$30M design for some #BusLanes on #e82ndAve 😒 #trafficEngineers, can we just give the kids some red paint?

@kimu there's enough space that they could park outside the bike lane and cars could still go by at twice the posted speed. 🤡 #trafficEngineers keep trying to prove that it's not a real profession.

The problem with self-driving cars isn't letting a computer drive a car so much as it is letting billionaires drive your government. #trafficEngineers who let the manuals make the decisions might as well let cars design the city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040ejWnFkj0

#triMet board member calls out #Oregon state #transportation dept #trafficEngineers for clinging to disproven pseudoscience Level of Service aka V/C in #E82ndAve planning. #InducedDemand couched in the "safety" concerns about cars backing-up on the freeway offramps. #Portland metro will never be free of this braindead worship of the highway manual until we remove that authority from ODOT. #ODOTGTFOpdx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOM0dFcFUU

https://bikeportland.org/2026/02/02/video-trimet-board-member-reminds-odot-to-put-people-over-cars-399176

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/115996952466436740

#tacticalUrbanism popup #roundabouts -- when people come together in public space outside of their cars, we see the same patterns over and over. Why is this completely unlike the #SafeStreets projects proposed by #trafficEngineers? (& shelved pending $30m+ budgets 💸) It's not blinkinlights on 5-lane #stroads, it's impediments to platoons of SUVs rolling through at speed (which is exactly what the "traffic model" thinking tries to preserve at all costs.) #acab #AbolishICE #VisionZero #BanCars

Loads of excellent public testimony in favor of #BusLanes on #e82ndAve #Portland (Note the comparison to Foster Rd, which several years ago received a road diet while the furniture salesman posted ~"the end is nigh" on the front of his store for 2yrs leading up to it 😆 ) #TriMet #transit #InducedDemand #trafficEngineers #ODOTGTFOpdx

https://youtu.be/cNmC93Vfy3U?t=7832

#trafficEngineers won't rest until the earth is a smoking husk, still holding the delusion that drivers would ever learn to zipper-merge or think ahead and cooperate in the most basic kindergarten way.

https://bsky.app/profile/bikeportland.org/post/3mciis73l4k2c

One could probably take the sidewalk going the other way, but more slowly and/or at more risk of drivers pulling in and out without expecting anyone to be zipping through on the sidewalk. Would be nice if #trafficEngineers had some infrastructure ideas besides painting a bike lane between two truck lanes. #BarburBlvd #odotGTFOpdx

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@lkanies/115674783162195509

Nobody being held accountable for driver behavior and no #trafficEngineers being held accountable for the infrastructure relying on behavior instead of being made safe by-design. #zeroVision #DriverAccountability

@hyenachow - banning e-bikes when the drivers of giant trucks kill their users, that should keep everyone safe inside and never go out or take a shower without a helmet

> The JJ Richards & Sons rubbish truck had been turning into George Street from Little Regent Street when it collided with the ebike. [I hope the #trafficEngineers have a look into how that was possible.]

I hope they find the #trafficEngineers who did this. #DivergingDiamond #fuckCars #SendThickerPosts

@ascentale #bikeNite A8 more of a question really, why are architects able to use real #bollards but #trafficEngineers can't somehow / all bike lanes get is paint? #bikeTooter #paintIsNotProtection

> Topeka Police Dept is asking anyone in the area of a fatal hit-and-run accident last weekend to reach out

😒 #crashNotAccident NW Paramore and Topeka Blvd. I hope they find the #trafficEngineers who did this. #stroads

crap://www.wibw.com/2025/11/20/tpd-seeking-witnesses-fatal-hit-and-run/

@knord so "details matter" and a lot of the challenge, IMO, is to get into that level of the design and get #trafficEngineers to offer the right options into the beginning of the process, prioritizing safety and access above car speeds, and in the context of current/future/desired land use. That all requires some acceptance of how #InducedDemand and understandig how actual drivers behave, so we have a long way to go & may well build a shitload of bad roundabouts that aren't good to bike either.

#trafficEngineers need to have teenagers drive through their designs in a simulator or something. This parking lane before Salmon is a left-turn-only lane on the next block, and they want people on bikes to stand there in an unprotected green box between those two car-parking/driving spaces.

https://bikeportland.org/2025/10/31/new-protected-bike-lane-bus-lanes-now-open-on-sw-4th-ave-397845

(6th picture in the set https://bikeportland.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SW-4th-Avenue-2.jpg )

"2022... project lowered the speed limit (from 35 and 40 mph to 30 mph) removed one of the general travel lanes and added buffered bike lanes in each direction. Unfortunately PBOT did not install any physical protection"

How do #trafficEngineers, knowing that 11mph over the speed limit is a given (if enforcement was going to happen at all), post 30mph on a surface street through a city? #VisionZero

#trafficEngineers are perplexed at why this driver didn't follow the rules, signs, paint... https://bikeportland.org/2025/10/01/riders-account-of-near-miss-underscores-persistent-threat-of-reckless-drivers-397245

I'm not sure whether to be more concerned that they can't keep a 7ft car in a 10ft lane or if they intentionally only almost hit my elbow. Truck too big for your britches? GTFO. 😠 also #trafficEngineers, this is what drivers are.

"If there's no one entity who is ultimately responsible for road safety." [ahem #trafficEngineers]

#trafficEngineers like to say safety comes first, but they mean the crosswalk signal makes walking illegal after a few seconds while the green light stays on for several more seconds, partly because the street has been made twice as wide as necessary, "for safety". They're just ensuring car speed, and that almost nobody who can afford a car will walk, bike, or take transit. This is fundamentally the opposite of safety. #20isPlenty #FuckCars #BanCars