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Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · Aug 17

Stopping for red lights light might be out of style.
Now we stop for green lights.
Thank you MUTCD DOT.
34thAve Jackson Heights #bikeQNS #bikeNYC

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 8h

Eliminating value of 10 ride #LIRR passes by reducing their validity period is shrinkflation. From 1 year to 6 months to ́nothing.

The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 10h

Average LIRR fares to/from Long Island are up 10% just in the last 5 years, and are going way higher in January. So MTA lecturing about others' fare hikes is the very personification of throwing stones in glass houses... www.thelirrtoday.com/2025/08/2024...

LIRR ridership recovery tells two very different stories

While the MTA and the Governor's office have been highlighting LIRR's top-line, overall ridership inching back closer to pre-pandemic level...

www.thelirrtoday.com

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 8h

#blueskyUI: Footer for thread. Does deleting posts 5 of 5 while editing delete the whole, as-yet-unposted thread?

Discard what, this post or the whole thread of posts ?

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 8h

Conta: investment 'improving' bus service for non-driving population made bus riders walk further, increased their need to cross busy wide avenues to reach nearest bus stop.
In some cases, contested bus stops were retained for some bus routes while deleted for others (SBS).
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

14th Street Bus Stops removed Manhattan Disability Advocates Sue to Bring them Back NYC

They say it negatively impacts commuters with disabilities.

ny1.com

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 8h

Bus priority lanes would reduce the cost of each bus stop by, depending on the design
(1) Making it easier for the bus to merge back into traffic or
(2) Keeping the bus curbside, thereby eliminating entirely the need to pull over for a stop.

Bus delivers cleaners to dirty bike lane. #bikeNYC

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 8h

A notable counter trend has been the removal of bus stops when introducing bus priority lanes, such as on Manhattan's crosstown 14th Street, which displaces general automobile traffic.

Such a bus is meant to be a living advertisement for bus-dependent life.

www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news....

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Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 13h

Drive there park once do everything power lifestyle centers.

www.infinitee.com/insights/ope...

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 2d

Is this a case of "Cannot die in a new apartment building if there are no new apartment buildings." ?

No. New buildings are really safer per capita.

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 3d

From the report:

"Among the roughly 8.3 million Americans who lived in apartments built since 2010, just four died in a residential fire in 2023. Far more people—at least 20—died in homelessness-related fires than in fires in apartments built since 2010."

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 3d

Why is the final marking giving a narrower #bikelane lane than the provisional lane marking ?

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 3d

Tools/simonWilison render of( SVG XML produced by ChatGPT)

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 3d

No " < ...img or image/png" in the SVG code.

Note that my first 'draw pelican on bike' prompt generated SVG XML, but no image; I needed a second 'make image' applied in context after the SVG to render it.

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 3d

If cards were personalized and fare gates had biometric ID, unlimited ride cards could allow such < 18 min sidequests for free.

Pro tip hack: System blocks only same-station entrances, so walk or use #bikeshare to a nearby station on same line to re-enter transit system within 18min lockout time.

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 3d

Same everywhere, but only unlimited use cards. Pay per ride cards have lockout no problem to re-enter at any time (your second entrance will be billed as a second ride).

18 minute lockout solves problem of multiple unlimited people riding all on only one fare via re-using same card.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 3d

TIL that CTA cards won't let you hop off to grab coffee and go back on until 18 minutes have passed since you got off the train. Your card won't be accepted.

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Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 3d

Is the "me" in "Generate me ..." a prompt hack ?

GhatGPT5 (not pro) tells me it thought for 5 seconds (then spent 2 minutes to scroll though its thoughts).

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 4d

This @bsky.app thing is sentient.

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

Are you paying us? Where?

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 5d

Bicycle on snow and ice with studded #Bixi

Reposted by Two Wheels Good ☑️

Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 5d

Architect Le Corbusier riding with his Secretariat building in Chandigarh, India under construction behind him

#BicycleBirthday Le Corbusier
October 6 (1887-1965)

Photo of a man in a hat riding a bicycle in front of an under-construction building.

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Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 5d

The correct neologism is #numismaticide.

Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 5d

imagining a guy who objects to the elimination of the penny from our currency in circulation because that would be genocide

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 6d

Single-day bike counter data should be readily available (not lumped into quarterly or annual reports). Manhattan Bridge counter kiosk gets it right.

Two Wheels Good ☑️ @twgood.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone's impact is already in the data, one way or another.

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UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies @uclaits.bsky.social · Sep 3

Join us next month for a celebration of the life and work of Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Donald Shoup. Learn more and RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e...