Tab Combs @DrTCombs@transportation.social

Yesterday, this cool kid--with her bright red bike, hot pink helmet, dual blinkies, and rotating rainbow wheel lights--waited at a high-viz crosswalk in a school zone while 7 adult drivers pretended not to see her.

#BikeTooter #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool #KidsOnBikes #VisionZero #CarBrain

The best way for our children to avoid getting run over is for the rest of us to stop being so gd selfish.

Stop buying huge vehicles.
Stop looking at your phone.
Stop driving like nothing and no one else matters.

Start demanding that your legislators re-allocate the literal trillions of dollars we spend every year to make faster roads for cars into making safer streets for everyone.

It's not complicated.

#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #StopDeKindermoord

Reading a heartbreaking thread on a local #parenting page about how to teach #children to be afraid of streets, because streets are not #safe.

We do not have to accept--and force our #kids to accept--that #streets are not safe. This is problem created entirely by a mentality that driving is the most sacred use of public space.

IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. We created this problem; it's up to us--not our children--to fix it.

#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #CarBrain

Using card stock to support a stack of several hundred toilets and calling it an accident when a slight miscue by a worker is followed by all the toilets crashing to the ground is exactly how the US roadway system works.

(apologies for the FB link; I couldn't find an original source)
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3132852703683508

#CrashNotAccident #SafeSystem #VisionZero

Why????

My bike camera is mounted almost 3' off the ground. There is zero reason for a vehicle this size to exist, much less to roam neighborhood streets while kids are out walking & biking to school.

#SafeStreetsForAll #BikeToSchool #WalkToSchool #oversizedvehicles #Trucks #VisionZero #BikeTooter

Oh yay this will be fun.

#ChapelHillNC #OrangeCountyNC #VisionZero #ZeroVision #nextdoor #RoadSafety #WearBrightClothing #VictimBlaming #PSA

Public comment period is open for NC's 2026-2035 STIP (State #Transportation Improvement Program).

If you care about how the state decides what transportation facilities to spend money on, please weigh in!

https://live.metroquestsurvey.com/?u=fy4u4u#!/?p=web&pm=dynamic&s=1&popup=WTD

#VisionZero #SafeStreetsForAll #NotJustCars #BikeTooter #Walking #NCDOT #Transport #Streets #Roads #Cars

They grow up so fast.

#VisionZero #PickupTrucks #OversizedVehicles #NHTSA

OK #Transportation wizards:

Is it me or are the zebra stripes and sharks teeth not in the right places?

#VisionZero #TrafficCircle #Intersections #CarrboroNC @sofio

"b. Support, or introduce and promote, community-level #VisionZero interventions."
c. Support, or introduce and promote, #SafeRoutesToSchool interventions.
d. Promote safe and #ActiveTransport, including #walking, as an alternative to motorized conveyance, to reduce vehicular #traffic and increase demand for pedestrian amenities." #AAP (4/)

"a. Encourage support for #CompleteStreets policies and #VisionZero.
b. Support legislation to reduce speed limits in urban areas, including areawide #20mph zones, and to permit photo #SpeedLimit enforcement in critical areas, including school zones.
c. Develop legislation to encourage or require adoption of safety technology, such as pedestrian detection systems and automatic braking in new vehicles." #AAP (2/)

I enjoy the game where you swap the acronym #VRU for the word "person" or "human" in a report draft and then wait to be told you're being too direct and might offend someone important by implying that actual human lives are at stake when they fail to regulate vehicles or build safer streets.

#NoMoreVRU #VisionZero

#Nextdoor: All y'all jerks needs to stay on those stupid sidepaths you begged for

The #SidePath:

#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #TheWarOnCars #BikeTooter #Greenway

#Nextdoor: All y'all #EntitledCyclists need to stay in the bike lane where you belong

The #BikeLane:

#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #TheWarOnCars #BikeTooter

#Nextdoor: All y'all people need to stay on the sidewalk where you belong

The #sidewalk:

#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #TheWarOnCars

Earlier this week I noticed a man filming me with his cellphone while he drove down Raleigh Rd in #ChapelHillNC. Finally got the chance to pull my bike-cam footage and get some screenshots of his vehicle. It's the gray Ford Explorer with the wakeradiology.com branding.

If you see his video of me (white woman, yellow helmet, black mid-tail cargo bike) posted anywhere on the internet, please report it. What he did was illegal & creepy AF.

#VisionZero #DistractedDriving #BikeTooter #TheWarOnCars

curious why more local planning departments don't get involved in vision zero plans?

I mean it's got 'plan' right there in the name. Why aren't planners taking a seat at the table? Why aren't we making ourselves relevant?

#VisionZero

She's growing as fast as she can. I pray it'll be fast enough.

#Trucks #oversized #StupidTrucks #UnsafeAtAnySpeed #VisionZero #Dodge

Hey there #RoadSafety & #TrafficSignals brain trust:

The NE leg of this intersection has a signalized #crosswalk w/ beg button. Town staff just converted it to rest-in-walk, which is lovely. But there's a permissive yellow that allows drivers from the arterial to turn left while the #walk sign is active.

We may have the option to* either*:

* keep the rest-in-walk
or
* eliminate the permissive yellow but lose the rest-in-walk

WWYD?

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.906464,-79.0188263,77m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

#ChapelHillNC #VisionZero

Ask me how awesome it feels to watch driver after driver cut you off in a #crosswalk while looking at their phones.

We need dedicated, protected #pedestrian phases at every *signalized* intersection.

And not after making us wait for 3 minutes.

Please and thank you.

#SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #DistractedDriving #Pedestrians