HayiWena

HayiWena, 7 days ago to random

The Yakima Canyon will be mostly* car-free on Sunday for a bike ride. The weather is looking mild in terms of temp and wind. The road is closed from 9am to 3pm so you can ride up and down as many times as you like. https://www.crimestoppersyakco.org/sitemenu.aspx?P=custom&D=6&ID=700

• what local traffic there is is supposedly limited to 25mph but some people are impatient jerks

HayiWena, 9 days ago to random

In which the travel demand modeling community at least now acknowledges that they are not accounting for induced demand in part because they don't know how to. (That's okay, we can correct in our traffic models while they figure it out.) A Snapshot of Travel Modeling Activities: 2023 Update from Federal Highway Administration: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/74282

HayiWena, 9 days ago to random

Increasing speeds on interstates leads to hot spots of traffic violence in adjacent communities. -- From AAA: https://aaafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/202404-AAAFTS-Spillover-Effect.pdf

HayiWena, 16 days ago to random

If the MTUCD tells you where to put the signs and how to stripe the street, the Highway Capacity Manual tells you how wide to make the road. There's an open request for proposals to update the seminal text. https://trb.secure-platform.com/a/page/HCMRFP

HayiWena, 22 days ago to random

The mom message chain is sharing that another one on my middle schoolers' friends who lives on our neighborhood got hit by a driver on his way to school today. He usually bikes on the sidewalk in the area of the arterial streets.

HayiWena, 22 days ago to random

Yesterday I biked my teen's possibly taco'd, I-didn't-wanna-try-truing-it wheel to the bike shop, into the wind & on Turbo. I caught up to a dude on a vintage AF bike with an internally geared hub. Just as I was about to say "cool bike!" he looked at me and said "That's cheating."
So I said, "Really? Was I supposed to take my car instead?"
He looked visibly pained with the cognitive dissonance.

HayiWena, 23 days ago to random

Want a[n 81-pg] rigorous academic source that recommends protected roundabouts in the US? PDF download link: https://nationalacademies.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4f1f5aad1cdf8802c08a457cb&id=4aade31cda&e=77d1b86ef3 (includes email list tracking garage because the direct link is hidden) or try searching for report # MPC-603, Investigating Bicyclist Safety Perceptions and Behaviors at Roundabouts (March 2024) from University of UT at Logan.

HayiWena, 24 days ago to random

I'm saving a copy of this Teams meeting transcript that I'm cleaning up so I can go back afterward and count just how many times this one dude interrupted me.

HayiWena, 26 days ago to random

Five years ago, I volunteered a shift at the community bike shop and a grandma came in with her 9yo granddaughter looking for training wheels. I put her on the back of the tandem and did a few laps of the parking lot to build her confidence, them I took the pedals off a BMX and sent her out for a few more laps before putting them back on. Her grandma told me, as she watched her pedal around happily, that it was one of her best life memories.

HayiWena, 1 month ago to random

I'm feeling grumpy so I'm finally gonna say some stuff about the book Killed by a Traffic Engineer and why it's a stupid title for a book if you want it to create change in how streets are designed. https://islandpress.org/books/killed-traffic-engineer
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HayiWena, 1 month ago to random

I would like to report a problem to my city, but the link to the report a problem link goes to a 404 on the animal shelter website.

HayiWena, 1 month ago to random

It is with great irony that the internet is reminding me that on this day six years ago my then-6yo rode the 2-mi journey home from school alone for the first time, but now that he's in middle school he gets driven because 4-lane arterial roads and greater risks from larger vehicles and worse driving.

HayiWena, 1 month ago to random

Autocentricity is the cops stopping a Latino kid who's truant and making him wait on the sidewalk for a parent to pick him up half a mile away from a bus stop.

Community policing is walking him back to school one block away.

HayiWena, 1 month ago to random

My 12yo's teacher accused him of using ChatGPT to write a paragraph. But the question is, should he be flattered or insulted?

HayiWena, 2 months ago to random

When the 13yo girl texts you from her vacation on the opposite side of the country to ask you to finish her bike, you finish the damn bike even though your knee dislocated half way through. I cannot get the front derailleur to work so she's gonna have a 1x and learn to increase her cadence from about 40.

Front view of a road bike in a repair stand. There is black bar tape on the handlebars.

HayiWena, 2 months ago to random

Is there some kind of quota for how many of these lies a news outlet has to publish a month? Gas prices are lower than average now and the range is only 1-3 avocado toasts per month.

HayiWena, 2 months ago to random

In my stupid tech heavy hotel room waiting for "the engineer" to come and show me how to turn the lights on because all the stupid "remote" does is make the walls different colors.

HayiWena, 3 months ago to random

I got my city council to talk earnestly about revising the parking code. All it took was to baffle them with math concluding that a hypothetical development in a zone they have targeted for high density would literally be more than half parking lot. I need to buy a white board so I can Katie Porter them properly.

HayiWena, 3 months ago to random

A short thread on accessing #Paxlovid in the US if you test positive for #COVID, based on what I've learned today when my 17yo tested positive. Thread includes #tips on being prepared for your inevitable positive test.
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*I will update the count when I'm done.

HayiWena, 3 months ago to random

In perhaps unusual interview preparation strategies, I'm going to set an alarm and read my book.

HayiWena, 4 months ago to random

Years ago, I subscribed to WSDOT's Cooperative Automated Transportation list serve. At the time (2019), the industry was exceedingly bullish for Autonomous Vehicles. As my interest waned (and the industry collapsed), I stopped reading the digest (but never unsubscribed). I just took a peek at a recent one and it's really satisfying to see the change in tone. A selection of headlines in the next post. 1/2

HayiWena, 4 months ago to random

My imminently retiring pubic works director is saying #CrashNotAccident. Old engineers can learn new things.

HayiWena, 4 months ago to random

My dog wants to eat all of my carrots.

HayiWena, 4 months ago to teenagers

In my endless quest to use music he's sure to hate to get my grumpy almost 17yo out of bed, the leading candidate so far is Rick Astley. Wham! yesterday was not much good and he actually liked Roxette. #Teenagers #Parenting

HayiWena, 4 months ago to random

Emeryville CA is using bike detection signal camera technology to detect pedestrians and call a pedestrian green phase. #TCampDC24