Traffic calming for your soul

Goat made of hay burns in front of a crowd of people

Nice night for a good old fashioned effigy burning

How much further will you have to walk to the E line station?

People used to bite babies in the head. Hug your children.

Until you look at their numbers and see that they’re driving 1/300 as often as the average human and realize that they’re likely choosing the conditions they’re driving in too. Human crash rates would be lower too if we drove .003 as often and in perfect conditions

Walter Van Brunt & Maurice Burkhardt - The Ghost of the Violin [U.S., Rag] (1912) Halloween song from a century ago

Walter Van Brunt & Maurice Burkhardt - The Ghost of the Violin [U.S., Rag] (1912) Halloween song from a century ago
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Are there any independent, peer reviewed studies of av safety? It seems like the waymo report has pretty big issues with sample size and potentially selection bias. I feel like before we hand our public space over to a corporate robot army we should have someone double check their math at least 😅

Yet in the USA engineers refuse to place them, calling them a “hazard”

Over to Monaco🇲🇨 where we have exclusive footage of bollards saving lives.
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My ancestor was in the First Minnesota too! Red Wing company I think. Not sure how long he served

The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Is there any rational explanation for Trump’s pardon of Hernández? Is anyone looking into whether Trump took a bribe for this?l

Agreed, autonomous vehicles should be limited to transit agencies only, which should be allowed to use them for car-hires as a financing tool. Also operators of non-autonomous vehicles should be given 100% liability for all damages to person or property as an incentive to switch to the state service

Most worrying for the region, there are several instances of weird stones set in concrete, as in the pic below. This is also used in Eugene, and is a serious tripping hazard for pedestrians, on top of reducing the available space for walking.

Typical segment of the protected lane — pretty nice!

But the protected segment ends quickly, after which it becomes a parking lane (which a mail carrier is using in this pic)

While speed bumps may help reduce average driving speeds, they didn’t think or care to put them only in the driving lanes, making for an uncomfortable bike ride

No accommodation was made for the fact that this sidewalk from D street is commonly used to connect to the popular river paths

Springfield, Oregon, recently rebuilt .7 miles of Mill St with curb-level, one-way bike lanes. But for some reason, less than half the length of the street has the protected lanes — most of it is just painted lanes. Garbage infra like this won’t convince anyone to bike instead of driving.

Can cherry stone grit be scaled up for use in highways? And how many old fashioneds do I need to drink for that? 😋

A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out.

With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
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You should come to Oregon, where 4 way stops with left turns permitted without stopping at one leg are thrown into the mix

Either the mayor is too powerful, or not powerful enough

New Free Bus Service Connects Corvallis, Eugene and McMinnville, Starts Monday - The Corvallis Advocate A new public transit pilot project offering bus service between McMinnville and Eugene, with two stops in Corvallis, officially launches on Monday, November 24. The pilot project, dubbed 99 Vine, is a...

There’s a new intercity bus service launching in the Willamette Valley that doesn’t require tickets. Has anyone heard of any other fareless intercity bus services? corvallisadvocate.com/new-free-bus...

Thanks! I assumed it was regional but I guess it must happen anywhere officials are corruptable by Big Leafblower

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

This photo was taken the last time they cleaned the grill

How common is Oregon’s insane system of blowing leaves into the street for pickup? I’d never heard of it till I moved here

Typically due primarily to household size reduction

Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to:
1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies
2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit

These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.

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imagine how much better our city would be if more mayors and councilmembers and department heads actually rode transit and bikes.

If this country weren’t insane it would be impossible to drive more than 100 yards without stopping or making a sharp turn

Lol not even close

Ratings agencies watch the ratio of debt to taxable value of public entities and downgrade ratings if it gets too high, making it more expensive to service debt. That said, my understanding is that most states bond very conservatively due to decades of neoliberalism from economists