Tab Combs @DrTCombs@transportation.social

Maybe we're all just a little more empathetic when we're groggy?

I dislike things with misleading labels, and especially despise #DaylightSavingsTime, but this morning's #BikeRide to school was surprisingly uneventful. No close passes, no cat calls (yes at 45 with a kid on board it still happens), no one using the #BikeLane as their personal car storage area.

It was...nice.
Can we please do it like this everyday?

#BikeTooter #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool

Oh yay it's #DaylightSavingsTime. Because pitch darkness was exactly what was missing from the "sharing the road with ragey drivers on the morning #SchoolRun" experience.

#BikeTooter #SafeRoutesToSchool #SafeStreetsForAll #DST

Drivers routinely bomb down our street and blast through the stop sign in front of our house. Dinners are frequently punctuated with my fruitless shouts of "SLOW DOWN!" Our efforts at getting traffic calming measures installed haven't succeeded, so my partner is trying a different approach: with a 50-yr old sewing machine and a crash course from my mom, he's making curtains.

#TrafficCalming #Sewing

It's #Friday. Here's a #puppy to start your weekend.

#DogsofMastodon #Dogs #goodboy

oh, turns out it was just #Sciwheel, showing surprisingly good judgment for once.

I'd just like to point out that the citation style guide for the American Medical Association refuses to acknowledge the #MUTCD as a valid reference.

984! Woohooooooo

I hope y'all like videos of fallible humans driving overpowered vehicles for which they have insufficient training on roadways designed to encourage recklessness and bad decision-making in a capitalist system that promotes distraction, fatigue, and entitlement.

Oh and puppies, too.

I'm only 986 subscribers away from monetizing my youtube channel

This is why you don't park in a #BikeLane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDqZb-aRKlY

#BikeTooter #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool #Meadowmont #ChapelHillNC

I don't know what exhausts me more: people in the US who complain when other people get around by bike, or people in the US who complain when other people don't get around by bike.

Our streets are hostile.

#BikeTooter

Drivers parking in a #BikeLane...check
Drivers speeding in a #SchoolZone...check
Drivers overtaking into on-coming traffic that includes a #SchoolBus...check

Just your average 5.7 seconds trying to get the kid to school alive without a car.

#VisionZero #SafeStreetsForAll #SafeRoutesToSchool #Meadowmont #ChapelHilNC #RashkisES #BikeTooter

#ShareTheRoad, they said.
It'll be fun, they said.

#BikeTooter #VisionZero #RegulateVehiclesNow

Tomorrow is #InternationalWomensDay. In the 364 days since the last #IWD, people who identify as #women & girls in the US have seen our rights to our own bodies stripped away, gaslighting intensified, online abuse we endure racheted up.

I frequently reflect on those few weeks a year ago when the twitterverse had a vague sense that I was a guy, and stopped gaslighting me, sealioning me, or outright attacking me: https://twitter.com/DrTCombs/status/1501302408881836033

Things are going very well for my #CoWorker #Today and it would be nice if he could stop gloating about it.

#DogsOfMastodon #Puppy #Poodle

Also please note that that time you almost got run over by a cyclist on the sidewalk was not because people on bikes are jerks. It's because most roads (at least in the US) don't give people on bikes a better option.

And to be clear I will not accept any argument that smells remotely like "e-bikes are cheating" or "well, ok, maybe if you're old" as having been made in good faith.

There's a claim making the rounds on the birdsite today that the uptick in #EBikes will destroy #transit in the US and it's once again making me wonder, what is it about e-bikes that pisses so many people off?

It's very well established in the literature that #walking, #biking (including with e-assistance), & #transit are highly complementary modes. Policies that support any one of them support the others. What is it about #ebikes, specifically, that make some people forget this?

#BikeTooter