Yelling at the Clouds

Transportation

  • A sense of ‘Scale’

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    I often hear arguments about how EVs are a necessary stepping stone to reducing carbon emissions. It is such an important problem that we should throw all we have at it and bet the future of cities around the EV model. My response to this is that the powertrain is just the tip of the…

  • Who chose this again?

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    Re: The Petersen Museum “Despite the availability of an expansive public transportation network in the early twentieth century, area residents came to prefer the independence offered by automobiles and urban planners responded by shaping the growing infrastructure to accommodate them.”– Opening text from the Petersen Museum in DTLA For those that do not know, the…

  • Can we take the bus?

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    Taking Ubers everywhere around SF is like saying to the world, “I can’t be bothered to learn how to be a functioning citizen in the city I live in. I can’t wait to move to the suburbs and raise my 2.1 kids!” Taking the bus is the easiest thing in the world. It takes like…

  • I only ride my bike for aesthetics

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    aesthetic (n) – one’s set of principles or worldview as expressed through outward appearance, behavior or actions I want to start off my saying I love riding my bike. I ride my bike so damn much. At least 1.5hrs a day commuting and just about every weekend for at least 30-120 miles. I’ve also gone…

  • The Three Pillars of Sweat

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    Why you sweat on a bicycle, and how the North American bike industry has ensured bicycles do not become a main form of transportation Sweating while biking is not a new complaint. If you talk to most people about why they don’t ride a bike to work or school, you will find that arriving to…