State Highway Dept employee sees cardboard cutout memorial to pedestrian who was killed in a crosswalk on their deadly #stroads:
“[a staffer] was driving home,” Hamilton explained, “And it startled him. It was alarming.”
“Another one [of the memorials] was on a sidewalk and it was facing right onto the street. That’s going to cause someone to stop. It can really cause confusion.”
Is there a tool for mapping the range of trips-by-bike where you can compare the range limits imposed by avoiding high-stress intersections like #stroads? e.g. where can I get to in 15min at level-of-traffic-stress threshold of 5 vs 2? Like if you're planning a bike trip with your kids vs on your e-bike alone, but for whacking elected officials over the head with during public meetings #BikeTooter?
But at least some separation there... Why don't more people bike from #Portland to #Beaverton? Could it be the way ODOT sits on this segment like a selfish old dragon, the way it does all of the deadly urban #stroads in our metro area? #Vision60or70something#ODOTGTFOpdx
Pavement being destroyed by speeding drivers, crumbling the foundation to sand before ODOT'll hand it over to local jurisdictions. Right lane is effectively bus-and-turn only, just paint it red some and let's go. #VisionZero
🤬 "the boy was in a crosswalk ... around 3 p.m. ... suffered a broken tibia as well as bruises and scrapes ... witnesses reported that the driver was going from northbound Cesar Chavez to eastbound Glisan ... 40 mph... reddish-brown early 1990s Volvo." #Portland#HitAndRun#drivers
"I don’t understand the #bancars hashtag [because his profession is not allowed to tell cars no]" #DefundDOTs#PBOT#pdxTraffic planner here
"Banning cars now would be like building cities in space and then banning spacesuits. We need to build places where people can actually live without cars." 🙄 uh, we already built those places and they have too many cars on them, then car apologists came & bulldozed more of it for free parking. Can we ban cars from #SchoolStreets?
Traffic planners who don't understand bicycles should not be employed by my city. #Portland is full of #15minuteNeighborhoods by bike (probably every single one by #eBikes), but you currently have to elbow your way through five-lane #stroads to reach those destinations. We're not in f'n space bro, we're in cities and #carsRuinCities, #geometryHatesCars - @bryan might learn that if he hadn't blocked me. 😂
The idea that you can get #CompleteStreets by giving money to the highway department is a complete failure. It's 2024 and ODOT is rebuilding #stroads with curb-tight sidewalks and painted bike lanes that run between a right turn lane and thru traffic, posted speed: 45mph. The focus needs to be on scrapping-together and then incrementally improving a connected low-stress bikeway network throughout the metro region, not repaving and updating disjoint segments to 1990's designs.
Going car-free for #EarthDay shouldn't be a difficult challenge for anyone. Nobody should be forced to drive to meet their daily needs. If you can't #LeaveTheCarAtHome due to your govt's misplaced priorities in #transportation spending, call your mayor and governor about it. It's not just land use and #parking policy that keeps people driving, it's the billions we spend maintaining deadly #stroads.