I missed this, but hooray, Somerville killed the WB Highland right-only lane into Davis Square and gave it to people on bikes! Little yet huge upgrade.
@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.
I used Duck Duck Go for the first time a few years ago and ended up stopping because its results were terrible, but I re-tried it again when news about Google's new trackers broke and it is a million times better - it's very usable now and often provides better search results than Google does. I recommend it.
@dx@Andres4NY@enobacon@casseagull@organicmaps Recently I started playing with a few apps to add details to OSM, which are pretty good. And there are so many other tools I use that use OSM as the basis that it'd be super nice if lots of people started adding more details. I've been using @streetcomplete and @everydoor so far. Fixing store info and adding bike details a little bit every day when I see things, mostly limited by my hands getting cold right now.
@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.
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Cambridge Bike Safety is preparing for a major election this November and has a matching funds fundraiser that you should contribute to.
There are 2 councilor candidates running for 3 open seats that have sued the city to remove all bike lanes. We need all the help we can get to defend the Cycling Safety Ordinance and ensure Cambridge stays best in country at building a protected bike network.
Theory: People on bikes are far more apt to comply with traffic controls - even at a time penalty - when they are explicitly intended for them. Think bike-specific signal faces.
Hunchy anecdata: Bike riders seem to wait for the short bike-exclusive community path crossing of Mass Ave at Cedar at even higher rate than peds wait for their earlier and longer-phase crossings. (I cede to @sofio wisdom here tho)
@bikepedantic@sofio If things are clearly designed for cyclists, I will absolutely be more likely to wait for the proper phase, otherwise I don't mind getting thru the intersection ASAP
