Comments on: Defending bike lanes over the web

By: Milan

Milan — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:11:07 +0000

This cycling safety video is utterly bizarre. More about it can be found here.

By: Milan

Milan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:56:14 +0000

Tristan,

The mapping functions reveal patterns. Also, having a catalog of all the violations by Fedex or some other company can allow you to lodge specific complaints.

I am not 100% convinced that this site is a great idea, but it is certainly an interesting example of what coordination through the web can accomplish.

By: tristan

tristan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:41:11 +0000

This seems to be the morality of resentiment (resentment). I’m not sure what good it serves. It seems whenever a wrong is commited what is interesting is to see what is universal about that wrong – what structural deficiency it expresses which could be remedied. Having a web site of individual infractors is like creating a structure to count and track individual, essentially random, infractions. The fact that one person infracts many times, although it indicates that they arn’t just random, doesn’t tell us anything interesting about what causes them.

By: Litty

Litty — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 04:31:47 +0000

It seems less as though these lanes are being ‘defended’ and more as though violations of them are being recorded and cataloged.

By: Milan

Milan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:45:45 +0000

Padraic,

Do you know Mike Kotrly, Ashley Thorvaldson, or Marc Gurstein? All three are ex-debaters from UBC now living in Ottawa.

By: Padraic

Padraic — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:14:31 +0000

Thanks for the link – MyBikeLane hasn’t taken off in Ottawa, but I’m trying!

I’m not sure if we’ve met, but I’ve been heavily involved in CUSID/debating and we probably know a lot of people in common…