7 year old boy, and 19-year-old sister killed in alleged e-bike battery fire in NYC apartment nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-ho…

If there are bikeshare subsidies, they should be kept reasonable - say, no more than the rate for bus public transit, about $1.71 a mile nationally, or $2.22 per bike trip

"Rad Power Bikes lays off employees for the 4th time in the past year" Rivals* offer faster, possibly safer bikes for less as Rad's fortunes decline. *Aventon, Lectric, Velotric, Ride1Up. geekwire.com/2023/rad-power…

Railroads may be quicker than canalboats, and a gas-lamp may be brighter than a candle: but it is only in terms of human purpose and in relation to a human and social scheme of values that speed or brightness have any meaning. -Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization p282

"Be the shade you wish to see in the world." You've seen the Sombrita... Now I present to you the ParaSombra - a personal umbrella distributed to serial bus riders, with interior and exterior lighting and 99% protection from UVA and UVB rays Have A Go slate.com/technology/201…

The question of growth vs degrowth is like the robber's ultimatum, "your money or your life!" Opting for more growth for the global rich ultimately yields neither 'money' nor life. nytimes.com/2023/07/03/bus…

I trust that no one in the tech bro press will suffer a moment's shame for their years of boosterism for highly flawed, dumpster-prone electric bicycles, whose purveyor may be nearing their demise. CC @felonious techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/van…

This article is aggressive journalistic malpractice. Illegal ebikes are a serious problem, but author Matt Richtel blames e-bikes as a whole for riders getting killed by cars on highways dangerous to bike riders. Wild that Richtel has the background he does.

This (grey+orange area) is how much air travel is expected to grow 'til 2050 in a sort of "business as usual" scenario forumviesmobiles.org/en/dictionary/… Had a Twitter conversation yesterday & realised that u can look at these curve & draw *completely opposite implications* - THREAD

Probably the most bizarre thing in this article (beyond camouflaging a leftist concession to YIMBY talking points as a refutation), is positioning urban sprawl as inherently affordable

This is too good to be true and I doubt much of a fine will be given. But even the threat is precious. eBay is so averse to moderating scammers, you can find sales of products that literally do not exist, like 2TB microSD cards thedrive.com/news/us-sues-e…