😀🚲"choosing speed and convenience for automobiles" is such a silly way to state the trade-off made by #trafficEngineering to preserve #carSupremacy. I suppose it's convenient for cars / carmakers that engineers constantly choose speed, but none of these anti-ped/bike/transit decisions will ever bring convenience to drivers. #InduceDemand (Also these cities aren't so conservative, they just have broken voting methods that let the newspaper & business ass. pick the winner)
"#VisionZero commitments that appear to be little more than empty promises, given that traffic deaths in these cities continue to mount.
As those cities have shirked their responsibility to protect even non-driving residents, they’ve driven away (no pun intended) households like mine: young families that want to raise their children in a place where not every crosswalk is a gauntlet." #ZeroVision plans like #Portland's give no mandate to prioritize a low-stress bikeway network or to reduce VMT.
PedestrianError 
@enobacon They’ve also driven away city staff who were competent and actually committed to safety, sustainability & equity. Senior managers overseeing #VisionZero are intentional about staffing the programs with car-driving moderates who value compromise and political expediency over meaningful change &/or breaking idealists and seeing just how much indignity and carnage they can take before they quit.
@PedestrianError mayors and managers going to be facing some wrongful death lawsuits. Or maybe we can sue before we're dead if we can find a judge that will grant us standing.
@enobacon Unfortunately most judges drive SUVs.