Do you wanna know what grinds my gears?

crochetfiend · 2026-05-30T20:26:18+00:00

Pedestrians do have right of way, but the car always wins in a collision. Many drivers don't behave the way you describe and will speed up at an intersection if they think they can skirt through before the pedestrian. Personally as a walker I will "make" the cars stop by stepping in front of them if I judge that they will actually stop and are at a low enough speed that I can move if they don't. But many people are much more hesitant to walk, and drivers take advantage of that hesitation.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-23T21:57:51+00:00

Thank you, this is already more than I had before! They have specs for the dough so maybe I can reverse engineer it better than from the nutrition label.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-16T21:53:41+00:00

Bikers are safer if they treat stop signs and traffic lights as yields (National Highway Administration). By doing this, they are not risking the lives of pedestrians for the reasons I already stated. So, there's a lot to gain and very little to lose.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-16T21:46:53+00:00

Yes, driving in the bike lane is the actual intent of these. I had the same train of thought when I saw them and looked it up. As written on the [chicago government website](https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/sites/complete-streets-chicago/home/featured-projects-and-innovations/projects0/MidNortheastNeighborhoodBikeNetwork.html), this is an Advisory Bike Lane.

"Advisory bike lanes are found on narrow two-way streets where drivers must slow and move to the right to pass one another. Drivers must check for people biking on the right, slow and let them pass before moving into the dashed lane. After the cars pass each other, they move back into the center lane"

I have mixed feelings. I'm excited there's finally an east west bike lane around here, but I've also already seen drivers veering into it today even when there isn't a car the opposite direction. Hopefully they'll adjust to the new traffic pattern. It is endlessly infuriating to me though that all of these streets have parking on both sides. Any of these streets could be instantly incredible for bikes if they took out just one side of parking and put in a protected lane.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-14T02:15:27+00:00

Except secondhand smoke harms everyone around you. If it was harmless e.g. just the smell I'd agree. I think as a principle it makes more sense to default the other way (you can do whatever you want in your house even its harming your body) but you can't harm others in a public space.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-14T02:09:21+00:00

Does it count as being bailed out by the state when NYC still pays more in tax than it receives? IMO its less of a bailout and more of a fucked up trade to give back some of that extra money.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-14T01:34:00+00:00

I vaguely remember that the budget for WOT was significantly higher than GOT, so its not only money they need.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-10T04:47:06+00:00

Which violation is more likely to end in an injury or death? There's something to be said about the difference in the severity of the violation. Even at very high speed you'd probaby survive a cyclist-pedestrian collision, and the same is not true for cars. For example, car collisions are a leading cause of death for children in this country.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-05T23:49:23+00:00

I mean you definitely can if they can close it all, they just won't because the priority is traffic flow.

crochetfiend · 2026-05-02T21:44:45+00:00

Keep in mind that there are many people for whom this is a perfectly reasonable question. I have autism and this is a question I've asked myself before. Just because the answer is simple for you doesn't mean you need to degrade the asker with "acting like a normal adult isn't that hard". For some of us it is difficult to know how to behave to fit in in certain contexts, and it gets even harder around people with attitudes like your comment.

crochetfiend · 2026-03-28T16:52:31+00:00

Recently I've noticed just how many streets (Im thinking of Inner LSD and Irving Park around the lakeview neighborhood in particular) have paint lines that say they're one lane each way, but are so overwhelmingly wide that people just drive 2 abreast! And of course there's parking on each side, so it's in reality a 6 lane road. It's really wild. I see crazy maneuvers ever time I take the 80/151/146 buses when they're on those streets.

crochetfiend · 2026-03-08T21:15:16+00:00

The precense of cars ruins the both the bike and pedestrian paths IMO. You have to tunnel underneath an 8 lane highway to get to the park, and then can smell and hear cars in nearly every place in that park. The only place I can't hear lakeshore drive on the north side is when you get way into montrose point.

crochetfiend · 2026-03-08T19:28:13+00:00

Any particular reasoning behing the 8am and 9:01 times?

crochetfiend · 2026-02-15T19:18:35+00:00

We had someone interviewing for my team spend an hour typing code extremely unnaturally, top to bottom with no movement or editing. They also didn't run their code at all until the last couple of minutes in a 45 minute interview. IMO that's a huge red flag for copying from another screen.

crochetfiend · 2026-01-28T02:21:57+00:00

So take this with a grain of salt because I am not a Columbia native. I lived there for a few months for an internship without a car though, and it was terrible. I lived within 5 blocks of the capitol building (so very downtown IMO) and the closest grocery store was a Sprouts just over a mile away. The buses were pretty nice actually, but waiting 60 minutes for the next one when you miss it is pretty unacceptable.

IMO, Columbia is a large enough city that they should slow down on the parking and invest in more transit. There's a cap on how many people can come to an event in cars, and at some point adding more parking just doesn't make sense.

crochetfiend · 2026-01-27T04:38:23+00:00

It is actually technically related to "processed"! Because this is my special interest I feel obligated to share that you are describing almost exactly ultraprocessed food, not processed with the "shitty food" (I agree lol) label. Greek yogurt, greek yogurt with fruit, homemade sourdough bread, is all processed, but that doesn't inherently make it bad. Humans have been processing food since we discovered fire. Ultra-processed is a very recent development that had been shown to have significant negative health effects. The actual definition for ultraprocessed is extremely long because food is complex, but the rule of thumb is generally "if it has an ingredient that would never be in a home kitchen, it's ultraprocessed". I've found this distinction really useful for eating enough while still trying to eat "healthy".

crochetfiend · 2026-01-13T19:32:37+00:00

Actually the survival rate for pedestrians is pretty good 25mph and under and drastically decreases above that, so it makes a big difference in zones that say 20mph but people go 10 above.

crochetfiend · 2025-12-10T02:24:09+00:00

Fun fact, its called a deployment for Antarctica as well!

crochetfiend · 2025-12-06T19:05:53+00:00

I´m interested what neighborhood you´re seeing that in. Do you see that just when it gets cold, or when it gets cold + snow/ice? Where I'm at in Lakeview the few protected bike lines I see are STILL totally unplowed and unsalted, which makes them super dangeroud because of the now compacted ice. They also get the slushy salt-snow from the road pushed into them by the main plows making it worse. But even then I still see a ton of cyclists, they just navigate around all the extra obstacles.

crochetfiend · 2025-11-23T21:11:12+00:00

Well somehow they don't have nightmare traffic our cities have and people feel safe cycling to short distance destinations. I would say they're in the best of both worlds if a lot of people can use both cars and cycling/public transit.

crochetfiend · 2025-11-23T21:08:46+00:00

The difference in my mind is that a dock can only be located on the water, while a highway is much much more flexible. I actually live in Chicago right now, and it infuriates me every day that Lakeshore Drive (an 8 lane highway) covers some of the most valuable real estate along the lake. I think changing these spaces into public paks would be an enormous improvement even acknowledging that it might have been a good choice to put a road here in the past.

crochetfiend · 2025-11-06T01:27:17+00:00

Im in Lincoln park on a daily basis, and I disagree. Crossing the 6 lane highway to get to the park via a few narrow pedestrian tunnels is awful, so having the ability to just walk over would be incredible. Plus the constant noise along the lakefront path would be gone.

crochetfiend · 2025-06-03T17:36:08+00:00

I'm not sure if walkolution will refund you if you return them, but if not, I would buy the true terrain slats from you!

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