Basically since the moment #PBOT bulldozed the trees and widened 39th (now Cesar Chavez Blvd) to four lanes, residents have stories of how they & other kids were not even allowed to go near that street on their bikes. But the #Portland bureau of "#transportation" remains perplexed about how to solve the problem they created or how to make their budgets work 🙄 #Vision60or70Something #carsRuinCities #VMTreduction #BusLanes #RoadDiet #tacticalUrbanism #climateAction #jfdi

https://www.portland.gov/transportation/bbac

Like not one, but two or three car lanes each way having a whole bike lane's extra width in each of them, but zero bike lanes on the street? Just stop painting lines if you can't paint them right. #Vision60or70Something

👉 "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

traffic signal: a fresh red
sign: "share the road"
me: signaling left
kid driving her parents' SUV: MGIF
[volume warning for me yelling into closed windows]
#seeYouAtTheNextLight #BarburBlvd at 19th/Capitol Hill Rd (RIP Miro Nik Brankovich, killed on Jun 4 2020 by the end of this guardrail) #ODOTGTFOpdx #Vision60or70Something

@Kellyshenanigans I live in #Portland, OR, where most of the #drivers are nice and careful (albeit largely clueless and distracted, and many are rather entitled) but #trafficEngineers are constantly assaulting people on #pdxBikes with bad designs and negligence. Consolation, I guess, most of #Vision60or70Something victims are in cars.

You get the traffic you build for, #swCapitolHwy edition. #PBOT is so proud of the $26M they spent on the next mile of this street, which our TSP designates as a Major City Bikeway, but sharrows are trash. #pdxBikes #InducedDemand #Vision60or70Something

https://urbanists.video/videos/watch/d49ec32b-625d-469f-a845-5c88068a3c0e

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

@Andres4NY @bryan The walkable places where we don't need cars, like Cesar Chavez blvd where they bulldozed the trees to widen it, killed a librarian at a bus stop recently, but currently they can't figure out how to make it safe for less than $50M or something 🙄 #Vision60or70Something

Oh so we're going to try the thing that has never worked 🙄
#Vision60or70Something #ACAB #DefundPolice #DefundDots #BanCars #pdxTraffic

"the most effective immediate intervention is enforcement, penalties and public awareness regarding breaking traffic laws."

"#trafficEngineers and #VisionZero team have been out to assess... reconstruction of the corridor would be... $50 million"

No need to reconstruct it, just do #busLanes. WTF is wrong with this profession?

https://bikeportland.org/2023/07/21/commissioner-mapps-office-makes-statement-on-traffic-deaths-377448

#drivers who have not read the manual
+ #trafficEngineers who don't get it
= #Vision60or70Something and an endless supply of soul-crushing traffic

#VisionZero means designing and operating streets for actual safety, using physical obstacles, not by wishing drivers would follow rules and worn-off paint. #PaintIsNotProtection