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

I haven't looked at this yet but I'll bet "stop spending all of the money on making cars kill people" is not an option offered #DefundDOTs #PBOT #CarSupremacy

"We invite you to take an online survey (about 10-15 minutes) about PBOT’s work, budget, and revenue sources:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PBOTCommunityBudgetSurvey

American #TrafficEngineers are the klansmen of #CarSupremacy

> Why are we ok with using public funds
> to build infrastructure that requires an entry ticket
> that costs tens of thousands of dollars and
> comes with the very real risk of accidentally killing people?

https://transportation.social/@DrTCombs/110793797069923240

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

@tmstreet We need to quit reinforcing this fallacy that #DriverConvenience is on the line when #carSupremacy is challenged. This system of bouncing between deadly speeds and standstill #trafficCongestion / #seeYouAtTheNextLight is unpredictable and inconvenient for #drivers, many of whom are not driving by choice, or very long trips, but choose cars for fear of cars / lack of enough space having been allocated to bike/walk/transit options. & costs them $5-10k/yr, classist entry fee to society.

Systemic #CarSupremacy is no one citing street design as a factor contributing to killing a 4-yr old.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/19/metro/i-was-crying-like-kid-neighbor-says-after-4-year-old-boy-killed-hyde-park-hit-and-run-crash/

Analyzing these car-on-bike #crashReports with @bikeloudpdx is wild. Bike rider is sitting at a stop sign waiting to cross SE Stark on 2nd and "car [driver] turned into him" (I guess turning left from eastbound Stark, illegally wide). <- Officer did not record or clarify the geometry in any way. "It was indeed raining very hard and visibility was poor." FFS man we need to fix the infra not just expect people on bikes to get hit with cars in the rain. #VisionZero #ACAB #CarSupremacy #pdxBikes

“The road is yours only if you own a car?”: Cyclist couple challenge council after being asked to remove DIY bike parking space from outside home | road.cc
https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-couple-challenge-council-over-diy-bike-parking-302507

#BikeTooter #Parking #TheWarOnCars #Urbanism #CarSupremacy

#ecofascism uses #safety as an excuse to maintain #carsupremacy.

"turn around, don't drown" also works as policy-level advice #climateDenial #carSupremacy

#BarburBlvd ffs how are any of the #trafficEngineers and officials involved not in prison it's beyond me #carSupremacy #stroads #ShareTheRoad #pdxBikes #ODOTGTFOpdx #ORpol #ClimateDenial #Portland #pdxTraffic

lol this moron #carSupremacy

https://bikeportland.org/2023/07/03/protestor-blocks-bus-and-bike-lanes-on-division-with-his-car-376795

#independenceDay thought about #FreeRangeKids: Can we just put one of those chalk markers on every kid's #bike and give them an unlimited supply of chalk? Then your #transportation dept can follow them around with cones, and viola you have a complete and connected #bikewayNetwork. To get out of the #carSupremacy rut, start with at least one car-free day per month and give the kids bikes + lessons if they need them.

@silvernailsea @rachael @owen
Exactly. It's not just the process but also the designs are by and for #carSupremacy. New concrete bikeways aren't wide enough to meet demand, let alone #ClimateAction goals. They need to be operating a working prototype NETWORK, #tacticalUrbanism, not designing a permanent monument. Then ask people who are actually using it, or even just observe, and adjust. Maybe they can change, but I've said all this for a decade, and now I'm at #DefundDOTs until I see it.

😂 #CarsRightsActivists #CarSupremacy #EntitledMoron #ManBaby #WhitePrivelege #ACAB #pdxTraffic #pdxBikes

"@pdxrandylee @pdxfpi is standing by himself in the bus and bike only lane on SE Division & 112th. ... Cops came and then left. No citation.

Said he has right to protest
just like BLM did in 2020"

https://bird.makeup/users/jonathan_maus/statuses/1674891623648329728

Every time your bureau of transportation applies yellow centerline paint, to streets without bike lanes and sidewalks, is a policy failure. #CompleteStreets #CarSupremacy #PBOT #DefundDOTs #BanCars #ClimateAction #AdvisoryBikeLanes

@BarbChamberlain an example of the actual conditions we're dealing with: https://urbanists.social/@enobacon/110443660522214889

Cars are given 2 extra freeway lanes & people are left with scraps. The idea that we need to have a bake sale for a protected bike lane and concrete sidewalk "#CompleteStreets" so as not to disrupt the #carSupremacy is why #Portland's #SWcorridor plan failed. Without operational priority on a #mobilityLaneNetwork, #transit is politically & practically infeasible.

see also https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/who-else-benefits-from-the-dutch-cycling-infrastructure/

"choosing speed and convenience for automobiles" is such a silly way to state the trade-off made by #trafficEngineering to preserve #carSupremacy. I suppose it's convenient for cars / carmakers that engineers constantly choose speed, but none of these anti-ped/bike/transit decisions will ever bring convenience to drivers. #InduceDemand (Also these cities aren't so conservative, they just have broken voting methods that let the newspaper & business ass. pick the winner)

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/05/18/essay-why-even-the-most-progressive-cities-are-failing-their-car-free-residents/

In what addled state does a #trafficEngineer aim a STOP sign at crosswalk users who have the right of way? Do you expect pedestrians to stop and yield to drivers at this crosswalk? Besides being meaningless under state crosswalk law, it also goes against the Oregon bicycle design guide, which clearly states that bikeways are given priority at minor street crossings.
#pdxBikes #CarSupremacy (Of course #THPRD is a parks not #transportation dept 🙄 I could occupy the full lane on 92nd instead?)

How is #PBOT's treatment of Multnomah Blvd not criminal negligence? A "Major City Bikeway" in our #Transportation Systems Plan and they've got 45mph traffic buzzing past on the other side of a worn off line of paint. A man on a bike was killed here but they changed nothing. 🤬
#pdxBikes #InducedDemand #CarSupremacy