@esnyder@meganL as an engineer, I use McMaster all the time, mostly because they have hands down the best e-commerce experience and its not even close. It's been great for a while and I just don't understand how all other online sales places are just so terrible still.
@esnyder@meganL fun fact, all of the product images used to be hand drawn (not sure how true this is at this point, maybe they have cool software to help now) to have the distinct styling and consistency
MIT protesters blocking the street but keeping the bike lanes clear, with marshals keeping people safe, while Cambridge police parks in the bike lanes. One of those groups is really working on getting my sympathy and support.
@lambdageek@streetsblogmass at the info tabling events last summer, the staff were saying they want it to be bi-directional, and are basically designing it so, but to actually do it is expensive signal work, outside the scope of quick-build (basically the same deal as the current Garden lanes)
With 252 people speaking over 5.5 hours in favor of bike lanes and 10 opposed, the council voted to save probably net fewer parking spaces than people willing to come to a council meeting, good job you 5...
@enobacon I really want to take a look at how sensitive drivers are to weather relative to bikes, but haven't found good enough data or the time to create a ridership model, maybe someday soon
TONIGHT: StreetsblogMASS editor Christian MilNeil will be this month's guest for the Streetwise lecture series from the Somerville Bicycle Advisory Committee and the Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets. Details here:
@enobacon@bikepedantic they also claimed the head of the traffic department was unqualified and that the city should staff a specific board to hear these types of complaints.
They did get the city to re-staff that board that hadn't been staffed for a few decades because no one ever used it. I've heard that the new members have lamented that they haven't done anything.
@joeinwynnewood@estelle Market Basket in New England. It is family owned and one family member got control and was going to do things to change the beloved stores and customer backlash was so severe that the ownership control flipped. (I am simplifying because I wasn't fully in tune with it as it happened, but it was only a few years ago.)
"Employees, as well as state politicians, began to call for a boycott of Market Basket stores. By mid week, Market Basket's sales had fallen about 70%."
Fedifriends, help me find fun sightseeing and touristy things in San Francisco that are wheelchair accessible.
More context: My in-laws are visiting from the UK next week and one of them uses a mobility scooter or wheelchair (can also get around short distances on crutches). We will not have access to a car, so we have to get around by public transit, cabs, etc.
They enjoy people watching, gardens, birds, hanging out in cafes, and talking to the locals.
So far I was thinking they might like JFK Promenade and the surrounding museums, the Botanical Garden, and taking a boat tour of the bay.
On a meta level, I don’t quite know how to research this so I’d appreciate meta tips as well.
@dys_morphia I don't know how well this works, but there is an #OSM based map meant for finding accessible places. Being OSM based obviously means its super dependent on the quality of the mapping in the area.
Found out about it through @streetcomplete , which also makes it easy to add details to OSM that would help maps like this, in case you had an interest in making it better.
@alexkgellis@bikepedantic@dx Would BCBS be who matters? I would think it would be the city first. I think most of the organization is done at the MAPC level, which Providence isn't a part of and would make things a little harder, but can't be much harder than Salem joining the system.
@bikepedantic@alexkgellis@dx I have a dream that all major stops along the commuter rail and all rail-trails (looking at you Bedofrd Depot and Lynn Marketbasket) join BB
@alexkgellis@bikepedantic@dx Lyft is kinda weird. My understanding is bikeshare is actually profitable for them, but like, only a little and no way to make it more so, which Wall St. doesn't like.
But if they do sell off Motivate, I'd love to see the different cities that they operate buy up Motivate and run a national non-profit bikeshare operator. It seems good to have the same hardware everywhere to save on design and get better economies of scale.
@enobacon@bikewazowski that's where Cambridge is excelling right now. They made a bike plan, then a law that says the city needs to install separated bike lanes on the major routes in the bike plan within a certain time, and it's actually making progress on that plan.
For some of the design work they take some counts to understand where people are going, but they know where people want to go already. Most streets are losing ~50% street parking, but it's still happening.
Does anybody have examples of designs for #ADA parking stalls in combination with a two-way, parking-protected on-street cycle track? It seems like your city staff think the only way is to have the parking right up to the curb and the cycle-track swerving around it. I wonder if there are alternatives that work well for #accessibility and also make for good bike facilities. @sofio or @bikepedantic maybe?
