samiya

she/they. most thoughts are mine. || writing about small islands over here: @planningsmall

[Sassy Scientist 👩🏽‍🔬 @blacksciencegal]

Barbados not having a single ferry is just so upsetting.

[Tamanisha J John @TamanishaJohn]

Cuba is attacked not because it’s a failed state or lacks democracy — both lies — but precisely because it’s a state that has been successful at prioritizing its people instead of foreign profit, even under the worst imposed conditions.

[samiya @sdottins]

It would actually be a great time to revisit the trams, particularly in our towns. Even something like Coventry’s Very Light Rail

[Ex-Saint Dannington BA, MA @indigoSNTHD]

If we're gonna be serious about flyovers, why not consider a tram or train system?

[Small Island Planning @PlanningSmall]

We talk about road widening, public transportation and why road use can be more important than road space when dealing with traffic

Available now here: https://t.co/023JJan1pS

[Small Island Planning @PlanningSmall]

Latest: This island is too small for all this traffic.

Where we delve into traffic congestion in Barbados, an already existing plan and how the island can get moving again.

Hope you’ll have a read!

[samiya @sdottins]

Wrote about traffic in Barbados and what it could take to get the country moving again.

https://t.co/ApUr6lhgUO

[samiya @sdottins]

Wrote about traffic in Barbados and what it could take to get the country moving again.

https://t.co/ApUr6lhgUO

[samiya @sdottins]

Tuned into this right now

Pleased to see how the suggestions from the last meeting was used to update the presentations before the questions

[gisbarbados @gisbarbados]

Now live, the Ministry of Transport and Works’ National Consultation on Traffic, held under the theme “The Way Forward.” Join the conversation at https://t.co/dkAbsToGRV https://t.co/cLFznRh08f on our Facebook page @gisbarbados

[samiya @sdottins]

@TheyLovethePuff @lukeyism @DahReeORH Thing I come back to is it doesn’t return a profit “on paper” but does once we think about what happens if it disappears: reduced air quality + physical activity (so health impacts putting further strain QEH), COL increase, and economic impacts because congestion slows business

[samiya @sdottins]

181,544 registered vehicles on the road
Serious accidents and road fatalities are down

[samiya @sdottins]

National Consultations on Traffic: The Way Forward

https://t.co/r1ADxDRZpJ

[samiya @sdottins]

@carliebimx I think those that can go, still should. Especially if folks are advocating for supporting alternative ways of getting around (public transit, biking, walking, that sort of thing). If not, there is a risk of only people supporting the flyovers showing up which is 🫩

[samiya @sdottins]

Though the flyovers seem set in stone, I do hope that we can see other solutions implemented.

Consultations start today at Deighton Griffith at 6:30pm.

Then Princess Margaret on the 25th, SMC on the 30th and Alexandra on 1st. All begin at 6:30pm.

[samiya @sdottins]

I wish we’d move away from thinking about how to move traffic and toward thinking about how to move people.

Think only about traffic and new roads (flyovers/widening) seem like the answer. Think about people and you’ll find public transportation, which in turn solves congestion

[CBC BARBADOS @CBCBARBADOS]

Plans for a flyover at Hothersal Turning, St Michael, have been confirmed, as the Government moves to revive a project abandoned more than a decade ago. https://t.co/QlBLakmDo2

#CBCNewsBB #CBCNewsBarbados

[samiya @sdottins]

All this flyover and public transit talk reminds me that Barbados had tramways for a bit and maybe we could revisit something like that for Bridgetown again so here’s a few photos from Allen Morrison’s collection

[samiya @sdottins]

@Tinkzella Oh I hear it, we can be very change resistant society but I will say Bajans aren’t unique in that sense. But that’s why it takes the effort, you know? I just quite believe if we meet people where they’re at, they’d be open to alternatives that might better in the long run

[samiya @sdottins]

@AllEyezonMon Mhmm. It’s hard too because it could be so good. Like this could’ve been a pivotal moment to begin to shift the way we treat public transit and use that money to build out the ideas already mapped out in development plans like transit hubs and connectors and the ferry system even

[samiya @sdottins]

@Tinkzella (Replying to both your comments at once as I missed them yesterday)

The best part is we have the tools at hand, we just need to use them. The shift won’t be easy but if those leading transportation put a concerted effort behind it, we have a shot at transforming the country

[samiya @sdottins]

All this flyover and public transit talk reminds me that Barbados had tramways for a bit and maybe we could revisit something like that for Bridgetown again so here’s a few photos from Allen Morrison’s collection

[samiya @sdottins]

@Tinkzella I think that’s it’s more possible than we might think! I’ll say of the countries we see today with really robust transit systems, most of them didn’t begin like that. A lot of them faced incredible resistance when they made the changes but today we admire the results