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Important that they stay in business too, or the owners lose access to replacement parts. The local bike shops they work with on warranty and service won't have anywhere to get the unique parts.

A shop I'm affiliated with in Indy does some support work on Rad bikes.

I'm sorry.

I biked that corridor south of Miami while it was under construction in late 2022. As I recall, most of this LONG bus rapid transit corridor includes a multi-use trail separated from motor vehicle traffic. It was pretty great, even while it was under construction.

Did you apply for the BVRA director position? The prior director recently resigned.

I'm a paying BRVA resident member, but I've not yet gotten involved in the various meetings. And the local drama about this goofy statue cracks me up. Old pearl clutchers hate it.

Had a friend put a 1000W Bafang hub motor and battery kit on their cargo bike. The battery overheated (not good!), and Bafang wouldn't warranty it because they said it wasn't intended for cargo bike use. WTF? 1000W e-bike motor is ideal for heavy loaded cargo bike. Be careful about that company.

If you move abandoned cones to improve safety at a crosswalk or intersection, they'll be removed toot suite! But it is still fun to do. #JFDI

Weird, and uh, disappointing. Corporate centrists are going do what they do though - and answer to their big donors.

But can I be stepping off the daily train Downtown at the renovated Union Station?

It feels weird to be re-proving interventions that transportation engineers and planners know work for slowing traffic and making a busy multi-use trail crossing safer, especially when those interventions are needed at 20+ crossings. We demonstrated one location, and duh, it worked.

I'm so-so on these.

(1) They give folks who want to do something right now a way to try out a safety improvement in their neighborhood.

(2) They currently aren't set up to be semi-permanent, the safety benefit is too short.

(3) They do move the needle for public support.

(4) It's a lot of work.

That was an impressive car (or truck) driver fail. They went through the cycle track and hit the base of a flashing sign.

Really wish we had more mid-road boulders at greenway crossings.

It sounds like it gives folks the big feelings.

Meanwhile, I got to shake hands with one of your neighbors volunteering at the Halloween street closing and she nearly broke bones.

I'm going to finally see it in Dec when it comes through Indy.

Huzzah for more 24/7/365 customers for local businesses! Great news.

This is also good news for increasing population density in Indy's core. We need more population density Downtown and at transit hubs in the city.

Next, Indiana should prohibit rural and suburban destruction of farms for sprawl.

That intersection is known to be unsafe. They put a giant highway between the university campuses and Downtown.

That one's so terrible it needs a pedestrian bridge.

These are not good reasons for the news to call me for interviews.

This time I mentioned the perverse amendment in the state infrastructure law that prevents Indy from using state funds for future active transportation safety projects.

Have they learned nothing from Hartford?

Or, err, have the sportsball investors benefitting from the extractive corporate welfare learned too well?