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#SWcorridor could have been stringing wires in 2016 and sending a bus every five minutes with priority lanes and scrap together some protected bikeway segments but instead we had a public process nightmare and failed vote on a bushel of boondoggles, just plug in the bus man
@BarbChamberlain an example of the actual conditions we're dealing with: https://urbanists.social/@enobacon/110443660522214889
Cars are given 2 extra freeway lanes & people are left with scraps. The idea that we need to have a bake sale for a protected bike lane and concrete sidewalk "#CompleteStreets" so as not to disrupt the #carSupremacy is why #Portland's #SWcorridor plan failed. Without operational priority on a #mobilityLaneNetwork, #transit is politically & practically infeasible.
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Attached: 1 image #PBOT had a survey about the idea of a #roundabout at #Multnomah & #GardenHomeRd. Over 2/3rds of respondents asked for some kind of separated path on this stretch of Multnomah. There is always someone walking in this bike lane. The project was complicated by how to prioritize left turns into the driveway of the bar (where the very same #drunkDriver from the above crash had last been drinking.) Nothing has been done. #CityThatPlans #Cars1stAlwaysOnly