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Ms Fast Oct 23, 2024

Here is the police report on the crash, via their public Facebook page.

#LincolnCountyOR #LincolnCityOR #OregonCoast #OregonCoastBikeRoute #VisionZero #Micromobility #TrafficViolence #Ebike #Oregon #Hwy101

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Ms Fast Oct 23, 2024

When meeting monthly, those committees also help report things that #PublicWorks departments are somehow in the dark about, like their crosswalk lights are burnt out, or the buttons won't work, like the crosswalk button that was broken right at Lincoln City's City Hall & Public Works Department building for weeks earlier this year. It is now fixed, but that is a crucial bit of transportation infrastructure to leave broken for so long.

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Ms Fast Oct 23, 2024

Note that #LincolnCountyOR does have a #BikePedAdvisoryCommittee. But it meets only 4X a year in Newport. The only city in the county with its own #bicycle advisory cmte is also #Newport.

Along with advising on walking & cycling as transportation, committees advise on #busTransit use, since people walk & bike to the bus on #Oregon #ODOT hwys. They also ensure that cities & police depts are capturing crash data on #micromodes, & use bike funds on biking. #ORleg #ActiveTransportation #VisionZero

Ms Fast Oct 23, 2024

A woman killed on #OregonCoast #Hwy101 yesterday across from #LincolnCityCityHall & McKays grocery was reportedly the wife of a McKays employee. She was using a #microMobility device, with a USPS van onscene. One passerby inexplicably stereotyped the #bicycle saying, "Looks like a homeless person." The husband was there & yelled, "Don't you stop!" as medics ended CPR. Drivers regularly speed here & #LincolnCityOR persists in neglecting to hold & hear a #BicycleAdvisoryCommittee. #TrafficViolence

Ms Fast Apr 5, 2024

Activists protest in trees, file lawsuit to block old growth logging on federal land,
by Abbey McDonald

"BLM is saying we don’t log old growth trees. Well, they (protestors) are sitting in old-growth trees that the BLM wants to log." --George Sexton, conservation director of Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center

https://www.salemreporter.com/2024/04/05/activists-protest-in-trees-file-lawsuit-to-block-old-growth-logging-on-federal-land/

Activists protest in trees, file lawsuit to block old growth logging on federal land - Salem Reporter

A coalition of conservation groups and activists have blocked a logging site and filed a legal complaint over another area with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

Salem Reporter

Ms Fast Apr 5, 2024

Too bad there isn't a Wayback Machine for the large old trees the city cuts down in the name of transportation.

Ms Fast Apr 5, 2024

Botany One Apr 4, 2024

Climate change: Logging decline after political change in Brazil, Colombia
https://botany.fyi/7QKPZT

The number of trees lost in tropical forests in Brazil and Colombia fell dramatically last year because of political action, a new analysis finds.
#Botany

Climate change: Logging decline after political change in Brazil, Colombia

Brazil and Colombia curbed logging in 2023, but other countries wiped out many of the gains.

BBC News

Ms Fast Apr 4, 2024

S. E. Wigget Apr 4, 2024

Last week, Diane Goettel was on vacation in Florida when she saw an alarming email on her phone. After 55 years, Small Press Distribution (SPD)—one of the last remaining independent book distributors in the US—was shutting down immediately, with no advance notice or transitional support. Its website went dark, its Twitter account was deleted, and no one was answering calls.

#publishing #WritingCommunity

https://lithub.com/the-small-press-world-is-about-to-fall-apart-on-the-collapse-of-small-press-distribution/

“The Small Press World is About to Fall Apart.” On the Collapse of Small Press Distribution

Literary Hub

Ms Fast Apr 3, 2024

Was wondering why my "Do Not Sell or Share My Data" button got grayed out; was sure I'd clicked it.

HAHAHA: "Your privacy is critically important to us" but "our opt-out [sic] is managed through cookies, so if you delete cookies, your browser is set to delete cookies automatically after a certain length of time, or if you visit sites in a different browser, you’ll need to make this selection again." --WPDotCom

In a different browser! So—just curious: what does that button even DO, #automattic?

Ms Fast Apr 3, 2024

"The heart of this beat is an understanding that covering growth development and transportation isn't just writing about roads and buildings."

#journalism #jobs #transportation #reporting on #Oregon #roads #BendOR https://www.journalismjobs.com/1685631-growth-development-and-transportationreporter-the-bulletin

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