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
Kids in the neighborhood bonding with my kid - good!
Me getting like 30 minutes of personal time per day - something else!
Somehow our apartment became the cool place for the kids from the bus stop to hang out after school, which is great, but it would also be great if it wasn’t?
Anyway, will be interesting to see if DC's urbanists hold together as a 'fewer cars' coalition, or if the bus-lane boosters make like David Zipper and just say, "we got the important parts, let MMB and her benefactors have their 'better motorist experience,' LFG"
Confirming my priors re commercial real estate:
“We are at less than 50% return to work today — most would suggest K St NW already seems at capacity approaching gridlock. It currently carries approximately 20K cars per day,” said Bill Miller, principal of Miller Walker Retail Real Estate. “Downtown DC currently has the 5th-worst traffic in North America. Some would suggest that we should consider opening lanes, not closing any more of them to encourage return to work.”
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To save the #climate, Massachusetts needs to drive less. But the T's new 5-year capital investment plan – its first under Gov. Healey's administration – continues to postpone the transformational projects that will be necessary to electrify transit vehicles and lure more riders out of their cars.
Oh hey -- the #CambridgeMA Spring Community Bike Ride is Saturday, May 20, 9AM. https://www.cambridgema.gov/CityCalendar/view.aspx?guid=76ef94e5e88343aa8583dc895227ee34
So apparently my kid's bus just doesn't come in the morning anymore
Here in Camberville, telling someone to *follow signs for the (i dunno) Matt Damonway* would be easier than saying, *take Mass Ave to Porter, take the dutch left onto Somerville Ave, then a right on Beacon St and follow that through Inman Sq where it turns into Hampshire St for reasons*
More North American cities should give their primary bicycling corridors proper names (like Vancouver BC does).
I hope that my wife is looking down from somewhere, and hearing me tell her, “I told you so.”
Reseeding front lawn with clover seems to be working
Wow, Cambridge Matignon Catholic HS shutting down next month. https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/05/03/languishing-finances-and-dwindling-enrollment-to-close-the-cambridge-matignon-school-in-june/?fbclid=IwAR1HDGjjZotPobE8IkruJ830k4Ea1h1V9aibG1zjxIOTeQ3i35Y5C2b4MEo&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
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Big Brother was watching you, protecting you from biological agents, but then he got distracted, and forgot about his surveillance equipment for a decade until it rusted out and fell on an #MBTA passenger on Monday:
No I’m not getting much work done
Apparently today is:
Imagine if, instead of BS curbside charging, the EV-car revolution in cities relied on battery-swapping operations (and city-appropo vehicles) https://insideevs.com/news/665282/fisker-ocean-battery-swap-compatible-2024/
darren is Not Going Back
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I’m sorry—I can’t talk right now—I’m busy updating the seat post firmware on my bike
darren is Not Going Back
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Sometimes it's good to do things if only because it'll make your neighbors laugh
Cauterize and starve away any remaining urbanist thought-leaders who say “e-bikes are cheating”
Realizing belatedly on bike to school day that my six-year-old needs a lot more bike-themed shirts. Please throw links to your favorites in the replies!
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
