#Mobility #SafeStreets #MrBarricade
Cities understand that streets are more than car thoroughfares. @MrBarricade aka Vignesh Swaminathan uses modern methods like Quick-Build to speed & humanize projects for the people who’ll live in them. Vignesh is all about teaching members of the community how to use the tools of local government to drive change.
In this far ranging conversation, from the Highway Capacity Manual circa 1965 and ‘Level of Service’ to the reprioritized thinking in ‘VMT Vehicle Miles Traveled’, Tactical Urbanism and Dutch design. From Curb management to PEVs. And lots of references to Janette Sadik-Khan.
I learned a lot.
Thanks Vignesh
Let’s go ride!
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Vignesh Swaminathan – aka @MrBarricade
TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@mrbarricade
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/vignesh-swaminathan-b171207a/
Crossroad Lab – https://crossroadlab.com/
Links & References – https://www.menlocreek.com/podcasts/vignesh-swaminathan-aka-mrbarracade-turn-the-lens-episode-17
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00:00 Intro
00:07 @MrBarricade’s true mission
01:58 @MarBarricade Origin Story
01:59 Vignesh leverages his TikTok popularity to educate communities about infrastructure, drainage, etc.
03:16 Changing the culture of a street with cones
04:33 Tactical Urbanism, protected bike lanes, protected bike intersections, Dutch design – bringing it all together
06:26 Janette Sadik-Khan and street fight, city streets, parklets and Citi Bikes
07:53 The concept of people on bikes or transit having money, is kind of new to cities.
10:01 Level of Service 101
11:34 VMT – Vehicle Miles Traveled 101
14:43 Paint and plastic, Agile curb development
15:33 Quick Build
17:04 The downside of a traditional “capital improvement’ or ‘highway approach’
17:07 I want all communities to be involved and educated
17:49 The Crossroad Lab Origin story
19:27 Simple process without environmental regulation impacts (and accompanying cost)
21:49 Curb Management, protected bike lanes, intersections
23:51 Walking the streets, sweating the details, working compromise, every situation is unique
25:37 Personal Electronic Vehicles (PEVs) – eVehicles eBike eScooters
29:16 Curbside negotiations
31:01 Lessons from the Dutch
31:08 Bike parking at scale
32:10 Dutch – Safer by design
33:39 Traffic diversion , property appreciation
35:12 Social Media
36:09 Communications in 2021
36:21 I’ve tried to humanize myself and have found it very beneficial
37:10 @MrBarricade – TikTok origin story
37:41 Combating hate with education
38:46 Bringing in the equity conversation and systemic under investment
41:32 Educating communities on how to more effectively engage local government with active participation
42:26 I teach people to join commissions, it’s about enabling everybody to advocate for whatever they want
44:39 Vignesh’s closing words of empowerment. Go to the meetings, find out when they’re talking about it, and interject at the right time.
48:00 @MrBarricade’s Close
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