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Something I’ve been working at. Nice to see it out there.
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Fatalities of people walking steadily falling and then something tragic happened in 2010 to flip the curve.
What?
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So number of deaths halved between 1980 and 2010 so right things were being done. What changed besides cars getting significantly heavier and electric??
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They’ve Been Warned: Attorney General Says Suburbs ‘Must Comply’ With Transit-Oriented Housing Law
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A roundabout is very simply a barrier at the center of an intersection that forces all people driving to slow down
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@WallStreetApes
They can be condos. The American dream doesn’t have to include a car. It can include a walk to a train station. It can include a safe bike ride with your kid. Providing choices is a good thing.
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@PaulMeloan
No- though I think rising in Canada too.. We drive 70% more than Europe and they have some places with significantly better road designs for people walking and cycling.
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@AmritWilliams
hmm - refuted here. Why mostly at night and the number of deaths increased for smaller cars too....
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Can someone explain why we need HAWKS? What is the benefit over a stoplight that all drivers understand. Is their purpose to safe seconds for a person in a car? Truly curious. Put a camera on them if compliance is the problem and be done with it.
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Would all age and ability riders cycle here? Is that the best safety call?We build them but no one uses them. …
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@allengraetz
but crash reports would have found this. Who's high on the opiods , the driver, person walking or both? plus trend flipped earlier
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Is ok for cyclists to complain about congestion in separated shared use paths and beg engineers for wider lanes? 😊
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Can we please go back to rail distribution and smaller box trucks delivering locally??
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Please don’t suggest our culture didn’t completely buy into car centrism top to bottom. The voters, the planners, the local leaders, the engineers, the developers, the automakers, everybody. Hook, line, and sinker.
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take 25% of that and build safe protected bike networks all can use in city town centers working outwards.
Driving costs the average Massachusetts family [whether they have a car or not] $14,000/year.” –Harvard Kennedy School.
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@sam_d_1995
So is that a significant part of the reason Norway has done so much better…no vehicle weight or front area increases?
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@blue82vw
But cellphones exist all over, in places where walking deaths have come down since 2010…..
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Interesting that Ike never thought interstates would connect and go through cities. Imagine if only the ring roads and much better transit to cities from them was the design instead.
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@ASmith03615702
Hmm - funny take because I suspect both are but only one is driving 3k pound vehicle going 40+ mph. I don’t blame vehicles - I blame people operating them
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@CompletedStreet
Let’s get real. Maybe show 8 coming in in with 4 going through initially and solution being only 2 with cars going through and a bus lane, a train, and bike lane. Even Oslo has cars.
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Cash for clunkers only 700 k cars - over 300 million on road, small potatoes
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@_david_ho_
@DataDrivenFP
Are you really going here. They’re building a safer bike lane and are probably excited about it. Could be a demonstration project. Ease up
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Water and sewer users pay most often based on volume of use. Why not same for road users? Tax by weight and miles driven as we transition to electric cars.
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@voxdotcom
And how much more do Americans drive per capita comparatively. You can’t just ignore that
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@Boenau
This offense is "non-incarcerable," which means it is not punishable by jail or prison time, only by a fine.
What??!!
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@LauraGMitchell
Need to show them good data on risk. Our kids were raised during era of 9/11 and everyone kept their kids very close.
I rode my bike literally everywhere alone as a kid ….
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Engineers are leading the charge to shift 100 years of car centrism that permeated our country with a laser focus on safety. SS4A x 20. Tell your town to apply if they haven’t already. Tell your DOT to fix all the arterials they control. Support safe walk and bike networks.
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@Boenau
You guys think we live in a world that doesn’t yet exist. Safety is not like Bewitched. People without helmets on bikes and motorcycles will be in crashes tonight. Some will die. Go hang around an ER. Their chances of survival would be better with a helmet. It’s very simple.
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@Jamesinclair
Why count people crossing at at a dangerous place . Logic is bad.
Change MUTCD. Use density alone for these decisions
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Off topic. If housing simply kept pace with inflation your house would only be worth twice what it was in 1995 today. Maybe housing should not be an investment to make money from and has become big part of the housing problem young folks face today.
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@MikePMoffatt
We should be able to build duplexes for 300k each but maybe I’m still living in 2000
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@Boenau
Visit alone, not just as large group.
Note increased deference people driving give you when wearing the vest.
Visit at peak hour for cars and for people walking/biking. They may differ.
Walk full cycle of any crossings.
Note any jaywalking seen. Note dist to next crossings
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@AmritWilliams
thats a good pont.
I've not seen a good historical demographic data of drivers who kill people walking with their cars but I am share of older drivers is growing as young less likely to get a license now
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@bellachu10
All you have to do is obey the speed limit and stop at red lights. What so hard about that?
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@CubicleApril
@MinPedCA
its handheld use by driver being pointed at . we drive automatics and have free hand. -- europeans drive manuals -- we drive almost 70% more than they do too.
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@byJoshuaDavis
Why would those be inevitable? Aren’t Highway DOT employees doing just fine with heavily subsidized roads? Folks who focus on collection/ management of fares would take a hit is all but benefits for riders and increase in use should make this small problem.
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What?
"States must spend 15% of their Highway Safety Improvement Program funds on safety improvements for pedestrians and bicyclists, but only if fatalities of those road users are at least 15% of the traffic fatalities in the state."
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We should create car free micro business zones by right along rail trails and shared use paths.
