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
That Celine Dion song from Titanic just came on, i don't think i've ever felt this level of excitement in my life
Does your Friday include seven Guatemalan guys belting out the chorus of "Total Eclipse of the Heart?" Mine does! Might rip down all the blueboard just to hire them again.
The seven-man crew doing drywall upstairs right now has discovered the exact optimal balance between work productivity and partying in place. Fully drywalled 1500 square feet over two levels in less than a day, singing along with a bunch of Spanish songs, Stevie Wonder, and Richard Marx (?!?) the whole time. Just incredible.
Single-toot thoughts on “Shrinking” so far:
*oversensitive grieving Jason Segel ghosting his daughter rings hollow to me
*oversensitive grieving Jason Segel acting impulsively at work doesn’t
*Christa Miller plastic surgery face is hard to watch
*so happy to see Jessica Williams in something, she should be in everything
*bike-riding and a crash are used as a punchline, which f**king sucks
*other cast who I don’t know are all amusing
This 18-passenger electric bus from Turkey is the cutest thing this side of the Catbus https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/03/05/minnesota-transit-agency-is-testing-a-new-electric-bus-from-turkey
Hi @finitealright’s classy silver bike riding on Mass Ave just now
ChatGPT but for churning out thank-you cards
The Arlington VA chapter of the NAACP continues to be awesome. https://www.arlnow.com/2023/03/15/local-naacp-leaves-civfed-amid-fallout-over-resolution-to-improve-confidence-in-county-government/#disqus_thread
I have moved into the health-insurance-battle phase of the grieving process
Thank god, a day with no grandparents in my house. I am reborn
Bluey is proving to be quite the emotional minefield for sad widow dad
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Plaintiffs suing the City of #CambridgeMA alleged that new bike lanes “caused huge damage to the community.”
Last week, a Superior Court judge dismissed the lawsuit:
Also, my annual quota for men in their 80s milling absentmindedly exactly where I want to be has been met and surpassed
Introvert plea for fewer relatives making me converse right now
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Transurban pulls out of proposed Maryland toll lane expansion: https://ggwash.org/view/88844/breakfast-links-march-13-2023 https://www.marylandmatters.org/2023/03/09/transurban-announces-it-will-exit-proposed-toll-lane-expansion/
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Gift link for Elizabeth Warren's op-ed about bank failures: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/opinion/elizabeth-warren-silicon-valley-bank.html?unlocked_article_code=kyxKTSRbgb_XIfIEpL6zOgMrUHUirEpFE9X1b5vaM6NphXagwmvrd2N_znm4cE5ikFGGyDiAWW7VvTKAlO5M-pxr3ZhmGEJDzuvfH-JLZX_GV0ruNJaZ_Qhmtqng3573st89nVGRofp_5QJuHaHcCwq9885bbSJAVgpJqq5AEDjlw9X1y0QbYcnnhM-ZXgg7sq8ZY6OD9pM9ZiWQ6_5_XTz5xlJe_BJroYdrq-PknazbEsXQfT_yJcRLAhL4_j9xOvf4kfe6hacRAqvNgqAPUJ5joNfcry6uTizkhcUPMESeGSOhGVS6HEUuXHc5LxNEpB_0zJg09PyalAMZkVnHK9VEFVdbNTpreBMmFIkc&smid=url-share
We could create an all-new retail square from the operating and defunct auto-oriented parcels alone (and should! Do we need to gas stations, a muffler shop, and a tire shop here, in an EV car future?)
Across the street from the Mobil station sits this vacant garage.
In one of the most overheated real estate markets in the country, Cambridge’s planning and zoning doesn’t create a market condition that allows something to replace nothing. Failure.
The Mobil station at the corner of Mass Ave & Alewife Brook is back open after a big multi-month reconstruction of the pumps and tanks.
It is a massive failure of our planning and zoning that Cambridge’s northwestern gateway will continue as a half-acre gas station for years to come.
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
