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daihard

@daihard@infosec.town

Bicycle rider (fietser & wielrenner) | Safe Streets warrior | Urbanist | Database engineer | he/him

"Great bicycle infrastructure is a sign of true civility." - David Gregory

All opinions are my own.

Keywords: #VisionZero #ClimateCrisis #SafeStreets #Transit #BlackLivesMatter #FOSS #Linux #KDE #Chromebook

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daihard, to Seattle
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How much does it cost Sound Transit to opearate the fair compliance program, including staffing? How much money have they recovered from the "fare evaders" since they reinstated the program back in November? In Japan, I think nothing when a train conductor comes to my car and starts inspecting the tickets. Here, as soon as I see a fare enforcement person onboard, I feel like vomiting.

www.theurbanist.org/2024/05/28/sound-transit-platform-fare-inspection/?

Andres4NY, (edited ) to nyc
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Ugh, what a fucking weirdo. He needs to go.
https://gothamist.com/news/could-mtas-fight-against-fare-beating-force-passengers-to-prove-they-paid

daihard,
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@Andres4NY Just curious, do you go through a turnstile when you leave a station? In Japan we do both as you enter and leave, kinda like tapping in and out.

daihard,
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@darwinwoodka @rejinl @Andres4NY One big difference is that the fare gates in Japan are open by default. It closes only when a passenger taps a card with an insufficient balance, inserts an invalid ticket, or (very rarely) tries to force their way through without paying.

As for the entry point, the fare gates there are bidirectional. Whoever enters it first will go through. It can be an issue if you're trying to enter the station against the flow of passengers who just got off the train trying to leave. You wait for one passenger to go, but by the time they are through, the next one is already in the gate, so you'll end up waiting for a while to get in.

daihard,
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@rejinl @darwinwoodka @Andres4NY And it looks like the MTA chief is onboard with Adams. That's really too bad.

Reminds me when my mom and I took the train together when I was back in Japan a couple of years ago. The fare gate closed on her as she tried to go through before me. She got furious as she believed she had enough money on her transit account. A station employee came to us. She showed what she believed was her transit card in her hand, which, it turned out, was a different (non-transit) card. That was an embarrassing moment for both of us. 😅

daihard,
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@darwinwoodka @rejinl @Andres4NY My horror story about transit in Amsterdam goes back to 2008, when they still had the strippenkaarten (strip cards). I had been using them backwards without knowing it because it was an honour system and no-one checked my card until I was a week into my trip. And one day, a train station employee caught it. He just bluntly told me I was using it all wrong, and that I'd have to get a new card. I somehow managed to get out of it. That was my first experience with the "Dutch directness." 😅

daihard, to cycling
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This is exactly the kind of YouTube channel that I need to watch every single day.

youtu.be/xYI4E5TXL5A?si=pjHc0aaxTv6SSfgO

tk, to cycling
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It took many years and many professional bike fits for their extremely valuable tips to finally sink in. :blobfox0_0:

It took me following a hunch over several months to get to the general area where my saddle and handlebars should be for their tips to finally make sense and complete the picture in my mind. (My saddle was way too low for a long time because my first bike fitter was trying to work with my horrible technique early on, which caused me to tear a quad in one leg. :blobfoxscared: )

@cycling @mastobikes @biketooter

daihard,
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@tk @cycling @mastobikes @biketooter I've only had a professional bike fit once, and that was right after I began cycling so most probably wasn't very helpful. My current setup is pretty good IMO, but it's taken me a long time and many trials and errors to get there.

LauraLoeSeattle, to random
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I’m back on a break from Twitter. It was very useful for getting people to come to my birthday party but the rest of it can go to hell.

daihard,
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@Andres4NY @LauraLoeSeattle I rarely open Twitter these days, but I just did this evening and oh boy, what I saw was a total cesspool.

moira, to cycling
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I was really pleased with this cleanup filtering until I noticed what it was doing with diagonal roads. :(

(Yes, this is part of the redo project with better tools. I'm also taking the opportunity to improve the background King County map.)

daihard,
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@moira Krita, as in the KDE graphics editor app? 🎉

ascentale, to random
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Next question is from @meganL about national cycling advocacy organizations:

Q3. What advocacy item would you like the League of American Bicyclists (or whatever your national/local cycle advocacy group is) to add to their lobbying agenda?

daihard,
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@ascentale @meganL A3: I'd personally like all cycling safety orgs to advocate for safe and well-connected cycling infrastructure, and to NOT advocate for anything that promotes vehicular cycling. It is a fine line because some of the VC techniques, such as taking / releasing the lane, are necessary to ride safely in much of North America where cycling infrastructure is scarce, but I believe those can be taught as safe cycling techniques without mentioning VC.

tk, to random
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I was stuck behind some guy at 7 Eleven for 10 minutes because he kept pressing the cashier for an "incident report form". He wanted to file an incident because some light shined in his eyes a couple of times and it hurt his right eye. :blobfoxgooglymlem:

daihard,
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@tk I guess they didn't have anyone else to ring you up...

atomicpoet, to random
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I was just out for a run by the park, and this psycho lady let her pit bull off the leash – it came running after me!

She yells back at me, “Don’t worry, he’s friendly!”

Lady, I don’t care how friendly you think your dog is. I want him nowhere near me. Besides, this isn’t an off-leash park anyway.

That was terrifying.

daihard,
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@atomicpoet Oh man... Hope you're okay. I just don't understand those people who think they can let their dogs off the leash anywhere they want.

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