If you have time go to Astoria and check out the 31st Ave redesign.

Shared Streets will pass by there Saturday!

and allows easy filtering for cyclists

oh and doesn’t impact water drainage

I don’t see how it’s better and complaining about bump outs seems so weird to me.

Cheaper, more quickly deployed, allows bikes on the street to filter into the side lane instead of being forced into a narrowed car lane, vertical obstacles slow drivers more than ones w/out a vertical aspect (it’s a psychological effect), plants are pretty…

Of course it’s cheaper. It looks like just a temporary proof of concept. It definitely doesn’t look like a permanent solution. As a cyclist, I would never consider that as an area for filtering and as a pedestrian, since it’s not curb level, it doesn’t feel like a good space either.

As a bike commuter, I’d rather have 10 intersections received this treatment, than 1 intersection get bump outs.

Oh, I definitely get the appeal that these are great to get infrastructure in place now, rather than later, but just seemed odd framing to say they are better. Better now than later, of course. My brain always sees them as temporary though.

Ok. It’d probably be more like 5 intersections received, but still…