Your feng shui is off

Awesome.

So cool.

I want to carry someone like this around town (or from home to work).

So much fun.

The Dutch rock.

Their bicycles rock.

I want.

I was caught on camera at West Town Bikes on Tuesday. That's me with Alex Wilson helping to "chase" my bottom bracket.

I dropped it off at Blue City Cycles in Bridgeport (Chicago) so he could weld it back together.

It broke about 2 blocks after leaving Jewel on Des Plaines (home of one of the worst bike parking configurations).

I expected this to happen and I decided to continue riding my Prestige until it broke. Then, I would know it as broken and that I could then take it to someone to fix. I was not injured when it broke - the bike just kind of wiggled and I stopped and my friend picked up me and the bike. :(

Barack Obama and I both like Five Guys. Too bad he moved to Washington, D.C., before the first Chicago location opened.

Hilarious.
Chin strap.
Nuff said.

Did you know that the High School Musical high school is in Salt Lake City and I SAW IT OMGWTFBBQ??

If you think Chicago has a bike parking "problem," check out Amsterdam! This isn't enough parking for the train station.

Nom nom.

A really cool train shot of a high-speed train in UK.

I nailed this message on the cross.

I do not support the Chicago 2016 Olympics bid in its current form. It needs to be improved or ended.

I want to quote few sections of the bid book for you:

-all existing infrastructure and planned projects listed in 15.6.1 and 15.6.3 are guaranteed by the responsible agencies.
-No existing transport infrastructure requires permanent work.
What does this mean? No Olympic-specific projects are needed. Or, no infrastructure will be upgraded because of the Olympics, but because of annual maintenance and already planned capital projects.

Other inconclusive and confusing sections:
-There will be "access to the Federal Borrowed Bus Program, which will be used to augment Chicago's rolling stock during the Games."
Federal Borrowed Bus Program - wtf is that?

Table 15.11 shows the current totals of rolling stock broken down by transit agency and then by type. It then mentions how much each transit agency will have in 2016. It then mentions how much will be needed to supplement the current amount. The amount needed to supplement is 0. That would mean that all transit agencies will have all the rolling stock needed to 1) provide for their regular customers, and 2) provide rides for an additional 100,000 people riding at least twice per day (there and back). Also, some buses will serve shuttle duty to ferry passengers between the rail stations and the venues. This means that those spectators taking rail will demand 2-4 rides (2 if station is adjacent to venue, 3-4 if person has to take shuttle between station and venue).
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Do you see what I'm getting at?
The plan needs some improvement. If the bid producers truly believe that the setup they describe (and I copied above) will work, then I would like to see the discussions, documentation, and calculations the bid producers undertook in collaboration with the transportation agencies in Chicago and Illinois.

Also, an analysis of the expected costs and benefits would be contributive.

Hand drawn, scanned, Photoshopped.

Version 1.
Missing:
-Typed labels to replace hand written labels
-Better labels for A, B, C, D
-Label for food court and mall

This is an imagined Personal Rapid Transit system in an imagined Central Business District in Anycity, Anystate, USA.

Hand drawing this took about 2 hours over the course of several days. Scanning was quick (duh), but removing artifacts, stray pencil marks, extra thick lines and other imperfections took about 2.5 hours.