The helicopter plane crash that killed half as many people as traffic Engineers kill with cars every single day in the US, was 5 days ago, first time a midair crash happened in this country since 1986 (which changed regulations and equipment) and they're still talking about it, considering changes to regulations. Tomorrow a plane-load of people will die turning left at a red light on a stroad on the way to get milk and nothing will change.

"I’ve yet to see a better introduction to the workings of the city than the presentation given by the Public Works Bureaus —#Transportation, Water & Environmental Services — to the City Council last Thursday as part of Council’s Public Works work session. To anyone who wants a deeper understanding of #Portland, including budget issues, tuning into the first [6:05-]90min of this session is well worth your time."

https://www.youtube.com/live/ww_o-T7lZAo (from https://bikeportland.org/2025/01/27/city-council-reckons-with-infrastructure-392386 "we don't have enough [💸]")

it's cute how they pretend we ride bikes and scooters and walk and stuff while they build and maintain gold-plated streets primarily for cars

Like if sixty or seventy people died from the water every year, would this presentation be exactly the same?

Has Williams ever said anything that wasn't from the POV of a driver? 🤦

25% of the water+BES budget also goes to cars 🙃 (stormwater)

"Reduced posted speeds on eleven (11) miles of streets" 😒 not even one mile for every six fatal crash victims.

And then Clark softballing the question like potholes create themselves 🙄 #fuckCars

Zimmerman "all public works should be under the same hood" 🤨 pointy white hood, or car hood? (Is there a difference.)

straight from the mouths of #trafficEngineers, making cars go fast enough to kill you is expensive #VisionZero

why are we going to work so hard to be creative in funding the speed of cars but not able to be creative in slowing them down?

@steter update says Naito work was postponed until at least March to allow for county work around Burnside Bridge. #pdxBikes

@skinnylatte you left out the drivers who think you're just one more car in front of them at the signal or taking their free parking at the local shops. I think most yimbys are pro immigrant though. Now if only we could use a voting method that supported more than two sides (STAR or Approval, or a few ranked methods that aren't IRV/STV)

#BikeWayNetwork #JFDI #TacticalUrbanism #ClimateAction #BikeTooter

"For the first time in ten years, emergency response times for firefighters in #Paris have fallen to below seven minutes.

A key reason? Because the French capital's network of new cycle lanes are also wide enough for use by emergency services."

https://bird.makeup/users/adamtranter/statuses/1641362901071015936

@mirabilos @slothrop there's not going to be a brushless DC motor controller without electronic circuitry and firmware/software switching the voltage to control speed and torque. It's a rather active process of switching the magnetic fields that would be tedious to build in transistors alone vs some microcontroller chips and firmware. Most of what's terrible about software is when you can't see inside or change it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushless_DC_electric_motor

SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT a turing-complete programming language for writing programs in the style of clickbait news headlines

https://tabloid.vercel.app/

#trimet "ugly holiday sweater" 😂 #transit

https://trimetgear.myshopify.com/products/ugly-christmas-sweater

Where are they going to park though.

IDK who needs to hear this but dems aren't going to move left by losing to maga.

Can't have nice things because freeduhm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-04/why-americans-can-t-buy-the-tiny-cars-that-europeans-love