ICYMI, somebody put some #StuffInTheStreet and PBOT promptly showed up to remove it

https://twitter.com/enobacon/status/1701371335631573144

for the #trafficEngineers in the back: If your "bike infrastructure" won't stop a car, it's not really infrastructure. #PaintIsNotProtection #stuffInTheStreet

9 cars per minute "#SafeRoutesToSchool", this was after it settled down a little. #SpeedHumps are useless at #TrafficCalming #PaintIsNotProtection #FuckCars our #trafficEngineers have no idea how to make safe streets 😞 #DefundDOTs #BanSUVs and these people picking up kids with their #TruckLoadOfInsecurities, but if you can't swing that, just put some #StuffInTheStreet

@EricLawton indeed, but expecting everyone to select the option to not murder schoolchildren is the yellow armband of solutions here. We simply need some #stuffInTheStreet at least pop-up obstacles to car traffic, and some consideration of how to make the network function safely for kids first, by the Engineers of the transportation authority, if they're going to have any authority.

#StrongTowns in #Portland #pdx is doing awesome #urbanist #ClimateAction and organizing that on-the-ground #BanCars #TacticalUrbanism #BetterBlock #StuffInTheStreet and they have regular hangouts and game nights you should get in on. (do I want to be on another slack though, where's your mastodon account?)

https://www.strongtownspdx.org/

#Portland Bureau of Transportation urges #drivers to slow down on their enormous streets. got #ZeroVision #TrafficEngineeringNegligence / need #SafeStreets #SafetyByDesign #stuffInTheStreet #bollards #BanCars

[image from https://tenforward.social/@the_riker_maneuver/110849482459304523]

👉 "the project started with planters and the decision to make the street safe" 💯

[project= Telegraph Ave in Oakland]

#StuffInTheStreet #TacticalUrbanism let's go #Portland
do #VisionZero or get #Vision60or70Something

the "I ride transit" #PBOT planners who think Orenco Station drive-to-Urbanism & similar results of #LandUsePlanning are going to move the needle on urban #decarbonization and make a dent in the 50% of GHG emissions that is #transportation in cities, need to see why half of trips are under 3 miles but families are just being forced/coerced induced into creating congestion by transportation agencies planning instead of doing #VisionZero #ClimateAction #stuffInTheStreet Urbanism, like Jersey City?

"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

https://youtu.be/ymcBC7MFRIk

"Before widening of SE 39th Ave north of Belmont St - April 1949" [to four lanes, near the site of the recent fatal crash into a bus stop] I guess I can see how PBOT's failure to offer solutions to the problems they've created would make one think that #BanCars is somehow impossible, but this learned helplessness just says to me that we can't rely on planners to fix it. Got plans, need #stuffInTheStreet #VisionZero.

@bryan https://efiles.portlandoregon.gov/Record/3916689/

Streets need to be operated and maintained as streets for people, *before* you can pour concrete curbs that change the behavior of road users. The infrastructure needs to be drop-in, short notice, ongoing feedback, people get heard but non-drivers have places to go too + many are being coerced into cars by DOTs' failure to act like this is their job, or just willful negligence and fake science. If we put stuff in, they take it out and prove which side they're on. #VisionZero #StuffInTheStreet

you may not like it, but this is what peak efficiency looks like #StuffInTheStreet #EdgeLaneRoad #AdvisoryBikeLanes #CompleteStreets
https://youtu.be/4gzHL9KzFPQ?t=1151

I think they gave everyone on the committee 3 green dots and 3 red dots, to put on the programs like "$15M pavement maintenance [bus lane road diet of 4-lane roads and diverters on greenways, or no?]" and 5 random groupings totaling $50-70M of additional parking etc auto subsidy.

Anyway, like how many votes should the annual 60-70 traffic fatality victims get? #VisionZero #StuffInTheStreet, or use rockets if it's rocket science LFG #StrongTowns

🤔 #drivers also must follow the laws of physics... #bollards and barriers allow #trafficEngineers to leverage that fact to ensure that people drive safely. #VisionZero #stuffInTheStreet

😍 Separate automobile and bicycle travel lanes with concrete barriers! #stuffInTheStreet 💯

Sounds promising, but I want to see #stuffInTheStreet, obstructing speeding #drivers. A "conversation" resulting in a rebuilt status-quo of cars dominating NE 7th-and-also-MLK is not going to get us to our #ClimateAction goals. We've over-invested in space for cars while neglecting all other modes, so some amount of removing cars from a connected low-stress #bikeWayNetwork amount of our public space is going to need to happen, and everything else is just stalling, especially capital projects.

😞 I hope they find the traffic Engineers responsible.
"11-year-old passenger [was killed] in an east Portland car crash Saturday after an allegedly intoxicated driver who’d been shot in the arm and leg drove more than 80 mph on Southeast 102nd Avenue and T-boned the car the boy was riding in" #BanCars #ItsTheGuns #StuffInTheStreet #VisionZero https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/07/portland-11-year-old-killed-when-drunk-driver-with-gunshot-wounds-t-bones-sedan-police-say.html

"#Portland in the Streets" program from PBOT is talking about "art encroachments" and I'm hearing #tacticalUrbanism #pdxBikes #StuffInTheStreet planters and traffic calming?

IDK what #DOT needs to hear this but just take your entire outreach budget and let every kid decide where to put one jersey barrier, then do that instead of building freeways. #BanCars #StuffInTheStreet #TacticalUrbanism

Either you put concrete #stuffInTheStreet for them to crash into when they're no longer capable of safely operating the vehicle, or they can run over your kids.

QT https://bird.makeup/users/Boenau/statuses/1663149737724215296
"Pretty soon we're gonna have 40 million 80-yr olds driving around.

Baby Boomers will drive, because neighborhoods aren't designed for easy walking & bicycling. Their alternative is isolation.

Maybe that's scary enough to get local leaders to reform land use policy..."