These are the same assholes who are suing the city saying proposition K was illegal. Check out this crazy statement in their court petition:

The effects of Proposition K will be to displace longtime residents, merchants, visitors, and daily commuters. Proposition K advances exclusionary public policies of limited benefit, and compromises the safety, accessibility, and overall well-being of the entire Bay Area. It effectively denies people equitable access to public roads, safe transportation, and a livable environment.

Briefs have just been filed and the city’s opposition brief is pretty damning. You can check out the case document’s if you’re so inclined, but we can also just wait. The hearing is scheduled for November 10th and I’m planning to make some fresh popcorn when that news hits.

Here we have a yet another example of a painted bike lane into sharrows being the absolute worst infrastructure.

This is where Griffin Gaffney was ran over:

Gosh, I hope you’re correct. I would love to be wrong in my prediction.

Those tacticool loonies would support a transgender ban and the NRA supports red flag laws. Pass a red flag law and then let congress mark transgender people as red flagged. I’m sure the NRA won’t loose a single tacticool loonie’s membership with such an action.

I’m positive the NRA supports the transgender ban. In their past they supported the Mulford Act when the Black Panthers were copwatching.

My bet is they’ll say second amendment today to save face and instead push for any changes to be only related to diagnosed mental illness. Then they’ll be silent when the transgender community is thrown into that category during a second legislative pass.

Reform UK party. Same far right party as brexit.

I wouldn’t expect them to listen to reason.

Oh, you’ll have fun with this rabbit hole! They’re neat and used all around the world. The air train at SFO uses them, as does Mexico City.

I’m all for rail, but using rubber can be useful in all sorts of situations. It’s simple and works well. And even with the disadvantages over steel wheels, like rolling resistance, they’re not wildly expensive to run and maintain.

BRT lines are especially neat because a BRT allows a city to upgrade their bus system to light rail capacity without huge investment. E.g. San Francisco upgraded their Van Ness bus line to a BRT with wild success.

Adapters do exist that convert through-axle hubs to quick release. They will work if there’s a particular wheelset you’re looking at or, as I used them in my case, have a strange franken wheel project.

That said, it’s generally not worth the squeeze. There are a great many wheels and hubs in different spacing, spoke count, colors, brake types, etc that are designed for quick release. Trying to adapt one not designed for your frame should be reserved for unusual circumstances. Consider these adapters only if you’re ready to build a wheel from the ground up (a hub, a box of spokes, and a rim).

Also, don’t fret too much about hub bearings. Cup and cone bearings are very efficient and are easily serviced. Case in point, Shimano didn’t produce cartridge bearing hubs until 2023.

Corrected headline: “Some Asshole Was Texting or Going Too Fast and Ran Over Phil Ken in His Fucking Car”

That blows. I recently had a pinch-flat on clean asphalt (!!!) that wouldn’t take a patch in the field and was forced to walk the last 5 km.

Two things I’d check into besides the tube: the tire casing and the tube install. Sometimes a puncture through the tire’s fabric breaks too many strands or cuts through both biases. In that case the tire is toast as any tube will push through the puncture the moment you start riding on it. It’s this kind of tire failure for why I keep a tire boot in my repair bag.

I’ve also seen tubes get damaged when using tire levers. Those usually fail with tears and little bubbles of weakness. If at all possible, do not use a tire lever for anything but removing a tire. I’ve had very good tubes be fatally damaged in this way.

Any ticket that is a flat cost is a regressive tax. I think we both know that income based tickets would never fly in the US.

Income based tickets can fly in the US, but it hasn’t been normalized everywhere yet. CA AB 645 doesn’t slide upwards, even though it should, but it does slide downward. The law even requires analysis of the local population before authorizing a speed camera installation.

“a designated jurisdiction shall reduce the applicable fines and penalties by 80 percent for indigent persons, and by 50 percent for individuals up to 250 percent above the federal poverty level.”

