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HayiWena

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Recovering traffic engineer, LCI, former bike coop board member, and pied biker of SE WA. Drag stan. #StopDeKindermoord #VikingBiking #CarryShitOlympics #BikeTooter

Profile pic: A woman in a crocheted beanie looks up at the camera over her glasses.
Cover pic: A woman on a cargo bike tows a child on a sled along a snowy street.

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ai6yr, to random

Random: Worst invention ever: Bluetooth earbuds are way too easy to lose. And always run out of battery when you need them most. Plus if you need to hear out of an ear you've got to figure out where to stash them.

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@ai6yr bone conducting headphones solve these problems. My OpenRun ones have surprisingly good battery life.

ai6yr, to cycling

Future cargo trailer hauling MTB... if I can get it back up to speed. But now it has shiny stickers (but no tires... yet... since the online retailer I purchased the new tires from apparently sends their packages by mule train).

Same mountain bike, still with rotted tires, but now has blindly yellow white and black reflective stickers

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@LabSpokane @ai6yr @bud_t swapping out cables, and sometimes housing, is relatively cheap ($10 for cables and maybe $40 if you buy them with housing, cheaper at a bike co-op) and it's so so so worth it. I'm old Walmart bikes I put a drop off oil on both ends of the housing and shift the cable through its full range to spread it about, but that's for bikes I don't care about that won't be treated well by the people who receive them. My bikes get new cable and sometimes housing.

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@c_dan4th @ai6yr @LabSpokane @bud_t The original pedals are probably pretty heavy and road pedals are small without the clips and straps. +1 for the RaceFace Chesters. I have them on my MTB. The spikes can tear up your shin if you're not careful, but better than losing your footing. I just put bearclaw pedals on my cargo bike after 5,000 mi on the stock Ergon that only have sandpaper for grip. The sandpaper wore off and I started losing my grip. Note that the Chesters don't have reflectors.

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@ai6yr @c_dan4th @LabSpokane @bud_t Bar ends are great for dangling a grocery bag off. They also give you different hand positions. We don't yank on them to pull the front end up while climbing because we have wide cage cassettes and all the gears now (plus, it means fat old ladies like me can go up mountains now too), but bar ends are still popular amongst utility cyclists!

mbonsma, to cycling
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NEW PAPER from me and a wonderful team of collaborators: ✨A Street-Specific Analysis of Level of Traffic Stress Trends in Strava Bicycle Ridership and its Implications for Low-Stress Bicycling Routes in Toronto✨

It's short and it's open access!

https://findingspress.org/article/92109-a-street-specific-analysis-of-level-of-traffic-stress-trends-in-strava-bicycle-ridership-and-its-implications-for-low-stress-bicycling-routes-in-toron

HayiWena,
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@mbonsma @footsteps There's probably a big difference between Strava subscribers (who are more sporty) and free users like me who don't use their tools like assigning a particular bike or type of ride. And I only recently switched to a Garmin that differentiates eBike rides. Only to say, beyond location, there's probably a lot of noise in Strava data.

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@dragonfrog I made a Strava account in 2020 for the virtual Seattle to Portland ride and kept it going for that reason--no utility trips and I knew cities were starting to look at Strava as a source of bike count data. So now I happily upload my endless 1-mile grocery runs down quiet neighborhood streets crossing the main road at a signal. Strava still won't capture kids biking to school, but it's a start, I guess.

HayiWena, to random
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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,
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Tesla recalls 1.6 million cars in China to fix self-driving systems. New York Times, January 5, 2024

Excited about AI and self-driving cars? A roboticist is here to burst your bubble. Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2024

Survey: 3 in 4 consumers prefer self-driving capabilities in their own vehicles over robotaxis. Business Wire, January 4, 2024

Tucson, Ariz., wants to claw back $100K AV incentive. Government Technology, January 4, 2024

(You can google the headline to find the article.)

HayiWena, to random
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My imminently retiring pubic works director is saying . Old engineers can learn new things.

HayiWena,
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Our pubic works director just told council that the focus of our safety investments is bike/ped crash prevention. We really need to apply for status.

