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with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

Proceedings of the 23rd International Overture Workshop
Hugo Daniel Macedo, Ken Pierce
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08680 https://arxiv…

Proceedings of the 23rd International Overture Workshop
This volume contains the papers presented at the 23rd International Overture Workshop, held on the 11th of June 2025. This event was the latest in a series of workshops around the Vienna Development Method (VDM), the open-source project Overture, and related tools and formalisms. VDM is one of the longest established formal methods for systems development. A lively community of researchers and practitioners has grown up in academia and industry has grown around the modelling languages (VDM-SL, …

SFMTA is adding left turns back to Valencia at 17th, 21st and 23rd streets with a new phase, which will cut down on time for pedestrian and bike crossings. The word is that Mayor Lurie directly ordered this. Signal modifications are very expensive and that money could have gone to safety or transit priority.
Seems small, but it's wasteful and adds to the "death by a thousand cuts" for Transit First in Lurie's SF.

I've just been to an interesting talk on the climate:
https://www.hampshireskeptics.org/wed-23rd-april-the-world-we-want-bors-hulesch/
If you get a chance to go and see it (it sounds like it will get rolled out widely), I hope yo…

Wed 23rd April – The World We Want – Bors Hulesch
This talk is offered as an antidote to the doom and gloom that many of us can feel about the climate and ecological emergency, and the terrifying reality of natural disasters we either experience o…

If Detroit follows precedent, Belle Isle will be accessible on foot and by bike *only* on Monday, June 23rd from 5am to 2pm. Come with me! 🚲
https://coreyrowe.me/2025/05/19/car-free-belle-isle

Is there a Larks Tongues in Aspic Day?
If there were then it should probably be 23rd of March but if there isn't it's today, May 27th.
Not because of the 27 Club
Not because of the Martin 27 Guitar
Nor that 27 is a perfect cube
Or that 27ish C is a comfortable degree of heat
Neither is it that 27 in the Correspondences of Liber 777 is Red, Horus, Krishna, Mars, Ruby or Mouth, etc
It's just because I thought it today.

@… announced that Doris Reiter is awarded with the "Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 (mid-career)" ... Go Sis!
https://eps…