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dougcornelius.bsky.social
Being a bike commuter turns you into being a cycling advocate. Compliance professional and lawyer by training.
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One if by land, two if by sea, a giant light if by bike

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

Got to Lunenburg for my #Massbike351 quest

Bolting to Bolton for #massbike351

Flynn Flam: @boston.gov City Councilor Ed Flynn complains that bike lanes make it "almost impossible" to visit the South End library. In reality, that branch has been closed for three years due to flood damage - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/03/25/f...

Surely I’ve been to Shirley for the #MassBike351

More on my quest for #MassBike351 Fitchburg

the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed

What you can’t see are the three children riding bikes to my right side. What you can feel is this drivers impatience with having to drive responsibly. Do drivers not realize that this behavior puts undue stress on those outside of vehicles? Give the kids a break, let ‘em ride their bikes.

Help Wanted: Traffic engineers who think about where people go once their bike lanes end.

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

We don’t if they were gang members, only that Trump’s DOJ says they were. But they’ve had no trials. They are “accused.” They are “alleged” to be members of a gang that Trump has named. And now they are vanished. This is an actual nightmare and we should be up in arms.

A daily reminder of who the first aggressors were in the @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Loving these pencil ✏️ shaped bollards outside the local primary school

Capital Hill Lobby Day for the National Bike Summit with @massbike.bsky.social Yes I ran Strava to document the day.

Congressional Bike ride this morning as part of the National Bike Summit with @bikeleague.bsky.social

More municipalities checked off in my quest for #MassBike351

MassBike's strategic planning process is reaching its crucial stage, and we need your input now more than ever! If you haven't already, please take 5-10 minutes today to complete our 2025 supporter survey: bit.ly/MBSurvey25

Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...

If the justice system is gutted, and replaced by a regime where cronyism makes adherence to laws optional, who will want to hire skilled lawyers trained to counsel clients on complying with the law? That's a question lawyers thinking about joining Trump's attack on the rule of law should be asking.

National Park Service Layoffs Spark Protests, Threaten $640 Billion Outdoor Recreation Industry

What would a TV ad promoting alternatives to driving look like? What if people who love cycling and progressive transportation reclaimed ideas like freedom, independence and even patriotism? We decided to give it a shot. Check out our new video, "America, It's Just Like Riding a Bike."

In an era of growing isolation and division, we’d all benefit from making our urban spaces less hostile and more human.

Fantastic snow to break out the fat bike in Sherborn with @stevethebikeguy.bsky.social

My #MassBike351 quest continues with Marion Rochester and Mattapoiset

Why did Musk go after Inspectors General and USAID? Couldn’t have anything to do with this? oig.usaid.gov/node/6814

True.

Think firing the entire federal workforce will save America money? Federal civilian employees account for just 4% of the federal budget. Even if someone like Musk—or any president—fired all of us, it wouldn’t make much of a dent in government spending. Don’t fall for it.

One of the greatest manipulations of our urban environments in the last century was making the masses dependent on a few thousand pounds of steel to go from A to B for the most basic of everyday needs.

​The top story on every US media outlet is the crash at National Airport, where 67 people died. Meanwhile, 67 Americans die in car crashes every 15 hours The DCA crash is clearly front-page news. Maybe we should give America's road safety crisis the same treatment.

really love how advocates for safer cycling and pedestrian infrastructure are radicals but people who want to drive fast & park wherever they want (at the risk of everyone else) are just normal reasonable humans

A touch of snow on the bike commute today. Compare the path to the road.

Make Cancer Great Again 😡

Bikes causing so much traffic. No. It’s a truck driver not reading the height sign on Storrow Drive. #storrowed

Through Southbridge Dudley and Webster on my quest for #massbike351

Biked around Worcester starting at the Major Taylor Museum before the @massbike.bsky.social annual meeting #massbike351

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

Starting to get tired of this polar vortex. Doesn’t stop my bike commute. And it’s still better than driving.

Trump didn’t end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours like he promised but he did ban rainbow flags in government buildings because priorities.

Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.

It’s 25 degrees in Kansas City where the Chiefs and Texans are playing for a full stadium. Guess it’s only dangerous when it’s an inauguration.

To be slightly blunter than The Atlantic allowed me to be: the tiktok ban is a protectionist subsidy to Meta and Google worth hundreds of billions of dollars: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Call me crazy, but I think Trump is working in cahoots with the communist Chinese government on this whole “TikTok ban” thing.

Visited some ponies this afternoon on my bike ride. Continuing my quest for #MassBike351

H/t @jessedamiani.bsky.social.