darren is Not Going Back @bikepedantic@transportation.social
Bikes and stuff. 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
Joined Feb 2023
Seeing people walking in the wonderfully-cleared Mass Ave PBL is not a great argument for more PBLs... it's a great argument for municipal sidewalk clearance program.
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A note to Gen Xers, if we don't stop this slide into fascism our kids and grand kids will without a doubt have to fight in a real, modern shooting war. Modern warfare is a human meat grinder.
The stakes could not be higher and we're failing.
we should acknowledge that like 50% of the appeal of the R&M Load 75 is that it looks objectively badass
some guy built himself a #cargobike whose spirit animal is a birdcage Maserati and I want no fewer than three. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1447817731990687/permalink/5560855940686825/?mibextid=S66gvF
When you maintain facilities for walking/biking/rolling, you help us to refute the US conventional wisdom of what’s possible and popular to do without a car.
Thank you, City of Cambridge (not yet on masto), for clearing the Linear Trail.
Saw a screen cap of a pretty mundane toot on twitter. Little microtoots of progress.
This was taken from his weekly email newsletter, which I can’t figure out how to link to, but you can sign up to get it yourself https://www.marcmcgovern.com/newsletter
Get yourself a city councilor like @marcgov who dorks out on urban planning while visiting his kids
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@transport Testing the current reach of this group. If you see this and have an interest in transport planning discussion on Mastodon could you like and boost please?
Our very curly-haired 6-yr-old daughter opted for a very short haircut, and the fifteen minutes immediately sheared off the morning get-out-the-door routine is priceless
For some laughs, here’s Lyft:
1. Telling us how to transportation equity,
2. Only talking about cities,
3. Using a preview pic that is clearly Broadway, in front of my Cambridge MA office, which isn’t one of the five cities featured.
https://www.lyft.com/rev/posts/5-cities-getting-creative-to-make-transportation-more-equitable
I posted a more sanitized version of this plea on Nextdoor, not to stir the pot, but because Nextdoor is becoming the online version of a civic association, and I don't think we should cede that ground without a fight.
Anyway, the algo is nimbying my post, so if you wanna click thru and give it a like or cup of sugar or whatever you do on nextdoor, please do. https://nextdoor.com/p/xJ9KJLshrfwZ?utm_source=share&extras=MTU4OTYyOA%3D%3D
There's a petition going around supporting proposed amendments to Cambridge MA's Affordable Housing Overlay zoning, that will have the practical effect of taking some decisions of whether or not to build affordable housing that we need out of the hands of an awful appointed board. If you live, work, or have some stake in #CambMA, you should sign it! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9zDU-qYFHvMoumIc_uWV8IUJu893WkRre_QINhB_HMGRETg/viewform
Long-delayed thread that shoulda been a blog on one-ways coming monday
Chatting with a trusted transpo contractor friend earlier. They ran down their list of really (REALLY!) exciting projects. Then...
"We're working on some potentially transformational one-way to two-way street conversions..."
[record scratch]
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My how time has flown: 20 years of the London Congestion Charge.
Far past time for more places to follow, starting with New York.
Heat is back! Air bubble in the water line.
No idea why there was an air bubble in the water line. That, um, shouldn't happen. Anyway.
Onward!
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Mild temperatures this winter will prevent the Rideau Canal Skateway from opening for the first time in its 53-year history.
A July 2021 risk assessment on the effects of #ClimateChange on the #RideauCanal Skateway warned that in the next decades, the skating season would be less than 40 days approximately 50 per cent of the time.
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/rideau-canal-skateway-won-t-open-for-1st-time-in-53-year-history-1.6287966
Riese and Mueller #ebike (a Charger? I don't know R&M models well) with dual batteries for $2250 on Long Island NY. https://longisland.craigslist.org/bik/d/montauk-riesemuller-electric-bike/7592859302.html
Work-from-home positive: Discovering our boiler doesn't work eight hours sooner than i woulda otherwise.
Work-from-home negative: My workplace has no heat or hot water.
Bikes and stuff. 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
Joined Feb 2023
