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bikepedantic

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one of Secretary Pete's ped/bike chair-moisteners in Sector 7G. Widow, dad, taking it bird-by-bird.

So many things are improved by 🦪,🚲, & 🪕.

Just me, very much not my employer. Opting in to be searchable via #tootfinder. #fedi22

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Say it with me, friends:

It's not actually the process that you think is wrong, it's the outcome.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/09/opinion/bike-bus-lanes-transparency-parking/

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Hey there & brain trust:

The NE leg of this intersection has a signalized w/ beg button. Town staff just converted it to rest-in-walk, which is lovely. But there's a permissive yellow that allows drivers from the arterial to turn left while the sign is active.

We may have the option to* either*:

  • keep the rest-in-walk
    or
  • eliminate the permissive yellow but lose the rest-in-walk

WWYD?

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.906464,-79.0188263,77m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs So much ugh, which i dont' think i need to point out.

Everything left in its current ugh state, i vote keep rest-in-walk. crosswalk users already have to navigate to that misplaced ramp, and have good opportunity to see permissive turning drivers. And if the ramps are that bad, i assume buttons are also awkward.

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs such a big span of road to allow permissive lefts

bikepedantic,
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@geoff_green aka pedestrian recall, or 'automatic ped green when the parallel lanes are green' @DrTCombs

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs oh, so there's a weird open-parentheses trail ramp into a median too? lots to love here.

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs !!!!!

[so is ours. unrelated to his work though]

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs no, much more gross, pics on a laptop

bikepedantic,
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@geoff_green was it marketed as a 'safety enhancement?' of course it was. @DrTCombs

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs @geoff_green "Make Other Chaos"

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🥹

seachanger, to random

The worst part about blooski is not that people are mean and traumatized from years on late twitter but that when i go on there I start feeling a little mean and traumatized myself

bikepedantic,
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@seachanger something aint right in the water over there

DrTCombs, to random
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I'm glad people are starting to realize that there are gendered differences in how people use public space.
But can we please stop talking about women on bicycles as "indicator species" and instead start making sure our planning and engineering decision-making processes ensure everyone has a voice? All ages, all genders, all abilities. Is that too much to ask?

I am not an indicator species. I am a person.

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs it's a really tacky cringey analogy

bikepedantic,
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@DrTCombs "Bicyclist H-328 reliably pushes the button to receive its reward"

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I feel like at any given moment there is a general ambient morale on greater Mastodon (the section of the fediverse I'm connected with). I'm usually pretty in sync with it. Right now I get the sense that we're generally feeling pretty good about our prospects. A couple weeks ago it definitely felt like a trough. It would be funny if we could graph these mood swings a la @mastodonusercount

bikepedantic,
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@misc yes, a mastodoom index @mastodonusercount

bikepedantic, to random
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Hey Camberville, salmon is $6.99 at Stop & Shop, and I only bought up like half of it.

bikepedantic, to random
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Welcome to @TheWarOnCars, my only child

(Indoctrinate yours: https://the-war-on-cars.myshopify.com/products/youth-short-sleeve-t-shirt)

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Any Camberville pupusa recommendations?

bikepedantic, to random
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First implementation I’ve seen of the new Cambridge Play Streets permitting program is a three-kid birthday party, this is gonna be an awesome summer https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/communitydevelopment/publicspacelab/playstreets

bikepedantic, to random
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When you're handed a hammer, you go looking for things to nail https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/30/metro/federal-officials-reject-mbta-worker-safety-plan-calling-it-insufficient-letter-eng/

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Happy end-of-the-February-to-May-holiday-drought Day, everyone

bikepedantic, to random
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Yes yes yes more https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/a-4-day-work-week-in-mass-lawmakers-file-legislation-calling-for-pilot-program/3018743/

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GLORIUS: old frame that's gotten a bilateral frankenbiking, with a cargo bike front fork, xtracycle longtail rear, plus a front e-hub kit. $1200 in Seattle WA https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/bik/d/seattle-xtracycle-cycletruck-cargo-bike/7624650040.html

seachanger, to random

One word that has become ubiquitous that I rage against every time I see it is “content”

I write and make art and I will never ever use this word to flatten and homogenize what I create

calling it all content is a good way for capital to pivot to content farms and then to AI for it

bikepedantic,
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@seachanger now is the winter of our dissing 'content'

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@seachanger [it is a vile term, reminds me of "human resources"]

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Here we go! Separated Bike Lanes on Higher Speed Roadways. Wooooot.

#BikeTooter #BikeLane #SafeStreetsForAll #Webinar @pedbikeinfo @bikepedantic

bikepedantic,
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@wordshaper Or here: If this ridiculous road got repaved, and they could nip/tuck a few feet to add a buffer and flexposts to these bikelanes, the additional induced ridership would be minimal. They should still do it to improve the safety of the few people using it now.

This road should be fundamentally better, the surrounding land use should be better, but it's unethical for us to wait for the whole world to change to be safer. @DrTCombs @pedbikeinfo

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