😀🚲2hrs from the "Climate, Resilience, and Land Use Committee", drink a fifth of bourbon when anybody says bike 😒
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How are we going to hit these science-based targets with psuedo-science-based streets? (#Transportation is half of our GHG emissions.)
wow, she said biking (46min) but not in the context of anything being done about it
Over half of this meeting gone with only a passing mention of bikes, let's see if PBOT has any bikes. #ClimateDenial
"reduce miles driven"... with bikes? They keep saying they need more money but are they going to spend it on getting people out of their cars? How much does that really cost? Should we just pay people to ride bikes?
We currently subsidize cars to the tune of about $5/mile so maybe just take the thumb off that scale?
Kanal in the discussion at 1h44 with ~"not everyone can ride a bike a dozen miles"
😒 half of car trips are 3 miles or less
"you can't take transit if it's not near you"
😑 you can ride a bike 1/2mile to transit
Morillo gets it, mentions biking to transit, groceries, and people who depend on bikes because they don't have other options (and the sound of cars crashing in the snow outside.)
😒 half of car trips are 3 miles or less
"you can't take transit if it's not near you"
😑 you can ride a bike 1/2mile to transit
Morillo gets it, mentions biking to transit, groceries, and people who depend on bikes because they don't have other options (and the sound of cars crashing in the snow outside.)
Avalos asking after #BusLanes #TransitPriority #RoseLanes -- "to reduce Black Portlander's time spent in traffic... data showed that they spent more than an entire week in traffic, more than their white counterparts."
I think city, and particularly PBOT, staff might have a bit of trauma from their prior city council's cluelessness, though clearly Dan Ryan is still here. The mentions in the presentation were always "walking and biking", "walk, roll, and take transit". We just looked at all of those charts of failing GHG reduction & still don't have a revolutionary bike+bus network transformation proposed!? Do the commissioners need to specifically request new solutions that meet those goals as they are now?
Until you plan and design for the vast majority of people to easily be able to bike, scooter, trike, or e-bike for a sub-3-mile trip, given the densities US cities currently have, then just admit you're continuing to plan a city around cars. You can have all the aspirations of transit oriented development, and the math simply doesn't connect, you won't have the ridership and political will to get there from here. You need a way to roll past that slump of parking-oriented sprawl. #ClimateDenial
Maybe every cog is too close to the part they play in the giant machine for them to see that throwing more funding at traditional process is not going to work. Maybe some of them know and are cynically playing along to preserve their job in amber, maybe we need a basic income program to get people who don't want to work out of those desks, IDK. If I were a city #transportation staffer in this era, and feeling urgency about #climateAction, I would be throwing out big cheap ideas early and often
The news story is PBOT gets $10M out of the Clean Energy Fund piggybank to sweep bike lanes. The same old story is they spent the gas tax on filling them with gravel and plowing them full of snow again. #pdxBikes #ClimateDenial
https://bikeportland.org/2023/03/02/portlands-snow-plows-and-protected-bike-lanes-370911
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@enobacon Unfortunately the system is designed to push out city transportation staffers who call for any radical deviation from the status quo (especially when those staffers, however credentialed, don't fit the visual mold of "expert" - male, white, gender conforming, abled, look and sound like they're from an upper-middle class background). The ones who speak up usually disappear or at least get kept out of situations where they can embarrass their bosses publicly.
@PedestrianError in Portland, we've just seated a new government and the 12-person council has a strictly legislative role (used be five meddling bureau commissioners assigned by the meddling mayor, who could reassign them at whim.) So hopefully we now have more continuity and less politics at the Engineer's desk, but there's a lot that needs to change and the last couple years with the same director is not a good trajectory, IMO. Williams' background in capital project planning is all 💸💸💸🚘🚘🚘