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Darren Buck is a former USDOT FHWA ped/bike research & policy lanyard-collector. Cambridge, MA. Longer-form posting at pedantic.bike

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 6h
Special Thursday bike bus. Girls took the front today, which always makes for a more-fun ride for me. Which is why we do it, obviously.
Selfie of me, kids riding behind me
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 6h
Those four hateful words — “I’m starting a newsletter.” More of the same transpo stuff in general — and active transportation planning, research, and Federal policy in particular — that I post about here. Subscribe: pedantic.bike
A concrete barrier for a bikelane, USDOT HQ in the background
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 6h
Driver (of a car that likely was not acting independently) killed a person after crashing into a hospital.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 9h
Just in: Brand new excuse to upgrade to a thudbuster
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 9h
My registration is also expired, and I don't think that I deserve to die either.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 9h
new handle and bad idea just dropped
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Aru @aru.io · 11h
Too little, too late. Get fucked, DoorDash. #deletedoordash
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 10h
among all else they are entitled to, they get one of the first swings of the wrecking ball
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 11h
brb, tattooing “we don’t need to study the study" on my lower back
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 13h
this lil smoosh wants to do some shenanigans
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 13h
ASMR reels of clicking and clacking these gems would distract all of Gen-x for the rest of our trivial lives
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 13h
I’m totally stealing “today’s episode of Bluey is called ‘Bugger Off.”’
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 01/10/2026
Just chased some guy out of my backyard as he was scouting out my bike for theiving, so big day for bikes and me
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 01/10/2026
I’m reasonably well-informed about things I’d like to think, and welp I’d never heard of US Sen Jim Risch before seeing this post.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 01/10/2026
New list of better uses for Fresh Pond Golf Course just dropped
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 01/10/2026
One of our Bike Bus parents marshaled in a unicycle last week.
Guy on a unicycle
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 01/10/2026
Hyperlocal content targeted at me specifically. How could you leave out Revival, though?
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
Low speed tumble (avoiding a right hook) like 20’ from the Porter Square ghost bike on my last day without health insurance. Wrapping myself in bubble wrap and headed to bed.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you’re asking $1.4M ($727 a sq foot). No amount of all-caps encouragement or civic pride is getting the first-time homebuyer you imagine in that house. Congrats on getting yours, though. redf.in/9a0GhJ
make it your own. This family takes pride in its roots in Cambridge and hope to extend the joy and ability to own in Cambridge to a new homeowner. SELLERS ENCOURAGE
FIRST TIME HOME BUYERS OR INVESTORS
LOOKING TO CREATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO SUBMIT AN OFFER.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
WITNESS ME
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
someone cool (like maybe the City?) please buy this Porter Square duplex along the railroad tracks directly adjacent to where a trail along the Fitchburg line would someday ramp up to Porter Rd www.redfin.com/MA/Cambridge...
redfin.com
26-28 Porter Rd, Cambridge, MA 02140 - 7 beds/2.5 baths
(MLS PIN) For Sale: 7 beds, 2.5 baths ∙ 2988 sq. ft. ∙ 26-28 Porter Rd, Cambridge, MA 02140 ∙ $1,825,000 ∙ MLS# 73565472 ∙ This Philly style 2-family feels very secluded and just steps from Porter Squ...
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
Sun is peaking out, Cambridge. Get outside!
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
Usps platypus mail truck in greyscale with “Narc” caption
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
(prepping my FOIA for all footage of USPS trucks parking in bike lanes and ADA parking spaces)
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
Website, domain, newsletter hosting for cheap solo operator who doesn't expect to get any newsletter revenue: Ghost?
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
Garsh i need a reason to wear a suit. Jost looking sharp.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 30/09/2026
too much car storage
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
Fucking uber (evergreen)
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
Seems like electric school buses have been successful into a degree that electric transit buses in the US just haven’t electricschoolbusinitiative.org/why-school-d...
electricschoolbusinitiative.org
Why School Districts Say They Love Their Electric School Buses | Electric School Bus Initiative
WRI’s Electric School Bus Initiative aims to build unstoppable momentum toward an equitable transition of the entire U.S. school bus fleet to electric by 2030, bringing health, climate and economic be...
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
I first heard ‘clean’ referring to food in an ad for fucking Panera of all places. I assume it’s just chosen because it sounds like ‘healthy’ but doesn’t have a regulatory definition /restriction on it.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump's new AI chatbot says Trump has kicked over 10 million people off their health insurance coverage
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
If/when the history of this era is written, I hope that it examines how shoddy staffwork played a role. Whether it was dismantling/disregarding career civil servants, hiring personal legislative staff from a pool of young dumb racist loyalists, or relying on AI, they've bungled away a lot of wins.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
This little PBL near Harvard wasn't even on my radar, but it's done, and makes for an OK bypass to get from Cambridge St to Mass Ave via Oxford St if you don't like the underpass or picking your way through the Science Center plaza www.cambridgema.gov/streetsandtr...
plan view showing a block of Kirkland St with protected bike lanes on both sides, westbound goes around the corner onto Oxford then end. Also a northbound protected and southbound unprotected on Quincy
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
seriously, instant-legend banger
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Drew Courtney @drewcourt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Where is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog when you need him?
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
Guy just parked my dream cargobike (R&M Load 60 in Blue) across the street, should I run across the street and serve him with an unsolicited lowball offer?
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
Even Alanis Morrisette couldn’t have spun the what-if of The Atlantic dismissing the democratic base as ‘cosmopolitan’
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
Trying to get in the spirit for HONKFest (Oct 9-11) honkfest.org/2026-festival/
A snare drum festooned with googly eyes and a “the war on cars” decal
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 29/09/2026
Trump is ‘personally remaking’ DC in the same way that he’s ‘personally remaking’ the Persian gulf. Bezos’ WaPo sucks. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
washingtonpost.com
How Trump’s sweeping changes are remaking Washington
No modern president has done more to personally reshape the nation’s capital.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/09/2026
Cauliflower in tahini and soy sauce still likes me
Cauliflower in tahini and soy sauce in a pan
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/09/2026
Just realized that the Linear Park trail will still be closed on HONK festival weekend and probably Halloween too, and how I wish we’d just done a simple repaving.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/09/2026
I’m feeling rainy-day everyone-dying adhd-potatoed unemployed-irrelevant-fat-old-man depressed. Who wants to sell me another bike?
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 28/09/2026
The inhumanity towards some compounded by the startling damage we’re inflicting on everyone, it hurts
bostonglobe.com
With Salvadoran TPS in limbo, construction company owner contemplates what he’s built, and what he might have to leave behind - The Boston Globe
The uncertainty surrounding Salvadoran TPS has profound implications for a Malden man who has owned a construction company for 18 years.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 27/09/2026
Cybertruck (and the exonerative tense) is total trash hoodline.com/2026/09/teme...
hoodline.com
Temecula Boy, 6, Killed by Father's Tesla Cybertruck
A 6-year-old boy was killed when his father's Tesla Cybertruck struck him in their own driveway near Temecula.
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 27/09/2026
This is so clever
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 26/09/2026
Dexter’s Laboratory
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 26/09/2026
Managed to plant a new tree before the rains arrive
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 25/09/2026
Did the Ipswich Audubon thing
Me feeding a bird out of my hand
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 25/09/2026
For those who adore the USPS platypus truck but wish it was fun-sized www.facebook.com/share/1DmgMr...
A tiny truck with giant vertical windshield and snoutlike hood
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 24/09/2026
Shopping for perennials in Union Square
A bunch of plants on a cargobike, a bunch of plants separate the bike lane from the road
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