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
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
@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?
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
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!
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
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