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I ride on this street fairly often. So let me tell you from direct experience: for Atlanta, this bike infrastructure is actually pretty damn good.

Ironically, the next bike crossing over I-20 further East, at Bill Kennedy Way, has Jersey barriers and urbanists are complaining about them because they're done wrong. GDOT refuses to anchor them into the street properly (claiming bullshit about "maintenance problems" or something), so when cars hit them they get pushed into the multi-use path.

over the past few years, phones have just gotten more hallucinatory with their output images in an attempt to “fix” the photos they’re [taking]

Meanwhile, here I am with my non-stock-firmware and third-party camera app, and I'm not sure I even have access to those fancy computational photography features to begin with.

I wonder what the field of study is called that prepares people for this kind of traffic management/design job and...

Civil engineering, and traffic engineering specifically.

whether is includes average driver/distracted driver/lowest common denominator design considerations.

Sort of, but not really. I'm sure there are some traffic engineers somewhere that do research on distracted driving, and their findings get turned into recommendations about signage placement and such. But I think most engineers actually doing the road design 'assume' drivers are mostly rational actors and are not overtly defensive in their design. Instead, they wait until crash data collected after the fact forces the issue.

Lower Decks doesn't need validation from live action Trek to be canon!

Sadly, in the ensuing fracas his invention of plywood would be lost, and not reinvented for thousands of years.

It's not justice if they die before they rat out their coconspirators.

You need to have the right infrastructure for them, and places that have it are the rare exception (example: Peachtree City, GA).

Stealing intellectual property is...

... a nonsense loaded phrase made up by the copyright cartel in order to dishonestly frame the debate.

In reality, copyright is not 'property' and cannot be 'stolen' to begin with.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

I'm not sure you appreciate how literally technically correct you are.

The harder you brake in the front, the more the weight shifts forward. At the point you start to do a stoppie -- when the front brakes are applying maximum force to the road -- the weight on the rear wheel drops to zero and thus the stopping force it's applying drops to zero as well.

In other words, the rear brake gets less useful the harder you try to brake.

For maximum deceleration, the main thing you need to do isn't to try to use the rear brake more, but instead get out of the saddle and stick your butt as far back as you can, shifting the weight back and making it as hard to get to that point of rear wheel liftoff as possible.

See also: https://bike.bikegremlin.com/813/bicycle-braking-technique/

TL;DR: Of the four candidates mentioned (including the incumbent), the only candidate quoted as saying the right things (a ring road won't actually solve congestion; the money needs to go to transit instead) is Jeff Leiper.

I don't know about the third one (I haven't even seen it), but the second one made huge advances in rendering water (among other things). There's a pretty interesting Corridor Crew video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Gd0bR2kb4

If you think his movies aren't all about the tech you need to think again.