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Dec 9, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD: Live tweeting the presentation from Norm Garrick for today's @COMPASSIdaho Education Forum on parking. Image Unfortunately, I don't see the names of elected officials on the attendee list. They are the ones who need to hear this the most. @COMPASSIdaho Image
Jan 24, 2019 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
Today in #idleg I’m live tweeting @IdahoITD Director Brian Ness presenting to joint Sen/House Committee. (@ACHD Director Bruce Wong is in the peanuts gallery, FWIW) Opening statement by @IdahoITD Ness is they are breaking down bureaucracy and focusing on their customers—the citizens of Idaho. “We are moving at the speed of business.”
Nov 16, 2018 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In 2007, as an employee of ACHD and under oath in a lawsuit between the City of Boise and ACHD, I defended the widening and design of Ustick Rd. In 2014, 13-year old Olivia Schnacker died after being hit by a motorist while she crossed Ustick, a couple years after it was widened. Picture of Olivia. I’m rarely in that part of Boise since I moved back. I moved away in 2008, in part due to that lawsuit, what I defended, and what I felt was a departure by my employer from my set of values in being a transportation planner and project manager. Picture of Ustick Road with cross honoring Olivia.
Oct 25, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Reading an MPO’s Triennial Review by @USDOT reveals disconnects the Feds don’t understand. You can’t criticize an MPO for not properly incorporating bike/ped/transit considerations into DOT-submitted TIP projects when DOT threatens a region’s funding if MPO objects to a project. Yeah, that was a wonky tweet. Here’s the decoder ring description: MPOs are reviewed every theee years by a @USDOT panel of @USDOTFHWA @FTA_DOT reps. They look at long range plans, TIP, congestion management process, etc.
Jul 26, 2018 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
We have to get bureaucracies off their deadly fixation that 94% of crashes are caused by human error and thus the reason why fixing human behavior is the answer to traffic fatalities. It has created a barrier to real safety interventions in the US. Let's go threading... Since the 1930s we have used the "human error is the cause of crashes, thus the cause of deaths on road." This has been used to deflect attention away from safe systems approaches.

(Evans, L. 2004. Traffic safety, Bloomfield, Mich: Science Serving Society.)
Jul 5, 2018 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Here's an example we use in the Looking Glass Academy workshops on walkability to illustrate how pedestrian time/delay is not a factor in how highway agencies design a street. "Just go to the nearest crosswalk," they say. Let's look at it. I live where the red house is located and want to go to the grocery story. "Just go to the nearest crosswalk!" Well, there's a 1.15-mile gap between marked crossings where there are traffic signals with ped heads.