Had me at retractable #bollards @citynerd, #Urbanism

#Seattle #BanCars #PikePlaceMarket

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFbL9YVonnw

If I was a city department of #transportation, and preventing catastrophic collapse of our road network's base layer would triple the bureau's current operating budget while we were utterly failing at #VisionZero or #ClimateAction plans, I might stop doing something expensive and wasteful like pandering to drivers' feelings by letting any car cut through any street in any direction. #ModalFilters #Bollards #BanCars #Portland https://www.instagram.com/p/C_YZr-YPNQV/?img_index=3

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.

#Portland traffic Engineerers love to sing "give us more money" and "police harder" but #bollards are cheap, let's go #BanCars

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