bike map deliberations

Trying to figure out: do I drop one of the warning flags in the next bike map release? Specifically the one with the arrow here:

I was on the route today and it’s clear now, but the cones are still there, off the street. There’s no indication of immediate work but I don’t know why they’re still by the side of the road or even whether they’re public works vs. private landowners using them for other purposes. But the lanes are open there.

The north two definitely stay, and clearly will for months. That work is not going quickly. It’s far enough away from completion that I’m kind of thinking the bike lane markers should go away for now because they really are gone because of construction. They’re going to be put back – and put back improved – but they don’t exist now.

If I do replace them, I’ll replace them with sharrow because that’s the de facto reality on the ground now. They’re still part of the Lake Washington Loop and all that, but lanes? No, and they won’t be there for a while.

And dang, that is not a fun environment at this point.

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yeah I should drop them down to sharrow for now. Reality on the ground, not in the theory.

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Day one: frack and drill, frack and drill

Aside from all the other insanity, let me point out that if you give one single fuck about the future of the planet – not just the US, not just political systems, but the actual planet – you need to be doing everything you can to keep Orange Mussolini out of power.

He posted this to his bribery-machine/toy-social-media site as the second Cat 5 in two weeks hit Florida:

It’s a lie and a promise to make things worse, in that the US is producing too fucking much oil.

Meanwhile, from Team Harris, you’ve got the biggest climate bill ever passed so far:

We need a lot more of it, but there’s your reality, and there’s your choice. Burn down the planet to give billionaires more money and authoritarians more power, or reward – via the only method that matters, granting of power – the candidate who has actually pushed real improvement.

Rationally, this debate is insane. Irrationally, where we are now, we’re dealing with the biggest, most organised concerted effort to reject physical reality in favour of faith-based bullshit promoted by the worst people humanity can produce here in, what, maybe two centuries:

What is really happening… is nothing less than a cultural assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. If you are a weatherperson, you’re a target. The same goes for journalists, election workers, scientists, doctors, and first responders. These jobs are different, but the thing they share is that they all must attend to and describe the world as it is. This makes them dangerous to people who cannot abide by the agonizing constraints of reality, as well as those who have financial and political interests in keeping up the charade.

That’s who they are; this is where we are. Go get out there, don’t let people make excuses, get them to the polls and on the right side, and do it while you still can.

25 days remain.

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