No driveways, parked cars or card doors to trouble you. Centre median bike lanes are often wonderful.

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 2d ago

Got inspired to explore the cycling routes by this REM station and I found these interesting median bike lanes.

Perhaps the Charlie Munger Foundation could study this issue of windowless bedrooms. www.nytimes.com/2021/10/30/u...

After a Billionaire Designed a Dorm, an Architect Resigned in Protest (Published 2021)

Charles Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the windowless rooms of an 11-story tower he conceived for the University of California, Santa Barbara, were “cheerful.”

nytimes.com

Patrick Siegman@siegman.biz · 3d ago

What share of architecture programs require students to pass an economics class to graduate? I ask because this story profiles the architect who just persuaded the ICC to ban windowless bedrooms in its model building code. It offers zero consideration of how this will affect building costs or rents

I have been to Halifax before Andy Filmore was Mayor and this is what I saw.

🇨🇦 Novid Scotia@novidscotia.bsky.social · 2d ago

Halifax Mayor Andy Filmore: the best I can do is rip up some bike lanes while having my expense account referred to the RCMP.

Bins' doors won't fly open, but the dumpsters do have some sharp edges and protruding hinges*. Cyclists should aim to pass with 18 inches of clearance. * picture search #ToDo pending.

John Lansing@pipedreaming.bsky.social · 3d ago

Street containers will never door you.

New Jersey sights. "End Designated Safe Corridor".

Three #flexposts were harmed in updating this thread.

Norwich Cycling Campaign@norwichcycling.bsky.social · 3d ago

Three (!!!) of the wands protecting the mandatory cycle lane on Newmarket Road have now been knocked over. Once one goes others soon follow. The wands are an essential part of the protected cycle lanes for preventing drivers from entering and parking in the cycle lane. Issue logged with Highways.

They could donate the illegal ebike/emotos to people they want to arrest for riding/driving illegal vehicles. I am not at peace with this practice of labelling inanimate objects 'illegal'.

Robert Prinz@prinzrob.bsky.social · 4d ago

LOL someone else should do a competing “buy back” & offer $350 in cash for Class 1 e-bikes, then just resell them & make a profit. Are we sure this isn’t what the OC DA is doing anyway. Or are their plans to crush the legal e-bikes they receive, or something else equally stupid?

Important for Oxford County, Ontario (about 125 miles north of Cleveland OH).

Pedestrians.ca@pedestrians.ca · 4d ago

Input Needed for Road Safety Strategy

>>> lac des États-Unis Is that malicious compliance ?

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 5d ago

There is currently a Wikipedia edit war on the Great Lakes Wikipedia pages because everything is so stupid

Mounting a literal #headlight to my helmet and GoPro dashcam to capture true POV and see/record anything I look at is another reason to wear helmet often.

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 6d ago

My best attempt to understand the research on bike helmets. Including things both sides get wrong.

Cities that say no to driverless cars are blocking a technology that would change their residents’ lives for the better, Rogé Karma argues.

Democrats Are Failing the Waymo Test

Cities that say no to driverless cars are blocking a technology that would change their residents’ lives for the better.

bit.ly

Automakers and aftermarket autoparts firms, enthusiastic about selling solutions such as forward-facing cameras? Modern cars have enough screens for camera monitoring and have had rear visibility #backup cameras with driver-facing monitors since 2018 (Trump45 era) (NHTSA FMVSS 49 CFR § 571.111).

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 5d ago

Government Accountability Office: "The Secretary of Transportation should take steps to fully analyze and address risks that limited driver visibility poses to the safety of pedestrians and cyclists" "DOT stated that it did not concur with this recommendation" www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Canadian signs: tell you what you may or must do. Pic 1 h/t @chittimarco.bsky.social USA: tell you what not to do. Pics 2, 3

Coco La Reve is dead ! Sugar & Spyce / Spyce also dead. But no Cavo revival.

Clarence Eckerson Jr./Streetfilms@streetfilms.bsky.social · 6d ago

The @nycdot.bsky.social conversion of 31st Ave east of Steinway into #bikenyc bliss has begun!! Paved. New 1 way signs & “DO NOT ENTER except bikes” signs (my kid noticed before I did!) QUEENS IS BEST BIKING BORO! @johnsurico.bsky.social @openplans.org @nyc.streetsblog.org @misernyc.bsky.social

Bike path "Safe for all ages and abilities", but to be sure, use an unlimited #ebike. No more tedious narrow bumpy obstructed bike paths with cross traffic and oncoming traffic !

erin@erinsspace.bsky.social · 6d ago

I thought my community pedestrian and bike infrastructure was solidly okay until I bought an ebike and started using it instead of a car for short trips. Within a month my opinion drastically changed lol.

Wall sleeve AC units should be called "Peripheral Air".

the frog that has the tea@miles.nyc · 7d ago

the way that apartments are advertized with "central air" when it's just a mini split... like so close! that is a shape.

