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I wonder how much NYC installing beg buttons at every intersection in Manhattan moved this number.

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There are a lot of people who think green is a color that the lawn should be.

Are they going to permit riding across it or will it still be (nominally) banned?

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I bet the math on “car noise” vs “unsupervised child noise” does not look favorable to the cars.

Markwayne, not Sean. TSA is under DHS

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I sure hope whatever VP made the argument does not get promoted.

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Melenchon and Le Pen are both rabid antisemites.

They’re just running it with unsold J, right?

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The best thing they could do would be to cut all PSAs from the trains and most of the station ones.

An excellent summation of why Curtis Sliwa is better for New York than any of the Cuomo-esque “professional politician” folks.

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“We want to bring Jews back into the fold. No not *those* Jews.”

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This is related to the problem where the contracted line-painting crews don’t bother to have cars towed out of the way, so there’s just random gaps in the parking lane or bike lane buffer or whatever. Every single street in NYC has them.

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A great example is along Myrtle Avenue, where a bunch of buffers and pedestrian refuges that were painted in during COVID didn’t get re-painted after resurfacing in 2024 and just… aren’t going to get reinstalled.

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I should write a blog post about the way NYC streets regress at repaving time — DOT installs really good traffic calming measures, but contractors reinstalling them either leave them out entirely or install them incorrectly.

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It’s in fact arguable that people ride them *because* of the danger!

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 4h

Sure, but that is (as you point out!) an electric dirt bike. I’m objecting to the specific category of things marketed and sold as bicycles (with pedals, chain, etc) that have trivial limit-defeat functionality built in if anything.

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I think people also confuse averages with individuals. Twitter’s algorithm has skewed far right, dragging people’s politics rightward, but that doesn’t make a Kamala voter diehard MAGA, not overnight. It’s a slow burn and a slight adjustment.

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 6h

Baltimore would be a much healthier city and the east side would be even more hollowed out

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 6h

And it seems like those very lily white suburbanites are the first to start breaking the social contract when it doesn’t cater to them. (Folks in poverty can’t generally afford $100k lifted coal-rolling pickups)

Sam G @samthegeek.net · 7h

I think this is the tradeoff we make for not requiring licensing and registration. Which is a fair tradeoff! Bikes shouldn’t need license plates but instead the scrutiny should be at point of sale. IMO, we should not allow “for off-road-use only” e-bikes.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 12h

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

cbc.ca

Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 7h

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Sam G @samthegeek.net · 11h

The “we asked diners in a rural restaurant” of the car business.