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
“Rooftop gardens pitched for bus stops as cheap remedy to NYC’s flood problems.”
Neat. But when does transit get its own problems solved, as it continues to solve so many other problems?
https://gothamist.com/news/rooftop-gardens-bus-stops-cheap-remedy-nyc-flood-problem-pratt
Go find and follow some interesting-sounding strangers.
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We have the technology to prioritize green lights for buses and emergency vehicles. So why not apply similar tech to make dangerous drivers spend more time staring at red lights?
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Welcome to Normal: The town that holds the keys to Rivian’s future
Cash-burning EV startup recruits workers in central Illinois pursuing 50,000-delivery goal.
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The tent poles of my #health at 47 age are:
1. 30 minutes to an hour of exercise per day. Often running, which strengthens my core back muscles.
2. Whole food, plant-base diet #vegan diet. I'm keeping off 15 lbs vs my vegetarian diet. Low inflammation, fast recovery.
3. Using a yoga ball as a chair. Also helps with low back strength and flexibility.
4. Bike and walk for transportation when I can.
More here: https://mark.stosberg.com/building-and-maintaining-back-health/
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Saw both a Specialized Globe Haul and an Aventon Abound in my wandering today, what a couple of sharp-looking bikes.
Workcycles KR8 acoustic bakfiets for $1200 in Portland ME (no pics). Great deal! https://maine.craigslist.org/bik/d/portland-workcycles-kr8-bakfiets/7618545905.html
Funniest moment was very elderly relative separately cornering two of my kid’s similar-looking friends and trying to force awkward hugs, thinking they were my kid.
“No, you don’t know her, Auntie Carol!”
“Strike two, Auntie Carol!”
Good stuff.
There is tired, and there is speak-at-your-late-wife’s-big-celebration-of-life-party tired. Already calling in sick Monday.
Urban Arrow with no googly eyes for $4k in West Newton, MA https://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/bik/d/west-newton-urban-arrow-family-electic/7618387987.html
Also, kudos for @cambridgeday giving @streetsblogmass credit for breaking the news of the delay.
Communication has been poor on the GLX trail, but kudos to the T and/or Somerville for taking the hit from us lot to force rework on ADA noncompliant bits. https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/05/05/community-path-extension-has-another-delay-with-mbta-citing-safety-and-accessibility-issues/
Today i wrote the best email that i have ever written, i have reached my bureaucrat zenith
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We basically stopped using Twitter for StreetsblogMASS back in mid-November (although our account there still posts new articles from an automated RSS feed). We didn't see any real effect in our website traffic: in fact, 2 of our top-3 busiest traffic months were in December '22 and March '23 (in the chart below you may note the dip in Feb. '23; that's when I was on vacation and we weren't publishing for 2 weeks).
And after the Spring Community Bike Ride (9 to 11:30ish), Somerville Bike Kitchen bike pageant also on May 20 at Aeronaut (12:30 - 5) https://somervillebikekitchen.org/
Architecture take, ugh
The best way to add onto a historic building is to make it unabashedly modern.
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My main selling point to try and bring my blind friends to Mastodon from Twitter is people using alt text. I know I never claimed everyone did it all the time, but still, please don't make me look like a liar! #AltText
Update: Just got winded remembering doing a 2000, nvm
I was an extremely poor undergrad rower, rowed like twice in the 20+ years since, and have plummeted in fitness, but still nurture dreams of getting back to rowing someday
Mercilessly targeted on FB by the perfectly-named Ergatta, a $2500 Peloton-for-ergometers https://ergatta.com/
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
