Show thread😀🚲May 28
The soundtrack [redacted] is just me swearing about how #trafficEngineering is not a real profession. The handrail supports constantly run into the back rack, left pedal hits the stairs at each landing, and every vertical transition is a hassle with this diagonal stupidity. #runnels #BikeTooter #pdxBikes
Show thread😀🚲May 23
There's a certain utility to having structured traffic, but cars are a barrier to cooperation in parallel lanes of travel. Drivers are prone to competition, maybe it's a prisoners' dilemma thing, there's always a bottleneck ahead. But drivers, collectively, cannot zipper-merge. This is the fundamental flaw of #trafficEngineering.
😀🚲May 19

If we're going to fund what works, why do we continue spending the vast majority of our public space and PBOT funds on ruining the city with cars? Article IX does not actually require us to punch ourselves in the face with #trafficEngineering. 💸 Besides Parks not getting reimbursed for hit-and-run driver damage, Police and Fire not getting paid by the driver who caused the crashes they're responding to, PBOT's deferring maintenance rather than controlling cars 💸

https://bsky.app/profile/counciloravalos.bsky.social/post/3mm62aevz622d

Councilor Candace Avalos (@counciloravalos.bsky.social)

Did you catch my interview with @councilordunphy.bsky.social, @councilorkanal.bsky.social, and Councilor Novick about the budget? It's a good preview of topics likely to come up tomorrow and Wednesday as budget discussions really ramp up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0MQoPF2vic

Bluesky Social
😀🚲May 16
No self-respecting Engineer would make safety be a 3-legged stool that collapses if any single leg fails. #trafficEngineering
😀🚲Apr 23
This intersection should have been a roundabout. #30daysOfBiking #trafficEngineering #FuckCars
Show thread😀🚲Apr 22
Place your bets #BikeTooter, will this driver stop at the stop line? #trafficEngineering #3D
Don-kunApr 17

Well made overview about road traffic safety in the US compared to Europe. With some shocking insights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIhrHHYDuCY #trafficengineering #USA

I Compared US and European Roads… The Difference Is Shocking.

YouTube
😀🚲Mar 31

Car lanes shouldn't be deadly high-speed car dispensers that are 12ft wide. But even so, you should only have to cross one at a time. The #trafficEngineering profession needs to just get cancelled, abdicated responsibility, and with it: authority. Frauds.

https://bsky.app/profile/alleghenycounty.bsky.social/post/3mibwhzy6cs2f

Allegheny County Government (@alleghenycounty.bsky.social)

It’s finally getting warmer, which means more time to enjoy the outdoors, including walking. Whether you’re walking to school, work, a grocery store, to a bus stop, or just getting some exercise, staying safe while crossing roads is critical.

Bluesky Social
😀🚲Jan 24

> Big snowstorms tend to reveal huge swaths of public space that drivers simply don't use — they appear as piles of snow and show us all exactly where neckdowns could easily be built. Hence, #sneckdown.
#trafficEngineering #stuffInTheStreet #Bollards

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/23/send-mayor-mamdani-your-sneckdown-photos-snow-problem-streetsblog

Send Mayor Mamdani Your Sneckdown Photos! ('Snow Problem, Streetsblog!') - Streetsblog New York City

"Do you know what a sneckdown is?" "Sneckdown?" "Sneckdown." Therein lies a great story.

JdeBPJan 4

One knows when one has watched too many #TrafficEngineering videos on YouTube when:

Re-watching #TheWizardOfOz movie today, I spotted that there are two roads leading from Munchkin City: the Yellow and Red Brick Roads. They terminate at a central gyratory.

But the intersection, like much road design, was clearly engineered for more exits than ended up being built, but now cannot be expanded according to the original plan. The Yellow and Red Brick roads don't end at diametrically opposite sides of the central circle, but actually quite close to each other on the circumference. Moreover, there's no room to put in the other 5 or so Brick Roads that there is space for on that circle.

There are some motorway and A road roundabouts like that in my neck of the woods, with phantom exits or spaces for (say) planned flyovers that never got built.

It's worth noting that the Yellow and Red Brick roads never actually meet.

#MunchkinLand #YellowBrickRoad #RedBrickRoad #WizardOfOz