“A speed enforcement program developed pursuant to paragraph (1) shall place the speed safety systems in locations that are geographically and socioeconomically diverse. The designated jurisdiction shall describe how it has complied with this provision in the Speed Safety System Impact Report described in subdivision (h)”

“A racial and economic equity impact analysis, developed in collaboration with local racial justice and economic equity stakeholder groups. The analysis shall include the number of notices of violations issued to indigent individuals, the number of notices of violations issued to individuals of up to 250 percent above the poverty line, and the number of violations issued to each ZIP Code.”

The issues you raise are real, but they’re not because of speed cameras. They’re issues of selective speeding enforcement and flat-rate tickets being regressive in a car dependent society. Police officers regularly issue speeding tickets against the impoverished and minority populations without checks and balance. At least speeding cameras won’t lie about where it sits or inspect the color of the driver before writing a ticket.

Illinois, do better with your speeding tickets.

Speeding tickets don’t have to be a regressive tax, as others have pointed out. Many countries slide speeding tickets based on income.

Revenue generator… for whom? Policy matters. E.g. California’s AB 645 authorization for speeding cameras only allows for recovery of program costs and “any excess revenue shall be used for traffic-calming measures within three years of the end of the fiscal year in which the excess revenue was received.” California’s speeding cameras reduce speeding by improving road infrastructure and active transportation.

Citation needed, otherwise you’re just spreading carbrained misinformation.

They’re branded editions of the HSD and Vektron. No weight or size changes; just colorway and airstream brand badges.

900 dump trucks of garbage a year, all by bicycle. A good vibe to start the weekend with. :)

Disappointing but not surprising. Most Democrats are not in favor of building housing. It’s too often politically suicidal at the local level to support development.

I got curious and looked around for more info, thinking that usually it takes at least a few months for traffic patterns to settle in like this. Nope. This overpass opened yesterday.

But wait, there are even more familiar issues! Housing? Yep, lots of people were displaced. Which was also ignored during planning, so the project landed late (22 years in the making) and way over budget.

Furthermore, it’s not like the civil planning experts in Mumbai didn’t know any better.

Transport expert Ashok Datar voiced skepticism about long-term benefits. “There is a saying that instead of trying to cover the world with leather, one should wear leather shoes. SCLR’s extension is an attempt to cover the world in leather. All that is being done is that a congestion point is being pushed further ahead of the road. How many extensions will you do while ignoring easier and cheaper solutions like having dedicated bus corridors on Mumbai’s roads? That is a far cheaper option than building such roads,” Datar said.

Mumbai’s East–West road link realised after 2 decades with SCLR extension

File this one under fuck around. We’ll refile under find out later.

LA streets need fixing, which is why measure HLA passed to force the city to make progress on their vision zero infrastructure plans. Even after passing, the city has been dragging its feet.

It’s continuing to be a fight to fix the streets.

It’s a comic from WokelyCorrect. I’d be surprised if they even know how to ride transit.

I’m not sure a diesel generator is much better. In the US, petrol power generation is 2.46 pounds CO2/kwh and coal is 2.31 pounds/kwh. Maybe coal is less efficient in Germany, but I doubt it’s significantly worse than petrol.

And there are other negative emissions with oil, like forced methane production (burn, bottle, or release). Though coal has similar issues too (e.g. more radioactive release than nuclear power).

That said, there’s a disconnect in our debate. Coal plants are an energy source. Cars and ebikes are an energy load. You can’t really say “coal is worse than cars” because you cannot replace coal plant emissions by adding more cars. Similarly, you’ll have cars even if you replaced coal with zero-emission renewables.

The argument becomes interesting when you add bikes into the picture. You can replace a large portion of petrol-car kilometers with coal-ebike kilometers and gain far more kilometers traveled per kilo of CO2. This argument can also be extended for emissions related to calories in acoustic bike kilometers.

The “per mile” in “ebikes produce less CO2 per mile” is critically important to the argument.