Bicycling Monterey · @bikemonterey
164 followers · 497 posts · Server sfba.socialBicycle commuter Chris Pena was killed by a #HitAndRun driver on Mission Blvd in Hayward.
Deepest sympathy to Chris's loved ones, including his widow; their son, a student at #HaywardHighSchool; and their daughters, students at #UCBerkeley and #UCDavis. Help support the family with funeral and educational expenses by donating and/or sharing fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/r8dpg-chris-pena.
Note that CalBike's #CompleteStreets survey seeks—for #Alameda County—input on Route 238, which includes Mission Blvd, Hayward, where Chris was killed. Respond to 4-question survey now, or by Oct 6: https://form.jotform.com/CalBikeCoalition/completestreets.
An additional way to honor Chris's life: support work of area bike advocates @BikeWalkAlameda (#Hayward is in #Alameda County) and @BikeEastBay ; and statewide advocacy, California Bicycle Coalition / #CalBike: calbike.org.
Thanks to #EastBay bike advocate @footsteps for bringing this horrific tragedy to our attention: https://sfba.social/@footsteps/111036468776324648.
#haywardhighschool #alameda #HitAndRun #ghostbike #hayward #ucberkeley #ucdavis #EastBay #ripchrispena #california #bikecommuter #completestreets #calbike #BikeTooter
Bicycling Monterey · @bikemonterey
164 followers · 497 posts · Server sfba.social
4 questions! Respond now—or by Oct 6—to State Highways #CompleteStreets SURVEY from #California #Bicycle Coalition.
If you #bike, #walk, use #PublicTransit or drive in 1 or more of 58 California counties, advocate for #CompleteStreets via your input:
https://form.jotform.com/CalBikeCoalition/completestreets
For each county, survey lists some state highways that serve as surface streets in local #neighborhoods.
#Alameda
#Alpine
#Amador
#Butte
#Calaveras
#Colusa
#ContraCosta
#DelNorte
#ElDorado
#Fresno
#Glenn
#Humboldt
#Imperial
#Inyo
#Kern
#Kings
#Lake
#Lassen
#LosAngeles
#Madera
#Marin
#Mariposa
#Mendocino
#Merced
#Modoc
#Mono
#Monterey
#Napa
#Nevada
#Orange
#Placer
#Plumas
#Riverside
#Sacramento
#SanBenito
#SanBernardino
#SanDiego
#SanFrancisco
#SanJoaquin
#SanLuisObispo
#SanMateo
#SantaBarbara
#SantaClara
#SantaCruz
#Shasta
#Sierra
#Siskiyou
#Solano
#Sonoma
#Stanislaus
#Sutter
#Tehama
#Trinity
#Tulare
#Tuolumne
#Ventura
#Yolo
#Yuba
#CalBike #transportation #ClimateAction #BikeTooter #BikeMonterey
#MontereyCounty #Salinas #Soledad #SanLucas
#completestreets #california #bicycle #bike #walk #publictransit #neighborhoods #BikeTooter #alameda #alpine #amador #butte #calaveras #colusa #contracosta #delnorte #eldorado #fresno #glenn #Humboldt #imperial #inyo #Kern #Kings #lake #lassen #losangeles #madera #Marin #mariposa #mendocino #merced #modoc #mono #monterey #napa #nevada #orange #placer #plumas #riverside #sacramento #sanbenito #sanbernardino #sandiego #sanfrancisco #sanjoaquin #sanluisobispo #sanmateo #santabarbara #santaclara #santacruz #Shasta #sierra #siskiyou #solano #sonoma #stanislaus #sutter #tehama #Trinity #tulare #tuolumne #ventura #yolo #yuba #calbike #transportation #climateaction #BikeMonterey #montereycounty #salinas #soledad #sanlucas
Rik @ bikescape · @bikescape
146 followers · 483 posts · Server mastodon.green
How would you make this street better for biking & walking? Capt Bertie’s Way is a short 20 MPH street with residences and an entrance to a major town parking lot at the end. There’s a planned shared use path to connect a new housing development (highlighted parcel). Thoughts? #BikeTooter #UrbanPlanning #SafeStreets #sidewalk #bikelane #UrbanDesign #streets #CompleteStreets
