was crossing a 3 way crosswalk mess on the way home from daycare with doggo and kiddo. Was 80% through the crosswalk and a guy rolls (quickly) towards us, like he is going to zip right behind us. I’m not ok with this… i stopped in the crosswalk with the entourage and yelled at him to wait till were on the fucking sidewalk. He called me a faggot.
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i’m glad to hear that’s the case in illinois! i’m still not seeing much change in denver. there’s a lot of talk about vision zero, but minimal movement on creating actual safe streets here. our new mayor has essentially put this on the backburner and did not allocate much money in this year’s budget towards vision zero efforts, despite saying all the right things during his campaign. there’s definitely some movement still happening, but as a whole it feels like our streets are only getting more dangerous
I get the impression that we’re one of the only major municipalities that didn’t blow all the ARPA money on cop budgets and instead its going to some really needed and transformative infrastructure stuff (among other things!). It’s great seeing bike lane and road infrastructure work on a super charged level but it had fallen so far behind (see my recent bike totaling pot hole incident) that it can’t happen quick enough.
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Not to mention the RPM project(Red and Purple Modernization Program - CTA )!
Talk about transformative! It almost makes me regret moving out of the Kenmore-Winthrop Corridor.
The name of the victim in the Foster and Damen crash was released. Turns out it was a guy I met several times at the pottery studio. He was a real character and seemed pretty central to the community in that space. He rode the most sagged out Brooks I’ve ever seen.
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like… is there parking available if these folks paid for it? Or is this just them doing illegal shit to save $$?
i bet you he did that call on speakerphone from the precinct to the cheers of his cop buddies
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Often I assume there isn’t a parking garage within a few blocks of the precinct. Not sure it even gets to $$$. It is just a respect thing. They feel entitled to it.
There’s a lot to unpack around this issue. Literally half of these folks commute (likely drive in) from the suburbs–long ago there was a mandate that you had to live in NYC to be NYPD–now you can live in nearby suburban counties. So they get to play with their gun in the concrete jungle then go home to Long Island at the end of the day. You can see how this might cause issues with the people cops from the suburbs are policing.
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He’s not the only one. Been going on for years. No one in nyc gets to drive to their job and expect free parking. It’s not a thing. If your a ceo they’ll get you a full time black car before they pay garage rates. Also some of the precincts have parking. They don’t like to use it because they have to walk and open gates etc. the sidewalks and curbs around the precincts are filthy cause hey don’t clear out for street sweeping and their cars are always parked on the mess.
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Spotted a new form of asshole truck mod light placement today. The photo does no justice to how bright this thing is. Absolutely blinding from like three blocks away. I thought it was an emergency vehicle. Nope, just a guy doing yard work. Truck was idling for no apparent reason.
There’s a county proposition on the ballot here right now that I saw was for “road improvements” and “bike lanes” that I was like “very cool I support”. Then of course it’s all these road widening projects that might include bike lanes and shared use paths while also increasing traffic and speeds by a fuck ton. So I more split now. Anyway I like hearing about cities actually making things better, I think they do try here but there’s no inertia on doing stuff that actually matters like keeping speeding down and keeping trucks and construction out of bike infrastructure
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Tragic on multiple levels.
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#carsruineverything
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I think that was teenagers
It’s teenagers in cars
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Looks like the city has started the Clark Street protected bike lane project!
Some spots on the new lane are actually elevated to sidewalk level. I’m torn. On one hand, the elevation is a pretty effective separation from the auto traffic. On the other, it feels like acquiescing to all the assholes who’ve ever yelled at me to get on the sidewalk.
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We have sidewalk level through time square that is too narrow and kind of unsettling and I ride the skinnies in the woods. Makes me feel like if a pedestrian or another bike does something dumb I’m going downhill into traffic
Yet another cyclist was killed yesterday on a road a mile from my house
If that road had a bike lane like the one you’re getting, which has been fought for for years, he wouldn’t be dead
Yeah, I’m not looking this gift horse in the mouth here. I ride this street every day and I couldn’t be more stoked about it. So far, it seems really well thought out.