Huh. Is there a reason a fence doesn’t work there? If pigs were wandering into a road, both the owner and the city would want to eliminate that conflict

Why is the trail closed?

We have a portion of a trail that closes for no reasonable purpose at like 5pm. We've been fighting to keep it open--lanes of car traffic don't just close unless it goes through private property. Why should bike trails?

Don't like that a stadium is listed first of the possible uses of the site, but like that it's not a required use. Also very very much do not like the changes to the parking language: "(D) The District shall, to the extent necessary, ensure that parking facilities are provided to accommodate the development."

i... i'm not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.

look i'm sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn't meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but "this is clickbait" is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter--of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op's article was published.

at this point, i think you're actually mad about something else. i don't know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, "oh, thanks" and not... whatever this is.

(ps: it's interesting to me that you called BLU "a guy." it feels kind of like calling the ACLU "a guy.")

it appears the wind also carefully scattered car debris around the stump of the lamp post in the second photo contained in that tweet. i guess it was covering its tracks, trying to throw us off its scent.

but if u, like, need SUPER EVIDENCE PROOF to believe that, uh, cars are dangerous and run into things in the same place all the goddam time, here you go

yeah, im sure the lamppost got up and walked into the road

Oh nooooo. One of my exes got his dog from the HRA on NYA. I guess the place has gone downhill since then 😔 Poor animals don't deserve that

"The commission just announced a process to finalize the vision for Pennsylvania Avenue by the end of 2026."

I absolutely hate how slow infrastructure projects move in this city. Three years for design? Ugh. Pleasantly surprised about the interactive poll results though, with a resounding majority in favor of reducing car lanes in some form.

DC Statehood now. Either that, or let my participate in every single House and Senate election.

You haven't been to a country with a functioning transit system and it shows. (ps, u can do road trips in those countries, too)

delete facebook, hit the gym, lawyer up

If you're still on Twitter, you contributed too.

Lifting your heels when squatting indicates that you're not squatting correctly. If your heels are lifting up it's because you're leaning too far forward with the bar as you go down and up, instead of having the bar go straight up and down with no front-back movement. The weight you're using may be too heavy, or you may not be paying close enough attention to the path of the bar on the way down and up. Wedges aren't going to prevent you from leaning forward and your heels lifting.

(Not saying there's no reason for wedges--there are! Same with lifters! But they're not a solution to the problem you're experiencing. I don't use them, but a quick Google search does say that ankle flexibility is one of the reasons, so sure--use them for that! But it would be good to also fix your form in tandem with using wedges.)

“Why am I so angry? My 11-year-old-son was killed by a reckless driver on a I-95 and I almost died also, and I did not ask everybody in Connecticut to give up their cars,” she said.

You should have. And by opposing traffic calming projects like this, you're only condemning someone else's 11-year-old son to the same fate.

This--this seems bad. I don't understand the purpose of a paint-only bike/ped lane like this. I guess aside from, "whelp it's the cheapest option."

Had to head out to Reston for the fourth because our dog would die from a heartattack with all the fireworks. I thanked my stars for metro going all the way out there, and coming back. It was... good? And cool? And amazing? And made me fall back in love with metro! I missed the crowds, but even the "regular" service was A+.

Is that... literally just paint? 😬😬😬 Or is that an oversight in the rendering and there will actually be protection?

I think consolidation would be a good thing. Because engagement is low and the way the kbin algorithm works, I never see any of the [email protected] or [email protected] posts as part of my subscribed feed. (Lemmy might be better about boosting the content of low-traffic communities in their algo.) Consolidating to one community or the other makes sense to me--no preference which, either.

The routine I'm working off has me doing two upper-body lifts, one-lower body compound lift, and one upper-body accessory lift twice a week; and one upper-body lift, two lower-body compound lifts, and one lower-body accessory twice a week. And then there are two days that I take to mean, "eh, do whatever compound/accessory work you want." (Those days are supposed to be structured around cardio, but I get enough non-gym work there that it's like, whatever.)

I mix the lifts up every five weeks, so maybe for one cycle I focus on improving 2 count-pause bench press for one of the upper body compound lifts and then for the next five-week cycle I focus on the close-grip bench instead. Keeps me from getting bored. (I ran the same routine for three years at one point without any progression. I don't know why I was convinced that programming didn't matter--it does!)

Seems the summary of the report is available here if anyone is interested.

At any rate, very weird that Bowser (presumably) tried to bury this. Obviously it was going to be big news and I think people would have more respect for an Administration that was up front with the public. If the report is indeed honest (and it does report two of the claims are substantiated), why would you bury it and give the appearance of dishonesty? And with the two substantiated claims, there's no way Falcicchio's coming back--so who would gain from not just being open and honest?