Hot Take: You have never been made late because of a bicycle or a bike lane. Never.

I mean if you’re going to go for it, go for it.
Panama Red
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Meth Blue
Chase the Dragon Green
Opium Poppy Yellow
Fresh Needle Silver
Junkie Complexion Gray

I feel like these things should all be on a bingo card. Or like pokemon- can you catch them all in the wild?

OK, I’ll bite on the steering wheel tray- it would be nice to be able to put my laptop up on something when I’m hanging out in the car at my kiddo’s practices.

The Microlino. It’s a tiny electric updated BMW Isetta. Room for 2 and trunk space for “3 cases of beer,” a max speed of 55 mph and a range of around 130 miles. This is literally everything I need for about 75% of my driving. I’ve got a friend in Switzerland who delights in taking pictures of these tiny forbidden…

OK, so my definition of fun might be different than y’alls but...

Reliable: Hyundai Ioniq 5. Because I need something that doesn’t burn gas but can haul me, my girlfriend and our kids a reasonable distance and can haul me and my bike to the local trails. And it looks cool.Lower maintenance, charge it in the garage, all…

It’s really easy to make fun of these clowns with their budget law interpretations but let’s not lose sight of the fact that what they are doing isn’t that much different than, say, Elon Musk. Who, as you will recall, seems to believe that because he’s fabulously wealthy, most law (especially financial law) doesn’t…

Let me ask you this- if all the places you drive in a day started charging you for parking (your office, the grocery store, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, that cool new restaurant, etc) would you still be interested in driving as much? Like, it now costs you 7.50 to park at the grocery store. $3.50 for the privilege…

The issue is the time they waste in transit period (whether they own a car or not) because the inexpensive housing is always a long way from the work. The problem is not public transit, it’s housing. And when we waste HUGE amounts of space on parking for people who own cars, That’s part of the problem.

I was going to say that most HOAs have rules for the color of your mailbox, so there’s probably rules already set up. But then I went to the Culdesac Tempe website, saw the board of directors and thought, yeah, no, they’re just gonna disrupt stuff and figure it out later.

Which is a shame because it seems like a…

I can guarantee you there are already many people in Buffalo and Boston who get around just fine with no cars.

What’s always funny and telling about this is how mad some people get about the idea that someone might choose to try and make their life less car-centric.

Those Chicago interchanges. I’ve been stuck in every one of them. It’s a game of chance every time I drive through Chicago- which one is jammed up today (all of them). Which one sucks the least? Which one is going to be fast enough that I don’t end up driving I-39 through the middle of illinois instead? These…

This song is the closest I can get to what things felt like inside my head when my depression and anxiety were undiagnosed and running rampant through my life. Loud/quiet, clear and growled, a wall of sound that doesn’t go away, pulling you down again. Spiraling. 

I would have told myself that cars are really cool, but that cool comes at a hefty price- a set of obligations that can be absolutely crushing. Fuel. Repair. Insurance. Car payments.

Reminds me of something my MSF instructor drilled into our heads- The road doesn’t matter as much as what’s next to the road when you crash.

I had a 2WD Isuzu Amigo, which was perfect in Wisconsin, where I lived. Then I moved to Seattle, where it was still a pretty good way to get around town. Then I got bored and decided to go drive to Mount Saint Helens.

Oh yes. We pat ourselves on the back for being very progressive until it gets pointed out that we live in the least racially integrated state in the nation.

When folks say there’s no racism in the north, they tend to forget about stuff like this.

Enthusiast bemoan the lack of choice in cars while at the same time wishing to impose their choices on everyone else.