Bend City Councilor, OSU-Cascades Instructor, dad. Personal account. For official see @CouncilorMendez. Views are my own. (he/him)
Jan 25, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
In a region choked with traffic, @Stanford froze the number of car commuters coming to campus in 2000. The share of commuters driving alone fell from 69% to under 50% in less than ten years.
In 2021 just 39% drove to campus.
How did they do it?
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Sometime in the 1990s, Santa Clara County gave the growing university a choice:
A) Pay for the expected increase in car trips in terms of widening streets, intersections, and parking, or
B) Grow but freeze the number of car trips to 1989 levels.
Stanford chose B.
Nov 7, 2019 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
An important lesson emerged in last night’s @CityofBend City Council transportation discussion: Wider intersections and extra lanes won’t work in the long-run to “solve” congestion #inBend#BendCC (Thread!)
A consultant presented this volume to capacity (V/C) map to show the modeled effects of several potential May 2020 transportation bond widening projects. Red dots mean lots of car traffic. @SallyForBend asked, Why can't the red dots on Greenwood be addressed?
