Tab Combs @DrTCombs@transportation.social

I was about to do something important and time-sensitive but then I got a
#Teams notification despite both Teams and notifications being off and now I'm just wandering the dusty streets of the internet with a vague sense of loss

For lack of any other ideas I rebooted three times and all's well. I guess.

(on my phone now)
This has got to be the strangest computer problem I have had in a long while!
It's not the drivers and not sticky keys. IT thinks I am crazy. I may be.

win11

help i have actiavated a setting that makes me hold keys 3 seconds before letters appear
#DigitalEntropy

My new one-act play: "Voluntold"

Them: We need your help on an upcoming matter.
Me: Cool, whatever you need.
Them: Specifically, in what ways will you help?
Me: However you need. Just say the word.
Them: You will need to make a formal request on our behalf.
Me: Ok, for what? To whom? X office?
Them: Surely you meant Y office, not X office.
Me: I literally have no clue. What do you need?
Them: Please submit your request in writing by COB, detailing specifically the help you are providing.

best part of my day is the breathless conversations I have with my kid while I try to keep up with her when we #biketoschool

#KidsOnBikes #SafeStreets4All #BikeTooter

Finally, we'll wrap the course with a group discussion on the future of #CompleteStreets. What concepts can we take away from the course and apply right away? Which ones need seismic cultural shifts to be successful? How will we work to make sure those shifts happen...and to make sure they work for everyone?

#SafeStreets4All #CarolinaPlanning (3/3)

Next, we'll study the theories behind many of the most famous 'sustainable safety' street designs from Europe, and discuss why we can't just replicate their physical elements -- we also have to understand their design contexts and fembrace the human-focused philosophies that underpin them if we hope to achieve the same results.
(h/t to our former colleague Mary Elbech for the content and concepts). (2/3)

This week in Complete Streets -- the dessert portion of the course -- we're learning how to (and not to) apply safe street design principles from other cultures to the US transportation context.

First up, the brilliant Carlos Pardo will be zooming in to talk about how to learn from temporary infrastructure and get more people involved in street design, and to spark some ideas for reconfiguring one of our own (disastrous) streets (1/3).

At least once a semester, I have the pleasure of reading a student assignment that is so incredibly excellent that it makes me cry.

#CarolinaPlanning students are as good as they come, y'all, and I'm lucky as heck to get to know them.

I've kept my twitter account just to keep my username claimed. Why anyone would continue to post actual content there is a mystery.

We're at the point in my #CompleteStreets course where students' small area plans start really taking shape. It's my favorite part of the course, seeing how they've integrated everything they've learned and are applying it to solve actual problems through better street design in a real world situation.

#CarolinaPlanning

I have -6 karma points on reddit because I commented on my own photo someone swiped and posted on a pro traffic violence subreddit, so now I'm banned from posting my own photos before they get swiped.

social media is fun.

We (thankfully) rarely have serious run-ins, but the little ones like this really add up.

The kids are alright...despite the adults who eff with them every day.

This morning, we encountered an aggressive school bus, a muskmobile in "fsd", someone putting on mascara while driving a roadtank, and this person, who has shown us time and again that she has no clue how to operate in a world where kids ride bikes:
https://urbanists.video/w/ckn5uQoo6exxfxHfyViXZB

Overheard one of my students complaining to another that "#chatgpt is useless for this course" and have never felt more pleased with myself.

A centralized academic peer review website that keeps track of all the articles you agreed to review and reminds you before they are overdue and alerts you when you are about to agree to more than you can handle again

please and thank you

You have to laugh, or you'd cry your eyes out.

#BikeTooter #CarBrain #Irony #ChapelHillNC