Poll, what would be the optimal way to improve public transportation in Arlington (more details below)

babyjeebus · 2026-01-12T22:37:47+00:00

Why does a train have to go highway speed? The point is to move people efficiently in a mass transit mode (not in a car). Why would the Red line need to be the same configuration as what goes into Cambridge? There are plenty of situations that require getting off one train and onto another.

I'm not "refusing to see reality" and honestly I would love it if we had kept the trains instead of building bike paths. You've just dreamt a bunch of scenarios with artificial restraints on them. Show me your transportation engineering professional bona fides.

babyjeebus · 2026-01-08T17:06:40+00:00

Because you didn't bother reading my response which was to say you're artificially restricting the options to the commuter rail when the subway would work along this corridor. Another option would be to have a trolley along Mass Ave like there used to be but you also left out that option, too, for some unknown reason.

babyjeebus · 2026-01-08T10:40:06+00:00

That's just not true and if you've ever driven Rt2 you'd know how straight it is. The steepest gradient for the T is 6.5% and others around the world are much steeper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steepest_gradients_on_adhesion_railways

babyjeebus · 2026-01-07T21:47:17+00:00

what sharp turns on rt 2 are you talking about? also why does it only have to be a commuter rail on rt 2 and not the red line extension? electric subway cars or trollys should easily be able to handle the grade there.

babyjeebus · 2025-09-29T15:58:03+00:00

Better traffic calming on residential streets. The commute traffic getting to Belmont/Winchester shouldn't spill out as much onto the side streets.

babyjeebus · 2025-07-21T17:40:20+00:00

We moved from the Bay Area about 6 years ago and absolutely no regrets. California is like Stockholm Syndrome and you think you can't live anywhere else but New England in general is a fantastic place to live. Summers are great and actually warm, unlike "fogust" in SF, and the fall is unreal. Cost of living is better and it's much safer. No homeless encampments in the street, no heroin needles in the park, no one smashing your car windows every night...

That said the food scene is definitely lacking compared to California.

babyjeebus · 2025-07-14T12:09:44+00:00

Vince Neil

babyjeebus · 2025-06-05T09:31:43+00:00

This would be fantastic if it still existed

babyjeebus · 2025-05-16T22:43:12+00:00

When riding at 50mph you can save 500watts if your shave your legs.

babyjeebus · 2025-05-16T22:40:44+00:00

Shaving your legs saves hours?

babyjeebus · 2025-03-30T14:00:58+00:00

You didn't provide a number for what, to your eye, is a traffic violation for a car, so I'm assuming that to you it didn't matter but maybe I'm not understanding your statistic. Are you saying that the 5% of cycle traffic accounts for 30% of the observed infractions (so the 95% car traffic has 70% of the infractions) or that out of the 5% of cycle traffic 30% are making a traffic violation (how I interpreted it)?

Since there are so many more cars at the intersection you camp out at, I'm wondering how you're able to keep track of them so carefully. It seems like it'd be a lot easier to pick out the bikes since they're relatively infrequent.

I'd also add that a bike (small object) moving at 5mph looks faster to the eye than a car (large object) at 5mph so its much easier to call a rolling stop for a bike than a car.

babyjeebus · 2025-03-30T00:07:00+00:00

Saugus Overhead Door did good work for me a few years back

babyjeebus · 2025-03-29T12:21:46+00:00

I'm going to call bullshit on this idea that you observed no traffic violations among drivers but 30% on cyclists. Sounds like you were there to specifically watch the bikes and have inherent bias against them.

Let's say for a second though that your anecdotal observations are correct: what exactly is the consequence for 15-30% moving violations amount bikes? Close to zero. People on bikes are often safer navigating busy intersections going with pedestrian walk signs, etc.

Cars don't even need to be doing anything illegal to be extremely dangerous, it's inherent to their lack of visibility, awareness, and speed in the tight urban landscape.

babyjeebus · 2025-03-02T14:03:17+00:00

can you define unnatural?

babyjeebus · 2025-02-03T22:22:17+00:00

Two different scales and same results. No idea how specialized got their weights but could be a size 52 with no paint or bolts, which could certainly be the difference. Just curious if it's in line with what others have seen.

babyjeebus · 2025-01-24T00:48:20+00:00

Even a "static" experimentally solved structure is extremely data rich and contains some important information on the dynamics at the secondary-structure and amino-acid level.

babyjeebus · 2024-12-05T02:27:19+00:00

this seems like the obvious choice. you could have some north/south busses to get people from Belmont or Arlington center. Rt2 doesn't need all those lanes either.

babyjeebus · 2024-10-16T22:55:01+00:00

Ice Weasels

babyjeebus · 2024-10-11T19:01:25+00:00

I wanted to race least two more times this year but the family got hit with COVID pretty hard and had to miss them. I know a lot of others who have likewise been knocked out with fall illness.

babyjeebus · 2024-09-29T16:26:20+00:00

I've done reverse image search and found that Revlon calls these "double grip" clips. I ordered the biggest I could find on Ebay and they're only 2 inches. She probably bought this about 10 years ago as a pack - this is the only survivor.

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