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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️

@cyclelicious.bsky.social

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I like bicycles and coffee. Active transportation policy nerd mostly in a California context. Movement by bike, on foot, on buses and trains. I've been around. Old GenX guy who respects pronouns. He / him.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 4d

It's why so many bike and transit advocates also often get involved in things like housing policy. If you can live less than five miles from work, you have more transportation options.

Also, it's good to remember not all trips are work trips, and bike advocacy can be tweaked for that.

Graph showing "average daily trips by age group" by purpose of trip for various age groups (teen, young adult, adult) in 1990, 2001, and 2009. The trips categories are work, shopping, family, and social.

Teens average less than 0.5 trips per day for work, the same for shopping, 1.5 trips for family, and 1 for social.

Young adults: 1 daily trip for work, 0.5 shopping, 1 for family, 1 for social

Adults: 1 daily trip for work, 1 for shopping, 1 for family, 0.7 to 1 for social.

Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 5d

I think it was about 10 years ago at CES that automakers were showcasing their vision of a completely enclosed living room on wheels.

Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know if it was for the codeine or the ephedrine, but they make you answer a series of questions to try to cut down on abuse. From what I recall, the questions are:

* who is this for? (watashi)
* what are your symptoms? (cough)
* how many do you plan to buy? (hitotsu)

No ID needed.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 7d

Gov signed SB 71, making permanent @scottwiener.bsky.social's CEQA exemptions. For much of our transit priority, protected bikeway, Slow Street, etc work, CEQA process would have taken longer and cost more than project itself, and done nothing for environment.🙏
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...

Wiener Introduces Legislation to Continue CEQA Exemption for Sustainable Transportation - Streetsblog California

“We’re excited to see Senator Wiener continue his leadership on active transportation with SB 71, which makes permanent a bill he authored to exempt biking, walking, and public transit plans and proje...

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 10d

Stupid question: Does the WARN Act apply to the Federal government? What about state versions of this law?

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 14d

GOP: Gaslight, Obstruct, Project.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 14d

I forgot to include alt-text. Photo shows the drivers (left) side of a parked "Cresson Journey" RV camper rig in Japan. The back looks like a miniature version of an RV conversion you might see in America, built on a JDM-only Toyota Toyoace medium truck.

Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe of interest to @supcat.bsky.social, who likes funky vehicles. This RV near Towada National Park is built on the back of a Toyota Toyoace cabover truck. The 4.99 meter length feels like a regulatory thing. I wish I had a banana for scale because this thing is so tiny compared to American RVs.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 14d

Saw it with my grandmother, and now the beginnings of it with my dad. It's pretty rough to watch it happen. Sorry it's happening to your family.

Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 15d

Some people like to explain the smaller wheels = faster acceleration when riding in stop-and-go urban environments, but the real reason is because they look kind of funky and cute. Smaller wheels do shorten the bike by a few inches so maybe the space savings is important for some people too.

Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 15d

"DO NOT LEAVE YOUR BICYCLE HERE."

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 17d

A Louis Garneau bicycle in Tokyo. The bike shop sticker on the chainstay says Le Cyc. I met a French man at the Family Mart on another Garneau bike; his is a newer electric bicycle. We're about a block away from the French embassy here

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 17d

I think minivelo bikes are more of a Taiwanese thing, but I've seen a couple of them in Tokyo. The Giant with the T Mobile sticker is kind of a perfect example, but that other small wheeled Michikusa bicycle kind of fits the bill too.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 17d

Blue Bottle coffee in Hirō.

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Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 17d

This kitsune udon and a rice bowl with the best maguro I've had in my life was 1400 yen (about US$10) in Hachinohe.

Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 17d

Ah, you're familiar with the brand. This was used recreationally among some of my peers when we were teens.

Richard Masoner 🚶 🚲 🚌 🚃 🌲 🏖️ @cyclelicious.bsky.social · 17d

Sudafed is illegal in Japan but you can still buy codeine pills over the counter. This formulation also includes methylephedrine, 90 mg of caffeine, and chlorpheniramine, so it'll knock you out and make you wired at the same time.