I wish I knew more about this project in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
I suspect this is part of bus driver training.
I'm imagining the DMV making it a part of every driving test for your license. Some people learn best by experiencing the consequences of their actions from the victim's perspective.
A list of all kinds of uninformed reasons people give for not making it safer and easier to bike, with rebuttals. This is exactly the kind of thing the internet is useful for!
It's available in many languages, and you can help translate it. The content is CC licensed. It's great!
Thanks to the fantastic podcast Bike Talk for letting me know about it!
On my first bike ride to work after getting an Apple Watch, I got this fun new warning when I passed through the most auto-dense portion of my commute. A reminder from @notjustbikes that cities aren’t loud, cars are loud.
Let your batteries warm up for a while before charging them. Charging a lithium ion battery when it's close to or below freezing will damage it, permanently reducing its capacity.
In meiner Timeline wurde dieses Bild in den letzten Tagen leider unvollständig geteilt.
Bitte teilt die richtige Version! Gerade in der dunklen Jahreszeit sind falsch eingestellte Lichter gefährlich.
This morning, I was leaving a coffee shop on my cargo e-bike and about five #Oakland firefighters stopped me to ask questions.
“How much does it cost?”
“Can you take kids and groceries on it?”
“How often do you charge it and how far does it go?”
“Can we sit on it and take pictures?” (they did)
Sometimes I realize I’m more than just a cyclist - I’m an accidental advocate by moving around in a different way than most people.
For those who don’t understand German, a bit of context about what’s happening in #Berlin
A conservative is now the mayor and as a result of it the past agreements and on-going efforts to improve road safety, green mobility, city life quality are being threatened. It started yesterday with Berlin senate requesting to put on hold every cycling infrastructure projects that would require that at least 1 car parking spot would be removed.
We want to be safe, they want to park cars. #BikeTooter
13.000 cyclists demonstrated against #Berlin new conservative senator’s decision to stop (and potentially scrap) ongoing infrastructure changes that would have improved the safety of cyclists and pedestrians and contributed to reaching environmental targets.
13.000 people.
7km of streets continuously filled with cyclists.
And you barely hear about it in the news.
13.000 is a big number.
Imagine 13.000 SUVs with a flat tire: would we hear more about it in the news?
I finally got to bike in Vancouver and it turns out their slow streets can have real diverters without the whole city burning down. And they have the budget for concrete somehow, and the staffing to install it. Cars can take a two minute longer route and it's fine and nobody has died. There are benches and tables that you don't have to pay money to use and yet the city has not become overrun with crime. It's ok, we have the technology, we can do this
THE BICYCLE IN 1993.
How the Wheel May Look One Hundred Years From Now.
The bicycle of 1993 will be built on very much the same lines as the safety of 1893 i. e., with two small wheels very nearly of a size. This was the plan of the first machine built in 1817, and now after a lapse of 76 years we have come back to the original design...
Then by the use of some alloy of greater tensile strength, weight for weight, than steel, and by filling the tires and the tubes in the framing with hydrogen instead of air, the weight of a road machine will be reduced to 10 pounds or less...
The roads will be prepared especially for bicycles, the grades being very slight and in fact only sufficient to provide proper drainage. The surface will be hard and smooth, the outer edge of all curves being raised as on a race track...
Railroads will be used for the transportation of freight only. Every individual will own a bicycle...
🧵 A phenomenon keeps happening both online & in person that angers, saddens, & devalues me. So I'm attempting to explain why it has this effect & what I'd hope people would do instead.
When I arrived at UC Davis to prepare to start grad school in summer 2019, I found the first of many damaging ableisms - the cycle racks were not accessible to the types of cycles I ride. Yet I'd be cited & my bike impounded if I didn't park there. 1/? #Cycling#UCAccessNow#BikeTooter#Urbanism
If you #bike in #Baltimore, you might be interested to know that Margo Bruner-Settles's anti-bike-lane billboard truck ran a red light in front of me today.
We need at leasst 17 more people using the #BikeNite hashtag (on public posts) to have a shot of trending.
Why do I care? Because Mastodon isn't the greatest for discoverability. I think BikeNite is a cool community and I would like to see more cyclists able to find us and participate in this a/synchronous weekly structured chat. @mastobikes@fedibikes@bikenite#Cycling#BikeTooter#fahrrad
Yesterday an SUV nearly ran me over when I was crossing a street. There were around 20 seconds on the count down and it was obvious that it was a red light.
I stopped in the intersection after it very unwillingly stopped, and glared at the driver.
Ever since I personally witnessed two people being killed in front of me, as a pedestrian, here in SF, I have been radicalized. It’s a big fucking deal and it’s unthinkable to me that pols don’t think so.