Wesley Cook ⚑🚲

Wesley Cook ⚑🚲

@wesley.theatl.social

Cargo Bike Dad and MARTA enthusiast Proud resident of the D5 bubble Mastodon 🐘: https://theatl.social/@wesley

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Peter Flax
@pflax1.bsky.social

This guy was caught on video committing one of the worst road rage incidents I've ever seen, plowing into a group of ridersβ€”and then he left the scene. Seriously, fuck the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for framing him as some sort of a victim. You are complicit assholes. www.ajc.com/news/2026/10...

ajc.comA driver passed too close to cyclists. Now he could die in prison.A Georgia driver caught on video colliding with group of cyclists on a country road in Cherokee County could go to prison. He insists he did nothing wrong.

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Seattle Bike Blog
@seattlebikeblog.com

β€œGet Home Safe” as a bike lane protection chant is brilliant.

Robert Zaichkowski@rzaichkowski.bsky.social

Success! We chased one of the trucks off of Bloor with more "Get home safe" chants! Still got one more truck to evict. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

Wesley Cook ⚑🚲
@wesley.theatl.social

My non-expert opinion is that Americans primarily view transit as a tool for promoting equity whereas Europeans view transit as a tool for promoting efficiency which is why we see things like this

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

Wesley Cook ⚑🚲
@wesley.theatl.social

And I mean, equity is an important goal for transit, but if that's your primary or only goal then it's doomed to fail. You can't build a successful transit system without it being useful and efficient for a large number of people

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Robert Zaichkowski
@rzaichkowski.bsky.social

Replying to @rzaichkowski.bsky.social

Some construction crews did show up at Bloor and Green Lanes, but they just left. We still need to stay vigilant and call out ATS Traffic for their role in endangering those who bike. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero

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Sara Gregory
@saraegregory.bsky.social

Georgia is advertising that hundreds of centers are quality daycares despite the fact that kids were seriously harmed or put at risk at those places. New investigation from my @ajc.com colleagues: www.ajc.com/news/2026/10... (🎁)

ajc.comChildren suffered burns and beatings. Georgia calls it quality daycare.Georgia's daycare quality rating system is flawed with the state advertising hundreds of centers as quality daycares despite serious incidents of putting kids at risk.

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Alex Ip θ‘‰ζΈ…ιœ–
@alexip718.com

Replying to @alexip718.com

I simply do not believe it should take six times the time it took to build the Empire State Building to put in some curbs, plastic flex posts, and restriping at a college campus and next to two subway stations.

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Chicagoans Who Bike
@chiwho.bike

β€œThis is our Urban Arrow and we’ve had this since we moved to Chicago. I use it to get my kids around, and sometimes even the two kids and my mom in here. So it's our two wheels, but, like an SUV on two wheels.” 🧡

Wesley Cook ⚑🚲
@wesley.theatl.social

In a job interview: "sorry, excuse me just a moment" Pull out a gooseneck kettle from my backpack, plug it in, get out my scale and start weighing beans. "Oh how rude of me, would you like some too? No?" Start cranking my hand grinder *krshhkrshkrsh* Begin pour over "So anyway where were we?"

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Is asking someone to leave the beverages at home for an interview as fussy as reminding a lady to wear pantyhose or a gentleman to ask before lighting a cigarette? We assembled a team of Post staffers across the newsroom β€” and commenters β€” to find out: https://wapo.st/4dwx0LS

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austin HELL ray
@austinlouisray.bsky.social

Y'all ready to do some good this week? How I'd Fix Atlanta has once again partnered with Undue Medical Debt to help out a bunch of our neighbors. As always, we need your help. Please give what you can and tell everyone you know. unduemedicaldebt.org/campaign/whe...

unduemedicaldebt.orgWhen Good Georgians Get Together, Great Things HappenHow I’d Fix AtlantaΒ was a free monthly essay series for four years. It’s been a couple of print zines and a performance on a stage a few times. Quite often, it’s stickers. HIFA is large, it contains multitudes. Every September, we do a big fundraiser to abolish medical debt. From 2023-2025, we raised more than […]
Wesley Cook ⚑🚲
@wesley.theatl.social

So we actually have this, and it's called MARTA Reach. I ride MARTA Reach semi-often and it's a good service, but I've also used it enough to know it doesn't scale well. With regular fixed route service if 25 people all decide to ride at the same time that's fine. With shuttle service it buckles

Atlanta Community Press Collective@atlpresscollective.com

Jay Miller says he supports "Smart public transit, not just any public transit." He thinks circular transit plans, like the Beltline loop, won't improve transit issues in the city. He says that customized shuttles "that get people from point a to point b" are the solution.

Wesley Cook ⚑🚲
@wesley.theatl.social

The beltline is already crowded with people and any useful transit will need to be able to scale up to meet the demand. Light rail can move many times more people at once compared to shuttles or stupid autonomous "pods" or whatever

Wesley Cook ⚑🚲
@wesley.theatl.social

And given the length of the beltline it's unreasonable to expect people to walk from e.g. the Southside to Ponce City market for work. Biking is also not feasible for many. Transit is more essential to truly connect the beltline together than just having pavement for people to walk/bike on.

Wesley Cook ⚑🚲
@wesley.theatl.social

Bro have you checked on Man Utd lately? Speaking of on the slide... 😞

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Anand
@calmerfuture.bsky.social

The global cost of automobility Automobility is one of the most powerful forces shaping modern societies, economies, and environments While motorists often underestimate the true private costs of car ownership, the social costs are diffuse and largely hidden, distributed across entire populations.

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Melissa Bowman
@dtkmelissa.bsky.social

Further to this: "Should we focus at all on e-bikes? Sure. On the topic of traffic safety, I propose 0.2% of our attention focus on e-bikes and 99.8% of our attention focus on cars. That aligns nicely with the real world situation we’re currently faced with" www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/i-care-abo...

urbanismspeakeasy.comI care about e-bike safety 0.2% of the timeClick-bait media outlets would have you think we should drop everything and do something about the scary threat of battery-powered bicycles (and yes, battery-powered motorcycles).
Melissa Bowman@dtkmelissa.bsky.social

It seems a bit odd to me to be advocating for banning e-scooters on our streets but also to have pushed against speed cameras operating 24/7 in school zones. www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...

therecord.comIt's time to ban e-scooters in Waterloo RegionThese dangerous devices are breaking our bones and our hearts. Get rid of them, Luisa D'Amato writes

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Prof. Ian Walker
@ianwalker.bsky.social

Replying to @stephenjacobsmith.com

There's also lots of evidence that people wouldn't switch to this public transport - even if the billions were magically produced to build it - unless we *first* make driving less convenient. Why would someone who knows how to drive to the shops suddenly stop doing this in the absence of disruption?