HayiWena

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@ai6yr I got this super light weight pannier for my road bike. It has handles. https://cleverhood.com/products/clever-pannier

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@ai6yr Here is the #GoFundMe #MutualAid to lay the 17yo mother to rest. https://www.gofundme.com/f/lay-angelica-jelly-santos-to-rest

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@ai6yr The school district said they hired him under an emergency substitute hire process, which is less rigorous. I think right now my neighbor is glad he's no longer the school district attorney. He made it through the three recalls (and all the associated FOIA requests) and quit to be a stay-at-home-dad and recover. This "hero" was one of our school board members who got recalled. https://www.knkx.org/politics/2024-04-22/washington-gop-republican-convention-semi-bird-dave-reichert-governor-election

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@ai6yr The #GoFundMe #MutualAid for one of the victims' families is here. One of her children witnessed her murder, another one has special needs. https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-amber-marie-rodriguez?attribution_id=sl%3A9600ba4a-a9e0-494d-ac90-fa25271be6b5

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@ai6yr My kid was in lockdown because of this guy. My friend reported on him recently. He was substitute teaching at our elementary school. He murdered his ex-wife and girlfriend today, the day if his child rape trial, and abducted his 1yo child. I hope the toddler is found safe soon. I'm struggling to find any generosity for this ex-cop who was protected by cop union record suppression BS. https://tumbleweird.org/elias-huizar/

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon And also, the idea that in prioritizing safety you have made safety worse is a MASSIVE cognitive dissonance that makes people hella uncomfortable on its own, so don't go there unless you have solutions to offer or people will lean HARD into the alternative way of resolving their dissonance, which is to prove to themselves that you're the one who's wrong and they are doing it the right way. https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon The test for negligence is generally codified in state law, but there are some States that specifically point to the MUTCD for traffic or other specific reqs for traffic, e.g. PA: https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=/secure/pacode/data/067/chapter205/s205.5.html. Generally, the negligence test is "what would a reasonable engineer do in the same circumstances" and that's follow the standards. I think there's a pretty long legal precedent of no liability when "we thought that was safe at the time, but now we know better."

HayiWena, 1 month ago

Even when you read the description of the book you have to get to the fourth paragraph before whomever was having a morbid party stops reminding you that you are a serial killer by virtue of your work as a traffic engineer or more generic transportation professional and you should read this book. https://islandpress.org/books/killed-traffic-engineer#desc
7/13

HayiWena, 1 month ago

And in addition to all the priming of your windshield-biased pro-social behavior, there is other alienating content. Like I said above, traffic engineers aren't in control of our streets. They make recommendations that get squished by the MUTCD or the windshield-biased managers above them. Safety absolutely is NOT an afterthought. If the author gets these fundamentals wrong, why would a traffic engineer or generic transportation professional read this book?
8/13

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon I'm not a lawyer, but therein lies the rub. I am not sure it's a war worth fighting in the courts because it would be your expert witness against Car Brain's expert witness. Courts (and juries!) are not good arbiters of science. We have to change the profession from within, which is why, I think, the terrible title of the book with very good content is such a travesty. Like, cool shock title dude, have fun on the podcast circuit, but the people who need it aren't gonna read it.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon Traffic engineers don't stamp ALL of the plans. And often, a set of plans only has one stamp on the cover page from the design manager. Other times, each individual page is stamped by each individual discipline lead. So a traffic engineer would stamp the signal timing page and the intersection striping page. As a drainage engineer, I only stamped my hydraulic modeling reports. I did stamp a few utility relocation sheets on another project.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@dr2chase @meganL As a Big Dummy owner who has also ridden that on single track (unloaded), I'm not sure the Big Easy is nippy enough for the kinds of adventuring the Oryx is targeted for. I can't think of a good low stand-over height option in a 26"+ wheel size intended for off-road hauling. The Oryx struck me as a really niche bike with a huge ticket, until I put two and two together with the accessories. I guess the Xtracycle RFA might be in the same class with the lowest step-over height.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon Okay but now I want video of you hopping a curb on a long-tail ebike. That sounds like core strength that a body that had two c-sections an only dream about.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@meganL @skinnylatte As someone who likes to take the single track home from Costco on my GSD, I think the main thing that makes the Tern Orox ($6,500) preferable to say a Surly Skid Loader ($4,800) or something in the same class but cheaper is the ability to use your accessories on both bikes. I mean unless you're made of money and you want a belt drive Rohloff hub motor. I don't even know how much those cost, but the GSD version is double the base GSD model.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon Thank you, this is wild. I'm too much of a weenie to hop curbs on my MTB. I did in my youth on my full rigid commuter, but now even tho I know how and I can time bunny hops just fine over cracks in the road and my 29er would probably roll over them anyway, I just am way too risk averse to hop >4" curbs. I'll take on a rock on a trail, but not a curb.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

I'm sure people think I'm pathetic not letting my kid bike 1.5mi to/from school and carpooling/city bus home. These kids were going the safer 2-mi route. I'm exhausted. This is now the 4th, 5th & 6th kids in his IMMEDIATE friend group struck by drivers going to/from this specific school from our neighborhood.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

All three kids are injured, two with broken limbs.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon @bluGill We have a plug-in leaf blower that has a mulching vacuum mode, but alas, it only works on dry leaves.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@meganL @ai6yr Actually, this video is better, if only because the first line is "boy am I glad I don't drive!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twfJjEjondU

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@meganL @ai6yr They are doing it how you're supposed to. I have no doubt they don't know that and are just being jerks, but yeah, zipper merging is better for traffic throughput. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0I8OdK7Tk

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@ai6yr Doubles as a "biking with kids" list.

HayiWena, 1 month ago

@enobacon The bill for deferred maintenance of privatized railroads is past-due.