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If a country song is not directly about trucks/pickups, it often still manages to mention them anyway. Big cars are a staple of this musical genre.
I think we need a new musical genre where songs mentions bicycles and public transportation so often that every parody of it will always mention it.
I propose to call the genre "city".
I've been toying with the idea of some sort of Solarpunk/Library Socialism Movement in St. Louis for a while. I do not feel like any current organization deals with the specific issues I'm concerned with in a comprehensive, local way.
As a result, I have a vision I've been toying with that I feel ready to share: https://nextcloud.nullarch.com/s/qkkisXnC5iw2EAX
I'm very open to feedback or interest in this idea/project.
#stl #stlouis #saintlouis #solarpunk #librarysocialism #climate #urbanism #housing #anarchism
Migrating back here from my previous, now-defunct, account @nix@social.stlouist.com. if you know me please boost so I can reconnect with followers.
This is a good time for an #introduction I suppose.
I'm an #educator from #stl that firmly believes in decentralized self organization, such as #anarchism, #socialecology, #solarpunk, or #librarysocialism.
Also I'm a big #urbanism and #foss nerd and #ebike commuter. I'm very involved in the local #freestore and trying to help organize larger #postcapitalist ventures.
A great example of how people power can overturn bad political decisions.
The Melbourne City Council has abandoned proposed cuts to its cycling budget, following public outcry: https://bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2025/07/03/town-hall-abandons-bike-budget-cuts/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon
"In a dramatic change of tune, the City of Melbourne last week abandoned proposals in its draft 2025 budget to cut funding from its bike infrastructure program.
"The council restored much, but not all, of the funding that as recently as last year had been officially earmarked for expanding and upgrading the city's bike lanes over the next four years.
"The 2025 budget and council plan formally adopted by councillors this week folded $6 million back into the program, up to a total of $15 million over the next four years.
"The change of course followed a powerful community outcry over the breach of the council's former commitments on bike infrastructure delivery.
"Almost 1500 people made submissions to the council on the proposed bike underspend, an unprecedented number."
#auspol #vicpol #cycling #infrastructure #planning #Urbanism
Okay, so this is what happened to me tonight. On my way home I needed to stop at a neighbor's house. I approached the address and signaled to turn off to the left, into the nearest drive. I couldn't because this Ram Sport with Black Appearance Package (I used to make car ads, so I know these models by sight) is bearing down on me from behind and won't let me slow down or turn off. I'm frantically signalling left, but it turns out this moron doesn't even know what a hand signal is (yes, he actually said that!), and he keeps trying to push me forward with his truck, then tries to wedge his truck to my left where my outstretched arm is signalling.
I finally get off into the parking lane and he rolls down his window screaming at me that I'm "in the middle of the road!" and both him and the woman with him scream at me that "You're supposed to be on the side!" Now I must stress that this is a single lane residential road. There's "the lane" and there's parked cars. There is no "on the side" lane for bicycles to use. He just felt that my very presence in the lane meant he could run me out of it.
I tell him that I've been signalling left and show him my outstretched arm, so he says, "What is that? I don't know what that means! You're just an idiot on a bike!" then "Riding a bike is easy, any idiot can do it!"
How does he go straight from "I don't even know what a hand signal is" to "people on bicycles are idiots!"
He repeated this "idiot on a bike" accusation over and over, insisting that it's perfectly okay to hit me because I'm an idiot on a bike and signals on a bicycle aren't a real thing.
Then after telling me to get off the public road he approached me and threatened to take me out or put me down, while puffing out his chest in my face with his hands by his side in order to intimidate me while claiming to not be the instigator (typical angry white man move).
Edited to clarify: Hand signals are in the driver's manual in Alberta and are potential questions on the driver's exam. Always have been. This is "requisite knowledge" for getting a driver's license.
You also can't leave a hand signal on by accident, and you really have to bend over backwards to ignore one.
And not knowing that other vehicles can use the same road you do? I don't think they even considered a need to test people on that knowledge.
Note: statistically cycling is the safest way to get around on these dangerous roads. Most people are killed in a car or motorcycle, either driving or as a passenger (80%), and a disproportionately high number of people (15%) are killed walking, by cars. Cyclists sit around 2%. I always have to remember that when I have these kinds of encounters, because it's not about physical danger, but about the hatred which others don't receive.
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