😀🚲with "transportation bureaus" and "bike advocates" like these, who needs transportation bureaus and bike advocates? #Portland #Beaverton #bhHwy, Bertha, Capitol, all three are key bike routes which are stranded by #ODOTGTFOpdx's stroads.
scott f@enobacon I see their point after reading the argument against it. Your bike advocacy community needs a way to internally come to consensus on these kinds of disagreements about strategy and priority, and then present a united front about whatever decision is reached (even if not everyone is wild about it). Being divided is fatal to progress.
@enobacon We had an internally divided bike advocacy community in SF recently around Valencia Street, a major route where the city proposed bike lanes running down the center of the street. Most people hated the idea but in the bike advocacy world some decided to support it because at least it was some change from the useless delivery driver double-parking lanes we had, while others decided to vociferously oppose. That public acrimony set back cycling in SF by years.
@scott but the center-running lanes were a bad design 🤷 hard to think the people who opposed it were the ones who got it wrong.
Simplicator@Simplicator @enobacon hmm I disagree. Associational democracy, where members of (for example) a local bike coalition debate and vote on the position of the coalition and then express that position in public, is democracy on action.
@Simplicator @scott the problem there is choose-only-one voting / welcome to my starvoting.org advocacy newsletter