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sick of cars driving through Bell Street Park? ask electeds and SDOT officials to add diverters so only bikes and pedestrians can go through! actionnetwork.org/letters/d439...

actionnetwork.orgFix Bell St. Park!The Problem: Bell Street Park is both a public gathering space and a key connection point in the downtown bike network, as the only all-ages-and-abilities bike route connecting the waterfront to down...

17/10/26, 10:53 pm21 reposts107 likes

Larry Walker

@walker-larry.bsky.social

Good grief: why wasn’t the pkan implemented with the diversions in the first place? Did anybody in their right mind actually think that automobiles obey paint??? Traffic engineers simply created a very attractive traffic-shortcut!

skytransitcyclist.bsky.social

@skytransitcyclist.bsky.social

The contradiction between your second and third sentences explains it all: "anybody in their right mind" vs "traffic engineer". A discipline that neither understands nor cares for the humans that use it will never include an abundance of people "in their right mind".

Larry Walker

@walker-larry.bsky.social

So true: I’m on our local planning commission and we had a meeting with our local DOT guy. Local guy, nice guy, knows folks on the commission. Totally spouted the party line. 100% devoted to making sure that nothing inconveniences the movement of autos. Like they are brainwashed…

Larry Walker

@walker-larry.bsky.social

And the thing I found most amazing was their refusal to put pedestrian crosswalk markings on the State Highway/Main Street through town. They want disabled people to travel multiple blocks to the nearest stoplight and not cross where they’re trying to get to...