JP
@definitejp.bsky.social
Blue Sky avatar is LA Feuardent by JF Millet
hobbyist artist and bike commuter (I do not own a car 🇺🇸)
hobbyist artist and bike commuter (I do not own a car 🇺🇸)
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@definitejp.bsky.social
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Let me share some reasons I bike:
(ongoing thread, I will periodically update this).
(ongoing thread, I will periodically update this).
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Relying on cars for short trips is like using a tractor in your garden.
Sure it will work but what’s left is unrecognizable
Sure it will work but what’s left is unrecognizable
December 10, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Relying on cars for short trips is like using a tractor in your garden.
Sure it will work but what’s left is unrecognizable
Sure it will work but what’s left is unrecognizable
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As California cities ramp up automated traffic enforcement of speeding and bus/bike lane violations, here's an important warning from New York. Nearly 30% of attempts to read a plate were stymied by plate fraud. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...
December 10, 2025 at 5:58 AM
As California cities ramp up automated traffic enforcement of speeding and bus/bike lane violations, here's an important warning from New York. Nearly 30% of attempts to read a plate were stymied by plate fraud. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...
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I first started riding a bike in LA out of deep loathing of traffic. But it was the invasion of Iraq that made it a political action for me. I was determined to be free from the chains of Big Oil. I didn’t want to be apart of anymore wars for oil. Too bad it wasnt a while movement like this.
Facing rationing of rubber tires, gasoline and strategic metals, federal agencies had promoted the (unorthodox in the US) idea of adult bicycles to fill in for cars. So adult cycling was a symbol of patriotic sacrifice for the war effort. Here's Leon Henderson riding around the National Mall:
December 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I first started riding a bike in LA out of deep loathing of traffic. But it was the invasion of Iraq that made it a political action for me. I was determined to be free from the chains of Big Oil. I didn’t want to be apart of anymore wars for oil. Too bad it wasnt a while movement like this.
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Minneapolis’ city council president knows how important it is to plow our bikeways… because he rides year round.
I wish more electeds had experience walking, biking & taking transit - esp in winter!
I wish more electeds had experience walking, biking & taking transit - esp in winter!
Late night ride back from City Hall after unanimously approving the 2026 budget. Grateful to have an escort up johnson as it was getting plowed!
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Minneapolis’ city council president knows how important it is to plow our bikeways… because he rides year round.
I wish more electeds had experience walking, biking & taking transit - esp in winter!
I wish more electeds had experience walking, biking & taking transit - esp in winter!
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one thing i think about quite a bit is how many people will drop tons of money to feel tough in a massive air hauler, or alternatively to get outfitted at great expense for snowboarding or mountaineering or whatever, but who simply cannot imagine how to set up for a 2 mile bike ride in the rain
10 miles bike commuting in the atmospheric river worked out ok for me today, including and especially when a city bus hit a pond on greeley and sent a full wave over those concrete barriers to drench me
December 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM
one thing i think about quite a bit is how many people will drop tons of money to feel tough in a massive air hauler, or alternatively to get outfitted at great expense for snowboarding or mountaineering or whatever, but who simply cannot imagine how to set up for a 2 mile bike ride in the rain
So far, I'm enjoying the new vest of lights that I wear while I ride my bike at night. I also have a set of reflectors on my jacket and lights on my bike & helmet.
But, I'm annoyed how I "need" all this stuff, otherwise people will say I have a death wish.
But, I'm annoyed how I "need" all this stuff, otherwise people will say I have a death wish.
December 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
So far, I'm enjoying the new vest of lights that I wear while I ride my bike at night. I also have a set of reflectors on my jacket and lights on my bike & helmet.
But, I'm annoyed how I "need" all this stuff, otherwise people will say I have a death wish.
But, I'm annoyed how I "need" all this stuff, otherwise people will say I have a death wish.
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If I had a dollar for every time a right-wing provincial government ripped up bike lanes to distract from whatever grift they were running, I'd have two dollars.
Which isn't a lot, but it does seem to be a pattern.
Which isn't a lot, but it does seem to be a pattern.
December 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
If I had a dollar for every time a right-wing provincial government ripped up bike lanes to distract from whatever grift they were running, I'd have two dollars.
Which isn't a lot, but it does seem to be a pattern.
Which isn't a lot, but it does seem to be a pattern.
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It’s still a work in progress, but there have been good improvements on the Union St bike lane. The concrete curb and the “No Turn on Red” sign make this segment much better. The bus stop could be improved, though I know it wasn’t within the scope of this project.
December 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
It’s still a work in progress, but there have been good improvements on the Union St bike lane. The concrete curb and the “No Turn on Red” sign make this segment much better. The bus stop could be improved, though I know it wasn’t within the scope of this project.
