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
Bike path with a continuous solar-panel portico. Unlike the Korea one, this one is at least alongside a giant highway, rather than in the median of it. https://www-newindianexpress-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2023/jul/09/indias-1st-bicycle-track-with-solar-rooftop-ready-for-inauguration-2592887.amp
Last time I was here, I was in a stupor (my wife had died three weeks prior), and so was Metro (no Yellow Line).
Today, smiles and great headways
Realized in the Uber what I forgot to pack, and it’s not terribly important, so hooray trip to headquarters lfg!
Every time I hear someone try to explain how a heat pump works, it sounds like they’ve preceded it with a mammoth bong rip
“It doesn’t pump cold in… it pumps the HEAT OUT!”
darren is Not Going Back
boosted
My husband and I started e-biking just last July and even though I’m not at my ideal weight and suffer from osteoarthritis we now cycle everyday and even do much of our groceries on two wheels 🚲
I’m sharing this picture to encourage all of you who may once have cycled that whatever your age (I’m 70), weight and physical condition (with few exceptions) you can get back on a bike and actually enjoy the breeze on your face 😃
#ebike #cycling #biking #mobility #sustainability #biketooter
Randomly crying with gratitude is a thing I regularly do now apparently
darren is Not Going Back
boosted
Reading about people trying to post to #Twitter, #BlueSky & #Threads along with #Mastodon — and that doesn't sound like fun at all.
I'm so glad I settled on Mastodon as my only social media platform back last December — and have seen no need to revise that strategy. I've had time to focus on Mastodon & build a nice community of familiar folks and ones new to me. I have what I want: a chronological timeline filled with a variety of interesting, engaging stuff — provided by people who support and encourage each other.
Alexandria VA Mayor Justin Wilson is officially in the pantheon. When a former director of the city’s transit service showed up to oppose the Duke Street BRT project (!), Mayor Wilson had receipts. https://alextimes.com/2023/06/duke-street-in-motion-approved-former-dash-director-pushes-back-ive-seen-the-other-side/
The only good news on twitter is that new #Bluey episodes arrive on Disney+ July 12th!
Whoever posts a Bluesky-Mastodon crossposter gets a coveted spot on my holiday card list
OMIGOD the progress bar on this photo piece on Alexandria, VA's huge sewer overflow tunnel job. Bravo, WaPo graphics crew.
gift link: https://wapo.st/44ShWSf
"The implication of the term suggests an inherent weakness or deficiency on the part of the road user labeled as vulnerable and this may limit consideration of other factors that may have caused their increase in risk exposure, such as the behavior of other road users or poor infrastructure."
darren is Not Going Back
boosted
A group of protesters is disabling robotaxis by placing cones on their hoods, and I am laughing my ass off.
Autonomous cars are a blight, and it is the private-profit-maximizing opposite of what we need in dense, urban areas (i.e. more pedestrian spaces, fewer cars, more transit).
The energy here is pure chaotic good and I’m loving it.
“Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis With Traffic Cones”
#sfba #robotaxi #autonomousCars #sanFrancisco #chaoticGood
https://www.thedrive.com/news/rebels-are-disabling-waymo-cruise-robotaxis-with-traffic-cones
darren is Not Going Back
boosted
Edited to update: BlackQueerLife instance now has a properly-set-up channel for receiving money contributions. If you wanted the Fediverse to be more welcoming to Black people, it's one practical way to help :-)
https://opencollective.com/blackqueerlife
=
New instance for Black queer people:
"My intention for BlackQueerLife is that when Black queers are searching for a place in the fediverse to call home, we are accessible to them."
- @tillshadeisgone
It’s 86-degrees in my apartment, I think I need to admit defeat and find a window AC unit
When i worked in DC, we had maybe 5 intersections with an exclusive ped phase districtwide.
Now I have five within walking distance of my house.
Disproportionately funky grid geometry plays a role, but so does path dependence. They're common here because they've just always been common here.
There are just some intersections where an additional 30 seconds of delay in my walking trip is more than paid back by the complete absence of drivers moving anywhere near me or my kid.
Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs) are good, and places should do them...
But exclusive ped phases (widely found here in Eastern MA, rare elsewhere AFAIK) are true all-ages signal ops.
Why don't we talk more about them?
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
