This article could do a better job distinguishing between Class-1/2/3 e-bikes and unregulated electric motorcycles. It's not until the end that you learn the headline crash was on a Class-2 e-bike, but most of the concerns expressed in the article are about e-motos.

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

Why does Amtrak not list a station's train schedules on each station's page? www.amtrak.com/stations/chi

The first reading of the Columbus Growth Strategy in @cbuscitycouncil.bsky.social will be on December 8: zone-in-columbus.hub.arcgis.com/events/counc... Plan your comments now!

What's the latest recommendation for a static-site build tool that handles inclusions of HTML from other files? {% include ./parts/1.html %}

using this as an excuse to shout out the turkey porchetta, which is imo the ideal turkey dish for thanksgiving

The advantage of driving on the holidays is that you can reschedule your travel plans to avoid the weather.

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

star trek is about a utopian vision of the future bordering on fantasy where people someday will be able to make good choices about complicated problems by talking to each other and involving people who know about things

That's one (1) inbox down to less than 10 emails.

Bravo to @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social, among like maybe three US city transpo agencies committed enough to safety to try a raised crossing across a minor arterial.

Thanksgiving traffic is always a nightmare. Imagine being able to hop on the train instead. 🚂

Today in marine invertebrates and safe streets

The code changes passed last night, pushed through by Otto Beatty, who will be leaving council at the end of the year. columbusunderground.com/city-council...

Council approved Councilmember Otto Beatty’s Columbus Forward initiative to streamline accessory dwelling units, expanding housing options and supporting multigenerational families. MORE: columbusforward.us

Stardust. The Israeli-U.S. company with a strange and totally real plan to block out the sun and reverse global warming. Reporting this story involved a complete relearning of what I thought I knew about the climate future. w/@corbinhiar.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Shout-out to the old man carrying a Senegal parrot in the rest stop bathroom, who described the bird thusly: "He's my GPS."

osgiliath is the kind of dense, wadable urbanism that's illegal in most american cities

I love that RSS exists, because it means we can pipe @cota.com Bluesky and website posts, their YouTube videos, and github.com/benlk/cota-r... into a single aggregation channel in the @transitcolumbus.org Slack. One home for all your local transit operator news.

The OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), Transit Columbus and Spin are pleased to announce a special live event with Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon from The War on Cars podcast. They will discuss their new book, Life After Cars and answer questions. cura.osu.edu/events/life-...

Where are the affordable apartments past Columbus levies supported? I mapped it. It’s important because voters just OK’d $500M more in housing bonds. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

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Excuse me, but what the fuck?

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995. And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.

happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate

We absolutely should. I talked about this at the Illinois Bicycle Summit a few years ago. This would make a real difference and would likely enlist the insurance industry in making drivers safer to protect their bottom line.

Thank you to everyone who came out in support of World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims in the U.S. yesterday, and to Friends and Family of Safe Streets Columbus for hosting the event. Vision Zero honors the lives lost and families forever changed by traffic crashes.

OH-03, we want to hear from YOU! 🗣️. Will rising health care costs in the ACA Marketplace (Obamacare) affect you? Is your Medicaid coverage at risk under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Act? Your story matters. Help us fight for Ohioans. Share your story here: https://bit.ly/3JSyXqu

Dreamt last night that Cleveland had expanded their light rail system into a tram-train network that reached Columbus, but to continue to Toledo, you needed to transfer to a high-speed elevated gadgetbahn adapted from a rollercoaster.

Figuring out which things are plausible and which are reasonable to be mad about really is the main advantage of learning Too Much about a specific field or system, but what a social clusterfuck if you ever try to talk about it with people who haven't gone in.

After manually compiling Columbus City Council District 7 election results last week, I scraped the data from Franklin County's API and created interactive maps that show why Jesse Vogel won his district (62%) but still lost citywide. #databs trevinflick.github.io/blog/posts/c...

happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day

Intelligent Speed Assist could end speeding-related deaths as we know them. But what's it really like to drive a car that won't let you break the law? This safety advocate took a test ride.

Someone was talking about a City program which had launched and been active for a year in "Linden", which had never come up at North Linden Area Commission meetings. Was this possibly a usual communications failure? Nope! "Linden" meant South Linden and Milo-Grogan. Not North Linden.

This is true and it's because these people do not want to cede an inch of what they perceive as "their space" to other road users.

Tonight's Neighborhood Leaders Dinner hosted by Mayor Ginther is located at the Fran Ryan Center, which has a sizeable model railroad layout in progress. (Class list QR code is for anc.apm.activecommunities.com/columbusrecp...)

I’ve criticized the Dispatch enough here that I should praise them for something right that they’re doing—they’ve started sending a reporter to the Zoning & Variance Committee meetings I chair, as well as to the Commission we report to. Going To The Meetings is a basic tool of journalism.

In a local neighborhood group, there's recently been a profusion of people reposting AI-generated package-thief videos featuring exploding packages. When I pointed out it was fake, and asked people to stop posting them, one poster said: "so what? they're funny!"

Please join us, Sunday, November 16 from 1-2pm at Washington Gladden Park for World Day of Remembrance to remember all people killed and injured on our roads.

Too many local newspapers put a barrage of chaff between readers and the local news we often can’t get from any other source. The papers still choose stories the way they did 50 years ago—as if they were one of only a few ways people could get timely national and international news.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

What I want from my local paper of record is simple: An RSS feed of solely the local-news articles, excluding - the weather (terrestrial and space) - lottery numbers - republished national news - republished sponsored content - viral videos - evergreen explainers - sports

Living in Columbus, Ohio, we're just on the southern border of "Cool and Exciting", and auroras are an Event. I'm sad we'll be missing the Kp 8 half a day from now. www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/...

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

Some folks said we were too harsh in our episodes on on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling. This amazing video from Not Just Bikes suggests we weren’t harsh enough.

And if that blew your mind, read up on the Family Assistance Plan, the proposal from Milton Friedman (!) that Nixon embraced -- would've been essentially a negative income tax for the poor in which they'd get cash payments.

There really are people who are trying to get you killed. Screencap from 'This is why cycling is dangerous in America' from youtuber Not Just Bikes.

"Time machine. Whose life are you gonna change?" Weeklong all-expenses-paid trip to the Netherlands for John Forester in spring 1970. Give him a Dutch bicycle and a checklist of bike-accessible museums and restaurants to visit.

Today at 7!