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Found these cute old sheds (still in use!) in Woodland Park while exploring a new route with the knobby-ish gravel tires on my Soma Stanyan. (1)
Definitely getting better with the color calibration tool in #Darktable. Having the flexibility to pick any hue for the illuminant is very nice! :)
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. @clover and I were riding down a hill and slowed to let a pedestrian cross at a marked crosswalk, and were "rewarded" with an angry honk and close pass from a Tesla that was behind us.
I guess some drivers either are in their own little world or don't care about people crossing the street. :/
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I would love to see a study on how many car alarms actually prevented car theft versus how often they go off total
I suspect at this point they go off as false alarms so often that nobody pays attention to them
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From this article:
Perhaps because of that, car-security experts say, people rarely pay them any mind, rendering them even less effective. Since blaring alarms usually mean someone accidentally bumped into a vehicle, or even just happened to play loud music down the street, an alarm rarely means an actual theft is taking place. Besides, if a thief really is trying to steal a vehicle, who wants to approach a potentially dangerous criminal? “You have a car thief attacking your car. You’re going to run out, and you’re going to do… what?” asked Reg Phillips, a vehicle-security expert who works with the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators. “What is in that car that’s worth getting hurt over?” (Of course, one could call the police instead.)Moreover, a blaring alarm might scare off a first-time joyrider, but they’re a non-issue for most professional thieves, who can clip a few wires and silence an alarm with ease. Indeed, one 1997 analysis found that cars with alarms “show no overall reduction in theft losses.”
Worse, car alarms may be affecting the health of the people around them when they go off. A report from Transportation Alternatives, a bicycle-advocacy organization, estimated that New York’s car alarms lead to about $400 to $500 million per year in “public-health costs, lost productivity, decreased property value, and diminished quality of life.” An estimate from an organization whose stated goal is “to reclaim New York City's streets from the automobile” should be taken with a grain of salt, but the point still stands that car-alarm sounds are stress-inducing and sleep-interrupting.
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How Seattle Rejected the Monorail
In 1997, Seattle voters approved a monorail transit system to be built across the city. Beginning as a cab driver's dream and growing into a major civic project, this was on track to become one of the largest systems of its kind in the world. But shortly before breaking ground in 2005, the project collapsed in on itself. This documentary tells the story of how Seattle ended up in this unusual position, and why the city's dream never got off the ground.
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I always love this little bridge across Ravenna Park and usually try to make it part of the somewhat longer version of my usual loop. (1)
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@ariadne Might be something to ask em until you get an answer.
Why yes, I'm pretty sure Tulsa311 is sick of me.
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Grade separated rail works so much better than buses and streetcars for longer distances:
- It doesn't get bogged down by all of the overwhelming personal vehicle traffic. It doesn't even need to wait for traffic lights!
- It can carry far more people per vehicle than buses ever can for physics and safety reasons.
- You can depend on it to be consistent both temporally and spatially, barring maintenance events.
This is top of mind because my wife and I have been doing stuff in Capitol Hill a lot lately and getting from North Seattle to there is far better by light rail than it has even been by bus.
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