I thought about getting an ebike for a few years before I finally pulled the trigger. With almost two thousand miles on the odometer, I’m happy to report that these are utterly magical machines. If you’re even remotely considering buying one, do. I’m pretty confident you won’t regret it.

Most people hate paying for parking and fiercely resist attempts to make them do so. I wonder how much of that resistance isn’t to cost per se, but rather to the annoyance of the process of paying.

Proposal: after repealing mandatory off-street parking requirements, go a step further and impose a significant annual fee on curb cuts.

Walking around downtown Oakland last night I found myself thinking, as I often do, “where are all the people?”

Nice study out of Harvard JCHS, more evidence for “filtering”:

Automated bike lane enforcement is good, I’m glad it’s happening.

Where lanes are concerned, 9ft is the new 10ft.

Judging by personal experience riding a bike around San Francisco over the last few months, I’d say the AI drivers are less inclined to endanger my life than the human ones.