Taylor Scheinuk

@taylorscheinuk.com

Transportation/Urban Planner/Designer from NOLA living in downtown Sacramento, CA. SEIU Local 1000, Gay, he/him, Democratic Socialist.

“Cyclists are often perceived as recklessly flaunting road laws. A new study challenges this perception. The study found only 5% of cyclists broke road rules while riding on bike infrastructure versus 66% of motorists who broke rules while driving.” Safe bike infrastructure fuels rule-following.

Cyclists break road laws much less frequently than motorists - Canadian Cycling Magazine

Study finds 5 per cent of cyclists versus 66 per cent of drivers disobey road laws

cyclingmagazine.ca

I am 100x more likely to patronize a new small business with a cheap sign in Comic Sans and menus in Papyrus than one with AI-generated slop graphics. I will actively avoid the latter actually.

Has anyone else noticed that when you tell youtube not to show you most ads, it still makes you finish watching the ad but when if you tell it not to show you an add for progressive politicians or ballot items, it immediately ends the playback of that ad? #election

We're getting into "turn your heater on" and "light the fireplace" season so here's my reminders per both: Check the expiration dates for your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. If they're expired, replace them or have your landlord to it. Have your fireplace checked by a professional

Quick reminder that the main justification behind California High-Speed Rail is that it's still the cheapest way of addressing the shortage of passenger capacity linking the northern and southern California megaregions. It really is that boring; that's why opponents have to make it a culture war.

This framing is so disingenuous, especially considering how many ppl form opinions on articles based on the headline/title alone. Doing "high-speed rail" (which reminder, Brightline FL is NOT) the way it was done in Florida wouldn't work anywhere else either.

A screencap of a CNN article tile on bluesky.  The title of the article is "Why doesn't high speed rail work in America?" which, read in a vacuum, imparts upon the reader the idea that there's something about passenger rail which is incompatible with the USA rather than the problem being with the convoluted and backwards way the USA allows its railroads to be run by private, publicly-traded corporations and the way the country's government tries to force passenger rail to operate under a neoliberal-style model of sought-profitability rather than a realistic model of public service.

Or you could just ride a bus to BART (or to any other transit agency) and get up to $2.85 deducted from the fare immediately, not a future credit like this is. I’ve been using the free transfers from BART to AC Transit a lot for Transit Month. Those discounts add up!

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · last mo.

Given past experience with Lyft/Uber, I'm skeptical, but Waymo is launching a program in the Bay Area where, if you take a transit trip within 2 hours of your Waymo trip (using the same Visa card), Waymo will give you $2.85 back for additional Waymo trips. So it's an incentive to be multimodal.

Doug Ford knew that banning speed cameras in Ontario would cost lives. He did it anyway. He also knows that banning and removing protected bike-lanes in Ontario will cost lives. He did it anyway. Every resulting life stupidly cut short is on him.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2mo ago

The family of a teenager injured by a car outside his Toronto school is suing, alleging the removal of a nearby speed camera contributed to the crash. According to the statement of claim, the 15-year-old suffered a traumatic brain injury, skull fractures and ongoing cognitive effects.