Why do people even drive in the curb lane on #stroads? I think maybe it's the highway / freeway mentality of staying out of the "passing lane", but then the #honky assholes never seem to conform to that anyway. Would there be less honking if I just bike in the left lane? How about make this a bus lane gov 🙃 #WithDemsLikeThese #orPol #defundDOTs #ODOTGTFOpdx
(audio C/W unhinged yelling)
I'm so done with democrats trying to middle-of-the-road this #transportation package #orPol #ClimateDenial #DefundDOTs #BanCars
Congratulations to the "bike lanes are not the most important thing in Portland" people for not getting what they want while shouting down the mayor and ensuring that car lanes remain the most important thing in Portland 🙄 I'm sure they all had a nice drive home. #transportation #orPol #BanCars #DefundDOTs #ACAB #ClimateDenial
@americanfietser.bsky.social #DefundPolice #defundDOTs #ZeroVision #ACAB SUV driving at a walking pace bullhorning pedestrians to clear the street, has got to win some kind of prize for most #carBrained way to conclude an #openStreets event
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevance.net/post/3lxq4e53bzc2e (also note I wish the fedi bridge would post links in this form so they would preview/embed 🙃
Checking the news from Salem and it wasn't great before I checked either. #orPol #transportation #CarBrain #ClimateDenial #defundDOTs #ODOTGTFOpdx #Portland #WithDemsLikeThese
Is it possible to "fund safety" in #transportation if you can't first move the default away from the idea that "austerity" means maintaining five car lanes with no bike lanes or sidewalks? Those car lanes aren't free to maintain, let alone with $3M in stop light hardware at every intersection, but an agency with ~$4B annual budget can't change it without more money? The gas tax is bringing less per-mile revenue than it costs to keep all of this as-is, that's the whole problem. #defundDOTs
The riding-your-bike-somewhere to firing-traffic-engineers pipeline is so very fucking short, I know people aren't riding their bikes enough. #FuckCars #BanCars #trafficEngineering #defundDOTs #BikeTooter
"at first I was annoyed by the bikes, but when I was still recovering from a broken foot, I tried those rental Metro bikes and was like, "Oh hell no to riding on Wilshire..."
https://bsky.app/profile/cranemonster.bsky.social/post/3lsuw3lh6os2i
@ordinoides index odot's budget to the inverse of inflation #DefundDOTs
weird how this comes out as an ad for the paving company's stock rather than a chance to cut $70B/yr in wasteful government spending #FuckCars #defundDOTs #NoMoreFreeways
#orLeg dems get your head out of your cars challenge #noMoreFreeways #orPol
NBD, you can just lose the governor's race as we slide into fascism and torch the planet. #ClimateAction #transportation #defundDOTs
We had just passed a "Share the Road" sign, if you were wondering whether those worked. #BikeTooter #defundDOTs #ODOTGTFOpdx
We got blank checks for billions of dollars in freeway widening but need to have a bake sale for kids to ride their bikes to school. Maybe we spent too much getting cars a free ride to school, and a few hundred million for flashing lights is just more car infrastructure anyway. #BanCars #SchoolStreets #BikeBus #defundDOTs
Don't tell me you have a trillion dollar budget hole and then it includes a bunch of stuff we don't need. #defundDOTs
If we're short on funds, maybe the trucks need to slow down a bit.
#VisionZero #transportation #CarSupremacy #ClimateAction #ProtectedBikeLanes #DefundDOTs #ClimateDenial #Vision60or70something
"As we achieve our mode shift and EV goals we defund the bureau" (as if cars were paying for everything we're giving them.) #PBOT #DefundDOTs #CarSupremacy #transportation
News release from #PBOT saying that if it snows, they're ready to dump gravel in the bike lanes and leave it there all year. 😒 #DefundDOTs
Just doing it completely backwards. They spend so much money making cars go faster, while talking about safety 🤨 #tacticalUrbanism #DefundDOTs
@glightly Every state DOT at this point is essentially a machine for turning federal grants into paving contracts (with a splash of bike-hostile design to ensure that bikes and walking and transit are never viable.) Political pressure is essential but they need to be more than reined-in, IDK, like 0% of the realm of possible futures for policy/design & funding imagined by the staff + electeds is even real, #GeometryHatesCars #CarsRuinCities #HousingCrisis #ClimateCrisis #DefundDOTs #BanCars &c
@BreadAndSalt what's amazing to me is their ability to think they will somehow pass a street fee to fund a bureau that operates like this. #DefundDOTs
