#drivers in #Portland 😞 😒 I don't think this is quite how #PBOT makes decisions but #trafficEngineers do be

Who TF are these people cutting-through the neighborhood past the schools at dropoff time? Passing me on a blind curve and then here we are 1min 48s later she's yet another road hazard and congestion at the school crosswalk. #trafficEngineers need to run the cost-benefit analysis on this BS behavior.

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

two vehicles, each having been allocated some specific amount of street space by #trafficEngineers

one costs us all about five bucks per mile and the other one pays more than their fair share in taxes

one of these two people is engaged in commerce and the other is just fucking around

#eBikes #Portland #transportation #Terwilliger #pdxBikes #CargoBikes #CarsRuinCities #pdxTraffic

good stuff about "end protection" for concrete barriers here but the takeaway for city #trafficEngineers is you can always put a barrel of sand directly in the way of cars cutting-through past a school and drivers will get over it https://youtu.be/w6CKltZfToY

It would be amazing if #trafficEngineers would apply the geometric stuff to bikeways with the same thought they put into carways. Sight distance at least. Others may have a different opinion about super-elevation. Not putting a pole in the middle of the bike lane would be neat too.

https://youtu.be/9XIjqdk69O4

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

IDK which #trafficEngineers need to hear this, but you can easily stop drivers from running over all of your #protectedBikeLanes' flappy poles for sport, all you have to do is make one of them not flap. 😒

#trafficEngineers put a stop sign on the wrong side of a crosswalk, #drivers in this slip lane roll right up to it, looking only left 🙄

@dr2chase american #trafficEngineers haven't got the stones for this #bollards

so cute, that #PBOT #trafficEngineers thought this hydrant would be safe here. #BikePortland video of #swCapitolHwy https://youtu.be/EoPOcBEadbQ #DefundDOTs

@elliots vehicular manslaughter charge should be for the #trafficEngineers really. Also note if the kid had been a few years older and riding an e-bike in the same intersection rather than a stroller, we would be seeing articles about banning e-bikes even though they had the right of way. The logic pretzel of excuses for traffic violence truly is amazing.

sure would be neat to have that orange barrel in the way of yahoos whipping through the intersection onto a greenway but #PBOT #TrafficEngineers think this intersection is "too narrow" to put a barrel in the center 🙄

@lmc @elliots I don't get how #trafficEngineers can think it would be a good idea to move the sign poles out of the way of drivers and their cars doing the things the signs are trying to tell them not to do.

#trafficEngineers: thinking this neighborhood collector provides local connectivity and not a shortcut to the freeway (that would only work if you could get away with driving 35mph in a 25 🙄 and the lanes were sized a little large to make the curves easier )

#trafficEngineers who think a sign will stop #drivers from turning #rightOnRed... Have you ever *seen* people drive?

Amazing stuff in this video of Denver's #quickBuild #tacticalUrbanism street designs @activetowns this is what north america's #trafficEngineers need to be doing, like mini-roundabouts for the price of a speed hump 😍, choke points mid-block on side streets, let's go!!! I particularly love how much they are squeezing these car lanes, if you want to change culture, only give #drivers like 3in of slack and engineers can go "🤷 just slow down, it'll fit" 😎 #ClimateAction

https://youtu.be/HUtI-Fk0yCw

If every sign has to be put well out of the way of #drivers hitting it with their car, and everything that goes in the roadway needs to be forgiving of being run over with a car, is it any wonder that cars are out of control? City #trafficEngineers need to throw away the highway design manual and figure out how to design streets with obstacles that will break drunk people's cars, and the cars of reckless scofflaws.

Yesterday while standing at one of the locations of car-on-bike crash reports, we saw drivers violating traffic laws like 2-3 per minute, within 10 minutes one wrong-way driver who went around a median and past a do-not-enter sign, then made a 3-point turn on the two-lane one-way couplet she had just entered from the wrong end 🙃 #trafficEngineers still blaming the user for this error I'm sure.

@hembrow @straphanger It doesn't quite work that way because some hills are punishingly steep, and e-bikes make most 5-10 mile trips accessible regardless of the negligence of our #trafficEngineers and bike-hostile politicians. I'm in better physical and financial health thanks to e-bikes over the last decade, where some trips (many hauling kids, and on a tight schedule) would have been too much to do manually in a day and yet we've been able to live happily without a second car.