HayiWena,
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Now one of our councilwomen is asking why we're not putting physically separated bike lanes in when we restripe streets.

ai6yr, to random

Freelancing/self employment tip (for newbies): W2 wage is not the same as 1099 pay, due to self employment tax/Medicare/SS. $1/hour W2 is not $1 if paid on a 1099 (same rate on a 1099 would be a pay cut). Learned this long ago.

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@JohnJBurnsIII @lbush @ai6yr Consulting firms typically have audited overhead rates between 1.5-3.1(!!) x salary. The Safe Harbor rate is 11.1-.25 for small businesses with no audited overhead rates. E.g. https://wsdot.wa.gov/business-wsdot/audit/safe-harbor-indirect-cost-rate

HayiWena, to random
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My dog wants to eat all of my carrots.

HayiWena, to teenagers
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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.

mbonsma, to random
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I'm sad to be missing my first - too pregnant to go! My amazing colleague Bo Lin will be presenting a poster about our work tomorrow called "Exploring the Geographical Equity-Efficiency Trade-off in Cycling Infrastructure Planning" - please check it out if you're there!

HayiWena,
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@mbonsma I'm sorry you can't go. It makes me so mad that TRB just gave up on a hybrid conference. does such a great job, but TRB was like "meh, this is hard and we want the cash from the out-of-town attendees."

HayiWena, to random
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Emeryville CA is using bike detection signal camera technology to detect pedestrians and call a pedestrian green phase.

HayiWena,
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Emeryville CA is also using solar power on top of his shelters to provide lighting after dark even if electricity is not available.

HayiWena,
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Emeryville CA is using signal controller technology to turn green lights red when they detect a speeding vehicle.

jillrhudy, to librarians
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Most outrageous library patron requests in 12 years:

  1. I know you all have better candy in the back. Go get me some.
  2. Trace my family history back 950 years to William the Conqueror and I don’t want that internet stuff. I want a family tree printed on paper.
  3. Make me out a will. My kid gets everything, that isn’t too hard.
    Let’s see your top three!

    @librarians
HayiWena,
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@Tim_Eagon @shana @jillrhudy @librarians It is at ours! We're a city with a population of 60,000ish.

HayiWena,
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@thatgeoguy @jillrhudy @librarians Libraries offer online legal service subscriptions, museum and parks passes, streaming audio and video services, language learning services, tool lending, STEAM facilities (e.g. 3D printers) and bike lending. Mine lends bike locks and eBike chargers. You should visit your library or even it's website.

HayiWena, to random
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As if healthcare admins haven't demeaned us enough, they've now replaced fabric gowns with crinkly paper not much thicker than toilet paper.

HayiWena,
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@matthewconroy It's not the first time, but on a cold December day waiting for a pap smear and a breast exam I would've found fabric to be slightly less dehumanizing. Especially with my business end pointed at the door.

ai6yr, to cycling

Applying info I learned from today!

HayiWena,
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@ai6yr @daihard I have those stickers too, I love them. I put them on places with movement too, like pedal cranks and the pie plate on my wheel. I'm also a big fan of the Bike Lane Uprising reflective spoke covers.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I read about "owners" of Cybertrucks not being able to sell them to anyone else. Why would you put up with that type of fuckery? Fools.🙄

HayiWena,
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@StillIRise1963 @fcktheworld587 So much for a "free market." I thought the free market was supposed to punish incompetent manufacturers like Tesla and not enable them to create artificial scarcity and more profits.

bikepedantic, to random
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Wizards & Caps maybe moving to Potomac Yards has the same stink IMO as Amazon HQ2 to Pentagon City.

This whole National Landing strip (ha) has so so so many advantages, and could/should have been allowed to develop into a proper city without these dumbass megaprojects.

HayiWena,
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@bikepedantic Do they also undermine school funding by using TIF? That's how Baltimore sold out its kids to Under Armour. (And others on the north side of the harbor.) MD assumes in the state allocations that the city is getting the full local tax base only it gave that money away.

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