Opinion: Safe streets are a basic service our city fails to provide
Too many Portlanders are held hostage to unsafe drivers and deadly, trauma-inducing streets with years of documented hazards.
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Too many Portlanders are held hostage to unsafe drivers and deadly, trauma-inducing streets with years of documented hazards.
I’m not particularly worried about traveling in cold and icy weather. But that didn’t stop me from completely wiping out on black ice while biking the other day.
It’s unacceptable these blocks are designed for car throughput above all else.
Please make the deaths and injuries stop. Just tell us where to send the checks!
Reactions were swift and strong after two people died on Division last month.
Check your headlights, slow down, wear brighter colors.
If they have to drive they might as well learn how to do it.
The signs look legal, but aren’t.
“As I sit here asking you to make safe routes a priority, I am not a special interest.”
It might be peer pressure. It might be geometry.
One of the least-understood tricks in traffic engineering has a big payoff.
When the basics of biking are often essentially passed on as folk wisdom from one individual to another, is there any wonder so many of us fail to pick up the best practices?
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