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
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It appears Cambridge City Council candidate Dr. Hao Wang straight up copied incumbent Councilor Marc McGovern's campaign logo. Wang is selling yard signs of the design on his site for $80. Marc's used this exact design for several cycles now.
Wang is absolutely bonkers.
<checks bank app> oh well they pay me every two weeks
This meeting could have been a crumpled-up napkin with the words "your work is irrelevant" tossed on my desk.
Memorial Drive Alliance has a Cambridge candidate questionnaire out on weekend closures and a road diet.
Happy to see 6 of my 9 (McGovern, Azeem, Totten, Sobrinho-Wheeler, Klein, & Al-Zubi) are unqualified "yes" on both (my other three - Walker, Pierre, & Siddiqui - have not responded).
Happily chipped in a pittance to support transportation.social operations. https://Ko-fi.com/home/coffeeshop?txid=26598703-1916-4208-8580-5326fae83be6&mode=public&img=ogiboughtsomeone
I’m very happy and proud that I’ve seemingly gotten past some longtime knee pain that I assumed was structural and incurable.
I am jogging longer and faster than I have in years, lost a few pounds, and feel physically like I’ve rolled the odometer back.
Hooray for regular but conservative work, yoga, eating better, and ice packs.
PSA: I am not R&B/Soul Singer, Darren Buck of Hank Wonder Trio
it's amazing how the comfort of thousands of pedestrians can be impaired by the presence of a single car, and how the presence of thousands of pedestrians isn't justification enough to say 'no, drive elsewhere tonight.'
The reduced Dudley St closure sucked ass, Cambridge.
TIL that there’s a sequel book to “The Color of Law!” https://www.justactionbook.org/
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Love the Peabody school bike bus! And we need more of these.
| In today’s urban environments, we have to tell our kids constantly “stop,” “don’t go there,” “watch out for that car” or “no, you can’t ride your bike there.” But during the bike bus, children are given the freedom of the open road, and they relish it. |
We went full-Camberville for Halloween this year
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Please join a memorial bike installation tomorrow, Nov 1 at 5:30pm at Connecticut Ave NW & L St NW in memory of Nijad Huseynov.
Nijad was the 41st traffic fatality of the year. 2023 has already experienced the highest number of traffic fatalities in 16 years.
Read more here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CgXzA6xpjgSYvXvW4pamUv7z3nGchVWYS5l0XgzdPYk/edit
In case you wanna watch the fireworks https://nextdoor.com/p/LRkCfNxt4PdQ?utm_source=share&extras=MTU4OTYyOA%3D%3D
hold onto your butts, I’m posting it to nextdoor
A safe network of bike lanes is an investment for our children -- @katicacycle and I in @cambridgeday https://www.cambridgeday.com/2023/10/30/a-safe-network-of-bike-lanes-is-an-investment-for-our-children/
My draft Cambridge Council ranking, please find the errors for me...
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Another Erskineville spring evening, in this photo:
- jacarandas
- a lovely bike cut-through creating a safe route home for me and
- streets so quiet that people are walking in the roadway, and
- a share bike, parked well out of the way (I think)
- a delivery cyclist wearing hi-vis clothing as is the law nowadays in NSW, because that's easier to impose on the poor souls than making more streets like this
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🔜 H.Res. 773 by Rep. Anthony D'Esposito [R-NY4]: Providing for the expulsion of Representative George Santos from the House of Representatives. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hres773 🏛️
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
