And I surely hate to crab at you, a wise and steady ally who deserves bountiful respect and smooth pavement, this e-moto corrosion is making me even crabbier than an old coot has a right to be, ride in peace 🚲
Agreed, it's the least of my recommendations, but worth setting in motion (I'm getting old, I mostly want to live to see safe inclusive inviting everyday bicycling on the streets and greenways of San Francisco but the e-motos are eating us alive, got to punish the gun dealers meaningfully)
Start by boosting penalties for selling/giving/lending kids e-motorcycles and e-mopeds, as one would do for firearms in a civilized world, the Angwin story seems like a good place to start
Simplifying e-bike definitions in the CVC is not my top priority, my top priority is getting the fucking e-motorcycles off our bikeways before we ruin urban biking, and it's going to take some focused regulation, but I'm getting tired of winning great bike space and having it fill up with non-bikes
Easy enough to trim off CVC 312.5(a)(3) and edit a couple other references, if you need more speed the e-moped market is ready to provide – a simpler commonsense bicycle-coherent e-bike taxonomy is easy to draft, it'll just piss off manufacturers for a while
I was a consultant to @calbike.bsky.social on that 2016 CVC amendment, all good till manufacturers finagled the speed ceiling up to 28 MPH, it's too damn fast for most folks, 20 Is Plenty and two flavors of e-bike are enough (& 750W is likewise enough for family/cargo bikes)
Mamdani is considering ending free street parking in NYC. This would be another huge boost to NYC residents' quality of life, reducing traffic in ways that would be comparable to congestion pricing. And it would be another step in ending suburban free-riding on NYC.
Whoever sold/gave/lent the kids these motorbikes should be punished accordingly, as if they'd sold/given/lent the kids firearms or explosives, that's where most of the regulatory energy should be going on this hot & misunderstood topic #DontBlameEBikes
Sometimes you have to wait for the band to cross.
Here's another bad crash involving 2 kids riding electric motorbikes, at ages 5 & 7 they're far too young under the CVC to be at the handlebars of these things (and almost certainly unlicensed, another clear legal requirement often ignored) #DontBlameEBikes
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there.
On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.
holy shit
"SLOWKLAND slow roll around Lake Merritt - Last Tuesday of every month - Meet 5:30pm @ Lake Merritt BART - Bike East Bay"
Join me on a slow roll to check out construction progress for various bikeway projects around Lake Merritt in Oakland!
Monthly rides every last Tuesday, starting 5:30pm at Lake Merritt BART. First ride March 31st, 4.4 mi route, all ages/abilities. Details here
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"I don’t know the moment it happened; it must’ve been a slow realization. ‘My bike is my mobility aid’." Great article from @bikehfxlobby.bsky.social published In Active Travel Studies activetravelstudies.org/article/id/1...
One more How Things Work dispatch from Dec 2024, an interview with Heather Hardy that had me riveted and awed and, at times, weeping
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-intervi...
Here's a recent sample if you're not already a reader
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-real-l...
You may already be reading @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social's How Things Work, I'm an ordinary paid subscriber, though he maintains a zero-paywall policy – if you have the means to really step up you might give him a holler and discuss becoming a true patron
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These days the "flipper palette" (dark grey, darker grey, black) has become a competing esthetic, a pretty lame cop-out in most cases
(I moved to SF two years later, so yes, I was here for the Loma Prieta quake, as close as I'll come to being an SF native)
The first time I came out from Boston to visit my brother in 1986 I didn't just thrill to the wild color schemes on the houses, I noticed how many of them had a "Bob Buckter - Color Consultant" sign on them, I'm delighted to know that Bob is still consulting
www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...
Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0
A white poster oriented lengthwise reads in black print: 'THERE ARE FEW MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION MORE OBSOLETE THAN A 14-LANE HIGHWAY THRU A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD' Tears on the edges of the original poster.
1/ The person in 1968 who held this poster helped give us a robust metro system and preserve DC/MD neighborhoods. This is from @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social's collection of Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis materials - a local anti-highway movement.
@actfortransit.bsky.social
Two photos. The first show JFK Jr. with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy walking their dog. The second shows JFK Jr. setting his bike against some pole.
Two photos. The first shows JFK Jr. wearing a navy suit and scarf as he exits a building while riding a bike. The second shows him walking in purple gym shorts, a black t-shirt, and some sneakers.
Two photos. Both show JFK Jr. walking with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. In the first photo Carolyn Bessette Kennedy is wearing a black coat with blue jeans, while JFK Jr. is wearing a black vest, dark colored shirt, and taupe trousers. In the second photo, JFK Jr. is wearing a brown jacket with tan pants, while Carolyn Bessette Kennedy has a long charcoal coat and black boots.
Two photos. Both show JFK Jr. in sweats while rolleerblading. In one photo, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and a dog are with him.
Wrote something for @thetimes.com about why JFK Jr. is popular again. IMO, what you're admiring isn't just his handsome looks and style, but the fact that he lived in walkable urban neighborhoods and had enough time for exercise, hobbies, and a lover.
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A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.
a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"
It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!
My only recommended amendment to the CA Vehicle Code would be to re-categorize Class 3 electric bicycles as electric mopeds, 20 is Plenty, IMHO leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_...
That MTI study's findings and recommendations are quite similar to what People for Bikes shared www.peopleforbikes.org/news/the-e-b...
Lawmakers are tossing out e-bike restrictions that won't help much or at all, I urge CA electeds to read the Mineta Transportation Institute report that the CA legislature commissioned a couple of years ago transweb.sjsu.edu/press/MTI-El...
A tragic story whatever the details, I'm very eager to know whether the 16-year-old was actually riding an e-bicycle, or an e-motorcycle, or an e-moped, there's a lot of careless reporting about things that aren't actually e-bikes as e-bikes www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
