My Biggest Pet-peeve in Milton
The City of Portland optimized traffic signal timing at 135 intersections on 16 streets in Portland. This optimization work has resulted in saving motorists over 1,750,000 gallons of gas each year. This reduction in gasoline consumption is equivalent to 15,460 tons of CO2 each year. I wonder how much gasoline we waste idling at horribly timed traffic lights and Milton’s aversion to right-turn-lanes (seriously, why do we not have dedicated right-turn lanes?) As if it wasn’t bad enough to have major arterial roads where traffic doesn’t flow, neighbourhood roads like Scott Blvd...
Read MoreTraffic Calming Devices
People speed on Scott and Savoline, that’s no news to residents living on these streets. What we, residents, cannot figure out is why traffic calming devices were not built on these roads. Afterall, if you design a wide road like Scott (or Savoline) then (some) people will drive on them like they’re on Autobahn. These ideas are strictly for residential streets (like Scott and Savoline). I don’t know which ones of these I support, but here are some ideas I have seen in cities I’ve lived in (I lived in 8 different cities in a 7 year period after my wife &...
Read MoreMore bad driving
So I am driving down on Scott Blvd at 50km/hr from the Main Street towards HVE with my family last week after thanksgiving dinner when I noticed a black Acura TL tailgating me. The driver then went to the right and started to pass me. I noticed cars were parked on the right, but that didn’t stop the driver. He got very close to hitting parked cars and suddenly moved right in front of me, cutting me off (fortunately I knew he was going to do that, so I slowed down pre-emptively). Honestly, what the heck is wrong with people? First, I was driving a minivan full of kids. Second,...
Read MoreWhat’s with people (bad drivers) … ???
So I am walking with my boys, aged 5 and 2 (pretty young). We get to Scott. I am teaching my 5 year old how to cross the road. We look right, no car. We look left, a car. We wait. Fortunately the driver on the left sees children and stopped and waives us to go. We start walking. We are perhaps a quarter way through when an SUV turns into Scott and decides to fly through it. We are about half-way through when I realize that the driver perhaps does not intend to stop. I keep trying to make eye contact with the driver to determine her intentions but she ignores me. Eventually...
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