Wannabe urban cyclist. Sometime Metrorail rider. Advocate for evidence based selection of cricket teams. Local government research, JET PhD candidate.
Joined September 2012
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Thanks @MikhailManuelCT manual for all the hard work doing double duty in wards 58 and 59, keeping everyone informed, coordinating with @CityofCT teams and assisting the vulnerable. I appreciate it.
Proactive maintenance, most important part of managing infrastructure! Good job @CityofCT @geordinhl
Shoutout to @CityofCT Water Dept and all of Team Cape Town for successfully completing a major proactive maintenance project this week. This took much planning and complex work to get done in the shortest possible time. 🙌
Thank you to all residents for your patience as we did this maintenance to our water network! 🙏
@CityofCT picking up it's ball and going home, rather than playing with the actual vulnerable users of the infrastructure to find a workable design. World class governance @geordinhl @robquintas @safecyclists @acti
Kevin Foster retweeted
It would be wise implement changes based on empirical evidence and good engineering design as a start. Public comment is not a peer review process.
Connectivity planning is not an optional nice-to-have.
Same goes for safety.
We want to get from A to B and not die.
Minimum KPI.
I wrote this week to @CTCycleTour, @PedalPowerPPA , @smavundla & @activeforumcpt asking the to consider a moratorium on publicity ops for @CityofCT Mayor and MMCs until the Albert Rd cycle lanes are made to meet the City's own standards.
This is even more important now that the city has abandoned the project rather than improve it based on user feedback. Thanks
@smavundla
for agreeing to consider and discuss it. Looking forward to hearing from
@CTCycleTour
and
@PedalPowerPPA
Kevin Foster retweeted
I’m reading the city reply as quite sassy.
You don’t like a little.. you then get nothing…
Am I reading this correctly?
Kevin Foster retweeted
Walking & cycling are enabled by connectivity (continuity of the network & land uses), dedicated infrastructure (paint is not infra), density (reasons to walk/cycle), & safety (of person & bike). “Prioritising” 1 of these will lead to failure to meet CCT target of 8% modal share.
Kevin Foster retweeted
Implying that we do not like a road diet is not fair…this was an extremely poorly designed attempt at a ‘road diet’
We do want a road diet but one done properly!
1. A reminder that in 2021 @CityofCT officials approved a very poor consultant’s report in Sea Pont cycling. The report included this finding, “providing a dedicated cycle lane will create the potential for increased speed, intolerance and aggression by cyclist”. @activeforumcpt
8. Instead, last week @CityofCT formally recreated the condition that led to this death on its primary cycle route into the city. Despite an outcry from its partners @activemobilitycpt and @smavundle, the city, @geordinhl, @robquintas remain silent.
9. Since 2021, bicycle infrastructure in @CapeTown has gone backwards – money wasted on Sea Point, lanes lost permanently for a once a year race track, construction wrecking arterials with no alternatives, existing lanes reduced to deadly conflicts @geordinhl
Kevin Foster retweeted
#CTBicycleMayor it breaks my heart to see years of progress reversed by a poorly designed bike lane on #AlbertRoad #Woodstock. We've worked tirelessly to create safe routes for cyclists, only to have this new lane put our riders at risk. @CityofCT
