frigidlight

Photography, bikes, maps, lasers, and adventure. Climate warrior.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

My favorite is the one that suggests that everyone needs to be able to tow a 10k pound excavator.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

It's insane how easy it is to trigger the "my car is my entire personality" people. My comment said that the truck in the video was "unnecessarily large".

I suspect the venn diagram of these people and the "everyone gets insulted so easily nowadays" is a circle.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

I'd like to flag this for all the morons telling me that bicycles need to have the same level of traffic enforcement as cars (they actually do. it's none) but also in a world of scarce resources spending any time on bicycle enforcement is asinine.

[@civicgrit.bsky.social @civic_grit]

Philadelphia crash data from 2018-2022, filtered to only crashes involving pedestrians and injuries:

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

I'm sure these drivers were escaping a tornado or terrorism or an abduction or something that necessitated this behavior.

[Laura Mitchell @LauraGMitchell]

Nothing quite like finding two recently smashed cars on our walk to school… with one up on the sidewalk.

I’m not sure the specifics on these crashes, but 35th St is in dire need of traffic calming. This stretch is up for reconstruction, but won’t begin until 2027-28.

[Elai @elaifresh]

My right to not have to dodge someone going 100mph on a public road is more important than your right to go 100mph.

If you don’t understand this you are literally a child and don’t deserve driving privileges.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@lock_dok @_kuzcospoison @chvrlie_js @jakeonrails Again, cyclist behavior is just not dangerous compared to driver behavior. A cyclist running a stop sign is dangerous to the cyclist. A driver running a stop sign is dangerous to every human being nearby. Nobody should take you seriously if you're equating those things.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@IlliniProgrammr @chvrlie_js @jakeonrails Your statement isn't supported by the real world, though. If cyclists are extremely dangerous to pedestrians show me the data that doesn't also say that drivers are orders of magnitude more dangerous. I don't support wasting time on things that aren't a meaningful problem.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@chvrlie_js @jakeonrails In a world of unlimited resources, yes, regulate all cyclists. However, we don't live in a world of unlimited resources and I don't think the resources we do have should be spent regulating away a safety risk that effectively doesn't exist compared to that of drivers in cars.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@lock_dok @_kuzcospoison @chvrlie_js @jakeonrails You need a test and a license to operate your vehicle because the potential for injuring others is massive with your vehicle. That is not true for bicycles and thus the requirements are different. Same for insurance and license plates.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@chvrlie_js @jakeonrails It’s not bias to say there should be different standards for people operating 2000 pounds of metal at 50mph.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@toonstop @samgreeenberg The problem is that there are about three perfectly reasonable motorists on the road at any given time. Most motorists are selfish, dangerous, or just ignorant about the danger they are putting other people (and themselves) in constantly.

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@mikeCAburritos @jakeonrails So do you think the whole licensing and registration process is fake?

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@mikeCAburritos @jakeonrails Show me where people in the United States are granted the right to drive a car.

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@chvrlie_js @jakeonrails This is a disingenuous comparison. You can't pretend like the danger posed to society by bicyclists and drivers is even remotely close to the same.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@liftblog I thought Doppelmayr came out to Cannon and said that a tram would be *cheaper* because the buildings could be reused? Also, the slides from the public meeting show a projected tram repalcement cost at >$25M so this seems within the expected range. What changed?

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@BoeufEtLiberte @bikelakecity Good thing there isn't a train connection between these two places! Can you imagine the horror?!

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

I just love this idea that inner cities are full of criminals itching to do crime in the suburbs and the only thing stopping them is lack of public transit.

This was a huge reason behind opposition to a train to KOP when I lived in Philly and it was moronic then too.

[Jean LeBœuf @BoeufEtLiberte]

@bikelakecity If we cleaned up the slums in Salt Lake City, the people of Draper would be less worried about visitors from SLC traveling to their city by train.

I'm in favor of more interconnectedness, but we have to clear out some of the rot first.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

I wonder what this looks like if you layer on some actual objective financial analysis. My theory is that one "public opinion" line much more closely matches reality.

[Sam ⚔️ Financial Samurai @financialsamura]

How interesting is this chart?

Instead of using objective financial analysis to assess the state of the economy and your financial health, people let their party affiliation take the lead in determining the economic health of our country.

The numbers are the numbers, no?

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@Gentler_App do you have a suggestion for how to track alpine touring so that the elevation gain is shown in your app? I usually record backcountry skiing / alpine touring as an XC ski in Apple Health but it looks like the elevation gain isn't shown in Gentler Streak.

[frigidlight @frigidlight]

@HealthToFit @WorkOutDoorsApp @Gentler_App Thank you for mentioning @Gentler_App because I have now susbcribed and downloaded. It looks like a much better replacement for the Strava fitness score that I've been not motivated by lately.