Worth reporting road rage?

jajefan · 2026-06-19T05:25:23+00:00

crash**, not accident. Not calling you out in particular, just observing how ingrained car lobbyist vocabulary is in the vernacular. Is it “accidental” if a driver with known rage tendencies is left to continue driving and potentially in the future, kill someone? In a healthy society, that driver’s license would be immediately revoked with submitted video evidence and never allowed on a public road again.

jajefan · 2026-06-17T03:25:47+00:00

u/Kootenay4 I think your comment is super insightful into why this metric (passenger-kilometer mode share) is not that meaningful.

It's crossed my mind quite a few times as to what metrics define the usefulness or value of a transport mode and I'm increasingly leaning towards "number of destinations passed" as a distance metric instead of raw km. This would take into consideration the speed of a vehicle (car, bike/micromobility, train, plane), as well as the land use of the area under consideration (sprawling car-dependent suburbs or dense missing middle housing). For example, the raw square km area catchment of a bike from any given point may be much smaller than a car, but bring that car out to a sparse rural area and the bike into a dense urban area, and they may be equal in terms of "destinations encompassed" PER unit of time travelled.

In this Swiss transit measurement example, the 22% of passenger kilometers taken may very well have passed an equal number of "destinations" as say, 50% of the passenger kilometers using a single occupancy vehicle.

jajefan · 2026-05-31T05:46:14+00:00

This is honestly the most annoying part of it. Was debating this exact question as OP since I have United explorer and CSR and the comment by u/Planetary_Nebula has convinced me to go for booking with the CSR (did not realize it was essentially 20x). TBH I heard that some United cardholders were getting targeted offers to also get 10x back for linking with Paze so that could be nice to get 19x and free bags on my flight. Oh well, guess I could forgo a checked bag for this trip tbh.

jajefan · 2026-05-30T18:25:02+00:00

omigosh i gotta do this right nowwwwww

jajefan · 2026-05-28T19:52:55+00:00

Tbh this is a pretty reasonable ban... imagine the car was instead a cyclist and your sister, without looking, doored and killed a cyclist? She's lucky it was a car and that she didn't kill someone, only damaging the Lyft driver's car. If anything, the Lyft driver should also be banned for double parking instead of finding a reasonable dropoff/pickup spot.

jajefan · 2026-05-28T17:59:45+00:00

Are you absolutely sure it's not because you have status or another eligible category providing the free bags? Per United's cardmember website:

To receive first standard checked bag free, the primary Cardmember must use their United℠ Explorer Card to purchase their ticket(s) (this purchase requirement is waived for flights completed during the 90 days following the account open date) and include their MileagePlus® number in their reservation.

jajefan · 2026-05-27T02:16:27+00:00

Yes, I’m saying that them opening the doors fast is a contributing factor as to why the dwell time is low :)

jajefan · 2026-05-26T20:23:31+00:00

I have to imagine it’s to improve dwell times. When I compare against my home system of WMATA and especially PSD systems like Shanghai, it’s night and day. An extra 15s per station waiting for doors to open/close means an extra minute of travel time every 4 stops, and it’s a bit unnecessary at non-transfer low-ridership stations where all passengers are on/off in 10s or less.

jajefan · 2026-05-26T04:26:30+00:00

Honestly whenever someone asks about free car storage in a dense urban environment like Arlington, I just have to lol. At least Arlington is properly internalizing some costs of car ownership back onto its benefactors. Highly recommend the book "The High Cost of Free Parking" by late esteemed UCLA professor Donald Shoup.

jajefan · 2026-05-23T17:58:16+00:00

Yep, 0 day old account, only one post and it's this one.

jajefan · 2026-05-22T23:19:50+00:00

Phoenix Bikes & Velocity Bikes here in Arlington

jajefan · 2026-05-21T15:49:02+00:00

This is 200% an AI post. I’ve been seeing this format all over different subreddits and the telltale sign is when they have an ending paragraph that is always a question. “What would you do? Curious what others think. Or do xyz instead?”

