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meganL

@meganL@mas.to

Disabled Masters student @ UC Davis. Speaker on Accessibility in Higher Ed/Cycling/Plant Science. Speaker on carob.

#Accessibility #Botany #Cycling #SciComm #NoBot #NoBridge

Most of my posts are not asking for advice so please don't offer it unsolicited. When I'm asking for advice, I usually ask quite explicitly.

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meganL, to cycling
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The slow, silent ride will start at the Davis Bike Collective (1221 1/2 4th St ) this Wednesday 5/15 and will visit 4 different locations in Davis where people have been killed while riding their bikes

The route will be 7.5 miles and is expected to take ~1.5 hrs. We will have some flowers to distribute but feel free to bring your own offerings as well.

https://rideofsilence.org

@cycling

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Wooden removable bollards put in places to protect human life.

Metal permanent bollards put at a corner of a building to protect property.

This is what "Platinum Bike-Friendly" looks like at UC Davis.

@cycling

meganL,
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@linjari @cycling Unfortunately, since they purposely chose wood for these, they would just mow them down. In fact, some of them come pre-scored at the bottom with the excuse that police & fire should be able to easily drive through them when needed.

Since they're almost never where they're supposed to be installed, that's not needed.

meganL,
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@alexisdyslexic @cycling It's a mixed bag. Davis is mostly coasting on the genuine cycling activism they had in the '70s and '80s (possibly later, but not a lot recently). That created a lot of infrastructure that survived. There is new infrastructure, but it can be ableist and car-centric.

So it's better cycle infrastructure than most US places, but that's not saying much.

And the culture within Davis and UC Davis is super-ableist, some areas very car-centric and capitalistic.

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@alexisdyslexic @cycling So my point is not to act as if Davis is the worst - it's not. But I want to show that you don't have to scratch deeply to hit the car-centrism and ableism. Therefore holding it up uncritically as "Platinum Bike-Friendly" does us a great disservice.

meganL, to cycling
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"Platinum Bike-Friendly" still hasn't replied to the email I sent about the rampant scofflaw parking in the cycle lane. I just sent them more photos today of the same corporation's vehicle parked illegally, blocking visibility & endangering people at an intersection.

We'll see if they continue ignoring me. @cycling @mastobikes @fedibikes

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