Here have some Crosswalk mural inspo!!

This is the 3900 block of Campbellton Road (west of Greenbriar Mall), where a pedestrian was recently killed. Bus stops are on both sides, but there’s no crosswalk in either direction. This is in city limits but it's a state road. A project to make this stretch of road safer is listed on the Atlanta Department of Transportation website. It began in 2017. It's slated to be complete in 2027. 10 years for a safety fix on 2 miles of road. While people are dying. There's got to be a way to speed this stuff up. We have far too many miles worth of these deadly car-sewer roads in Atlanta for complacency and foot dragging.  How do we get these essential safety fixes sped up? Do we need to hire more staff for our DoT? I don't know what the answer is, but I want us to be asking the questions more often. Media outlets report these pedestrian deaths without questioning the road design and that stinks. I shouldn't have to keep posting these graphics year after year. I should be congratulating local media outlets for drilling our leaders on how conditions will be fixed, and then congratulating leaders for getting it done.

Profile Correction of Road

Profile correction technique reshapes a road's profile. It involves the intricacies of quantity takeoffs, where precise calculations determine the materials and costs needed to transform uneven into efficient. From volume adjustments to material selection, discover the tools and techniques engineers wield to ensure accuracy and value in every road makeover. Whether you are a contractor seeking exact estimates, or a quantity surveyor mastering quantity takeoff, this exploration of profile correction of road promises the path to accurate calculation.

From the ITN news archive: Reporting on the hazardous A19 road in Teesside in 1988, local councillor Mr. Davidson proclaimed it no dangerous than any other…and then this happened.

(It’s clear that the lanes are too narrow for high-speed travel, fwiw!)

Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them?

Very interesting segment. Jamaica has roundabouts, especially in more rural areas compared to the capital. However, I have hardly seen any roundabouts in the US. I never realized the benefits that roundabouts had over traffic lights!

A screen shot of a text conversation:

Speaker 1: Thanks man. I don't wanna get hurt either. I've got microspikes in my locker, will put them on right before going out, but aaaahhh this is trash weather XD you're from the east coast tho right? Is it true there is more freezing rain there?

Speaker 2: Yes but also we don't pave log tracks and pretend they were roads

Speaker 1: HA!!!!! I. CAN'T. I LOST IT. OMG. THE SHAAAAAADE, I LOVE IT

Speaker 2: I will never not be salty about the poor civil engineering choices of Seattle roadways

Speaker 2: it's called 'switch back' folks

Which Cities Have The Fewest Drinking Fountains — And What It Means For Walking and Biking As climate change causes temperatures to climb, should cities be doing more to help people who walk and bike stay cool and hydrated? The post Which Cities Have The Fewest Drinking Fountains — And What It Means For Walking and Biking appeared first on Streetsblog USA. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/07/27/which-cities-have-the-fewest-drinking-fountains-and-what-it-means-for-walking-and-biking

once upon a time there was a railroad line

the Fates

Hermes, Persephone

Orpheus and Eurydice

Hades

While the built of traditional lanes had to be kept broad enough to prevent human errors, there’s an ongoing discussion to decrease the width or dimension of future roads or lanes. The good news is that with the help of road works, the task of reducing width of roads has become easy.

street design

Earthwork Calculation Software

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Fury Road sketch dump

It’s fine to be angry at the police for issuing a statement essentially blaming an 8-year-old for his own death, just because he foolishly rode his bicycle on his quiet neighborhood street. (Just a few months ago in this very neighborhood, police made a real show of pointing out that a cyclist was “at fault” for a crash in which he was struck by a dump truck at 4 in the morning, because he wasn’t wearing reflective clothing.) It’s fine to be angry at local officials passing the buck about a stop sign that should’ve been installed, but wasn’t. It’s fine to be angry at the driver and her big SUV.

But I’m most angry that the police weren’t wrong. Like most American streets, Kings Mill Road is not a safe area for pedestrians or people riding bikes. It’s designed for drivers, and drivers use it that way. That’s the system we’re trapped in: As the journalist Jessie Singer argues in her book There Are No Accidents, “accidents” will happen—the “fault” of drivers, or cyclists, or someone forgetting to install a stop sign, or bad luck. Our transportation system is perfectly designed, when any of those things go wrong, to kill 8-year-olds on bikes, among thousands of others. How long will we put up with this?