jeremycole.bsky.social
he/him – Seattle, WA – Bikes, mobility, food security, compassion, and building better cities. Sometimes: MySQL, Ruby, etc.
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I solved this problem by not graduating high school 😂
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I couldn’t read the article due to paywall but it probably meant $25k per home on the street?
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I mean, I think he *is* the meme, he *is* the avid cyclist.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly but this wasn’t really directed at Canadians so much as mostly Americans who will be biking from Seattle to Vancouver those days and returning to Seattle somehow, so even better, folks from south of the border spending good money in Canada.
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Dumb too because it’s not like the scooters were ridden to there and “parked”, they were likely carried…
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Depends a lot on the exact route, but minimum is ~60 miles biking: bike Vancouver to Tsawwassen, BC Ferries to Swartz Bay, bike Swartz Bay to Victoria, Victoria Clipper ferry to Seattle. (Even shorter if bus or skytrain is used in Vancouver.) I'm probably looking at 200-300 miles though.
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Yeah the “Tour de” naming scheme doesn’t really imply anything anymore and I’ve been tricked by assuming something would be a cool ride and finding in the website etc that it’s a race (not interested). Tour de Victoria and Tour de l’Île de Montréal are both similar and fun non-race type events.
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Gotcha. Well the shorter routes especially are mostly family and friends riding for fun on closed streets. I’ve been riding the 60km which is a mix of that and a bit of touring outside the city on open streets. In either case not a race though!
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I think this every evening when I walk through some of the ubiquitous street end connectors paths we have all over the place limiting use of many streets as cut throughs.
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Riding the Tour de Victoria btw?
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Hah indeed, I did the Sooke Wilderness Hills Trail last year with a couple others and … *eventually*, my riding partners started speaking to me again. I needed new brake pads after that and also decided to upgrade my rotors from 160mm to 180mm.
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Prime hood-slappin' territory right there.
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I don't blame you in the slightest. If you're interested in joining for a Van-Vic trip that would be fine and I'm definitely inclined to spend some time north of the border!
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Also, they tend to drive their bike somewhere more car-free to ride it in peace, somehow missing the irony.
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This runner has clearly endured the classic raspberry-whip-to-the-face and opted to hope bus drivers are looking where they're going instead.
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And just down Delridge from RIFC the sidewalks used by a lot more immigrants than can or ever have used RIFC look like this:
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I imagine there are a lot of immigrant-owned businesses in West Seattle that would be elated to have the city spend $500k to very marginally improve access to their business now that the precedent is set.
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He has probably seen the @thewaroncars.bsky.social stickers some of us have and didn't bother digging beyond the surface level of the name. 🙃
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Uhhhhhh what?
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Done for the day. Would have liked to clean up the edging a bit more but ran out of battery. 🪫
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I bet if someone crossed Delridge at the bus stop instead of traipsing through this jungle to the nearest signaled crosswalk, and they got hit, the city and the media would be all over personal responsibility and only crossing at marked and crosswalks blah blah
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Of course, in this case “Delridge and Myrtle Park” which is not so much a park as an unmaintained plot of forest.
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In the first photo a RapidRide H bus stop can be seen. This is such obvious stuff it’s just demoralizing.
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Just have to take off the old tape and then sign up for a bike ride tomorrow. Book, motivation.
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Idaho, the Alberta south of the border.
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Now try redesigning the road to add traffic calming features and notice its the exact same people that complain about the speed camera fighting the road redesigns (and usually winning through attrition)
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Here are a few of my favorite shots along the route. There are hundreds more but these feel like some of the more magical ones. Ride bikes. Ride them really far. It's so worth it. You can do it.
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It didn't go perfectly; mistakes were made. I brought too much, and not enough. I froze, I overheated. I fell once, breaking my rear rack and requiring some trail fixes. I rode a highway I probably shouldn't have: MT-35 around Flathead Lake doubled my lifetime close-pass count. But... I made it.
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Nice bare bit of velcro where his name and unit identification patch goes. Who made the decision to remove it?
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Okay, maybe a correction: I had some time hanging out here at the Whitefish station so I asked the staff, and they said yeah they don’t do bike loads/unloads at unstaffed stations with the exception of West Glacier. They were unaware that Cascades does…
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My experience with the bike was identical on Cascades and Empire Builder so I think it’d be fine.
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I’ve never had any issues on the Cascades at least, checking in in Seattle they just tell you the deal and at the unstaffed station the crew is expecting you and usually has the baggage doors open as they roll in ready to hand over the bike.
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Errr, unstaffed doesn’t mean no bikes AFAIK. I’ve loaded and unloaded my bike at Mt Vernon (unstaffed) several times. One time they were confused why it wasn’t tagged properly in Seattle until I said I got on in Mt Vernon and they said “ohhhh”. Just be ready and close to the baggage car. No time!
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Funny thing is that with enough time I’m sure I could do a cross-US trip now. Just a few rest days here and there. I feel great still.
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Should’ve sent them all to therapy rather than designing the built world as an asylum
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I think it’s that the abundant money flowing from the government to reintegrate WWII soldiers and help build their new lives was assumed to be a permanent tap of money and was used to fund unsustainable sprawl.