Make and protect connected routes for biking to be easy and appealing enough that you would choose it yourself for short trips and connections to #transit, or be doomed to sit in traffic. #GeometryHatesCars, but people will choose to drive until the alternatives are more appealing to them. The bus can't stop at everyone's front door, so we need bikes and last-mile mobility options that can efficiently move people and goods while cities grow past the peak traffic density of car-oriented sprawl.

"the only way to solve traffic is through public transit alternatives, not freeway widening"

alt text: the Oregon Transportation Commission shuts their eyes and looks away https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Get-Involved/Pages/OTC_members.aspx #InducedDemand #ClimateDenial #GeometryHatesCars

@pleaseclap there's actually a lot of good reasons beyond #ClimateChange and #CarbonEmissions for cities to invest in bikes as #transportation, geometrically the #HousingCrisis needs more density because multi-level streets for cars are extraordinarily expensive and we've maxed out the drive-and-park model that much of the US grew and developed under. #GeometryHatesCars so the only way out of traffic #congestion, also solves #AirPollution, #VisionZero is viable alternatives to driving, is bikes

@Rjdlandscapes it's not difficult, we maintain the system exclusively for cars at far more expense than it would take to transition to a multi-modal system, which also solves congestion by allowing people who don't need to drive to get out of cars. If you think we have plenty of resources to buy everyone #EVs, why can't they go toward bikes and transit which have been neglected and systemically hobbled over the past century? #GeometryHatesCars bro #ClimateDenial

@coregaze @kca @tess ENOUGH people can ride bikes that 90% of us don't need to be driving cars for short trips.

Not everyone can drive a car.

But even if they could, mandating cars as the ONLY transportation option cannot work because #GeometryHatesCars. There are bikes for people with special needs, extra cargo, passengers, #eBikes, #AdaptiveBikes, #CargoBikes that could replace over half of car trips if SOME minuscule fraction of cars (& mostly just the bad drivers) would get out of the way

@Linux_in_a_Bit @calcifer Cars create more problems than they solve, #GeometryHatesCars and cities have been destroyed to create parking lots, so you think you need to drive because everything is too far apart to walk. Some plastic is extremely useful and yet still sheds particles into the environment where we're coming to the "find out" stage, and need to develop alternatives which don't degrade the same way. As with #BanCars, a simplistic approach is easy to critique & not actually the thing

@kim_harding self-driving cars have captured the imagination of people who are stuck in traffic but don't understand that #GeometryHatesCars. The investors are, as usual, just trying to capture more market... and don't be surprised when the code will start purposefully jamming traffic to keep those eyeballs captive a little longer and make more money.

@juergen_hubert in the case of transportation, simple solutions like bikes, buses, and trains are blocked from being viable by an exceedingly complex system of excuses and institutional inertia, while the problem of fitting more cars into a city than space allows continues to be unsolvable because #GeometryHatesCars. We'll distract ourselves from the fiscally and environmentally sustainable solutions with apps, AVs, etc. — anything but not driving huge complicated heavy problems into the city.

@BarbChamberlain @HayiWena @footsteps If cars are not in charge, then the models of #transit planners (i.e. how many people can walk or bike to this station) and the #ClimateAction plans (e.g. Portland's 25% of all trips by #bike) should be governing which options we tell #trafficEngineers are viable, and not the other way around. #VisionZero #InducedDemand #GeometryHatesCars #CarsRuinCities #SafeRoutesToSchool #JFDI etc

@Billybobbell it's apparently difficult for the mayors and their handlers to understand that when the streets are 100% packed with cars, nobody is getting anywhere. The upshot of #GeometryHatesCars is you can either reallocate space for priority bike+bus networks, or wait for people to move out and economic failure to ease congestion.

@lmc good luck getting out of each other's way #drivers! #GeometryHatesCars

Perhaps it's a failure to understand that when something like a road allows customers from all around to reach your business, having twice as much of it won't necessarily bring you twice as many customers. It may scale linearly to some extent but then hits limits like #GeometryHatesCars & you ruin the value proposition for every other mode when you put cars in their way, constantly threatening their safety, polluting the air with tire+brake particles, fumes, & noise, until they choose driving.