Rail to Trail

Benjamin Schneider@benschneider.bsky.social · 7d ago

Here's a crayon of a BRT line reusing the 1.5 mile temporary BQE viaduct. Serving: — Red Hook Houses — Red Hook downtown — Cruise terminal + ferries — Brooklyn Marine Development — Brooklyn Bridge Park — BK Heights + short walk to Clark St. 2/3 train — Dumbo — Direct access to High St. A/C

Publuc debt shall not be questioned ! "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned." -- guy on the Internet

Brendan Greeley@bhgreeley.bsky.social · last wk.

I can't get over how irresponsible this NYT oped was. The Sumerians did not cancel sovereign debt. This is an undergraduate fail-level misreading of financial history. The whole piece is based on a mistake.

SkyTrain through Vancity bank HQ in Vancouver, for comparison.

Florian Stöger@fdms.eu · last wk.

Chongqing of the West (This thing is _incredibly_ loud, I really wonder what it sounds like inside of the building)

Roller coaster with neither rolling nor coasting. 1-3.Walkable urbanism of Duisburg, near Dusseldorf Germany, designed by Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth, 2011. 4. German-designed Space Walk (스페이스워크), 2021 in Pohang Korea. Smaller staircase sculptures look to me like a CrossFit or Hydrox challenge.

Oh The Urbanity!@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · last wk.

Montreal staircases in your dreams/nightmares.

Beg button adding a "no right on green phase" is ́next level.

Sarah Goodyear@sgoodyear.bsky.social · last wk.

No right on red is one of the simplest pro-human policies a city can institute.

Aside from the rare drawn drawbridge, and neckdown from n to n-3 lanes, the non-surface highways always seem to be moving, allbeit slowly, with no stopped for red light phases. Routing software rarely sends drivers more than two exits away from freeways. Video: GWB, Fort Lee NJ

The Overhead Wire@theoverheadwire.com · last wk.

One of the interesting things Patrick and I talked about last week was that all these highways are choked with so much traffic people are driving the same speed as they would on a surface street during the day. You might have some luck late night but really it’s just an expensive surface street.

When Zohran Mamdani grabs the mic in public, it is usually for an easily understood action within the Mayor's prerogative; he portrays tangible action with a "Senator Pothole" level pragmatic local concern. #Message_discipline Esoteric, jargon-laden talking points are avoided.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · last wk.

yes, it's a performance, and a very skilled one! that doesn't make it inauthentic, but all the 'why can't other Democrats speak like this' well, because they aren't innately charismatic people raised with an understanding of media from childhood thanks to informed parents with a great team

Are cyclists riding in crosswalks legally protected as pedestrians, or as legally protected as pedestrians; do cyclists using bike crossings have a legally protected right of way ? Previously: bsky.app/profile/twgo...

OB Cycler@obcycler.bsky.social · last wk.

Traffic cops just stand around and watch indifferently as a massive pickup truck runs a red light and almost hits me.

Grade separation via world-class landscaping provides bike lanes, bike paths, and bike routes with full quality: 1) continuity of design standards 2) directness of route 3) connectivity

Connor Crowley@croweleycf.bsky.social · last wk.

I honestly will never understand why American urbanists celebrate high modal conflict boulevards as a replacement for grade separated highways. If it is aesthetic preference, ok, but highways are safer for everyone in every context and boulevards should just be banished.

Echoes of prior decades of US regulation lagging Europe: USA endured weak but cheap universal round sealed-beam headlights from 1940 to 1974, then round or rectangular sealed beam, and finally (slight oversimplification) in 1983+, DOT allowed composite, aero-sculpted headlights w replaceable bulbs).

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · last wk.

"NHTSA plans to initiate work on a request for comment notice on adaptive driving beam (ADB) and semi-automatic beam switching (SABS) in 2027" but implementation isn't until 2030 and it doesn't address the federal standard, just public testing www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Not regulated --> Over-regulated: the USA is too strict and does not allow the latest headlight technology and its associated benefits for safety, comfort, and performance. (Hazards of editing within tweet-sized character limits.)

Ken McLeod@kenmcld.bsky.social · 2w ago

How is the US supposed to be a leader on AV regulation - as the administration says it wants to be - if we can't even regulate headlights? I suppose it works if AVs are so safe that a lack of testing and regulation doesn't matter, but if they're that safe then they should welcome public testing

Yes. Many f1 folk tour the track by bicycle, too.

Urban Cycling Institute@urbancyclinginstitute.org · last wk.

🤯 A car-free car racing event? Sounds impossible! In the Netherlands last weekend, nearly all of the 110,000 fans attending the #Formula1 #GrandPrix arrived by bike or public transit. Cars were practically banned. Ironic to say this: but it's a masterclass in sustainable mega-event planning.

In Canada, salmoning (cycling in the wrong direction/wrong side of the road) has been taken seriously. A Saskatchewan police chief is seen here monitoring the situation.

Stadium/Trophy truck course.

Offroad Racing Truck Kicking Up Dust

ALT: Offroad Racing Truck Kicking Up Dust

static.klipy.com

Wes Marshall@wesmars.bsky.social · last wk.

Are raised crosswalks effective? Yes. Yes they are.