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I've started walking for exercise at night and although I already knew it was bad it has still given me additional appreciation for just how fucked the roads are for pedestrians in most American cities. Some have made me audible say "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Administration was backed into a corner and needed a fall guy. However, initial meeting and advocacy efforts did ultimately lead to a ballot initiative replacing the streets department with a to-be-formed city department of transportation.

People do still cross here but if one of them gets hit by a turning driver, that regulatory sign allows the authorities to blame the pedestrian and ignore the unsafe design of the intersection. It also, according to a few engineers, covers their asses in their opinion. (11th & L in Sacramento)

The traffic must flow!

Literally and figuratively

There has definitely been push back. It has so far not been effective, what with the occasional road death to sharpen the mind. We do have the advantage that much of the traffic is from people who don't live here, and so we're trying things. We'll see how effective they are.

I’m hoping for more, and maybe it will just take a while to be implemented and championed, but it feels like lip service with our current administration.

This really blows my mind, but I've experienced it too. Things I've heard from moving vehicles in Texas: "Go back to China!" when I was riding a bike, and "Get a job!" and "Go back to Mexico!" when I was picking blackberries. Miserable assholes. 🤷‍♂️

People think it‘s ok that I can’t go certain places, as do planners. I have encountered “no pedestrian“ signs in suburban neighborhoods, trucks that “roll coal” at me while I ride my bike, and cops who think I’m a criminal bc I’m walking around a town built for cars.

When you say you can't drive, what's behind that?

I rode my bike to YYZ once. Got met by three security SUVS because I was on an access rode outside the airport. The security guys couldn't believe I was riding to the airport to meet my girlfriend who had a brief stopover. After I did it I couldn't believe it either.

We can have functional and vibrant cities and towns without killing each other with our cars. Stop demanding sacrifices to the motor gods, you freak.

Popularity is not a reliable indicator of an idea being a good one.

I think you'll find it has gained a lot of steam in recent decades

The city's residents share that same view unfortunately. Where I live, when bollards are installed, the city displays a sign explaining "what changed here and why" because they have to sooth the rage of 90% of the residents.

Sadly, this is true for a lot of voters too…at least until they know someone who died!

Santa Monica hired a traffic engineer hoping to use a speed study to lower speed limits. A lot of speeds did get lowered but some got raised. Including on a PCH off-ramp that already has drivers going too fast & goes directly into one of the busiest pedestrian & cyclist intersections in the city. 🤦‍♂️

I wish I could say that this was some sort of exaggeration or wild hyperbole. :(

SPOILER ALERT: "Bruh, one more lane" doesn't make traffic flow freely.

The people in charge of my town, Ann Arbor, do care about calming traffic -- and man do the constant posters on nextdoor hate it! Luckily we have the votes not them.

Explicitly pro-death professor in a fully corrupt subfield of engineering

Never forget the regional transit authority (OCTA in the OC) will withhold funding from cities within its region that fail to meet their predetermined LOS (level of service or vehicle capacity) for roadways in their jurisdiction. The entire system is an outdated death cult designed to worship cars!

Dats why I moved out to the country . Less traffic . And also I moved off da grid to get away from law enforcement .