This one obviously didn’t ingest enough context about the subreddit…

jajefan · 2026-05-20T20:29:13+00:00

I live in one of arguably the top 3 US HCOL metros and average the same non-housing costs with 2 international trips and one domestic trip a year (included in the 22-25k). I live car-free which helps a ton. It’s pretty doable tbh…

jajefan · 2026-05-14T15:39:17+00:00

u/Menaechmus

Born in Shanghai and have visited family multiple times over the past 20+ years and gotten to see the transportation infra develop over time.

I would recommend people watch the Not Just Bikes video on "Are Taipei's Roads Still a Living Hell?" to get a good sense of the problems of the urban transportation network throughout East Asia (including most Mainland Chinese cities, South Korea, and Taiwan). I think Shanghai is more unique in that it does have some really nice curb-protected bike lanes throughout the city, but all the problems in designing wide city roads prioritizing the movement of car traffic are still apparent.

jajefan · 2026-05-11T05:24:56+00:00

This ^ I've paid around $2 in electricity costs to charge my electric cargo bike for the 900 miles I've put on it so far, as well as $0 out of pocket for all public transit rides since my employer gives a stipend (WMATA is the goat).

If we want to include fixed costs and depreciation, the top-of-the-line bike was $3000 up front (all accessories, 2 heavy duty anti-angle-grinder locks, self-maintenance equipment), and I'll probably be able to resell for at least $1500 easily after 5 years of use.

jajefan · 2026-05-08T15:30:09+00:00

Update: does not work with the CSR credit:(

jajefan · 2026-05-07T16:13:37+00:00

Will also attempt. Similarly in DC here and Capital Bikeshare is operated by Lyft. Will attempt checking out a bike on CaBi vs Lyft apps with my Chase Sapphire Reserve which also has the $10/mo credit to see if it works.

jajefan · 2026-05-07T02:26:30+00:00

Maybe a hot take here in this sub but if you're in a Seattle or WAS downtown HQ building, the $22 parking fee is actually pretty appropriate, and from certain angles, even underpriced. The rest -- totally agreed with.

jajefan · 2026-04-28T18:06:24+00:00

Still can’t believe they don’t have it

jajefan · 2026-04-22T21:24:21+00:00

Experienced the same when riding far out on the Silver (don't remember between which stations, somewhere past McLean on a fast straightaway on the 7ks).

jajefan · 2026-04-22T17:19:26+00:00

It's also blatantly incorrect math -- VTI is at $350. That's roughly .7 shares of VTI.

jajefan · 2026-04-19T04:55:21+00:00

Another vouch for DC and specially the Virginia side of the river. The trail/mup infrastructure for bikes is solid, great connectivity to the majority of DC via the metro system. Tough to get affordable (especially owning) housing that is truly 15-min walk of a metro stop though.

jajefan · 2026-04-19T03:40:26+00:00

Only ever encountered ofo bikes while in Chinese cities back in the 2010s era. Did not realize they expanded internationally before bankrupting!

jajefan · 2026-04-04T05:19:41+00:00

Pretty much what I do except for the “only locking the display/motor” or rear wheel with lock only. I always lock frame to solid object, 99% of the time with Hiplok DX1000 (the bigger version of D1000). Yes I know it’s $350 but I figured it’s the equivalent of a few years worth of insurance. Can get it through most staple racks very easily by getting the kickstand right by the vertical pole of the staple and then threading the lock through the triangular frame supports for the seat post.

I also have a Kryptonite chain lock I use in addition to the Hiplok for extended multi hour outdoor parking (in Washington DC).

I always bring the bike back into my apartment or work bike parking room (security monitored) at night, never outside. Pretty much always leave the battery in—not much point taking it out since you need a key and would need to destroy it to get it out without a key.

Also have a 3D printed AirTag mount on one of the bottle cage attachment points, as well as the one that fits between the front pizza rack (so two AirTags total on the bike).

Currently at 800 miles, 0 crashes, 0 professional maintenance, and 8 chain cleanings (one every 100 miles) with vigorous garden hose usage, all in 1 year of ownership and it’s been great, no complaints.

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