@benfulton @bloomington_in Smith Road had a user who commuted to work in a power chair. After it was brought to his attention that they were using the road for lack of curb cuts, the city came and added all the curb cuts along the route.

@benfulton @bloomington_in In the Sidewalk Equity Audit, I found the city had been steadily and relentlessly retrofitting more ADA curb cuts over time. Something 500 in the period reviewed. And all new construction ADA compliant as well.

@FartsWithAnAccent I saw a split bike seat a decade ago. Rider said it was very comfortable. Maybe this variant is different because it tilts too. 🤷

@chronicallydave @bloomington_in “Dunn for now”— love the pun!

@chronicallydave @bloomington_in Indiana University responded to peaceful campus protest with state riot police, sniper on the roof, helicopter overhead.

To justify arrests, a new rule had been passed overnight to ban tents in what for decades had been a free speech zone.

@vegetaaaaaaa

After testing ssmtp, nullmailer, and msmtp for relay-only outgoing mail on Fedora #Linux. Here's my final report:

- ssmtp is packaged for Fedora and I got it working, but the Ansible role I found for it had been abandoned by the author because ssmtp itself is unmaintained.
- nullmailer might have worked, but is not packaged for Fedora.
- msmtp worked. I used this Ansible role, after patching it to work on Fedora: https://github.com/chriswayg/ansible-msmtp-mailer

@atzanteol @[email protected]

ssmtp is unmaintained.

msmtp is the recommended successor. The Arch wiki recommends also considering OpenSMTPD, which I haven't looked at yet.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SSMTP

@chronicallydave @bloomington_in I needed to call #GigabitNow for tech support and didn't even need to use the Shibboleth protocol to get good service. https://xkcd.com/806/

@benfulton @bloomington_in The crash data supports this remediation.

@chronicallydave @bloomington_in Thanks for covering this!

@intensely_human It was a weird option to include in the survey anyway, along with giant sports arena.

@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars I built free software to quantify amenity categories within a 10-min walk:

https://mark.stosberg.com/new-software-to-calculate-walk-potential-for-cities/

My default categories:

- Arts / cultural space
- Bank / ATM
- Bar / pub
- Barber
- Bike shop
- Bus stop / Rail Station
- Café / Tea Shop
- Car share station
- Community center / place of worship
- Daycare
- Fitness or Sports Center
- Grocery store
- Hardware store
- Laundromat
- Library
- Liquor / cannabis store
- Park
- Pharmacy
- Restaurant
- School
- Retail / boutique

@chronicallydave @bloomington_in Good guess about the flight plan!

Comparing Top Crash locations involves peds and cyclists in Bloomington, Indiana

Here, the blue-ish hexes are top ped crash locations. Counts are on top. Reddish hexes with counts on the bottom of the hexes at cyclists-involved crash counts.

Most of the top intersections are not the same across modes.

Where they are almost equally dangerous for both modes are the corridors along Eagleson, Third and 10th.

Data for both maps comes from here: https://github.com/ids-digi/moco-crash-data

@bloomington_in

@samth @bloomington_in When pedestrians may be at fault in crash data, there's often a "primary factor" given as "pedestrian action". The same does not seem to be true in cyclist-involved crashes.

I took at look at all the primary factors for the 24 cyclist-involved crashes at this intersection, and they are mostly "failure to yield" and "disregard sign". But the data I have doesn't indicate whether it was a cyclist or a driver that failed to yield.

@samth @bloomington_in I've seen more cyclists blow the stop sign at 7th and Eagleson when it was not safe to do so than I have seen cars dangerously run the signs.

The intersection is downhill from three of four locations.

The intersection can get busy with pedestrians, cyclists and cars all trying to use it in the afternoons.

Top 25 Most Dangerous intersections for Cyclists in Bloomington

Like the Top-10 map, this is a visualization of 2003-2022 cyclist-involved crash data. Hexes count number of crashes at those locations while triangles are crash locations.

Data for both maps comes from here: https://github.com/ids-digi/moco-crash-data

@bloomington_in

@afterconnery @bloomington_in I thought it went well. It was about all kinds of winter riding, not just commuting. It included tips for trails, touring, commuting, hydration, gear and even indoor riding with apps. It was recorded. You can check here periodically for the link to appear. https://www.facebook.com/BicycleIndiana/

@chronicallydave @bloomington_in Glad to see the new basement won’t flood.

@bowser1035 I didn’t see that message in the article, only that there was no “playbook”.