bike infrastructure in the Netherlands: we built a bike garage that look like an Apple Store!
bike infrastructure in California: enjoy the new suicide center lane on this highway overpass
Another thing that the OceanGate shit underscores?
That much of our system is currently being run by people with business degrees, rather than people with specialized and deep knowledge in a given organization's field/industry, is one big part of why all this shit is collapsing.
Both the Ohio spill and long COVID have the exact same issue where it’s difficult to get information about a real and bad thing due to a group of people who have made screaming that it’s an apocalyptic event their new identity.
Anti-drag bills that pass will ban Pride parades in states that pass them across the country.
The people who will be charged with arresting offenders will be cops.
And you wonder why people like me have been saying, no cops at Pride.
Jaahnavi Kandula was struck and killed by a reckless SPD officer’s patrol car while crossing a street. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell defunded pedestrian safety development for that very intersection while pouring money into this murderous police department.