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#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
https://www.portland.gov/transportation/pbot-projects/traffic-calming-projects
@enobacon@urbanists.socialEvery single time that someone looks at their #transportation options to get to work, run an errand, take the kids to school... and they choose driving, is ANOTHER CAR ON THE ROAD. Agencies need to quit acting like cars are their most important customers (more importantly, their budgets and revenue models not be structured that way) and account for the long-term insolvency that #motoNormativity #CarBrain #WindshieldBias imposes on the city. #VisionZero + #ClimateAction plans call for urgency!
If your #trafficEngineering policies (written or otherwise) revolve around never ever putting some obstruction in the street that might damage an errant car, your city will get run over roughshod with cars (literally even, with the studded tires.) Grow a pair of #bollards dammit. #ZeroVision #Vision60or70something #FuckCars #urbanism #theWarOnCars
Also, the solution to traffic speeds and volumes is diversion / a #modalFilter that forces people in cars to drive around an extra block or back to the main streets instead of letting everybody and their uncle cut through every neighborhood and then try to slow them down. Absolute amateur hour here at US urban DOTs, we've never heard of anywhere in the world that dealt sternly with cars.