Tab Combs @DrTCombs@transportation.social

funny how often "data driven" is used as an excuse to prop up the status quo

It is by definition *not* an email if I have to go log into a special website to view it, and can only respond via that special website, and only if I happen to know the magic icon on the screen that will open up a reply window if I click it.

That's a PM. And a stupid platform to boot.

(sorry, if you're not into end-of-semester anti-bureaucracy mini-rants you might want to do a timed mute for a few days)

Everybody's a fan of free market capitalism until we start talking about college athletes getting paid for their work.

(retooted after getting permission to screenshot the original)

💯 This is not urban planning. This is disgusting market speculation and it's against everything urban planning should be. ⬇️

I accidentally almost bought a $64 water bottle holder for my bike.

Who are these people paying $64 for a water bottle holder??? Yes, it was pretty, but people this is really getting out of hand.
I will bike alongside you and hold your water for $64.

Odds are, you'll know and love at least one of them. Or maybe you'll be the one to kill them.

We need Safe Streets Now.

We are fed PSAs to remind us that 'safety is a shared responsibility,' and then we watch while absolutely no one steps up to take their share.I am sick and tired of watching our roads get deadlier and deadlier for people who aren't driving, while our approach to transportation improvements in most cases is more of the same.Some places are working hard to fix our broken system (h/t #ChapelHillNC for giving it a go). But it's a race against time. 40,000 people will die on our roads this year.

We've created a world in which it's patently unsafe for a kid to walk or bike to school on their own anymore because we refuse to force people in cars to take an ounce of responsibility for anyone's welfare but their own. We refuse to inconvenience anyone in a car so that a little kid might have safe passage across a street. We install BS 'yield to pedestrian' signs so our local governments can point fingers at drivers when they run someone down, rather than actually making intersections safe.

This dude came from the far travel lanes, making a left turn at a flashing yellow arrow that says, "hey dude, if you can find a gap to turn through, go for it!" Which means he's looking up the road for a gap he can gun his roadtank through, and not at a little kid on a bike doing her best to follow the instructions on that tiny sign that, at this moment, are telling her to cross the street. Don't worry kid, I'm sure that guy will see tiny you and stop, even if it means he might get t-boned.

This intersection, at Burning Tree Rd and Raleigh Rd in
#ChapelHillNC has a greenway that dumps us 10' away from the crosswalk. The crosswalk has an automatic walk signal, which is nice, but that signal means diddly squat for safety. Because at the same it's telling us to go into the crosswalk, drivers from 3 different directions have permission to cross the crosswalk. Yes, legally drivers must yield to crosswalk users but in practice, they rarely do.

While this isn't a typical day, it's not uncommon. Fortunately my kid has learned to never trust a car (or anyone in it), and has developed excellent defensive cycling skills. But she's still a kid, which means she's still not capable of processing all the info needs to process to judge risks appropriately and quickly. And this means multiple threat situations, like the one here, could easily be deadly to her.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9063401,-79.0186834,140m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

Biking 1.5 miles to school today, my kid & I...

1. waited while a school bus ran a stop sign
2. swerved to avoid a car passing us on the left as we turned left
3. sat at a light for 4 min to get a walk signal
4. slammed on the brakes to not get t-boned by an SUV in a crosswalk

We don't pollute, make noise, cause pavement wear, or threaten anyone's safety. Yet our roads still force us to defer to cars or risk death.

And we're the entitled ones? Entitled to what??

#EntitledCyclists #BikeTooter

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