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rbellinger, 12 days ago to random

Run over on the sidewalk and killed hours after finishing grad school. No one is safe.

https://www.dailyfreeman.com/2024/05/28/red-hook-pedestrian-killed-by-speeding-car-in-red-hook-authorities-say/

rbellinger, 16 days ago to cycling

Last night's group ride included a dinner picnic next to the Hudson.

#BikeTooter #hudsonriver #hudsonvalley

rbellinger, 19 days ago to cycling

But what if you need to go to the hardware store?

#BikeTooter

rbellinger, 22 days ago to random

Have y'all seen/heard the protest folk songs of #JesseWelles ? They are suddenly blowing up on YT.

#whisteboeing #BoeingWhistleblowerDead
#protestfolkmusic

https://youtu.be/bfA2p6Em7bI?si=tjJaYCTkB6SwS7CF

rbellinger, 25 days ago to cycling

Cargo trikes working in midtown #manhattan in the rain this morning. The Worksman does catering at construction sites. The dad doing school drop-off said, "It started during covid, and now it's a lifestyle."

#cagobike #cargotrike #BikeTooter #nyc

A man in a raincoat wearing a helmet, standing with one arm resting on the rear of a cargo trike parked against the curb of a one-way street. Trike has one rear wheel and two front wheels, as well as a covered front cargo compartment. Trike has a yellow sign attached to its rear that reads SCHOOL BIKE in black text. Parked immediately in front of the trike is a yellow Ford Transit Connect van marked SCHOOL BUS in similar lettering. The face of the biker has been anonymized using a 'smiling with sunglasses on' emoticon.

rbellinger, 1 month ago to random

I noticed this Mercedes using the bus lane to bypass cars at a red light. Suspicious, I looked up the plate on #HowsMyDrivingNY & found that the driver has OVER ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN CAMERA VIOLATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY. I thought of @ashok thread on using tech to alert people of risky drivers...

Driver is likely committing insurance fraud by having the car registered in PA. And they've paid almost $7k in fines so far, having decided that doing whatever they want is worth the price.
#safestreets

Screenshot of the How's My Driving NY website showing lookup for Pennsylvania plate LFV 0188. The car currently has 118 violations, with a total fine amount of $10,655.30, of which $2,300.72 has been reduced, and the driver has paid $6,900.58.

rbellinger, 1 month ago to random

On this NYT autopsy of what went wrong at the UCLA protest, the commenters can't believe that police would allow violence that favors the status quo.

Clearly they've never ridden a bike for transportation in America.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html

rbellinger, 1 month ago to random

The old complaint about #Citibike was that it was impossible to find an ebike at rush hour. The new complaint is that you can only find ebikes, which are both more expensive and slower than they were before.

rbellinger, 1 month ago to random

Working in higher ed publishing, one thing that drives me nuts is how many community colleges are designed for cars.

rbellinger, 1 month ago to cycling

Just discovered the great idea to do my first #ThursdayNightSocialRide as a warmup for the #FiveBoroBikeTour from the #ATLCriticalMass FB group 🙃

#biketooter

rbellinger, 1 month ago to pizza

The Sicilian #pizza slice from Upside Pizza (39th and 8th) may be the perfect #bus dinner.

#nyc #nycfood #food

rbellinger, 1 month ago to nyc

Just won a #NYCTLC case against a driver who abruptly entered a protected bike lane and stopped, forcing me onto the sidewalk, then continued driving down the bike lane. Driver failed to show for first hearing, was issued a default guilty verdict, appealed, rescheduled the hearing, then pled guilty.

#NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission allows anyone to file complaints against licensed drivers. Imagine if citizens were able to file complaints against ANY driver and have the gov't take them seriously

rbellinger, 1 month ago to nyc

Fake police cars at the real police station. The black tape through the NYPD logo means that these are movie cars, part of a nearby shoot. #NYC

rbellinger, 2 months ago to earthquake

JUST got a cell phone #earthquake alert, 102 minutes after the quake.

rbellinger, 2 months ago to Houston

Some real zingers in this piece on #Houston

"Here’s the key: state and federal governments will pay cities all day and every day to make bad financial decisions and transactions that are not in the broad financial interest of their own residents. They have lots of programs to do this, highway expansions being just one of them."

Also....I guess the #StrongTowns people, like the #StreetsblogNYC are still waiting for last call at the N*zi bar.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/4/1/heres-the-real-reason-houston-is-going-broke

rbellinger, 2 months ago to random

Today we are on the NYS Thruway! Where this driver reading a stack of printed documents held against their steering wheel with both thumbs almost drove into the side of our bus, prompting evasive maneuvers from the bus driver.

rbellinger, 2 months ago to random

Yesterday a road-raging toy pickup driver called me a dick for crossing the street. I told him to GET A JOB. Then, about a dozen chemistry grad students laughed at him from the sidewalk. I hope he's still mad.

rbellinger, 3 months ago to MountainBiking

For better/worse, much #bike advocacy chatter in #KingstonNY happens in a FB group. Here's a cross post from me:

As a follow-up to past discussions, I tried contacting Walmart and Adams (Hudson Valley grocery + garden store) to request #bikeparking.

Walmart wrote, "Should there be any updates or developments regarding this idea, we will make sure to communicate them."

Adams wrote back that they were buying a rack.

So, when on 9W, shop local! And if I die on 9W, please politicize my death.

rbellinger, 3 months ago to cycling

Our bus yielding to Empire State Trail users on the way into town. Going to be a busy one out there today.

#empirestatetrail #BikeTooter

rbellinger, 3 months ago to random

Looks like both the post office and the grocery store are hiring. HERE'S WHY THAT'S BAD NEWS FOR JOE BIDEN.

#kingstonNY

rbellinger, 3 months ago to nyc

Checking out the Pakistani charcoal grill near the Lincoln Tunnel exit and watching the parasitic toll thieves pour in from suburbia

#nyc #hellskitchen_nyc #congestionpricing #trafficviolence

rbellinger, 3 months ago to cycling

"How will you get groceries IN THE WINTER?" they asked.

By biking 2/3 of a mile across town, which takes........ 3 minutes and 57 seconds.

#BikeTooter #ebike

Photo of a Garmin sports watch, on the arm of a person wearing a green cotton coat and black glove. The watch's screen shows a distance traveled of 0.67 miles, a trip time of 3:57:25 minutes, and an average speed of 10.12 mph. Save and delete icons also appear on screen, as does a little icon of a person on a bicycle.

rbellinger, 3 months ago to random

TIL that you can buy the official #Philly cheesesteak cheese, Cooper Sharp, in #kingstonNY. I've never seen it in NYC.

However, if you order a cheesesteak here, you get precooked roast beef (!!!), sliced then heated on a griddle with American cheese, and served on a round roll.

It makes no sense.

#cheesesteak #sandwich

rbellinger, 3 months ago to Aviation

The Lone Spotter, LAX

#lax #aviation #publicspace #losangeles #photography #streetphotography #rainyday #parks #planespotter

rbellinger, 3 months ago to bikenyc

Yet another senseless #dooring death.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/02/27/cyclist-killed-after-being-doored-into-traffic-on-unsafe-brooklyn-street

#trafficviolence #bikenyc