“Oregon would be dedicating funding to safer streets while at the same time outlawing the changes on the ground that are needed to make those streets safe.” [even ODOT #trafficEngineers are already to the left of this Jarvis-brained nonsense, and the widest legal vehicle is just over 8ft without mirrors] #VisionZero

https://bikeportland.org/2025/06/13/trucking-advocates-face-headwinds-in-push-for-mandatory-12-foot-lanes-394969

No amount of pedestrians standing in the hot sun can satisfy a highway #trafficEngineers' traffic model while zero cars go by for half of the time. People are just crossing because standing there to cook vs judging the risk for themselves, obvs. #stroads #FuckCars #BanCars #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

#FietsProfessor says the past 100yrs of #trafficEngineering seems like it was set in stone. The language we use shapes the way people think, "traffic jam / clog" is the language of sewage. And "closing streets" to cars creates #openStreets for children. Also most people find #transportation boring but #freeRangeKids, #SchoolStreets, #BikeBus capture more attention. Make #trafficEngineers argue against the idea of #AutonomousChildren not #Cyclists. @TheWarOnCars

#trafficEngineers who use ADT as an excuse for not installing traffic calming GTFO. (Traffic calming would reduce speeds and maybe Average Daily Traffic volume, so if you have a safety issue, your job is...) #inducedDemand

We just need #trafficEngineers to be clear that their first priority is giving drivers a chance to kill someone and maybe one more free parking spot, vs ensuring the safety of our #transportation system.

I tried, y'all, to tell the #trafficEngineers that shit rolls downhill, but they didn't change the design that dumps this gravel onto the intersection. SW 41st & Capitol Hwy #pdxBikes c/w dizzying #carSupremacy

Apt metaphor for #trafficEngineers 😒

Me [catching up] why are you honking?
Driver: you're on the roadway.

#trafficEngineers: 🔶 🚲 "on roadway"

Obviously drivers can't read that way over there, cowering on the other side of the sidewalk so cars won't hit it. (Yeah, sidewalks are not able to prevent cars from hitting pedestrians, but we can just "share" traffic lanes and drivers will follow the rules and pay attention like good little robots (and no not even the robot drivers follow the rules.)) #BikeTooter

Despite a little rain, I still managed to transport a child up a hill to a thing five miles away and carry a load of groceries up a hill to get home. Actual obstacles to replacing 10-mile car trips with #eBikes are still only imaginary, political / the #FakeScience excuses of state highway departments' #trafficEngineers, and #honky #drivers. #ClimateDenial #transportation #stroads #ODOTGTFOpdx #leaveTheCarAtHome

straight from the mouths of #trafficEngineers, making cars go fast enough to kill you is expensive #VisionZero

laundry list of intersections that need more #bollards here (street takeovers in Portland) #trafficEngineers #VisionZero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az6brTAT7PQ

#swBerthaBlvd should have #advisoryBikeLanes in this stretch instead of #yellowCenterlines -- of course the advantage of this car-dominated design is people won't ride bikes and there will be more car traffic, thus creating job security for #trafficEngineers nevermind a bit of #ClimateDenial #pdxBikes #Portland

The #trafficEngineers' reluctance to put any unyielding #Bollards of steel and concrete in the place where they put paint or plastic posts is a lot of excuses about safety but fundamentally it is admitting that drivers simply will not reliably stay on their side of the line and/or the posted speed without somebody standing there and pointing a gun at them. If you're confident enough that unarmored people could safely put their body there, drivers better not hit anything that occupies that spot.

This intersection is a whole encyclopedic fuckery of everything that's wrong with #trafficEngineers. The curb radius designed for high-speed turns through the bike lanes and to avoid damaging the plastic sticks, they're set far away from the place we actually want drivers to be turning, around some obstacle so they don't squeeze people on bikes into the curb. This will also piss off all of the residents who drive everywhere, who depend on the existing left turn pockets for basic mobility 🙄

Cars that passed us on the steep part of the corbett hill were just getting a green light to cross Barbur when we caught up (about 1.5 miles later.) Had we been a few seconds later to the light we would have had to wait for the next cycle. The city being covered with thruway stroads is just a constant tax of impediment to mobility and drivers aren't even moving faster than people on e-bikes with 100ft+ hill climbing 🙄 #trafficEngineers, engineering traffic.

@HayiWena IMO we're not doing anything on climate "advising" until we get into the details of lane widths, whether there is a yellow centerline, and specific placement of #bollards to control car speeds and limit cut-thru traffic, ontvlechten #trafficEngineers

@jef now do the number of deaths per VMT, which is a fairly standard outcome from #trafficEngineers' "standard" designs, and quite a bit higher in the US than in developed nations.

#DriverAccountability ... #trafficEngineers, engineering traffic.

"cause of the crash is under investigation" my ass. If #trafficEngineers can't see the problem here, they shouldn't have any authority at all.

Our approach to road safety is like a three-legged stool of Engineering, Enforcement, and Education — where we keep cutting the legs shorter to make it sit level. 😞 Infrastructure educates and enforces, if we would require #trafficEngineers to work to the standards of an Engineering profession rather than fake science and pretending drivers are infallible rule-followers.