#VisionMillion

Of the situations I regularly encounter on my bike commute, this one is easily the scariest -- even though "nothing happened."

Reader, a lot is happening.

@bikesky.social #BikeSky #VisionMillion

A mile-long sidewalk closure This is what happens when one of your main roads into downtown only has one crosswalk per mile and a utility contractor needs to do work on a small piece of sidewalk. The approved pedestrian manage...

We have a mile-long stretch of road, one of the main routes into downtown, with no crosswalks. So when a utility contractor has to close a shared sidewalk/bike route, they have to close it for a mile. Impacts on users be damned.

I decided to comply.

#VisionMillion

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This is not responsible traffic engineering. This is blatant malpractice, and every single engineer who programs a permissive yellow in conjunction with an active walk signal needs to be on the hook for the deaths and injuries they will cause.

#VisionMillion #RoadSafety

There are some entirely valid points to be made about how our roadway designs set us all up to fail.

But at the end of the day, we get to choose whether or not we want to give a shit about each other.

#VisionMillion

Screengrab from a bike camera, showing the perspective of a cyclist or pedestrian waiting for a walk signal at a wildly oversized intersection. Despite all traffic signals being red at this instant, this is the scene: Working from left to right, a black minivan is waiting to turn left from a 4-lane side street onto a 7-lane urban stroad, but is pulled all the way into the crosswalk over the side street. A white SUV is making an illegal right on red from the stroad into the side street. In the middle of the shot, just in front of the camera, a black SUV is creeping through an illegal right on red from the side street onto the stroad, blocking both crosswalks and the ADA ramp. On the right, a black minivan waiting in the stroad's crosswalk for a permissive yellow arrow to turn left from the stroad onto the side street, blocking the crosswalk which currently has a walk sign. Disappearing off the right edge of the picture is a red SUV, having just run the red light on the stroad.

Motorists are not capable of self-governance.

#VisionMillion

#VisionMillion is the hashtag I have been looking for for so long

Long, sweeping curves that let people driving zoom through crosswalks. #VisionMillion traffic engineering.