buckenmuck

Huh. Is there a reason a fence doesn’t work there? If pigs were wandering into a road, both the owner and the city would want to eliminate that conflict

Why is the trail closed?

We have a portion of a trail that closes for no reasonable purpose at like 5pm. We’ve been fighting to keep it open–lanes of car traffic don’t just close unless it goes through private property. Why should bike trails?

i… i’m not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.

look i’m sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn’t meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but “this is clickbait” is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter–of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op’s article was published.

at this point, i think you’re actually mad about something else. i don’t know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, “oh, thanks” and not… whatever this is.

(ps: it’s interesting to me that you called BLU “a guy.” it feels kind of like calling the ACLU “a guy.”)

it appears the wind also carefully scattered car debris around the stump of the lamp post in the second photo contained in that tweet. i guess it was covering its tracks, trying to throw us off its scent.

but if u, like, need SUPER EVIDENCE PROOF to believe that, uh, cars are dangerous and run into things in the same place all the goddam time, here you go

yeah, im sure the lamppost got up and walked into the road

“The commission just announced a process to finalize the vision for Pennsylvania Avenue by the end of 2026.”

I absolutely hate how slow infrastructure projects move in this city. Three years for design? Ugh. Pleasantly surprised about the interactive poll results though, with a resounding majority in favor of reducing car lanes in some form.

You haven’t been to a country with a functioning transit system and it shows. (ps, u can do road trips in those countries, too)

“Why am I so angry? My 11-year-old-son was killed by a reckless driver on a I-95 and I almost died also, and I did not ask everybody in Connecticut to give up their cars,” she said.

You should have. And by opposing traffic calming projects like this, you’re only condemning someone else’s 11-year-old son to the same fate.

“Yes there are a lot of reckless, careless, distracted or entitled drivers but there are also pedestrians and cyclists that fit squarely in one or more of those categories.”

There is a lot I disagree with in your comment, but I am wondering why you’re making this false equivalency. How many people have “distracted pedestrians” killed or severely injured? In the same vein, from the article one of the most vulnerable groups is kids 4-12. What’s the way to make sure kids, famous for their inhibitory control, aren’t distracted?

“The most vulnerable people are primary school children aged 4-12, intoxicated pedestrians aged 30-39, and elderly pedestrians aged over 70.”

“As part of the campaign, Crime Stoppers Victoria will hit the streets to actively engage with high-risk pedestrians to educate them on how they can help keep our roads incident-free.”

How does anyone see this as anything but bananas? Kids should be able to quickly and safely get to and from school without needing worry about whether or not a driver will mow them down. People who’ve been drinking are infamously not great decision makers so I don’t know how “educating” will help any. And 70 year olds are vulnerable because they are 70 years old not because they don’t know how dangerous cars are.

“‘We have seen 175 pedestrians killed on our roads over the last five years, and a significant number of those have been in 60 km/h zones.’”

the problem is the cars and the car-centric infrastructure, jfc go fix that