@bobjonkman@MylesRyden@trevorflowers you might be amazed at how quickly technology would eliminate shitty jobs when people have to be convinced rather than coerced into doing them.
@esnyder I'm just volunteer tester for BikeLoud, who are passing this around and giving feedback to the makers, trying to get better design and maintenance policy from the transportation agencies here on the ground. The website seems okay afaict
"People keep dying in crashes on #Portlandโs streets, 15 so far this year. [#transportation] #Infrastructure isnโt the only reason for thatโbut itโs the factor thatโs most fully the cityโs responsibility, and most directly under the cityโs control, and we still arenโt doing as much as we can." #VisionZero#pdxBikes ๐ฏ @bikeloudpdx members putting it on the record every week
@jcriecke@benfulton โPeople love their personal automobiles. They love [to sit in traffic] they love the ability to go when they want, where they want, how they want. [ and to unexpectedly sit in traffic whenever a handful of other people want to drive at that same time, or if a couple drivers smash their freedom boxes together and nobody can use the intersection for two hours, or if there's some inclement weather, or a ball game, or ... ]โ
@drwho@spv@malwaretech@rcs The rideshare companies would probably get so busy that you needed to share a vehicle with other people. Might even get bigger vehicles that seat like 50 and just send one down a regular route every five minutes.
#PBOT's "traffic calming" projects are such kid-gloves weaksauce that doesn't pretend to control the kinds of drivers who are actually making our streets feel unsafe. Their machines are 5-7000lb lumps of steel being flung around at 30mph with 400hp and Portland has, after a decade of organizing by neighbors and careful work by professional #trafficEngineers, delivered like a dozen rubber bumps and some paint. #tacticalUrbanism is this stuff but overnight, & then iterate
@owen@bobco85@seabikeblog this @activetowns video has a bit about the middle-of-the-road loading zone in Port Townsend with #EdgeLaneRoads. Too many space-constrained road redesigns are starting from the flawed assumption that they need #YellowCenterlines, which waste most of the space most of the time.