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Logan Square Bike Jam | Bike Grid Now | Sunday 5:30pm
RESCHEDULED TO THE 27th! Robust community inputters! We are tired of the City drawing up plans that don’t do enough to protect vulnerable road users. Even worse? When they consider it and toss out protected lanes because…parking? It’s challenging? Unacceptable! It’s time to jam it up.
The others said everything I would have. Ill add the bike lane on dearborn is a lot of fun for riding through downtown.
Be sure to checkout [email protected] I have a decent list of resources in the side bar, including the offical bike maps and the popular Mellow Streets Map.
Happy riding!
If you want a good sense of how bad it is in the states here are two episodes of Freakomomics that do a job of exposing the issue.
“The Perfect Crime”: freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime/ (From 2014)
Then a follow-up episode: “Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?”: freakonomics.com/…/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-kill… (from July 2023)
You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
McSweeney’s bringing some hard truths with this one. We could all be doing better. >You forgot to go back in time and tell people that subsidizing the oil industry might be a bad idea. When the oil and auto industries teamed up to bend public policy to their will, making a system of roads and parking lots that now function as a continuous subsidy and magnificent symbol of the normalization of injury and pollution, you had a lot of options. You could have objected. You could have shifted public opinion. Instead, you weren’t even born yet. And, rather than go back in time, all you’ve been doing is riding to get groceries and occasionally saying, “Please stop killing us.” On the effort scale? 1/10.
Save A Lot locations under the ownership of a company called Yellow Banana have opened on the South Side and the West Side. Save A Lot locations have closed unexpectedly, and Yellow Banana owners have acknowledged poor store conditions and expired foods. A location closed briefly in 2022 due to a rat infestation.
Not a day goes by I don’t appreciate being walking distance from a Pete’s.
Great context. Yeah it would almost be a non-issue if they scaled (personal taste aside)
Some of them were taking up like 60% of the screen, and that’s just not fun.
Is there a way to block/restrict custom emotes from other servers?
A post in [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://midwest.social/c/chicago] blew up last night (wild seeing a post with over 300 votes there) and a bunch of folks from hexbear came into the thread and posted comments with over-the-top, large, and annoying emotes. Is there anyway for mods of communities to limit theses? If not I’m more than happy to remove them manually as I see them pop up.
Im not pretending to be an expert in city planning but lowering the default limit seems like a good place to start.
People still driving crazy? Advocate for a camera(both replies i got said it was the only way it’s enforced and I agree, and lets not bring a cop with a gun into every speeding violation), or for traffic calming devices(speed bumps, narrowing streets with bollards, etc) . If you make it harder to speed on side streets people are going to go back to the thoroughfares as it should be and enforcing those lower limits elsewhere becomes less of an issue.
I’m just spitballing.
