@enobacon #transportation #engineers and #planners treat bicycles as a form of recreation. You’ll know that has changed when people of #all_ages_and_abilities can travel by #bicycle from anywhere to everywhere for short in-town trips. OAR 660-12-0600 requires metropolitan cities in #Oregon to plan consistent with that outcome. The real question is whether these communities will fund the construction of a bicycle transportation network meeting the needs of people of #all_ages_and_abilities.

@Drew #transportation #planners are still thinking things like "a bike heading uphill is slow", not considering space to pass, or how their designs create conflict or lead people on #eBikes to choose the lanes which #trafficEngineers imagined were now reserved just for cars. The general lack of awareness of how their designs function in reality is already bad enough, now they don't even understand what traffic they should design for.