You don’t know ‘what to do’ if you haven’t a clue on ‘how to get it done.’
This has been the case with the 2 decades’ old #CompleteStreets and the decade old #VisionZero / #SafeSystem paradigms.
We’ve claimed to know what needs doing without having a clue about how to actually do it.
just for kicks, I did measure. following the meander as currently designed, it's 195' taking out the meander and putting the crossing where the #SafeSystem approach suggests it should go reduces the the distance to 190' the built-in risk to pedestrians and cyclists truly is gratuitous.
Just today I listened to this amazing #MLStreetTalk with @tdietterich recommending:
» I think everybody should read #NancyLeveson book
'Engineering A Safer World'
because what she says is you don't build a #SafeSystem and then deploy it.
Safety is a really a control concept that a system is...we need to be constantly controlling and modifying the system to keep it safe.
And think it's very similar to this problem of the #UnknownUnknowns «
Remember: there is no such thing as nonviolent driving, only driving that is relatively more or less violent.
A truly #SafeSystem requires rendering driving increasingly less violent and obsolete.
RT by @mobilityweek: As 🇪🇺 European #RoadSafety Coordinator, I salute 🫡 this campaign by @UN & @JCDecauxGlobal! Let’s all contribute to making our streets 🚲☘️ and vehicles safer, with responsible driving 🚙 and better post-crash care. #SafeSystem #MakeASafetyStatement @JeanTodt
@Transport_EU
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/EUAmbSchmidt/status/1704838608165728481#m
[2023-09-21 12:42 UTC]
วันนี้ ทีมงานสัญญาณไฟจราจรของ DOMI (Mobility and Infrastructure-City of Pittsburgh) ตั้งโปรแกรมและติดตั้ง treatment แบบ “Lead thru Interval” (ครั้งแรกเในเมือง) แยก Penn- Centre แยกใกล้ๆ Target
คนเดินเท้าข้ามถนนจะได้รับ 15 วินาทีนำหน้า (แทนที่3-5 วินาทีนำหน้าของ LPI แบบดั้งเดิม) กับยานพาหนะในทิศทางเดียวกัน
งานนี้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งของโครงการ East Liberty Priority corridors pedestrian and traffic safety plan.
Panini Amin Chowdhury, AICP, RSP. on LinkedIn: #safesystem #safety #accessibility
Obviously it's ridiculous that our safest route to school includes a busy road with no pedestrian or bicycle facilities. This desperately needs to be addressed.
But a #SafeSystem also needs a culture of safety -- including drivers who can recognize when they need to slow down, give space, and have grace.
Using card stock to support a stack of several hundred toilets and calling it an accident when a slight miscue by a worker is followed by all the toilets crashing to the ground is exactly how the US roadway system works.
(apologies for the FB link; I couldn't find an original source)
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3132852703683508
RT @schlthss: The #MUTCD signal warrant system - made up by a bunch of dudes in a room in the 1930s- is not an appropriate decision making tool in a #SafeSystem people first world.
RT @nerd4cities@msdtn.social The most commonly applied traffic engineering methodology says you should not put a pedestrian signal here unless there are already at least 20 pedestrians crossing. But people are never going to cross here unless there’s a signal. It’s like a traffic engineering zen koan
Register for the last session in CSCRS’s final Research to Practice Bytes series examining COVID street transformations w/presenter @DrTCombs (hey that's me)
When: May 31, 2:30-3pm (EDT)
Where: https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X2B7zBAeTRuNw8V2yZUlIA#/registration
Who: me, you, all our #SafeSystem friends
Why: because #COVID19 changed everything, including how we use, think about, and plan for streets. And also because it's the last #webinar for this amazing organization.
I really, really, really don't give a flying flip about that time you saw a bicyclist run a stop sign.
Also let's stop designing city streets like drag strips.
#SafeStreetsForAll #DrivingIsAPrivilege #RecklessDriving #VisionZero #SafeSystem #BikeTooter
*How to get Safe Systems wrong...and how to get it right*
This video is one of my absolute favorite products from #CSCRS (Collaborative Sciences Center for #RoadSafety), featuring two of my absolute favorite researchers and colleagues: @sethlaj & Eric Dumbaugh
It's worth your 30 minutes.
#SafeSystem #RoadSafety #VisionZero #Transport #BikeTooter #Walking #Planning #TenPitfalls
PSA: RRFBs are ‘courtesy prompts for drivers.’
They do not protect people trying to cross the street.
Read: they do not deliver us a truly #SafeSystem, one in which no one is seriously harmed *despite* the behavior of road users.
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/resources/interim_approval/ia21/index.htm
Is your community working on or thinking about implementing #VisionZero efforts? April's Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety online seminar features students discussing a project to build an online library of VZ resources with actionable tools and activities.
Join the webinar next week- April 26.
Register here: https://t.co/5Hqo3zZQjA
Hey Tooters, I'm gradually shifting my #video content from #Youtube to #PeerTube. If seeing silly/deadly/occasionally educational videos of the state of #transportation in the US (and sometimes a fuzzy red puppy) makes you happy, please give me a follow:
https://urbanists.video/a/drtcombs/video-channels
#BikeTooter #FediBikes #WalkTooter #RoadSafety #VisionZero #SafeStreetsForAll #UrbanPlanning #Urbanism #SafeSystem #SafeRoutesToSchool #Cycling #Walking #CompleteStreets #CarCulture #CarBrain #Motornormativity
What excuses will we make this time to justify propping up a system that kills over 40,000 humans a year? How many more lives need to be sacrificed before it's worth investing in safer roads, safer vehicles, safer systems?
#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #SafeSystem #BikeTooter
https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/04/05/from-anger-to-action-after-the-loss-of-another-cyclist/
These on every local and collector road, please! #SafeSystem
📸: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-23176-7_36-1
🚦 New EU #RoadSafety initiatives 🚦
“Safe driving is crucial in our efforts to halve road deaths and serious injuries by 2030.” #SafeSystem
Transport Commissioner @AdinaValean on today’s proposals 👇 https://europa.eu/!cdCc7Q
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Transport_EU/status/1630938061566509056
Anything less than this on a rural road is not a #SafeSystem.
Source: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-23176-7_36-1
Got the indomitable and incomparable @sethlaj dropping some #SafeSystem wizardry on my #CompleteStreets students today. I'm sadly missing the fun (thanks, #COVID) but at least got a glimpse of the title slide before they dove in.
Trying to deal with my #FOMO like an adult, but this is one talk I definitely did not want to miss!
