darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social

What’s staggering about this is that CARB says we have to reach “per capita [vehicle miles traveled] reduction of at least 25 percent below 2019 levels by 2030” to meet California’s climate goals.

Yet here we are in Berkeley spending *more than five years* arguing about bike lanes on *a 1.5 mile stretch of road*, with no resolution in sight. We have no other major bike lane or BRT projects underway, no positive trends in mode shift, and seven years left to hit that VMT goal.

We lack urgency.

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@alfredtwu Growing up in Los Angeles, I remember when my dad worked in the Dept of Transportation before it was swallowed by the LAPD. There was a slew of uniformed traffic officers on Cushman scooters who handled traffic stuff - parking tickets, moving violations, directing traffic. Everything was fine.

Then it became a unit within the LAPD. And that's when it got janky. And scary. He quit soon after that.

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@bikepedantic My old city has had good results with their municipal snow removal pilot and they expanded it this winter. It covers ~20% of the cities streets, mostly major streets and retail corridors, but they only do it for snowfalls of 2” or more. I would love to see a similar effort here.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2022/12/almost-20-of-all-grand-rapids-sidewalks-will-be-cleared-of-snow-as-part-of-city-program-expansion.html?outputType=amp

They also have a large snow melt system for the downtown area, which is common in West Michigan, but I don’t recall seeing them used in New England.