With love from a fellow Stonehamster, "unseasonably warm" is a term that really should be retired by now.

And he thinks you fight cancer by promoting credit cards rather than asking famous players to stop modeling single-use plastic bottles and pimping for the petroleum industry that makes them.

Thanks. It appears you've blocked me and others from responding to most posts. If there's a post where you explain the reasoning for doing that, please share it. I fully understand blocking people who are just trolling, or aren't sincerely conversing, but this seems broader than that. Thanks.

Yes.And the fact that the US industry adamantly insisted on 20 mph should have been seen as the giveaway -- as their spokesman even admitted at one point -- that they didn't expect to sell many if it just meant, as they publicly claimed, a power assist to ride with the flow of bike lane participants

The question isn't just what poses an immediate physical threat. We need a system that works as best as possible for all of us, and car-centrism absolutely is not that. So how do we solve that? One important step is to help people understand car-centrism and its suffocating subsidization.

That sounds fine but maybe also keep an eye on car-centric community design, which motorized bikes can perhaps perpetuate almost as much as cars. The question may not just be "motorized bikes, yes or no," but where they go, and whether we still want to keep some non-motorized travel spaces.

Different people are saying different things, of course, but how about giving motorized bikes their space from the huge space we taxpayers give to cars. If you don't do that, then you're not replacing big cars with smaller motorized vehicles, you're replacing bikes.

Move motorized vehicles out of bike lanes - The Boston Globe Speedy e-bikes and scooters are crowding out muscle-powered bikes. There is plenty of room for those motorized vehicles in the car lanes.

Amen. Tried to say that in www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/o... but people cannot hear what they don’t want to hear. Will try again tonight on WBZ radio.

Aye!

And yes, nothing is totally accessible. But motors blow out communities to less-accessible dimensions. And putting motors into bike lanes, rather than taking space for "e-bikes" from the road space handed over for free to cars, helps sustain motorized community bloat rather than help reverse it.

Move motorized vehicles out of bike lanes - The Boston Globe Speedy e-bikes and scooters are crowding out muscle-powered bikes. There is plenty of room for those motorized vehicles in the car lanes.

I did www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/o... calling for motorized bikes to get their space carved from car lanes, and "e-bike" advocates called that an "ableist" argument. They just don't understand that it's car-centric design that is truly ableist. So-called e-bikes are neither free nor accessible.

Completely true. Also true: Very sorry to be losing Al. We were lucky to have him in town for so long.

And imagine if we had an entire society taught on a daily basis to regard the world around them that way. Oh wait, we do. Maybe that explains share.google/trLLEOmEWzgZ...

Move motorized vehicles out of bike lanes - The Boston Globe Speedy e-bikes and scooters are crowding out muscle-powered bikes. There is plenty of room for those motorized vehicles in the car lanes.

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Fyi www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/22/o... out today, a follow-up from www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/let... from back when this was being decided...

Then there's the question of whether these "rules" -- jaywalking, stop lights, etc -- are written to benefit only motorists, or are they the product of a process designed to be fair and safe for everyone?

bsky.app/profile/gtco... if only they applied the same logic to cars, which sit around doing nothing most of the time (and are least destructive at those moments)

Having lived w them in DC-MD, they help, but add costs-blight without really addressing the underlying problem, and are easily gamed with Waze etc so that folks slow for a block then keep on racing. Why, for, instance is it legal to sell cars that run at 80-plus? There’s more limits on m-bikes.

They also see no disconnect in asking the entire stadium to stand for the emotional SU4C advertising promo for Mastercard during WS Game 4 while the players model for fans the persistent embrace of single-use plastic bottles.

I love baseball, but even I can see that much inattention to reality, especially at this moment, isn't necessarily a sign of a healthy society. Perhaps, though , it's better than being a list full of football.

Helping a kid be happy should be a primary purpose of the day.

Yep. And the media talks about everything except the actual cause.

Yes, but why the Dogfish hat? That's some fine beer.

Completely true. Cannot separate out "transportation-community-social-family design forced upon us by government-industry" from "other politics"

So many people warn about excessive screens in childhood, and rightly so, but the question of car-centric design retarding human development in childhood is almost completely absent from academic study. It's astounding, for a question so obviously needing extensive examination.

Agreed, though bikes are human-powered, and there's a lot of redefining going on out there. There's room for reasonable discussion, but a lot of what is showing up on trails these days are motorcycles not bikes.

Well, cars do struggle in snow, except for the fact that the government takes our tax dollars to quickly clear the roads for car drivers but usually won't do the same for pedestrians or bicyclists.

Liked him in Boston too.

NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along An Odd Line: Car Ownership - Jalopnik Car ownership and transit ridership serve as a shorthand for someone's entire living situation — and, apparently, their politics.

From this list, you conspicuously left out free taxpayer-subsidized car roads, and that's a blind spot on both sides of the political aisle, that may well be driving the others: www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-...

Tell us: What do you think about AI at Fenway, TD Garden, and other sports venues? - The Boston Globe How have your experiences been with these systems? Do you felt like it sped up your beer and hot dog purchases, or did it introduce technical difficulties? Do you miss interactions with human workers?

Seeing www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/b... and thinking what might be really interesting is a top-to-bottom look at all the ways the Sox use AI -- drafting, hiring, firing, game-planning, scouting, PR, marketing, music, everything. Gotta be huge, fast-changing. And apologies if done and missed it.