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Bike Helmet Designed By People Who Don’t Ride Bikes
Tweet This thing is only a concept, which if I am understanding design correctly means it really has very little to do with the final product (or reality), but still it won an award…presumably the people giving out that award … Continue reading
Posted in bostonbiker, Merch, video
Tagged over complication, poor design, rant
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You Can’t Fix Shitty Design With Signs And Spray Paint
TweetWant proof? Ride over the Longfellow bridge “bike path.” Every day I ride over the Longfellow, and ever day the farce that is the “bike path” gets more and more hilarious (and now that its warm, more and more dangerous.) I … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, Commuting, infrastructure
Tagged longfellow bridge, not working, rant, shitty design, sign overload
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You Can’t Fix Shitty Design With Signs And Spray Paint
TweetWant proof? Ride over the Longfellow bridge “bike path.” Every day I ride over the Longfellow, and ever day the farce that is the “bike path” gets more and more hilarious (and now that its warm, more and more dangerous.) I … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, Commuting, infrastructure
Tagged longfellow bridge, not working, rant, shitty design, sign overload
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You Can’t Fix Shitty Design With Signs And Spray Paint
TweetWant proof? Ride over the Longfellow bridge “bike path.” Every day I ride over the Longfellow, and ever day the farce that is the “bike path” gets more and more hilarious (and now that its warm, more and more dangerous.) I … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, Commuting, infrastructure
Tagged longfellow bridge, not working, rant, shitty design, sign overload
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America’s Absurd Fascination With Cars
TweetI was having a discussion with someone this morning and we realized that at every stage in the development of automobile infrastructure in America, other, consistently better, choices for infrastructure were available, but we continued to choose the car every … Continue reading
Posted in advocacy, bostonbiker
Tagged rant, ride a bike, your car is killing you
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Is It Just Me…
Tweetor is New England creating new and horrible types of precipitation to hurl at my face? What exactly was that flying out of the sky around 5:30 pm today. Ice snow? Rain Hail? Tiny spike ice? It was like small … Continue reading
Is It Just Me…
Tweetor is New England creating new and horrible types of precipitation to hurl at my face? What exactly was that flying out of the sky on around 5:30 pm today. Ice snow? Rain Hail? Tiny spike ice? It was like … Continue reading
