Chris Bowe

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Rails, you say?

A flatbed truck, two men, and a hammer drill

Concrete precasters will make a custom mold for ya if there is a commitment to buy enough units

Seattle traffic engineers have seen enough. Raised crosswalks improve safety and accessibility for all road users, which is ample justification for using their engineering judgement to include them in slip lanes without incurring unmanageable levels of liability.

Many such cases.

🚨 BIG ASS PARKING BUMPER PROTECTED BIKE LANES 🚨

🚨 RAISED CROSSWALK IN AN INTERSTATE RAMP SLIP LANE 🚨

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I’m assuming the water resources engineers just get a blank check on that design. Pump manufacturers buying stock in Boring as we speak

Queen (non-monarchical) shit, imo

The cost of bicycle infrastructure is so so so so cheap comparative to anything built for motor vehicle traffic.

And since there is basically zero road damage associated with bike traffic, it only needs to be resurfaced like twice a century. Shameful that we continue to omit it from projects!

Not yet, technically!

Although the requirements to become a licensed traffic engineer have laughably little to do with designing safe, equitable, or accessible roadways 🤷‍♂️

East Bend streets plan overlaid on the existing aerial via Google Maps

I've been having the hardest time visualizing this overlay on the existing conditions, so I made this quick version for reference!

With TPC considering Haywood Ln this afternoon, I wanted to express some thoughts:
Haywood Ln has been on the Motor High Injury Network since the city adopted VZ. Now, three pedestrians were killed last year. Haywood is unique to HIN because it's a local road that NDOT exclusively controls.
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Nerds clusters the new GOAT - like going back in time to watch Tom Brady in the 2010s

Vrabel complicates this for Titans people, I’m told.

Appears to be a +2 tree improvement for Seattle’s urban tree canopy. What say you now, environmentally motivated NIMBY?

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Now we’re talking

Trees don’t really go with shallow underground utilities… you need to provide a buffer between the buried line and the root zone, but if you bury ALL the utilities you need buffers between each of those utilities and you run out of buffer space surprisingly quickly!

WE ARE ALL THE SUBURBS OF LOS ANGELES NOW!

This is the exact thing that planners will tell you that zoning is actually for!

Keeping nuisance uses away from residents!

I was *this* close to having the roofers add some continuous exterior insulation above the existing sheathing when they redid my roof last fall.

Then I discovered that there is *zero* insulation in most of my exterior walls, so at this point I think it just is what it is…

Crazy to think he was an unstoppable force in the post less than an hour ago

Fair - the quality of the bikes in Nashville is pretty poor. I would never willingly take a Bcycle over my own e-bike for that reason.

But I do take it for lunch outings from work or to complete the last mile of a bus trip pretty frequently.

I am a regular bike share user in Nashville, but I can’t imagine that the population of “people willing to use a bike for transportation but not on their own bike” is very large.

Is there a bigger audience within the bike culture of Portland?

Not sure - sounds like a job for some sort of head of municipal data collection and distribution?

@neilkornutick.bsky.social, have you ever heard of something like that?

Just wait until noon - most streets should melt off by then! Sun + higher temps will save us

Don't forget another very important reason: above ground power lines are ugly.

Beautiful places build pride of place. Utility poles and the clutter of power lines aren't beautiful.

When I’m finally appointed as Chief Depaving Officer, Davidson Street may well become my magnus opus.

That or this absolute catastrophe:

Probably very few cases where that would work, but Davidson is likely one of them.

This is an interesting case. If you could pick one curb line to keep and you establish a new curb line on the same side of the existing roads’ crown, then you wouldn’t need to install new stormwater inlets and pipes. All the drainage would flow down the slope to the existing curb and inlets.

What color was it?

I feel like declared states of emergency should overrule your duty to perform work tasks even if you’re a WFHer