I can’t disagree. The only painted lanes I’ve ridden in that felt safe were between the parking row and the curb. Even then, safety is contextual as now the main concern is getting door’ed.
If only we had some red shells to ride around with.
All these laws being drafted, lanes being made and unmade, resources diminished, and hardly ever does it result in the decision being made by logic opposed to some political gut instinct. Most the time they don’t even take a measurement of traffic modalities, and even when they do, the numbers just get ignored.
We’ve all seen the picture comparing people density in cars v buses v bikes. It’s obvious which one takes up the most space per person. Oh how I wish politics wasn’t dominated by narcissistic imbeciles.
It’s impossible to know whether this tragedy could have been prevented if the bike lanes were still there.
It is possible to extrapolate though. While it looks like the bike lanes were only paint, they did provide a wider space to ride in since they replaced a driving lane. Of course this was all undone when drivers got upset. I hope those people are found and interviewed now that these deaths have occurred.
What makes this worse is that she was riding with her whole family, and they had to witness it.
Why do you think baskets should be required? To prevent theft? This has been implemented for a decade now, evidently thievery isn’t much of a concern.
There are no doubt multiple factors at play, but when things are easy and quality of life is decent, the honour system works.
Judge questions USDOT attorney and we didn’t quote a single answer - NYT
Here’s a more informative article that even names the USDOT attorney in question, Eric Hamilton.
Liman pressed him on whether his argument would mean that USDOT has the authority to terminate any agreement it enters at will, even ordinary measures like fixing roads. On rebuttal, Hamilton confirmed that the contract terms posted on the department’s website would also apply to those agreements.
Glad to hear it’s okay for the federal government to cross their fingers behind their back when penning an agreement. Maybe that’ll work for me if I stop paying my mortgage.
I’m against street parking as much the next person in this community, but if the city sells you a parking permit valid only on your street then designates that street to be a new snow route without simultaneously revising your permit for alternate streets, you have reason to be aggrieved.
Ideally, people on such streets wouldn’t own cars, but honestly it’d be nice to see more actual snow removal in places where piling it up is problematic. Like around the 7:00 mark in this video from Montréal.
That could work also, but not all shops have carts, and people don’t always need a basket. It’s common enough to scan things and pop them directly into a bag you brought, skipping the need for a basket altogether.
It was more accurately described as computer vision at the time, but your memory is right. They wanted to get to 5% of sales being human reviewed, but it was more like 70%.
What’s funny about Amazon’s efforts for Just Walk Out is that checkout free shopping already existed. Simply by letting customers carry a handheld scanner and payment terminal around the store with them.
Oh to live in the parallel universe where those local and state governments tell them to pack up their data centre and shove off once their carnival leases expire. The sonic schadenfreude would be felt around the globe.
I cannot imagine how tired this man must be. On top of the war and all it entails, he has to teach children that rebuilding a broken thing is more effort than not breaking it in the first place.
“It’s not enough anymore to say, ‘I can work hard,'” Dimon said in a recent interview with CNN. “In the old days, you could be in 10th grade, go get a factory [job] in Detroit, and eventually you could afford a family, a home, a car, and that may not be true anymore.” - CEO, JPMorgan
If only there were something that could be done about that, Mr Eight Figure Salary.
Honestly, why the cyclist didn’t turn into a concrete bollard upon impact is incomprehensible.