Allan Rudwick

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(he/him) Dad on a Bike, Ultimate Frisbee player, Neighborhood advocate. Engineer. my thoughts are my own

Eliot, Portland, Oregon, USA

Allan RudwickJul 11, 2024

The Blame Game: Why Elmer the Safety Elephant Can’t Protect Kids https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/7/11/the-blame-game-why-elmer-the-safety-elephant-cant-protect-kids

cc @TheWarOnCars

woah holy victim blaming batman

The Blame Game: Why Elmer the Safety Elephant Can’t Protect Kids

Safety practices and education are vital for children, but when that education is focused solely on personal responsibility and is enforced through shame, it can do more harm than good. Personal responsibility can only go so far: For streets to truly be safe, changes to the transportation system its

Strong Towns
Allan RudwickJul 1, 2024
Show threadMike PerhamJul 1, 2024
Here’s BP’s video on the Loud and Lit ride. What an incredible event. #portland #BikeTooter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soh2AE8XP5A
Loud N Lit Ride

YouTube
Allan RudwickJun 26, 2024
Andrew LokenauthJun 26, 2024

This book has completely changed my whole perspective on writing.

10/10 writing advice.

Show threadAllan RudwickJun 26, 2024
@enobacon huge if true
Allan RudwickJun 26, 2024
😀🚲Jun 26, 2024
holy crap, PBOT new parking enforcement staff "will focus primarily on expired tags, missing plates, wrong-way parking, and vehicles blocking visibility at intersections. Additionally, officers will begin booting vehicles that have orders to tow issued by Multnomah County Circuit Court." #DriverAccountability #VisionZero
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORPORTLAND/bulletins/3a4dcc6
News Release: PBOT hires new officers, increases parking enforcement in neighborhoods

Portland Bureau of Transportation
Allan RudwickJun 25, 2024

TFW someone silently tries to pass you (both on bikes) and then you were planning to turn left without signaling. They yell at you and it is clearly a no fault / both at fault situation.

Anyhow maybe don't have such anger issues, dude

Allan RudwickJun 25, 2024
The War on CarsJun 25, 2024

NEW EPISODE:

"Killed by a Traffic Engineer"

In his new book, Wes Marshall argues that his fellow traffic engineers need to do some deep soul searching about the rules they follow so that they no longer design a system that kills tens of thousands of people per year.

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

#thewaroncars #podcast

https://thewaroncars.org/2024/06/25/129-killed-by-a-traffic-engineer/

Allan RudwickJun 23, 2024
Ken ShirriffJun 23, 2024
To use the Montreal subway, you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. But how does it work? And how can the ticket be so cheap that it's disposable? I opened up the tiny NFC chip inside to find out more... 1/15
Allan RudwickJun 23, 2024
PedestrianError  Jun 23, 2024

You need school buses because you zoned for sprawl, you contract out bus service because the sprawl Ponzi scheme can’t cover the costs it incurs and the sprawl dwellers don’t want to pay taxes, you get “tragic accidents”. Suburbia will not make you safe.

https://apnews.com/article/child-killed-school-bus-westchester-0ccb8f7ef0bbbd9decd26b046faa7c49

A kindergarten student and his mother were struck and killed by school bus while walking to school

Police say a kindergarten student and his mother have been struck and killed by a school bus on while walking to school in suburban New York. The crash happened just after 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the village of Mamaroneck in Westchester County. The boy and his mother were walking to Mamaroneck Avenue Elementary School when they were hit by a yellow minibus. Police say the 6-year-old child died at the scene and the 43-year-old mother succumbed to her injuries at the hospital. Investigators say the bus driver is not facing charges as the incident appears to be a “tragic accident.”

AP News
Allan RudwickJun 21, 2024
Tab CombsJun 21, 2024

I just got back from a grocery run, and holy crap. The difference in temperature between a greenway in the woods and a sidewalk next to a multilane road is mindboggling. The greenway was almost pleasant. The road felt more like the surface of the sun.

It's almost* as if continuing to coddle drivers by building out more and more roads is actually contributing to the global heat wave we're living in right now. [*sarcasm]