make the roof out of?
@kim_harding#eBikes will replace cars if we let them: "#infrastructure must make e-cycling as well as cycling safe, efficient, and attractive at the scale of the urban region. Electric assistance cannot compensate for the lack of cycle ways. ... must be thought in combination with other modes (walking, public transport, carsharing, #cargoBikes) to make it possible to live car-free… planning should aim to regulate urban sprawl and promote more compact development to avoid automobile dependence"
The idea that you can have transit extend the range of walking distance without embracing bikes as a transportation utility, in the sprawling american suburbs, is just delusional. But it's the delusion that most of our city budgets and plans are built on. Biking in Portland is faster than walking+transit for most values of A to B but I can nearly guarantee you need to elbow your way through car traffic somewhere on that trip. Land use and transit need bikes for glue.
We talk about bikes a lot, spend money on transit somewhat, but at the end of the day, we give most of the #transportation money to ODOT and #Portland looks like this to most people. #ODOTGTFOpdx
"Notice also how there are dedicated transit lanes in the middle but despite all of the space, there's only one lane for cars in each direction. And the only time it gets wider is when turning lanes are necessary. That's how you do it, people." @notjustbikes
Here comes Byron's DGAF, stinking his way past two schools and over a hill to avoid some traffic signals on the way to make a U-turn and then fill a yard with fumes on the other side of the neighborhood. Shovels sticking out behind the foldaway mirror probably won't fold the same. Might need a #trafficEngineer to look at what traffic this Local Service Traffic Street is carrying. #BanCars#SafeRoutesToSchool
If you are the sort who needs #30daysOfBiking trips to have a reason, try a quick ride around to take pictures of the city's mud collections and report them as storm drains in need of cleaning (if it's not a storm drain it's a drainage problem that needs a storm drain, but you can look back years in google streetview.) Turn on your camera's GPS or get good reference points in the pic. Some cities have an app or 311, Public Works, just email it to the mayor if it's not obvious how to notify who
A9 #BikeNite@ascentale@InkySchwartz
I refer to bikes as "acoustic" if I need to distinguish them from electric-assisted bikes, since the "ordinary" bike was the one with a big front wheel which predated the safety bicycle, and a "normal" bike would obviously dump the rider when ridden crossways on a hill. 🤓📐
