@inquiline Huh. I have some ideas that there might be regulations around human bridges and risk that might factor in to this, but it really seems like that kind of clash shouldn't be hard to resolve in reality. I'm intrigued by the security really seeming focused on preventing humans crossing (for liability reasons?) and ignoring all those pipes outside the fence--i.e., there doesn't seem to be an infrastructure protection issue, just a req to stop humans sharing that crossing.
@geonz@krisnelson I guess that little staircase and gate in the middle is a clue, worker/maintenance access.
It's truly the most dystopian infrastructural site. The people who'd be most motivated to cut a hole and cross anyway are likely the people who live up and down the river banks on both sides, who are on foot or on bike, but not recreationally, & thus for whom the sanctioned crossings are most inconvenient.
@inquiline The ducks are his confederates in evil. Everyone looks at the ducks and so never see Michael Meyers as he slips up behind you with a long kitchen knife. Afterwards, he feeds them breadcrumbs, stolen from the kitchens of his victims.
Lol I'm so bad at self-promotion that it didn't occur to me until today to share my op-ed from last year on #ports#Shipping
Almost certainly the #Baltimore bridge rebuild will happen quickly (at public expense), facilitate a much greater capacity for goods movement, & be presented as an inevitability, without public officials stopping to entertain whether this is a good idea whatsoever
Instead of widening the Long Beach 710, LA Metro plans to upgrade streets, bike lanes and bus stops on nearby roads
I suspect there will be more pushback, but this is pretty great. It might include priority bus lanes, bike and pedestrian improvements, public greenspaces and more on Long Beach Boulevard, and bus stop improvements such as solar-powered arrival time displays, shelters and drinking fountains
There seems to be a genre of donkey-at-the-beach postcards from an earlier era. Here's #LongBeach#California in 1910, in an idyllic scene before the shoreline was tapped for oil production.
@inquiline@acousticmirror and the funny thing is, as the air gets dirtier, some gets into this ballroom, and slowly deposits carbon particulates on the image, darkening it more...