Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 15hSo it happened. Today I got hit by a car while riding my bike. I’m ok. One gnarly cut on my nose and some road rash on my face arms and knees. I’ll probably be pretty sore and bruised tomorrow, but avoided any major injuries. 11294
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026We're starting our crosstown bike bus pilot (pilot!) officially tomorrow. Look for me out there in a bright yellow shirt, riding back and forth in the W Main corridor. 2165
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I’m definitely from here, unless I’m actually from Phoenix 010
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Back at it tomorrow morning, riding my bike back and forth across town. Come find me, for a fun ride, for your commute, or just to say hi 171
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Updated schedule for the Cville bike bus testing, starting tomorrow morning 1131
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I made it to the start line, hoping the polka dots give me energy 180
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I am definitely still going to be out there on this schedule, come find me 151
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The past few months, I've been tinkering with an idea for how to show people how to ride safely together across the City and provide a way to communicate detours for cyclists during the upcoming W Main utility work: a weekly bike bus on Friday mornings 3132
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Watching the TdF from an aerial tram, I have achieved peak transportation nerd 150
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The Park St bike lanes are in (just need a couple finishing touches) 091
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Finally had the time to finish Life After Cars. It covered a lot of material I was already very familiar with, but packaged it in the most accessible way I’ve seen yet. And the ending made me cry. I needed that pep talk. 15811
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 27/03/2026The only use of TheFacebook for me at this point is to see very old pictures because I haven’t touched it in a decade 030
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Of course I’m prepared for the blizzard- The smoker is clean, the pork butt is soaking up the dry rub, and the cook should finish up right as the first flakes start to stick 140
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 21/12/2025My mom found this old news article and I can’t stop looking at it, what is the little skull next to me 030
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Come on, man, can I just wrap up some stuff at work and go on vacation 290
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Haven’t done a long cook on a smoker in a while, time to see what this new pellet smoker can do 120
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Capital Trail is confirmed, one of the best places in the Commonwealth to ride a bike 070
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 04/07/2025 But first, we celebrate the last time we did it right 040
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Woohoo, it’s July in Virginia, time to get excited about our new laws, like this one that says if you maim or kill my friends or family with a car when they are trying to cross the street and fuck up their lives forever, you might face some very light consequences 1254
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Really appreciate @strongtowns.org for talking to us about a viral story and understanding there might be more going on. Looking forward to their follow-ups. We’ve got a lot of promising work happening in Cville. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025... 1183
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 03/06/2025And now the rubber is hitting the road (first speed cushions being installed on Lankford Avenue as part of traffic calming tests) 2221
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 18/05/2025We bought Cindy a new bike this year too and it’s very similar and hits the same notes, but technically it’s a cyclocross bike, Canyon Inflite CF 010
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Sometime last fall I decided to become obsessed with biking again (loved mountain biking in my teens). Bike Month this year is hitting different. Today I rode out to Sugar Hollow and back. 4280
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Rode my e-bike to the transit yard to unpackage a modular pump track. Beginning installation in McIntire Park later today. Bike Month starts early this year. 170
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I don’t know how you can go from writing an acclaimed book on the failed racist housing policies inflicted by the white flight suburbanization of the Bay Area and turn around a couple years later and pretend like Dallas is doing it right this time 060
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Why the biggest newspaper in the densest city in the country promoting unsustainable, inequitable, car-dependent housing policy? This is like if @nytpitchbot.bsky.social decided to one day to pick on urbanist social media accounts, fuck 3130
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 09/04/2025The volume of support is great. We’re also going to need to show volume of use once the 5th St Bikeway is implemented. We are planning on getting a few displays like this (except in English) as part of a citywide counter system upgrade this summer and the new bikeway is an ideal location. 010
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 08/03/2025New distance record on the e-bike this morning. It’s been a while since I’ve gotten around to check out a few spots, great weather day to cover a lot of ground. 290
Ben Chambers @bench.bsky.social · 04/03/2025This seems like NASA has developed advanced “look at the sky and ask why is this happening to me” technology 030
