Multco library choosing cars instead of #housing even though a driver just killed a librarian who was waiting at the bus stop there. 😞 #Portland #ZeroVision #Libraries #transit #Cars1stAlwaysOnly #CarSupremacy #ClimateCrisis #CarsRuinCities

@james The traffic Engineers are the ones keeping us from living our lives, coercing bored and distracted amateurs to drive cars a half mile or five to buy groceries. Are they unable to see the ultimate inconvenience of #cars1stAlwaysOnly or do they just want to keep everyone stuck in cars and endless congestion? Transit and bikes are the only way to fluidly move an increasingly growing density of population, but I don't understand how cities cling to the old model after peak car saturation.

#WorkZoneWTF #BarburBlvd + the 2nd and 3rd time passing this same bus since the bottom of the hill. We really need our #transportation agencies to do better for people on #eBikes, but what is it going to take? Is that a memo from the governor/mayor and they'll start actually caring, or we just delete ODOT/PBOT and start fresh with safety-by-design as an operations culture? #ClimateEmergency vs institutional delay excuses etc 🙄 but all I see is stalling and a #Portland for #Cars1stAlwaysOnly.

parking on the sidewalk/bikeway of SW 26th north of Taylors Ferry trackit # 2642835 brand spankin' new 💸 💸 💸 #DesignFailure #BikesOnSidewalks #YellowCenterlines should be building #EdgeLaneRoads #AdvisoryBikeLanes, #PBOT #TrafficEngineers think #drivers will just "be careful" #Vision60or70Something never getting #CompleteStreets from these guys, #DefundDOTs #Cars1stAlwaysOnly #carSupremacy #pdxBikes

I need a wider-angle lens to show how this lane is that much wider than a car, FFS #TrafficEngineers GTFO with your paint. #PBOT #ClimateDenial #Cars1stAlwaysOnly

#Portland #pdx has been breaking-in a fresh new #pdxTraffic commissioner (with no bureau director for 6 months...), and Mingus Mapps seems to still be focused on the stack of boondoggle carway projects #PBOT has put in front of him. Seems to think that the members of the Bike + Pedestrian Advisory Committees are here to lobby for more funding for the bureau of traffic to continue the status quo of maintaining the whole transportation system for #cars1stAlwaysOnly. Drivers feeling the $30M cut?

re: why #Portland can't have nice things: The trick is to make each "ride your bike in relatively car-free safety" event an expensive optional line-item requiring lots of money for "traffic control", but frame as unavoidable the $2M+/day we spend letting cars have free reign of the entire system for the other 362 days.

#cars1stAlwaysOnly #ZeroVision #ClimateInaction #PredatoryDelay #transportation #pdxBikes

https://twitter.com/enobacon/status/1668321535260770306

quoted "cyclist ... was hit by a car... has died"
ITTM "person on a bike was hit *with* a car... was killed",
by NYCDOT's negligence, driver etc

#MotoNormativity #cars1stAlwaysOnly #ZeroVision #ResultsNotAccidents
@TheWarOnCars

#PBOT had a survey about the idea of a #roundabout at #Multnomah & #GardenHomeRd. Over 2/3rds of respondents asked for some kind of separated path on this stretch of Multnomah. There is always someone walking in this bike lane. The project was complicated by how to prioritize left turns into the driveway of the bar (where the very same #drunkDriver from the above crash had last been drinking.) Nothing has been done. #CityThatPlans #Cars1stAlwaysOnly

ffs #tedWheeler thinks he works for cars
#cars1stAlwaysOnly #Portland stuck in #pdxTraffic

https://twitter.com/tedwheeler/status/1661462989055361026

"right now it's not the most convenient because the routes are circuitous. They're not on the main roads. You can't bike down Alberta, you got to take this like, back-asswards path that joggles over and over and over and over again and it's easy to get lost. And so I want to go to the movie theater, it's like I got to take 25 streets and even as somebody who bikes every day, all day, I got lost on the way here."
#pdxBikes #Portland #InducedDemand #cars1stAlwaysOnly
https://bikeportland.org/2023/03/22/podcast-portlands-cycling-decline-371775

@TonFlo @breadandcircuses it's really just #LegalizeBikes and not that complicated: we currently have a highly redundant carway network which creates #InducedDemand for driving and creates danger + stifles demand for all other modes / #cars1stAlwaysOnly #transportation policy, unwillingness to tax cars so drivers pay the actual cost of their trip OR reduce the amount of streets/ways/lanes which permit thru car traffic, like any solvent global city has done e.g. Amsterdam, Seville, Paris, Oslo…