I’ve often wondered why, after a century of innovation, modern bicycles look so similar to the ones that people rode in the 1890s. After all the innovations in the world since that time, why haven’t we improved on the bicycle?...
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Uso Gadgetbridge da molti anni, con Amzfit band s, poi con un bip e adesso con un bip s.
È un’app veramente indispensabile per avere una altetnativa non spiona, libera etc. Infatti è uns dei progetti a cui contribuisco con una donazione periodica
The decision to build freeways instead of rail in the post-war years, along with the low-rise single-zoned suburbs it promoted, has been an absolute planning disaster.
But the mistake can be fixed, and freeways can be removed.
City Beautiful's Dave Amos @citybeautiful has an interesting look at some of America's endangered freeways, and how communities can get them removed:
I use tailscale app from Fdroid. It works for me since over 2 years. Since the last update the app dont start. The app crashes on every start. I use a custom rom iodeos....
The partnership between Kobo and iFixit means the iFixit will provide official repair kits to fix the most common components like batteries, for newly produced readers (Libra Colour, Clara Colour and Clara BW,)...
You know, I was thinking the same thing. It’s always iFixit: Motorola, Nokia, and now Kobo. But I don’t see how a company with a mission like iFixit can turn into bad guy (enshittify?). Am I too optimistic?
you get the only thing I openly say it is an opinion (based on my experience anyway) to dismiss all the other points like an opinion where instead I offered some observed facts
What you reported are anecdotal facts. Things you observed. Objective facts and data are what we need to improve. The fact that you see people not using the bike lane is not relevant.
Have you tried to actually count how many people use the bike path and how many not?
Do you understand that from someone driving a car, you clearly see a cyclist on the road, while you may dismiss and not even register one on the bike path?
Is the one you talk about a bike path at all? Or maybe is it a mixed use path (so one that cyclist don’t have to use)?
When I’m riding a bicycle I will always use a bike path, if it is usable; you know, I want to stay alive. I may choose not to use it when mixed because I think it is more dangerous for me and the pedestrians on it. Or if a bike path surface is broken and I would risk falling.
Did you check these?
Practice:
The 3 points you mention as practice are not practice at all. They are theory, they are laws that are usually not respected.
Obviously if you reduce speed you reduce the possibillity of a fatality. Following this way of thinking, if you reduce the speed to 10 Km/h you reduce even more the crashes and fatalities. Even better, remove the cars, 0 crashes (not sure about 0 fatalities btw).
30 km/h is only the maximum speed allowed. And it is a compromise that wold allow for a huge reduction of crash damage, while not reducing travel time by much. Because the average speed in cities is, let’s remember that, more in the 10-20 km/h range. So, speeding between red lights does not save anyone’s time, just increase the danger.
Don’t make me look up for articles about that (please, do it yourself, there is plenty), but the increase of travel times when maximum allowed speed is decreased from 50 to 30 is very low (much, much lower than 50/30 ratio), and the benefits in terms of danger is so high, that it is totally worth it. So the argument “let’s make it 10 km/h” doesn’t make any sense
we are taking for granted that it is always the car the guilty side
it’s not a question of who is guilty, it is a question of where the danger comes from. And it doesn’t come from pedestrians or cyclicsts (see my previous post), it comes from cars. Stop signs exist because of cars. Traffic light exist because of cars. Car insurance exist because of cars.
So my point, in the end, is that concentrating only on the speed, again in my opinion, we are just looking at the most easily factor to “punish”
No, nobody wants to punish. It is because of facts (not anecdotes). It is because it works in theory and in practice, as I fully documented in my previous post. And I was only taking into consideration the 50 to 30 km/h reduction. It works in all the cases, even highways www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598360/
'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed (newatlas.com)
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Macklemore - hind's hall (free Palestine song). Sembra di sentire i Rage Against the machine! (www.youtube.com)
Ritmo, energia, rabbua e contenuto, tutto degno e all’altezza dei Rage Against the Machine....
130-year-old bicycle vs brand-new modern bike (www.youtube.com)
I’ve often wondered why, after a century of innovation, modern bicycles look so similar to the ones that people rode in the 1890s. After all the innovations in the world since that time, why haven’t we improved on the bicycle?...
Anev, il blocco delle rinnovabili in Sardegna è incredibile | ANSA.it (www.ansa.it)
Scotland launches campaign "give cycle space", reminding that those riding bike are real persons (www.youtube.com)
The campaign aims to promote the highway code rule that requires drivers to give at leadt 1.5 m space to cyclists when overtaking....
Italian party "Lega" will defend "cars" in the European parliment (mastodon.uno)
Lega is far a far right populist Italian party....
Uno sviluppatore italiano (così sembra dallo username) sta lavorando (con alcuni contributors) per supportare adeguatamente i dispositivi Garmin su Gadgetbridge! (codeberg.org)
La community aspettava il supporto ai Garmin ormai da diversi anni....
Cobags bikezag (cheap foldable, bike rack shopper bag), buy 1 get 2 foldabl (copenhagenbags.com)
I want to suggest to whoever wants to try to go to grocery store by bike, to check these bags....
The city of the future moves by bike (todon.eu)
Seen in Puebla, Mexico
The hidden potential of bicycles (www.resilience.org)
Bike lane in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (video) (social.notjustbikes.com)
tailscale Fdroid crashes on every start
I use tailscale app from Fdroid. It works for me since over 2 years. Since the last update the app dont start. The app crashes on every start. I use a custom rom iodeos....
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Kobo partners with iFixit to make new e-readers more repairable (goodereader.com)
The partnership between Kobo and iFixit means the iFixit will provide official repair kits to fix the most common components like batteries, for newly produced readers (Libra Colour, Clara Colour and Clara BW,)...
Citroen DS3 and DS4 hybrid pictures show cars parked and moving in a park (mastodon.uno)
Of all the places, where would you like not to see a car the least?...
I Fairbuds prendono 10/10 da iFixit (punteggio per la riparabilità) (www.youtube.com) Italian
Penso che nessuno sia sorpreso, ma è sicuramente meritato!...
Italy’s new road law will make street less safe and slow down sustainable mobility (www.euronews.com)
Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right Lega party and transport minister has proposed a reform of the traffic road code....