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
Shower faucet makers, please hire UX designers. Nobody knows how to get to their desired water temp on the first try with your modern products, and it sucks.
Texting people to get my ex off the messages screen
dumb national politics take
Not that there are six principled republicans left in the House, but it's 'fun' to imagine scenarios where a Parliamentary coalition style Speaker designation where Dems and six GOP unicorns vote in someone like Liz Cheney.
Halloween and #BikeBus are like chocolate and peanut butter
Best Cambridge Day article ever. Bon Me’s $7 fried chicken snack is like the best thing ever https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/10/11/bon-me-fried-chicken/
FHWA's Bicycle Lane Proven Safety Countermeasure document has been revised to incorporate more specific and stronger language about separated bike lanes and their many benefits to users. https://highways.dot.gov/sites/fhwa.dot.gov/files/Bicycle%20Lanes_508.pdf
Bus lane acoustic enforcement this morning on Mass Ave! 🙌
And perhaps I need to go back to biweekly therapy.
Politeness is fucking overrated when lives are at stake
The new head of an org that is long dead to me over an issue that I no longer have a firsthand stake in - yet still care deeply about - reached out.
I could politely let the past live in the past, or I could give in to my worst impulses and deploy the flaming sword of righteousness.
WTF are we kidding i unleashed the sword hours ago.
darren is Not Going Back
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Hey #BikeTooter this is a periodic reminder that if you know if any new #BikeBus rides, let me know, as I am compiling a list: https://ascentale.com/a-list-of-all-of-the-bike-buses-to-school-that-we-know-about
Hopefully we'll be able to help Bike Bus organizers collaborate, share ideas, etc.
Pro tip: Piling neighbor kids into your cargobike unlocks shrill latent demand for more cargobikes
Due process for all*.
*Except whoever made the first car that sounds its horn to acknowledge that you’ve locked the car. Fuck that guy.
Don’t take navigational orders from a couple of 7-yr-olds, Danehy Universal park cargobike trip edition
Floating bus stop along Ames Street #cambma
darren is Not Going Back
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Oh, hey, 99% Invisible has the first episode of @gbhnews series on the Big Dig on their podcast feed. Cool! Two of my favorite things together at once.
Quick preview of what I hope a bunch of senior Transpo executives have to look at for 20 seconds
POV:
*you eagerly volunteer (very out of character) to film yourself saying "why you work here" for a schmaltzy video for a management retreat,
*your boss asks warily for your planned script,
*it is approved,
*you are asked four hours later what tshirt you intend to wear.
Busted.
If this isn’t your streatery standard design, I am against your streatery
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
