The city of #Seattle has a dashboard up for the previous / current transportation levy's achievements. It's using Tableau and is basically an unusable mess (for me at least).
Between this stuff and how budgets are presented (always as this much or less money in particular categories not how much of total budget it is year to year), it's clear the city doesn't want non-experts to understand what's going on. Or at least don't prioritize it.
I would summarize the numbers but it would take a while but SDOT claims to have built a total of less than 30 miles of protected bike lanes over 8 years which are largely flex post only with major gaps and often "abandoning" the intersections. But SDOT counts even a quarter mile of "protection" in the miles of protected bike lanes. It's embarrassing.
Paris built over 400 miles of bike facilities (mostly protected or separated) in like 5 years.
I can't really read the list of projects very well (too small, contrast) and I can't copy/paste. So I am like okay I'll download. I click the download button and pick PDF. And I get a PDF that looks like this and ... can't even see all the projects in the list.
Also I just tried VoiceOver on Mac and the Tableau dashboard is basically entirely unusable in a screenreader as far as I can tell. I can't get it to read anything within the main content / data area.
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