Opinions on bikers is indeed a very good canary in the coal mine for determining if someone sucks when it might not otherwise be apparent yet.
“A driver overtook us with a really close pass. His passenger threw a cup of McDonald’s Coke out the window, totally unprovoked. How dare we be on his road and hold him up for two seconds. People just seem to be so angry with cyclists all the time, any excuse to cut them up and they’ll take it”
Tomorrow, I go to the UP with the kids for a week. Cannot wait. In the meantime, there are 5 girls at the house for a sleepover (plus one little brother who was graciously adopted) and I'm hunkered downstairs cleaning and prepping "German pancakes" aka crepes, for the morning before departure.
Hello sewing experts…
This is a photo of a Trader Joe’s reusable bag and the stitching is clearly failing. I would like to repair it though I don’t know my options. My spouse had a sewing machine, but she isn’t sure it will handle this material?
What about adhesive hem tape and no stitching?
Cars were once portrayed as killing children and then we decided as a society to just cover our ears and eyes and pretend it's not that big of a deal that cars are killing children.
Spotted while waiting at a crosswalk. I wonder why I often feel unsafe as a pedestrian?
It can't be said enough that these types of vehicles have no place on our streets, *especially* in dense areas. This kind of truck is incompatible with safety for people trying to walk, bike, or roll.
The culture of violence in the United States is normalized by automotivity
Roman Schuster. You're a total jagoff, and most of us know it. You're in a league with Roger Romanelli and Maria Megaphone Moctazuma.
We scavenged this dock from the lower harbor in Marquette a few years ago. We've been slowly building with it. We've done a summer outdoor kitchen, a shower house and now the Ger/yurt is getting a new front porch. It's surprising how much one person can move with a hand cart.
A new police campaign focused on cycling and motorcycling, which claims that road safety is a “shared” responsibility, has been criticised by cyclists who say it “ignores the massive imbalance in risk...
“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks ..
“When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.”
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Spotted this ad for an F150 trim package. The goal is to be intimidating. They're not even pretending anymore.
Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about
Carl Quintanilla
Spotted while waiting at a crosswalk. I wonder why I often feel unsafe as a pedestrian?
It can't be said enough that these types of vehicles have no place on our streets, *especially* in dense areas. This kind of truck is incompatible with safety for people trying to walk, bike, or roll.
Letter to the Editor: We don’t have to imagine what a future that restricts vehicle travel on Lake Shore Drive would look like.
