20 Is Plenty Campaign

[Jacob Lavarnway]

All, 

I am making a separate thread to ensure that efforts are focused for a 20 is Plenty campaign. I truly appreciate all the thought that has gone into offering different engineering solutions to dangerous intersections, but the other threads have drifted into specific engineering and designs to implement, which falls out of scope.

The purpose of this thread includes, but will likely not be limited to :

1. Identify and recruit volunteers and allies.
2. Scheduling and organizing our campaign's actions.
3. Constant intra-campaign comms. Healthy discussion is motivating!
4. Communicating with other organizations to move things forward.

Strictly speaking, I'm not actually a member of PBPAC, and I'm certainly not on the Board of it. I hope I'm not out of line or stepping on the toes of PBPAC and it's leadership. If anyone at PBPAC wants to take over the administration of the campaign, that's fine by me. Just drop a line. The first step is to have someone step up and get gears turning, regardless of who.  

Running a campaign is really, really hard. With this thread, I hope solid lines of communication can get built, and regularly utilized. Constant, directed chat is important to keeping morale up and the campaign focused.

Now then, with that preamble out of the way, we have some questions to ask ourselves :

Firstly, what can you, dear responder, start working on in order to move the campaign forward?

Do you have skills in graphic designs and marketing? Do you know where we can get good deals on printing shirts and flyers? Are you in regular contact with a councilor or staff member? Bring any knowledge, connections, or skillsets out! Once we get those, we can start figuring out who will do what.

Secondly, will you do me a solid? Reach out to that one person you know with useful knowledge or skills and ask them to contribute! Try and figure out what times they are available to contribute!

Jacob Lavarnway

[Vision Zero Maine]

Jacob, thanks for getting the ball rolling. 

With the most recent pedestrian fatality, now is a good time to push this campaign. Please sign up Vision Zero Maine as an advisor and stakeholder. 

Paul Drinan

Vision Zero Maine

POB 17834

Portland, ME. 04112

visionz...@gmail.com

www.visionzeromaine.org

207-370-7434

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[Rauschpfeife]

I think it does seem like a good idea to separate out the 20/Plenty initiative from some of the others. It's a simple, easy-to-understand idea and it really makes the point that driver convenience and driver satisfaction simply don't and shouldn't outweigh everybody else's safety (or even convenience and satisfaction, for that matter). 

Unfortunately, I don't have any of the useful skills Jacob mentioned. I've been told I do have a plausible prose style, though, and I've had a few things appear in the PP-H. Also pretty good at editing wonkery, of the kind we earnest activists tend to produce, into sensationalist journalism. 

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Best, 

Michael Smith

anacharsis.substack.com

On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM Jacob Lavarnway <jlava...@urbanistportland.me> wrote:

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