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
Single parenting is going GREAT
Called out sick this morn with an acute case of not having showered in three days
Your city’s NIMBYs: There’s no more room here to grow!
Yanjin County, China:
(Image from https://www.amapnerd.com/p/narrowest-city-in-the-world-yanjin)
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Help this guy find the good Samaritans who stopped to help after a driver hit him in Allston. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/bicyclist-wants-to-thank-bystanders-who-helped-after-car-strike-in-allston/
A sandwich at the zombie Taylor before I go
On a pure smiles-from-afar basis, please remove the "Night" modifier and make Mayor John Chapman happen, Alexandria.
Alexandria VA Mayor Justin Wilson - who just successfully led the charge to get rid of single-family zoning - isn't running for reelection, and goddamn i will miss his newsletter (and him). An absolute top-tier local pol.
gift link: https://wapo.st/4a2JoQw
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@gendercensus i'm in a cycling group that is for women and nonbinary people and it is effin AWESOME. we meet once a month - Femmes & Thems in #Chicago
the welcoming nature of the group appears to have attracted a lot of very like-minded people. everyone i have met there has been really wonderful and i've made new friends as a grown woman.
we do not gate-keep in this group either. it really doesnt matter what people 'look like' or how they 'present' themselves.
and it's been so much fun.
Give $15-per-day flat raises for every civil servant on Day One https://gothamist.com/news/civil-servants-including-nypd-and-mta-employees-not-exempt-from-15-congestion-pricing-toll
It’s stunning how much better WMATA Metro is than a year ago
Imagine a world where regular people never had to utter or hear the phrase “you’ll need a variance for that”
Many homeowners like me would love to eviscerate zoning if for no other reason to keep an unelected board of weirdos from ruling over a set of seemingly arbitrary standards over how we can(‘t) use or change our property that have no public purpose https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/11/30/survey-finds-large-majorities-favor-policies-to-enable-more-housing
Feel like it's depression creeping in through the opening fatigue has left this week...
but you ever feel like no one is rooting for you, even as you can easily name like 10-20 people who definitely are?
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Ridership on Boston’s commuter rail lines plummeted when Covid shut things down. By the end of March 2020, it was 10% of what it had been a year before. Now ridership on these lines is back to 90% and rising. But there are differences. Biggest: Weekend travel is 150% of pre-Covid levels. What does this tell us? #Transit can no longer be just a ride to work and back. It must be about all sorts of travel. https://commonwealthbeacon.org/transportation/what-commuter-rail-ridership-gains-mean-for-boston/
Shane MacGowen of The Pogues is dead, and that is a true loss. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67546785
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The Transportation Research Board magazine TR News becomes freely available 4 months after publication, so this summer’s accessibility-focused edition, “Addressing Transportation and Accessibility for All” (TRN 346, Jul-Aug 2023), is now unlocked....
PDF: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/trnews/trnews346.pdf
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I told one of my jokes on a Zoom meeting today.
Turns out I’m not even remotely funny.
I’m in DC for a minute, and took a jog to see the in-process construction of the missing all-ages link, seamlessly connecting the 14th St Bridge and Mt Vernon Trail (and points beyond) to the 15th St NW PBL up to Adams Morgan. This is the network we need, being built.
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OMG, this article is 💯 on point. I can't find who sent it through my feed--but THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I bet I live in the neighborhood that had the most new public transit in Massachusetts in 30 years. And that was an excruciating and almost failed 30 years. And after that, #MBTA tried to cancel our bus service.
Sierra Club tried to stop our Hydro lines; RFKJr tried to stop our windmills. It's all true.
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
