Editor’s Note:Â Vision Zero is an impressive sounding slogan, but whether it will amount to more than that is in the hands of city leaders. The choices they make about how to prioritize public space
Vision Zero: Moving from slogan to reality Read Post »
What the obsession with technological fixes says about how we fail to prioritize people in cities In the best traditions of engineering, clever minds are working on new technologies that can prevent or reduce the
The technological fix for our pedestrian problem Read Post »
We’re driving more, and more of us are dying on the roads. Four days before Christmas, on a Wednesday morning just after dawn, Elizabeth Meyers was crossing Sandy Boulevard in Portland, near 78th Avenue, just
2017 Year-in-review: More driving, more dying Read Post »
In auto-land, pedestrians are just one more patented gimmick away from being safe The dominant approach to automobile safety has, for many years, been the quintessential technical fix. Some combination of new technologies (anti-lock brakes,
Nothing about pedestrian safety that more technology won’t fix Read Post »
A key design element of the supposedly pedestrian friendly Rose Quarter freeway cover is a pedestrian hostile diverging diamond interchange One of the main selling points of the plan to spend nearly half a billion
Diverging diamond blues Read Post »
Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives Yesterday, we took a look at a recent Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) “performance report” on Portland area freeways. Â One
Dying to widen highways Read Post »
