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Tara Goddard, PhD
@drtaragoddard.com
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Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation; planning in the Petropyrocene. She/her.
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · Jul 14
Re-sharing to pin to my profile. I was very grateful for the opportunity to join Sarah and Doug for a wide-ranging conversation on some of my favorite (if difficult) subjects. It encapsulates a lot of my research agenda and professional worldview that windshield bias affects so much of our world.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · Dec 17
NEW EPISODE: "How Cars Change Us with Tara Goddard." Why do people behave so badly behind the wheel of a car? Why do reporters use passive language to describe traffic violence? @drtaragoddard.bsky.social joins us to talk about her fascinating research.

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Dr. Tara Goddard, wearing white shirt, standing behind bicycle on bike path lined by grass and green trees.
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 4h
I'd like to have something more constructive to add but all I can think of is "dafuq??"
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 6h
More (and colorful, ya girl loves a tanager) evidence about the benefits of #GoodFire
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 8h
🪶🌎🧪 New research on birds and wildfire by IBP and our partners at NPS and UCLA. You can read about it here: birdpop.org/pages/bl...
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Graphic with a photo of a Western Tanager perched on a burned branch by Julio Mulero. Text on the graphic says: New Research: Fire provides long-lasting benefits to bird populations in Sierra Nevada National Parks Low to moderate-severity fires boost bird populations for decades.
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 6h
I'm so sorry, that is incredibly tough.
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 7h
perfection
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 7h
good call 😄
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 7h
a group of men in military uniforms are walking on a tarmac
Alt: Maverick and Goose in Top Gun high five on the tarmac as they walk away from their fighter jets
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 7h
I usually use the goose meme for this issue, but please someone hipper than me make a Lil Jon meme 😁
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 7h
that was in my next post in the thread 😏
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 7h
that's going to be in my head for days 😄
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 9h
How fast is the auto traffic on that street? Is the separation only paint, or physical/hardscape? Would you let your child/nibling ride in that lane right now?

(not criticizing that particular facility, I'm not familiar enough)
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 9h
Obviously there are many follow-up questions, but I got busy 😄

For example: how are the connections on either end of that segment? How many things were obstructing the bike lanes like in that photo?
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 12h
I doubt it was an accident 😏
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 12h
haha, great minds and all that 😉
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 12h
I am. Technically it is Easy Motion, but I like your take. 😏
A close-up of the Easy Motion logo, which looks like E Motion from afar, on a BH Easy Motion Neo City ebike circa 2013
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 13h
And that bicyclists were invisible to the engineers and designers
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 13h
The Bicyclist's Paradox has many corollaries
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 13h
unless those bicyclists aren't coming to a 30 second stop before going through a stop sign. In that case, drivers see bicyclists EVERYWHERE
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 13h
tear it down!! 😉
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 13h
And of course we view empty automobile lanes to be a success, but bike lanes are judged negatively for a lack of congestion 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 13h
First question in response to "nobody uses them":

How long did you observe them?

Both short term and long term.

Confirmation bias and a 15 min anecdata observation one time does not evidence make.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 14h
"Local news serves as the lifeblood of democracy, informing citizens about events in their community."

(reads local news coverage of bike lanes)

"Fuck local news."
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Palo Alto celebrates new bike lanes, few appear to use them - San José Spotlight
State and local officials on Monday celebrated the completion of the suddenly popular but sparsely used bike lanes on El Camino Real with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that was attended by dozens of cycli...
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 15h
Just saw dashcam footage of that medi flight heli crash in Sac. Seeing people pull over and immediately run toward the helicopter made my misanthropic heart grow a few sizes.
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 17h
it is causing me painful cognitive dissonance to have to nod along in agreement with her, but here we are
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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 18h
Who's doing rigorous analysis on the effects of data centers on economic, health, energy, and climate outcomes? #econsky #energysky #climatesky
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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 1d
I feel you. I'm dealing with anger and grief related to this chronic pain and fatigue. I feel like I only get 60% of the day on good days, less on bad days. Our society isn't set up for that. I'm so sorry you have to deal with that.
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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d
Make sure to preorder a copy of their new book, Life After Cars! Here's The Flytrap's affiliate link for it on Bookstore.org. bookshop.org/p/books/life...
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
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