The Invisible Shift

A street cleaner with a bin bag in one hand, framed between a STOP sign and a no-right-turn sign. You couldn’t stage it better. I shot this from Drawbridge Street, watching the lunchtime crowd flow past him like water around a rock. What struck me was the contrast: dozens of people mid-stride, shopping or wandering around, and this one figure doing the quiet work that keeps the city ticking over.

His orange hi-vis jacket is the loudest thing in the frame, but he’s mostly unnoticed by everyone. The young lad in the camo jacket is walking towards me, a woman in a black top is mid-step, and behind the railings there’s a whole parade of shoppers who have no idea they’re in a photograph. I like that the two road signs bookend him: STOP on one side, no-right-turn on the other as if the street itself is giving him contradictory instructions. It’s one of those shots where the composition just fell into place, and all I had to do was not fumble the shutter.

The Invisible Shift

A street cleaner with a bin bag in one hand, framed between a STOP sign and a no-right-turn sign. You couldn’t stage it better. I shot this from Drawbridge Street, watching the lunchtime crowd flow past him like water around a rock. What struck me was the contrast: dozens of...

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/01/the-invisible-shift/

#Candid #CityWorkers #Cork #HiVis #Ireland #MarksAndSpencer #pedestrians #Photo #Photography #StreetCleaner #StreetPhotography #UrbanLife

Denver Post: Denver’s $1 billion road overhaul would cut space for cars, boost public transit and safety. Critics say it will make traffic worse.

Mayor Mike Johnston hopes traffic-calming projects can help transform a city that for a century has been oriented around cars

(massive string of tracking cookies, probably paywall)

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/03/29/denver-traffic-calming-road-projects/

#BikeTooter #pedestrians #Denver #Colorado

More people are killed on Australian roads.

"Deaths on Australian roads have increased every year since 2020. This is despite the Australian government’s commitment to Vision Zero – having zero deaths or serious injuries on our roads by 2050."

"Unfortunately, 1,317 road deaths were recorded in 2025, a 1.9% increase from 2024. Land transport accidents also remain a leading cause of death for children and young adults, and the third leading cause of injury hospitalisations." >>
https://theconversation.com/more-people-are-dying-on-australian-roads-this-program-could-make-drivers-safer-276970

Comments: To "look at the entire system of road use" one must not just have the car as the road user in mind but the entire mobility design and their associated industries. The focus should be on public infrastructure that enable active and safe mobility (walking and cycling) for all. "Good mobility design" does not kill, maim, pollute or leads to planetary heating.

#cars #roads #RoadTrauma #RoadDeaths #crash #VisionZero #failure #IntegralAccident #MobilityDesign #cyclists #pedestrians #KillerRoads #wildlife #SacrificeZone #FossilFuels #climate

Image: Somewhere on Wikipedia. A time when people could not accept that motorists can just kill people and call it an 'accident'.

LA Times: Dodger Walk: A great city needs a walking path to blue heaven. Do it, Frank McCourt

"...We entered the Dodger Stadium property at an intersection with no crosswalks, where cars enter and exit the 110 freeway. We stood atop a dirt patch next to a crumbling curb.

“To go a very short distance safely with a feeling that you’re not going to die,” Walker said, “is very difficult.”...."

(paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2026-03-25/dodger-stadium-gondola-walking-path-frank-mccourt

#dodgers #pedestrians #infrastructure

Carroll Street Bridge Proposals

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/the-carroll-street-bridge-is-the-second-03-19-26/

Well, that was a first: Bumped into by a guy who was walking on the beach while looking down at and completely absorbed by his phone. No harm done.

And certainly took nothing away from our pleasure of walking the beach on this warm evening.

#pedestrians #CellPhones #MontereyBay #Beach #Beach #Sunset