The existential crisis of living on the planet Earth in the year 2023 is already a lot to handle, but combine that with being a bike enthusiast & the grief that each cyclist carries with them every day, & it's like walking around in a weighted suit. RIP Mark. #BikeTooter #ItsTheCarsStupid #TrafficFatalities

https://bikeportland.org/2023/08/07/manager-of-mt-hood-skibowl-killed-while-bicycling-down-timberline-hwy-377924

At this point if you're not part of the solution, you're actively part of the problem. How incomprehensible. Magnus deserved better & the driver needs to be thrown in jail. #BikeTooter #Trafficfatalities #carbrain

https://jalopnik.com/magnus-white-17-year-old-u-s-national-team-cyclist-k-1850693308

I mean this with 1000% sincerity & concern: what the actual f*ck is going on in the Portland metro area right now? Have people lost their g*ddammed minds? Between the #trafficfatalities & other harm people are causing, it's a bloodbath out there #portland

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2023/07/good-samaritan-hospital-locked-down-after-shooting.html

Just when it feels like Portland is starting to catch a break, we have a month with record #TrafficFatalities & then this Kmart fire spews asbestos all around a neighborhood. DEQ says "Do not touch, pick up, move, sweep, or vacuum any ash or debris that may have come from the fire." OK so what ARE you supposed to do then? Just never leave your house!? SMDH #Portland #Fire
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2023/07/21/kmart-fire-sends-chunks-of-asbestos-flying-around-east-portland/

I would love to be posting about bike rides right now but I came across this and it's too horrible.

"Driver unhurt"
"Person at bus stop killed"

We've done this to ourselves. Our car brains designed this world, and many, many people pay for it with their lives. #carbrain #Trafficfatalities

https://www.koin.com/news/crashes/fatal-crash-se-cesar-chavez-07152023/

I can't stop thinking about this article from the Atlantic about being "car brained". It's so spot on and I suffer from it too. Is it possible to reprogram ourselves after a century of car-brainwashing? #carbrain #Trafficfatalities

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/car-devotion-motor-vehicle-deaths-danger/674613/

Hey #Portland Bike community! Check this out! #BikeTooter #infrastructure #bikelanes #bikeactivism #Trafficfatalities

https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-guerrilla-bike-activists-installing-bootleg-infrastructure-for-safer-streets

Ars Technica: Pedestrian deaths soared in a handful of states in 2022 https://arstechnica.com/?p=1949323 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #trafficfatalities #pedestriandeaths #pedestrians #roadsafety #Cars

The driver "told police she'd been driving home from playing tennis when she 'felt something collide with her vehicle" after she went through the green light at Ashby Avenue and Adeline Street. ... The debris field from the crash led police to conclude that unsafe speed had been the primary collision factor."
https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/04/22/traffic-safety/fatal-berkeley-hit-run-driver-held-to-answer/
#berkeley #trafficfatalities

Check out this research review on the public health consequences of legalizing non-medical marijuana—on youth, alcohol use, abuse of prescriptive opioids, traffic fatalities, and crime.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20211635&&from=f

#NICHDimpact #PublicHealth #Marijuana #Youth #Alcohol #Opioids #OpioidAbuse #TrafficFatalities #Crime

“According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, an estimated 745 people died in traffic crashes statewide in 2022 — a 57% increase in the past 10 years.”

…“36% of traffic fatalities involved people who were not in a vehicle, such as pedestrians, bicyclists and motorcyclists. That percentage is the highest on record since 1975” #colorado #trafficfatalities

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/23/colorado-traffic-fatalities-2022-cdot-safety-program/

Some of the people we lost to car centered planning in Colorado Springs 😭https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnQIaZIBxSf/

#UrbanPlanning #ColoradoSprings #TrafficFatalities

A driver killed her daughter. She won’t let the world forget.

Large vehicles and unsafe streets are killing too many people, including 5-year-old Allison Hart. Now, her mother is fighting for safer streets.

https://www.vox.com/23462548/allison-hart-pedestrian-deaths-suvs-deadliest-roads

#USA #TrafficFatalities #SafeStreets #SaferStreets #SUVs #Cars

#US #trafficfatalities skyrocketed across the board in 2020 and 2021

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-07-27-vaccidents-us-traffic-fatalities-skyrocketed-in-2020-2021.html

#Vaccidents