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.
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?
something like this LTS map for Boston, but analyzing your reach from a given location (or just drawing the islands created by gaps in the low-stress network, like high-stress intersections, which I suspect are under-rated in a cross-section-of-the-segment-based level-of-traffic-stress scoring.)
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.
final day to provide feedback about the 82nd Ave Major Maintenance Project. #PBOT’s current plans do not include improvements to a majority of sidewalks or any accommodations for people riding #pdxBikes along #SE82nd at all, no #BusLanes for the bus line with the highest ridership in #Oregon??
@voiceofunreason what do you do when 9th runs into a park and weren't there more hills there? That whole concept of a project was destroyed by some (driver) ted's donor's thumb on a scale
🤬 "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
@SRLevine@michaelcoyote naito and barbur or maybe on the Kelly offramp spaghetti, macadam... I think we've been past all of them in my odotgtfo South Portland ride, but maybe I need to make a bike tour specifically of worst bus stops in that area 🤔
rear view / results. I hope this scrubbed-loose stuff will dry out. The stuff I went over yesterday was looking pretty good even after/because it rained last night.