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Santa Rampage in Milwaukee is so much fun! #bike #cycling #bicycle #santarampage #christmas #ridebikes #criticalmasss #milwaukee #wisconsin #grinch #holidays #bikeride
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Santa Rampage in Milwaukee is so much fun! #bike #cycling #bicycle #santarampage #christmas #ridebikes #criticalmasss #milwaukee #wisconsin #grinch #holidays #bikeride
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We are brainwashed by Big Oil to think we need a car for every person. I think they actually lobby against all mass transit to keep us dependent on cars.
carbrain people want all our infrastructure focused on cars so they can pass through an area faster, meanwhile the people that live in that area walk and ride bicycles. it makes no sense to cater to passersby
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
We are brainwashed by Big Oil to think we need a car for every person. I think they actually lobby against all mass transit to keep us dependent on cars.
A coworker said he doesn't bike regularly nor in certain conditions because he has a child.
I respect his decision, and I don't have dependents
I also don't deserve to be killed for using my bike to get around.
I respect his decision, and I don't have dependents
I also don't deserve to be killed for using my bike to get around.
December 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
A coworker said he doesn't bike regularly nor in certain conditions because he has a child.
I respect his decision, and I don't have dependents
I also don't deserve to be killed for using my bike to get around.
I respect his decision, and I don't have dependents
I also don't deserve to be killed for using my bike to get around.
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Tonight 40min dog walk: 4 cars running red lights (all different intersections) and 1 car accident. All on 4th.
We really need to get our shit together. Red light cameras at every intersection. Fine people into oblivion. All Fines go to transit.
We really need to get our shit together. Red light cameras at every intersection. Fine people into oblivion. All Fines go to transit.
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Tonight 40min dog walk: 4 cars running red lights (all different intersections) and 1 car accident. All on 4th.
We really need to get our shit together. Red light cameras at every intersection. Fine people into oblivion. All Fines go to transit.
We really need to get our shit together. Red light cameras at every intersection. Fine people into oblivion. All Fines go to transit.
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Low Traffic Neighbourhoods do the Mahi and London has the science to prove it: 48% reduction of Deaths and Serious Injuries inside an LTN, with boundary roads causing little change in increasing injuries.
injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...
injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods do the Mahi and London has the science to prove it: 48% reduction of Deaths and Serious Injuries inside an LTN, with boundary roads causing little change in increasing injuries.
injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...
injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...
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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
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Those that lament Chicago’s low ranking in the annual list of bike-friendly cities should pipe down. A city that doesn’t give equal priority to clearing bike and car lanes can’t claim to be a bike-friendly city. This is Clybourn Avenue, which holds a protected bike lane corridor to Downtown.
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Those that lament Chicago’s low ranking in the annual list of bike-friendly cities should pipe down. A city that doesn’t give equal priority to clearing bike and car lanes can’t claim to be a bike-friendly city. This is Clybourn Avenue, which holds a protected bike lane corridor to Downtown.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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The metric should not be whether drivers hate it. The metric should be whether it makes our streets safer for everyone. And by all accounts this accomplished that. That’s more than worth a few seconds of all of our time
Despite the anger, San Francisco’s new piece of street infrastructure decreased injury collisions and dropped average speeds at that location to 11 miles per hour.
S.F. installed an experimental street design called a ‘neckdown.’ Drivers hated it
Despite the anger, San Francisco’s new piece of street infrastructure decreased injury collisions and dropped average speeds at that location to 11 miles per hour.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The metric should not be whether drivers hate it. The metric should be whether it makes our streets safer for everyone. And by all accounts this accomplished that. That’s more than worth a few seconds of all of our time
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With the amount of death and destruction drivers cause it should be every year.
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 AM
With the amount of death and destruction drivers cause it should be every year.
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What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
Watching news coverage of a San Jose car crash that killed a mother and child, and all the comments are blaming "bad drivers".
How many more of us have to die for people to stop blaming each other, and start seeing how the car-dependent highway system is the cause?
How many more of us have to die for people to stop blaming each other, and start seeing how the car-dependent highway system is the cause?
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Watching news coverage of a San Jose car crash that killed a mother and child, and all the comments are blaming "bad drivers".
How many more of us have to die for people to stop blaming each other, and start seeing how the car-dependent highway system is the cause?
How many more of us have to die for people to stop blaming each other, and start seeing how the car-dependent highway system is the cause?
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Bikes rule and cars drool.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Bikes rule and cars drool.
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was musing on why underage drinking is taken so much less seriously in the UK than US and I think the big difference - apart from more of a history of puritanism, blue laws, etc - is that most UK teenagers aren't driving, and even if they are aren't driving any distance.
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
was musing on why underage drinking is taken so much less seriously in the UK than US and I think the big difference - apart from more of a history of puritanism, blue laws, etc - is that most UK teenagers aren't driving, and even if they are aren't driving any distance.
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Is the Tokyo Monorail the world’s best airport public transit access? If not, I’m stumped. A 13 minute express ride from Hamamatsucho to Haneda in just 3 minutes, operating every 10 minutes threaded between local trains. The fare?
$3.34 US
$3.34 US
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Is the Tokyo Monorail the world’s best airport public transit access? If not, I’m stumped. A 13 minute express ride from Hamamatsucho to Haneda in just 3 minutes, operating every 10 minutes threaded between local trains. The fare?
$3.34 US
$3.34 US
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Transit is freedom for youth
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Transit is freedom for youth