The gist is that Portland drivers couldn’t stop hitting crucial safety infrastructure (proving its necessity) so PBOT gave up on it.
As one of the commenters pointed out: Since a pedestrian/bike fatality costs PBOT nothing and replacing a concrete planter a car has demolished costs them more than nothing, to balance the budget they’re going to go with more pedestrian deaths.
are they really accidents if they are predictable
Yes, otherwise they’d call them intentions lol
No one’s like “I’m going to ram into this giant concrete barrier now,” they do it accidentally
Edit: I don’t understand why this is so unpopular
No, they’re just like “let me check this text while I make this turn”