Tab Combs

@drtcombs@triangletoot.party
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Transportation resilience expert. Studying, teaching, learning, tooting about 🚶‍♀️🚲 🚌 & 🛣️, with occasional outbursts about dogs, kids, & gardening. Searchable on tootfinder. Opinions my own.

Not anti-car, just anti-carbrain. A person, not a data point.

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Show threadTab Combs22h ago
3/ The timing was inadvertantly prescient: we submitted our final report the same day #HurricaneHelene was pummelling western #NorthCarolina. The lessons we learned about the role of adaptable streets in building local resilience have never been more important to transportation planning.
Show threadTab Combs22h ago
2/ Since March 4, 2020 I've been collecting and analyzing data about how cities around the world responding to the changing demand for street space brought on by the #COVID19 pandemic. This piece is from was the first major study of #COVIDstreets in my home state.
Tab Combs3d ago
AJ Sadauskas4d ago
I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost.

How come?

I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

#Fediverse #FediHelp #gotosocial #mastohelp
Tab Combs4d ago

I'm 5'2"

#TruckBloat #OversizedDeathMachines

Tab CombsApr 14
The attention to detail here is 👨‍🍳💋
Tab CombsApr 14

I got my gumption up to speak with an as-yet-unknown human on the actual phone but we got disconnected before solving all our problems and it'll be days before I can try again

iykyk

Tab CombsApr 14

Pulled some better pics of the #TruckBloat that's been clogging up sidewalks in #ChapelHillNC lately. I can't make out plates, sadly, but I got a logo and a company name. Seemingly ungoogleable though!

Anyone recognize it?

#Sidewalk #Truck #OversizedDeathMachine

Tab CombsApr 12

See, you really do need a truck this big in order to make sure you block the entire sidewalk. A 1990s Tacoma would have left room for someone to go around and we can't have that.

#TruckBloat

Tab CombsApr 11

The fact that there is no decibel limit to home backup generators in urban areas is a mystery

We are surrounded on all sides by normally lovely people, but when the power goes out, as it has today, every one of them cranks up a fossil gas generator and just carries on like normal.

It's like living in a truck stop in the 1980s.

Tab CombsApr 11

oh ha it's #NationalPetDay

I'll try to celebrate once I finish washing the sofa cushions and cleaning out the bathtub. again.