There's plenty of research out there showing that when you add a protected bike lane, a street becomes safer for ALL road users.
However, I'm not convinced that the traffic calming effect that made it safer actually continues to work if you don't bother to maintain the "protection". I fear it's actually the opposite; without the protection, drivers see just a clear lane and drive faster than they did before (where parked cars used to slow down cars, prior to PBL installation). #SafeStreets
@Andres4NY It's been a couple years. I should skate east and check out the boulevard. As bad as it can be, it was nice that nice being able to roll where you could least remove the fear of being doored from the mental watchlist.
@lzg Somewhere in all this BS is some tech bro preparing his TED Talk about web4 and "trusted web results", and feeling smug about how genius he is. Sigh. I feel sick having just typed that.
This is about an hour away from my farm, so this'll be a fun conversation, and yet another great opportunity to tell a lot of people about what a huge problem we have with unregulated commercialization of orbit. (Also I just redid my slides for my public talk next week, this is going in!)
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Whoever used the phrase on you apparently distracted you from whatever else it was they were saying and didn't want you to actually pay attention to. Win-win.
@hiltzikm is one of the consistently best business commentators in daily journalism. Here, he pulls apart the corporate sleaze -- and gross mismanagement -- that pushed Red Lobster into bankruptcy.
@dangillmor@hiltzikm I don't think I have ever read about one of these sale-leaseback transactions that worked out well for anyone except for the hedge fund or the private equity fund that made bank screwing the company over.
And didn't I read around 8-10 years ago that the state of New Mexico was thinking of doing something dumb like that with one of the state government buildings?
“I had a guy come in with his family ... and he did 16 rounds of shrimp scampi. He was there for over two hours on a busy Friday night. They had one of my biggest tables. I just had to watch this man eat plates upon plates of the scampi, which isn’t even served over pasta. It’s shrimp in a garlic-wine butter.
@clive ISTR a Simpson's episode from long ago (~25 years?) where the seafood restaurant has an all-you-can-eat deal, and Homer took it on as a challenge. A court case might have resulted.
@lzg@brohrer Looking at the Social Security table of most popular baby names, and yep, David was in the top 3 boys' names there for a very long stretch. But I'll bet even the guys named David were glad they weren't named Michael.