#BikeTooter #urbanplanning #safestreets #sidewalk #Bikelane #urbandesign #streets #completestreets
😀🚲 · @enobacon
685 followers · 6846 posts · Server urbanists.socialPortland 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/
Bicycling Monterey · @bikemonterey
161 followers · 455 posts · Server sfba.social
From the National Association of City #Transportation Officials (NACTO):
"It’s time to reshape the federal document that shapes U.S. #streets—the Manual on Uniform #Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)...which hasn’t been substantially updated in over half a century. The federal government is in the final stages of updating MUTCD....Here are the key changes we’ll be looking out for." https://nacto.org/2023/08/14/reshape-the-mutcd/
#TrafficSafety #Bikeways #BikeLanes #BusLanes #AutonomousVehicles #Pedestrian #Cyclist #SpeedLimits #Crosswalks #Intersections #BikeBoxes #UrbanPlanning #CompleteStreets #Bike #Walk #Bus #PublicTransport
#unitedstates #transportation #streets #traffic #BikeTooter #USA #trafficsafety #bikeways #bikelanes #buslanes #autonomousvehicles #pedestrian #cyclist #speedlimits #crosswalks #intersections #bikeboxes #urbanplanning #completestreets #bike #walk #bus #publictransport
Cap'n Transit · @capntransit
643 followers · 1681 posts · Server urbanists.socialRT @njbikeped: Registration is now open for the 2023 New Jersey Complete Streets Summit, sponsored by @newjerseydot! This year’s FREE summit is in-person at the Rutgers College Avenue Student Center in New Brunswick. Register at
https://CompleteStreets2023.com #completestreets
😀🚲 · @enobacon
652 followers · 6099 posts · Server urbanists.socialThere is only one way for cities to achieve their GHG emissions reduction and other public health goals. It's not #CompleteStreets and expensive reconstructions of car infrastructure "plus safety". You can either reclaim space from cars, or keep wishing for geometry to work a different way.
Bicycling Monterey · @bikemonterey
154 followers · 414 posts · Server sfba.social
New executive director for the California Bicycle Coalition and California Mobility Fund, Kendra Ramsey, will begin in mid-August. Details: https://www.calbike.org/calbike-announces-new-executive-director/
#CalBike #California #BikeAdvocacy #ActiveTransportation #Mobility #MobilityJustice #CompleteStreets #Transportation #CivilEngineering #Planners #AICP #walk #bike #cycling #bicycling #BikeTooter
#calbike #california #bikeadvocacy #activetransportation #mobility #mobilityjustice #completestreets #transportation #civilengineering #walk #bike #cycling #Bicycling #BikeTooter #planners #aicp
😀🚲 · @enobacon
649 followers · 6069 posts · Server urbanists.social@seabikeblog #CompleteStreets is a scam by the car lobby to make at least two lanes of car traffic be the basis of every street and waste "safety" funding on rebuilding around that default. She was hit with a car, not "by" one. No idea whether she is the better candidate, just that the path to #VisionZero is not a 22ft wide freshly-paved carway with yellow centerlines plus sidewalks and bike lanes if/when we get around to it.
J. I. Swiderski, MURP · @swiderski
61 followers · 59 posts · Server transportation.socialAbout to start work on a guide to designing streets and sidewalks to be accessible for neurodiverse* people and those with cognitive and developmental disabilities.
#Transportation planners, #CompleteStreets designers, and others in and around the #Planning field, if you've seen or are familiar with such guidance — non-US welcome — please let me know!
(* Specifically autism spectrum disorder, but I'd happily go beyond that if you've got relevant resources.)
