@jerryschippa.bsky.social
Traffic Engineer. Posts mostly about 🚦, 🚌, & 🎲.
Why do I not visit our sign shop more often?!
13.02.2026 18:12 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After reducing my biking miles significantly to work on transit operations initiatives, Im ready to start racking up the miles in 2026.
Happy Winter Bike to Work day!
No, but I did explain to them coordinated mode vs the coordination we plan to use.
...I really just needed to not go down that road though.
At BPW tonight:
BPW: will the signal be coordinated woth nearby signals?
Me (internally): just say yes and move on, they dont care about technical details.
Me (externally): well technically no, the signal will run free but with peer to peer communication, logic statements, and detections....
Room for improvement, but the lagging left turn at East Wash & North Street saved us about 45"-60" by not having to wait for the split phase side street.
youtube.com/shorts/TBs-3...
Imagine riding in a bike lane for nearly a half mile with traffic on both sides.
11.02.2026 12:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NVM, it's coming off a highway...it's still wild and you couldn't pay me enough to live in Florida.
10.02.2026 20:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I do not understand the design here.
www.google.com/maps/@27.893...
The European mind can't comprehend the traffic engineering brilliance of Florida.
www.google.com/maps/@28.185...
Big news Route B!
youtu.be/kxAFOZJAvU4?...
My games and their reviews:
👍Thebes
👍vegas Showdow
😐Pixies
😄shadows in the forest
😄Tumult Royale
❤️Bridges of Shangrila
😄Hamsterolle
❤️Wallenstein
😐Memoir '44
😢Scythe
❤️Moon Colony Bloodbath
❤️Gibberers
Superbowl commercials: would you buy AI if we put it in this? How about that?
09.02.2026 00:18 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Final game of the night, Gibbers. Where you collectively create a language to expand that language
Ksh chorgal bow pataza chuug = encyclopedia
Scythe is up next...a dominant win as Saxony, but this one is on my sell pile.
08.02.2026 00:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Next up, Moon Colony Bloodbath. Sorry colonists...you didnt make it.
07.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Next game up is Memoir '44, Pacific theater
07.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Third game...Wallenstein
07.02.2026 19:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Hamsterolle up next.
07.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The annual Board gaming weekend is underway!
Starting off with The Bridges of Shangrila
#Gincon
"Empty buses"
Every one here got on this bus or the one behind it.
Uh oh, dont tell Sean Duffy. Our DOT secretary doesnt like people walking or biking. Too woke or something.
29.01.2026 20:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes...Republicans dont stand on values or institutions. They often operate for short term and individual gains. There is very little consistency, and changes of opinions only occur for selfish gains.
Some of you didnt grow up in a Fox News household and it shows.
That's high praise! I don't know about on the continent though 😅
We try though!
Compared to what can be done by the programming of dutch traffic signals @ontariotrafficman.bsky.social has a few good videos on the Dutch approach to signal operation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnS...
At the end of the day, one big difference between what you'd see done in the Netherlands vs the US has to do with how signal controllers work. North American standards makes it harder to look at conflicting pairs, we stick to more rigid Ring & Barrier setups
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZDY...
For example, crossing from SE to NE corners...
1. You cross EB lanes but can keep all other movements going.
2. You cross the WB thru and WBLT lane but can keep both EB lanes going.
Easy to do if you only have one crosswalk to time, but when you have a second it gets far more complicated.
Geometrically, the median just isn't wide enough. 8' for an arterial like this where people may also be biking isn't enough room.
From a signal timing standpoint, you could, but you would have to make the signal far more complex to do so.
No you cant have a ped crossing utilize a signal for 2/3rds of the crossing, then a reverse half signal in the middle (buses still need a protected phase). It's just too many different things going on within the same crossing to expect people to understand it.
26.01.2026 17:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
