The @bikeloudpdx hack night reporting work is in the process of growing a database to feed the #open311 portal or some #BikeLaneUprising-ish kind of map and complain tool, that we're going to have to host ourselves to be sure the data is there when somebody needs it to sue the state for #ODOTGTFOpdx, or city of #Portland for #PBOT's deference to cars and finger-pointing about how they can't do safety because politics and "please crack open that General Fund piggy bank for us 🤲 ". 📏 🤓 🚘 🚘 🚘 🚘 🙃
A man on a bike was killed with a drunk driver here seven years ago next week, and nothing has changed except the paint wearing off. Does #PBOT have no respect for people on #pdxBikes, or do they not know how to do better? #Drivers from Beaverton aren't a force of nature, they're simply a result of choices made by "professional Engineers" (like that lane width 🙄 .) #InducedDemand created by the policy of maintaining extra freeway lanes on our surface streets.
re: why #Portland can't have nice things: The trick is to make each "ride your bike in relatively car-free safety" event an expensive optional line-item requiring lots of money for "traffic control", but frame as unavoidable the $2M+/day we spend letting cars have free reign of the entire system for the other 362 days.
new to Portland? New to Biking in Portland? New to #Pedalpalooza Bike Summer? This is the ride for you! ... casual and no-drop tour of PDX along greenways ... meet and talk with fellow riders, learn about Pedalpalooza's past, get tips for riding!