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Crossing lights should always preempt for people walking.
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Can happen all over. Build safe bike and walk networks.
London's network of Cycleways is now enabling an average of over 1,250,000 cycle trips a day. And we're expanding it to connect up even more communities across the capital.
Great to see the new bike lanes being installed by
@CamdenCouncil
on Gordon Square, Bloomsbury.
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Again I remind everyone it is terrible zoning that that is at the heart of our traffic mess.
Engineers built to suit poor design of planners with their awful car mandated mostly low density zoning maps. A society sends millions upon millions more cars each year, tells a new
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A national inventory of sidewalks needs to be completed. The places with closest to twice as many sidewalk miles as road miles will most often be the most walkable cities and towns. A separate program encouraging building of sidewalks will pay for itself in future health savings
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Safe networks
POV: When your city installed a few bike lanes and now wonders why so few people are using them... 😱
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Very interesting fact
"When analyzing the top 30 pedestrian crash hotspots, the majority have multiple lanes, high traffic volumes, speed limit above 30 mph, and 97% have adjacent commercial land uses."
poor facilities for people walking near commercial STROADS
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Mandatory manual transmissions across the USA!! And especially for new drivers. Make all drivers ed training on a manual.
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@meeralSnakbar
Strange take. There’s good study that it was also gentrification pushing working poor out of city centers to suburbs with lousy bike and walk infrastructure
Were police really halted from enforcement in Phoenix where spikes have been large ?
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@Boenau
22 states banned state aid money from being used for sidewalks! Doesn’t that tell you all you need to know? I really want a deep dive into where cities and towns cared and voted local dollars for sidewalks historically, where there was a local groundswell to build them?
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Question of the day!!
Should a Professional Engineer sign off on any plan with a 65 or 75 speed limit when it’s proven by studies and history that more will die than when speed limit is 55?
Anyone?
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I really don’t understand why there is not free WiFi in busy places such as metros, train stations, tourist areas etc.. It’s as if it’s by design NOT to provide it. The most frustrating thing about travel is a lack of good WiFi when you need it which is most of the time.
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@WarrenJWells
Separation. If you wouldn’t put your 8 yr old there, most often I’d say- don’t build it.
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Planning removed pedestrians from most suburban places and then blame engineers for designing roads to move the growing numbers of people driving because they have little choice. . What have all planning boards focused on when reviewing projects for decades ?? MOVING TRAFFIC.
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Road safety advocates - should we we cancel trick or treating based on this data or is it just carnage we accept?
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What is the guidance that says this is a safe and comfortable bike lane?
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@bellachu10
what happened in 2010?? Design wasn’t great prior to 2010 but has only improved since then, no?
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@criticalurban
Ok Mary. As we build safe networks, many more will use them. I’ll agree that most people don’t want to ride a bike 3’ from a car going 40 mph.
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We could choose to spend more on transit to increase frequency to the point where people find in convenient
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It’s 2024. Build bike infrastructure that’s safe for an 8 year old, an eighty year old and everyone in between. No more paint only “road dressing” unless there’s a safe bike network a safe short walk away for the large majority non MAPILs.
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Researchers found that bike infrastructure, particularly physical barriers that separate bikes from speeding cars as opposed to shared or painted lanes, significantly lowered fatalities in cities that installed them.
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Many free park and ride lots should become also park and bike and park and walk lots. Build safe networks from all of them where it makes sense, when they are near places people want to go.
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By the early ’30s, the war was over. Ever after, “the street would be monopolized by motor vehicles,” ….By the 1960s, cars had become so dominant that when civil engineers made the first computer models to study how traffic flowed, they didn’t even bother to include pedestrians
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Don't forget that induced demand works for bike lanes, sidewalks, and especially safe shared use paths that connects places people want to go.
#parkandwalkbike
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@ob_cycler
@portofsandiego
@BikeSD
@CirculateSD
@sdbikecoalition
@ride_sd
Ask the boss if they’d let their kid ride a bike there?
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@Justabackup12
@sam_d_1995
Why isn’t change of those regs at top of Biden and Pete’s list in fight against fatalities of people walking???
@bellachu10
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Any traffic engineer who blames a pedestrian or bicyclist for their injuries in a collision should be criticized
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@natehoodstp
My point is you need to talk about the rate of something to have an honest discussion. Would any public health professional ignore the rate of drinking when talking about alcohol related deaths? VMT is at the root of our problem
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NTSB is recommending speed limiters in US cars. Will libertarian America ever allow control of speed when they are driving their cars? Autonomous is coming in any case but I can only imagine the political ads.
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Why haven’t we yet figured out the cost for a fare free bus and commuter train America and the effect that would have on ridership and the associated CO2 reductions??
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Nobody should have to go on a waiting list to find an affordable place to live. Were there waiting lists in the 40s and 50s? We just need to greatly increase supply and remove cost prohibitive barriers built into our zoning and building codes wherever possible.
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@bellachu10
Many of us engineers are working hard for protected safe passage for all people who walk and cycle on our road systems….
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The biggest roadblock to affordable housing is the mindset that housing is a money making investment that consistently gains real value instead of just being homes for Americans that depreciate like cars do holding value or slowly appreciating only when well maintained.
#supply
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Planners focusing blame on engineers for ever increasing traffic congestion and road deaths when every planning hearing for 60 years for a new development focuses primarily on how to more quickly move more traffic is like a bad manager blaming her workers for her poor decisions.
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