@Loukas@jackofalltrades riding a bike or #eBikes instead of driving is the most effective political action you can take for #ClimateAction (besides adopting #STARvoting, so your vote can actually count), it's a protest, a boycott that defunds auto+oil industry lobbyists, it builds community, and you get fresh air plus physical activity so you don't burn out.
@jackofalltrades@Loukas ride your bike more? If people are hung up on parking, get them riding and/or talking somehow with an eBike demo event, block parties... Depends on where you are, nobody but St Louis elects a majority mayor, council etc except accidentally sometimes. Organize.
@sanae@Loukas@jackofalltrades all of the funding you manage to give the department of cars will be spent on car infrastructure. If you're lucky it may also include a partial implementation of a #BikeWayNetwork, but this is not remotely near to getting completed even with all of Portland's unfunded boondoggles. And if money turns magic and it does get built+connected, there will still be too much driving to meet GHG goals - up until they remove lane miles from the excessive carway network.
@sanae@Loukas@jackofalltrades exactly, and riding a bike instead of driving whenever you can (even just in your neighborhood) achieves at least that 10x social multiplier without taking time out of your schedule. Plenty of people can ride a bike, even on our unfinished and hostile infrastructure, for some trips. Many more could, once enough people see the BS that is our car-centric infrastructure planning, and the simple things Paris and other cities have done to shift local trips to bikes.
@sanae@Loukas@jackofalltrades sure, but all of those generally take more time and effort than riding your bike to the grocery store, and most people can't see the scam behind the notion of "fund and expand transit and bike and pedestrian infrastructure" until they've tried to bike somewhere and taken the orange pill.
I’d love to hear your best code review tips for a blog post I’m writing. Particularly, what happens next once you’re using codeowners to assign reviews? I feel like I have more bad examples than good ones 😅
@audrey IDK what to tell reviewers, but: write and commit code with review in mind, then squash the branch to merge into main. Your commits should each be a step or a refactor so reviewers can separate and step through which code/behavior changed and clearly see what isn't changing / why. (And you have added/adjusted the tests in the commit right?) Code in a style that doesn't pollute your diffs and git history/"blame" with a bunch of non-change extra lines adding a comma to the line before.
@thedorismith@Andres4NY maybe you want a small utility or folding e-bike with a rack and bags or front basket (trek, rei, tern) and find one that adjustment + handling works. Most seem to fit 5ft+ riders, maybe swap handlebars or look for one with shorter reach (and crank arms.) For smaller: Brompton or there are some kid sized ones (woom?)
@thedorismith@Andres4NY do you currently have a bike that fits? Adapting that with a wheel motor kit may also be an option to do or have done by a shop. Simple ones like the hill topper front wheel might be plenty of power and only add about 15lb with the battery
@Andres4NY@thedorismith you mean 16in wheels, though other folders are typ. 20. Some from Lectric seem to have a closer reach, as I mentioned a handlebar swap can help that. Here's my 12yo ~5'4" on the supercargo, swept bars not stock. I'm 5'10".
This is a weird street design. A single car lane to handle both directions, with bike lanes on either side that the cars jump into in case of conflict, and a car storage area:
storage -> bike lane - car lane - bike lane
Seems a lot safer to have a two-way bike lane separated from the cars:
bike lane -> bike lane -> storage -> car lane
I suppose the car lane would need to be a bit wider to accommodate car conflict getting through.
@benfulton not weird at all. edge lane roads / #advisoryBikeLanes are totally common in developed nations, where they've realized that cars can share. It's not, however, a good solution for places with cut-through traffic and unwillingness to follow the best practice of diverting or otherwise impeding cars (such as with a chokepoint and steel bollards) to reduce volumes. This may be another example of that, such as the popularly cited failure in AZ iirc
Mastodon must be getting easier to use, judging from the apparent intellectual skill of some recent replies. Long way to go to match the burdsite namenumbers crowd though.
I'm not saying an electric #cargoBike is going to solve every feminist issue in our cities, but it's a heckuva stroller/diaper bag/"sag wagon" for "encumbered travel". Being able to take kids to school or the park without having to park a car and then walk through the gauntlet of crosswalks and whatever, and they can jump out and run to the swings as soon as you get to the park sidewalk, etc. It's so great for kids to learn the neighborhood and mobility by bike.
Which is to say that DOTs need to do a better job for moms-on-#eBikes as a core service. Not like the designs for 20 years from now if-we-get-around-to-funding-it, actually go follow a mom on a #cargoBike around and make her trips better, now. #climateAction#InducedDemand#ClimateEmergency
@PedestrianError as a dad on a cargo bike, I'm concerned about and can see why women would feel less comfortable in some situations where we need to do better specifically for non-dad caregivers. This also applies to kids being able to ride on their own safely, and the liberation of that independence for parents and kids alike.
@PedestrianError I'm quite aware that most dads aren't out here with me either yeah. Survey says put stuff in the street and connect a low stress bikeway network.