#transportation #completestreets #planning
😀🚲 · @enobacon
635 followers · 5886 posts · Server urbanists.social@notjustbikes @cshentrup I suspect that these tone-policing "cycling advocates" (who are afraid of facts offending ...drivers, or is it planners?) are part of the #CompleteStreets industrial complex where they plan to eventually pave the entire city with 100ft street cross-sections, when we come up with $4B or so "for safety", but not raise the gas tax, or ever make a driver go around the block to access their driveway. Meanwhile no sidewalks or bike lanes, just plans & talking, and more deaths
PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt: · @PedestrianError
148 followers · 621 posts · Server towns.gay@ernandy Cities (& states, etc.): stop hiring highway engineering consulting firms to design your so-called bike/ped infrastructure or #CompleteStreets!
😀🚲 · @enobacon
629 followers · 5827 posts · Server urbanists.social
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
#designfailure #bikesonsidewalks #yellowcenterlines #edgelaneroads #advisorybikelanes #pbot #trafficengineers #drivers #vision60or70something #completestreets #defunddots #cars1stalwaysonly #carsupremacy #pdxbikes
😀🚲 · @enobacon
625 followers · 5798 posts · Server urbanists.social
"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."
Also basically the only solution to traffic, and will still be the answer, no matter how much time we waste wishing for some other option.
#BanCars #Bollards #ModalFiltering #BikeTooter #trafficEngineering #ontvlechten #stuffInTheStreet #CompleteStreets #VisionZero @notjustbikes
#bancars #bollards #modalfiltering #BikeTooter #trafficengineering #ontvlechten #stuffinthestreet #completestreets #visionzero
😀🚲 · @enobacon
619 followers · 5693 posts · Server urbanists.social
you may not like it, but this is what peak efficiency looks like #StuffInTheStreet #EdgeLaneRoad #AdvisoryBikeLanes #CompleteStreets
https://youtu.be/4gzHL9KzFPQ?t=1151
#stuffinthestreet #edgelaneroad #advisorybikelanes #completestreets
Ben Fulton · @benfulton
46 followers · 381 posts · Server hoosier.socialIn 2012, Smart Growth America rated Indianapolis’s Complete Streets policy the best in the nation. So why were 150 pedestrians killed by cars in the last five years?
#Indianapolis #UrbanPlanning #CompleteStreets
https://www.planetizen.com/blogs/124523-whats-incomplete-about-complete-streets
#indianapolis #urbanplanning #completestreets
Chris McCahill · @ChrisMcCahill
529 followers · 219 posts · Server urbanists.social
Florida's #CompleteStreets guidance tells road designers how to translate context into target speeds, including transitions through rural town centers.
It also tells local governments what their built environment should look like.
via @NewUrbanism @cnupublicsquare
#RoadDesign #TrafficEngineering #NewUrbanism
#completestreets #roaddesign #trafficengineering #newurbanism
😀🚲 · @enobacon
579 followers · 5110 posts · Server urbanists.socialholding my breath for #CompleteStreets but it's looking like we'll need $30M per mile and a really big pipe to pave 1/4 of the land area in SW #Portland 😲 Or we could divert some of the cut-through car traffic back to freeways and arterials, remove yellow centerlines from most streets (especially those without sidewalks #SWTFpdx) and stripe wide edge lane roads with choke points for cars to share a center lane every block or so. Vote for me on your Oregon Transportation Commission ballot. 😉
#completestreets #portland #swtfpdx
😀🚲 · @enobacon
574 followers · 5054 posts · Server urbanists.social
This is who #trafficEngineers are trying to placate with #CompleteStreets and preserving all of the extra car lanes. Creating #InducedDemand for privileged white idiots to think they own the roads. Cars don't even pay for basic maintenance, why prioritize them?
#trafficengineers #completestreets #induceddemand
😀🚲 · @enobacon
551 followers · 4821 posts · Server urbanists.socialEvery 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
#completestreets #carsupremacy #pbot #defunddots #bancars #climateaction #advisorybikelanes