Chicago Pope imagines a concrete beach.

Given how scared they are of public transportation, this is verrrry brave for them.

This…so many people don’t realize that the same safety improvements built for cyclists also make it safer for pedestrians. And here’s the trick..once you park your car and get it out it…you yourself become a pedestrian! Wild how that works.

Next group ride I'm thinking of upgrading my call of "hole" to "¡Hoooooooooooooole! ¡Hooooooooooooole! ¡Un hooooooole increíble!"

We need to stop dedicating a disproportionate amount of public space on city streets to cars. I rarely see drivers driving on many streets, but the tax payer subsidized “free” car parking & dangerous car driving greatly hampers traffic flow & safety. Most people drive on the highway anyway.

They’re calling it the “Reverse Fetterman”

My e-bike origin story is that we were supposed to go to the Monterrey Aquarium in mid-March 2020. Bailed due to COVID and rented a Tern GSD instead. Rode around some serious hills in Monterrey with a 6 and 10 year old. Knew then it would change my life and it did.

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK

Every soccer team should be compelled to roster and start a player taller than 6’6”.

Waiting at Clark/Lake for a 16 minute headway on the westbound Green Line. @chicagocta.bsky.social Please run a normal number of trains on a busy holiday weekend.

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The Telemundo announcer for the Spain/Austria game just did an impression of a Minion and I’m gonna need it to be everywhere by end of day

In the event of a hard takeoff event I will go find an unblemished ram

IDGAF if someone has an "unfair advantage" in children's sports because the point of children's sports is for children to move their bodies, play, and build team skills. They should be co-ed anyway, because in the big grown-up world boys and girls and thems need to work together.

Private citizens can’t even build a parking lot on their own property? Feels like just the tip of the iceberg before “cars banned”…

The other salient point for me here… Even if I switched from bike to private auto for school pickup, I’d still have to use the crosswalk where most of my biking close calls. PEDESTRIANS EXIST! AND THEY’RE VULNERABLE TO MANY OF THE SAME ISSUES AS BIKES.

What’s it like inside your head?

More than 50% of daily trips in the U.S. are less than 3 miles. Even transitioning a portion of those trips to bikes would alleviate lots of traffic, divert tons of greenhouse gases, & prevent thousands of fatalities a year.

@carintobuilding.bsky.social are you also accepting submissions for “car out of building” or is that a sister account?

Corollary: it’s possible to keep a well-maintained bike for significantly longer than a well-maintained car, so part of the “personality” we see is simply the design aesthetics of another time. Like imagining seeing a different Geo Metro every time you went grocery shopping.

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Fried shrimp plus a hot dog (such as from 35th St Red Hots) should be referred to as Southside surf-n-turf and if you disagree, you are an absolute dingus.

i have contacted the bike lobby president and we are in the process of taking your car into our possession. you will be assigned a monitor who will be ensuring that you bike to work every day in the wrong clothes

Yes! One of our main thoroughfares did traffic calming (and installed bike lanes as part of it) and one of the main users in winter is older folks since the bike lanes are consistently cleared** and the sidewalks are not.

I’ve probably shared this before, but you can’t use GenAI as a substitute for your lack of taste. That goes for coding, writing, and other planning tasks. GenAI is a multiplier and that means `💩x GenAI = 💩`

Fun to see other people have also come up with "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly". The last comment though is a revelation. One of those "it's so obvious how the hell did it take me 40 years to realize it"?

As the saying goes, “Don’t Mexas with Bexas”

if I commit vehicular homicide does the state pay for body work or is that the victim's estate?

You’ve Smashed your last Pumpkin

Is the counterattack (a sternly worded letter and disapproving look) in the room with us now?

There’s this pervasive notion that any apartment dweller with kids is just a temporarily embarrassed single-family home owner, but I am not alone in preferring to raise my kid in a walkable area and a home where I don’t have to deal with yard work or basement flooding.

Helmet truthers are like, “I saw Goody Proctor with the Devil. AND SHE WASN’T WEARING A HELMET.”

Reminder that every time someone talks about token budgets, this is what I think they are talking about…

I haven’t seen such poor reasoning skills since I asked Copilot to generate an image of a box truck unloading bicycles

Big my youngest being mad at me for “promising ice cream” (it was discussed) and then acting a mess all through dinner.

“Johnny Compliments” now lives rent free in my head.

The way the bikes appeared in the original AI image looked like tall bikes to me so I decided to see if I could generate an image of the truck unloading Divvy tall bikes and LOL… we are so cooked… Let’s get started

Discovered today that one of the local mosquito management companies uses operators on bikes to deploy their mosquito management payloads into the sewer infra. I’ll bet they’re faster AND save a ton of money compared to a car (they hit all four sewers on a corner so fast).

new yorkers en masse have expressed their enthusiasm for democratic socialism. but these forty men surveyed in the waiting room of the coeur d’alene family court have a different perspective

Passed a guy riding his bike with a few fishing pools. He caught me at the light and I asked, “how long do you fish for?” and he said, “if I don’t have to work, I’m fishing all day.” I can’t explain, but this is extremely cyclist coded behavior.

To summarize, Coretta Scott King was an independent activist in her own right while Dr. King was alive—with her Freedom Concerts modeled after Paul Robeson. She was a national leader against the Vietnam War—critical of the misprioritization of funding, the need for a real War in Poverty & peace.

Beware of the single scapegoat deflection - we want accountability for the redactions and multilayered coverup.

licking the back of my hand like a fucking freak (getting ready to do a shot of tequila in college)

It’s always fascinated me that the most engaged questions I get are from folks in vehicles with handicap stickers who park next to the bike racks at my local grocery store. For some people, the acoustic bike was never a realistic option. E-bikes change that equation (which is why I’m all in).

The cart is mightier than the car.

This post is now making me wonder how many CPL branches I could correctly identify from a photo of part of the façade.

Somewhere a driver with a cornucopia of blind spots is mad that a cyclists can execute a “Stop-as-Yield” and they can’t.

I will be honest…the neighbor described in this article has probably saved more lives than your average CPD officer