crschmidt

crschmidt, 10 days ago

@bikepedantic i replied quickly!

crschmidt, 10 days ago

@Andres4NY sorry you’re missing the thing :(

crschmidt, 12 days ago

@mcc i won't swear to it, but when I've seen this it is people who explicitly uploaded content with black letterboxes so that it would play in the shorts player, so the black bars are baked into the video and YouTube doesn't have a great way to know better.

But maybe that isn't the case here.

crschmidt, 12 days ago

@mcc yeah, fair enough. this particular thing ("why can't the player fix this?") is just the first layer of about 7 that are all directly caused by decisions YouTube had made :)

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker: "How many more people do you want to be hit, run over, injured, or killed?" Building these bike lanes is critical for cyclist safety.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker: Just on my commute to work this morning, I had to navigate around 5 cars that were parked in the bike lane.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

"If there are protected lanes, it is far more likely that I, and seniors like me will leave the car at home in favor of riding a bike."

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker: We know that road design that relies on road users following the rules all the time is not safe.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker: My mom, a senior, has commented unprompted that the Garden St bike lane makes crossing the street safer. Also, due to protected bike lanes by Petsi Pies, I buy way more pies than I would otherwise.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker: as a truck driver, it is scary to be driving a truck next to a bike. If someone doors a cyclist, you know that there's nothing that you can do, you're just going to crush them. I can't believe that we're considering delaying this for parking reasons.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

11 year old commenting at 9:10pm; "very scary to have cars pass too close and honk their horns at us." (It is also past his bedtime, and it sounds like he definitely needs to get more sleep.)

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Current speaker works in Cambridge; when he mentions he lives in Winchester, the jerks 2 rows behind me (who have been heckling many speakers) scoff audibly.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Genuinely big props to all the cyclist who have been seriously doored, broken bones, and are still daily bikers. I don't know what I'd do in that situation, but it's hard to imagine "getting back on the horse".

crschmidt, 13 days ago

I've now situated myself directly in front of the hecklers, who seem to be objecting specifically to the idea that someone can ever leave the city of Cambridge and still have a right to speak about what happens in Cambridge.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker: I'm a driver and a cyclist. If I'm biking, I'm more likely to stop and buy something than I am if I'm driving by.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker #3 in opposition out of 205: I'm not comfortable biking, but most of the descriptions of incidents are at intersections, which are not made safer by bike lanes.

(this is a complete misunderstanding of what almost every cyclist describing an injury is describing: dooring is not gonna happen in an intersection!)

crschmidt, 13 days ago

210: Lawrence Adkins, one of the hecklers. "We are not taking all stakeholders into account. I only found out about this tonight. We should go back to sending letters to residents, the digital world bothers me. This should be stopped, put it on hold, and do it right."

crschmidt, 13 days ago

211: "Please don't equate bike lanes with increased pedestrian safety, that's not true."

[most are equating them with increased cyclist safety, which is certainly true, but pedestrian safety is also typically increased with most of these designs.]

crschmidt, 13 days ago

the hecklers: "People are riding their kids across an intersection. Crazy."

(I'm curious how people are supposed to ride their kids somewhere that... doesn't have an intersection?)

crschmidt, 13 days ago

speaker: I've moved to Malden, and my world is so much smaller than it was in when I lived in Cambridge. I can tell you about businesses I went to on safe bike routes, but not on Cambridge Street because I didn't feel safe biking there.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

speaker: I work with children with obesity, and it makes me feel sad when parents don't feel safe letting their children bike, but understands that it's an understandable decision given the safety of our streets.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

Speaker who rides a cargo bike with 2 kids: "Please choose a safer city."

crschmidt, 13 days ago

"I'm here representing the 400 people who support this delay."

Lady, you have 400 signatures, we have 280 people who showed up in person or waited 5 hours to speak. I'm pretty sure it's clear which side has broader support.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

@bikepedantic @Will I think that accepting the fig leaf red herring of parking here is probably misstating it.

I would restate it as: The antis want to delay implementation of the remainder of the cycling safety ordinance, and they convinced the swing vote to side with them.

crschmidt, 13 days ago

@20002ist @bikepedantic @Will Yeah; the 4 anti-bike people (who would like to just stop installing new bike lanes entirely) combined with the swing vote, who gave a 15 minute speech about how great it is that we have this world class ordinance with strict deadlines, so it's okay if we extend the deadlines and add more process.