Portland transportation director readies plan to remove key downtown protected bike lane – BikePortland - eviltoast

This seems to not be based on safety at all and is probably Mapps and Williams spending money PBOT doesn’t have because of complaints by business owners that are not based on data.

Exactly the kind of stupid decisions I expected Mapps to make when Teddy appointed him.

  • NightAuthor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s come to my attention of tire wear = microplastics

    Obviously still much much less pollution, but some

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      1 year ago

      Fair enough, and bikes also pollute with oil coming off the chain etc. Although I suspect pollution from a bike is well under 1% of the pollution from a car.