Anyone else get really curious about where each individual car on the road is going? I mean not during peak hour, then you can fit them into the societal narrative of workdays, I mean like 10am on a Friday in a random suburb, 6am on a Sunday, where is everyone going?
Same when I go past a café in a residential area on a weekday that's full of people. What are your stories? What are you all up to?
The world is so complex, and what I know is so limited.
Here are my slides "The Science of Growing Urban Bicycle Networks" from yesterday's workshop on sustainable mobility [pdf]: http://michael.szell.net/downloads/talk_szell2023sgu.pdf
UNSW Study - Perceptions of Walkability in Sydney
Clover Moore, City of Sydney Lord Mayor is requesting the incoming roads minister John Graham considers:
- Removing the toll on the Cross City Tunnel
- Introducing a CBD congestion charge
https://twitter.com/CloverMoore/status/1645989100439363584
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8154280/fantastic-opportunity-to-fix-sydneys-toll-road-mess/
#clovermoore #cityofsydney #cos #tollroads #tolls #nsw #auspol #congestioncharge #congestionzone #planning #sydney #transurban
oh and in the name of #openscience I'm trying to put more of my scribbles online, this can be found here:
https://github.com/JosephineRoper/Access-visualisations/blob/master/Wimbo%20Park%20LR%20stop.ipynb
These close stops here and in the CBD would make more sense if the light rail was faster - long dwell times and slow acceleration seem to be the main causes which could potentially be improved.
But I haven't done an end-to-end access analysis which would help really understand how useful or not the stop is.
Petition for another light rail stop in Surry Hills: https://www.teamclover.com.au/wimbolightrail
I've signed mostly because I don't like the argument that stops would be too close together because of a fixed '400m catchment', which is outdated and not representative of mode choice decisions & experience for shorter trips.
Having registered my opposition to catchment analyses... here's a rough one anyway.
BicycleNSW has started a petition for allowing roll-on (unboxed) bikes on regional trains: https://www.change.org/p/roll-on-bikes-on-regional-trains-is-years-overdue
This is no ordinary petition; there is a PDF of briefing notes explaining why the changes are minimal and feasible: https://centralwestcycletrail.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Briefing-Note-%E2%80%93-Bicycles-on-NSW-Regional-Trains_v-13Mar23.pdf
If you'd like to cycle from Sydney to the regions (or the other direction) have a look!
#bicyclensw #cycling #railtrails #australia #nsw #auspol #johaylen #bikepacking #biketouring #bicycletouring #cycletouring #sydney #nswtrainlink
copilot trick of the day: providing (good) translations into other languages.
I have a website with a small amount of text, and a series of separate JS files with the text in different languages. If I add text for a new tooltip in the English one, I can go to the Persian one and Copilot suggests the same thing in the same spot, translated.
Ofc chatgpt is a decent translator, but the integration with the structure of my project is just amazing, and saves some tedious work.
💬🚲️ Consultations on two game-changing cycleways opened this week 🤩
- The Cooks to Cove Greenway in the Inner West will connect the Cooks River path with the Bay Run & Rozelle: https://yoursay.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/greenway
- The Anzac Parade Cycleway in the Eastern Suburbs will introduce a whole new area to the safe cycleway network: https://www.yoursay.randwick.nsw.gov.au/activateanzacparade
Make sure to have your say! (particularly the Anzac Parade one as it's already received a lot of negative comments)
Totally irrelevant but I'm just really proud of my little sister
Though I'm disappointed she didn't include my contribution to her degree, which was listening to long voice messages about stats problems, translating them to paper, and sending her help 😅
https://hds-hub.cbdrh.med.unsw.edu.au/posts/2023-03-01-studying-hds-as-a-junior-doctor/
@straphanger Of course, most of the injuries and all of the crowded sidewalks are really due to assigning too much space to cars, but we'll just ignore the elephant on the room.
also I'm not at all sure that drivers are actually required to give way here under current NSW law; but in this case ignorance is a positive & the design is successful in conveying the intent that they should give way, and they do.
Went out of my way just to enjoy this nice new #bike crossing on Mitchell Road.
Still some awkwardness where the two-way cycling becomes one-way (behind the pedestrians) but it’s a very quiet street over there so it’s probably ok.
A more complex but interesting example:
I used to live in a deck-access flat in Port Macquarie, it was really nice propping the front/deck door open to get the breeze or sitting out in the afternoon sun once it was on that side of the building. Now I'm in a single frontage apartment with a nice orientation but no cross-ventilation, and I miss it.
The idea that an outdoor corridor can be good is related to the idea that walking or cycling - travel exposed to the elements - can be good, I think. Both involve not living in an indoors - garage - car - indoors bubble.
You start using Bing because the AI is amazing, you start using maps, and see an edit button - brilliant!
You're editing Microsoft's map, right? Wrong! You'll probably miss it, but the 7 pixel grey text explains you're actually editing OpenStreetMap.
As the series of blog posts by @pietervdvn explain in detail:
> In other words, 99% of the users will never see this. 99.99% will never realize that they are editing OSM. This is not only in breach of the letter of the ODbL (and thus illegal), this flies into the face of everything what the OSM-community stands for. It strongly suggests that Microsoft actually wants: people contributing to Bing, not to OpenStreetMap.
Skip the middle man, and head to openstreetmap.org to edit the map! Hopefully Microsoft resolves the situation.
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%20Vander%20Vennet/diary/400992
PhD student at UNSW City Futures Research Centre. Committee member of WalkSydney (https://walksydney.org/). Interested in access, walkability, sustainable transport in general, open source urban analytics. Transport cyclist, climber, plant based.