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I think the Tulipmania was a different kind of bubble, tulipbulbs are not a life nessesatity. Housing is a human basic need, so there will Always be a demand for housing. Tulipmania was more like the bitcoin hype of today, nobody needs tulips, but they went mad for it (scarce commodity and a lot of capital because of the profits of the Dutch East India Company). Just read this book and replace the word "Tulip" with "Bitcoin". Horrifying to say the least.

Tulipomania by Mike Dash

https://www.amazon.com/Tulipomania-Coveted-Extraordinary-Passions-Aroused/dp/060980765X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=tulipomania&qid=1632127489&sr=8-2

If your employer has 50 employees or more and pays per-spot for parking then you can demand the amount they would have spent on parking go in to your pay if you don't use it. But evidently it was only enforced by Santa Monica. Improvements seem to be coming though! https://www.spur.org/news/2022-06-29/proposed-parking-cash-out-bill-aims-level-commute-playing-field-non-drivers

Credit to absolute legend Donald Shoup for it - https://www.amazon.com/Parking-Cash-Out-Donald-Shoup/dp/1932364099

Look, there is no obligation to yield to a driver making a turn.

But I sure as hell am not dying to defend my right of way.

IMO, a LOUD horn (I prefer airZound myself) is a lifesaver at times like this.

It's best if the motorist hears the very loud horn and becomes deathly afraid that an 18-wheeler is somehow in his blind spot.

My horn is one of my most used accessories on my bike.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned these mini, foldable grocery carts yet. A bunch of old grannies who walked to the grocery store in my old neighborhood had them, and the grocery store also sold them in store. As other people mentioned, there were enough grocery stores that most people had one within 15 min of walking, so the walk wasn't so bad. I'm in a dense suburb of Boston, so it's definitely possible in an American suburb.

It might be cheaper and easier to try replacing the handlebars on your current bike with those risen drop handlebars.

If you want speed and already have a lighter bike, that might be a better option.

I have both a cruiser bike (which is similar to a Dutch Bike) and a mountain bike that I've made some changes to to make it more comfortable for riding as my Cruiser is my daily driver. I use my mountain bike to go on the trails and to keep up with my bf who has a road bike.

The one downside to these older style bikes seems to be the steel frame. It's super durable, my cruiser is over 10 years old and in great shape. But it's very heavy.

I tried trail riding with the cruiser and while it did fine on the trails, I could not keep up to my bf at all and it was a brute if I had to carry it down stairs to get to the trail.

That being said, a lot of the newer cruiser or comfort style bikes are a lot lighter than the older ones. This one by Schwinn has an alloy frame that is lightweight. I've noticed a few of the newer Schwinn models are starting to be made with lighter frames and also have gears to help with hilly rides. So that might be something to research as well.

It really depends on where you put this bike lane. I know that online discourse seems to look at anything but a fully bollard protected bike lane as inferior but that overly simplifies the issue. In fact the end goal should probably be not to need any bike lanes at all - because streets are safe enough for everyone of every age and ability to ride in mixed traffic. Of course we (and that includes the Netherlands) are far off from that goal, at least on main roads, and maybe it's not even realistic. But that should be what we strife for.

And in smaller neighbourhoods this has already been achieved. Look at Dutch Woonerfs or German Spielstraßen (or similar concepts in other countries that I don't know the names of). No one would even think of marking out - let alone bollard protecting - a bike lane in those streets because it's completely pointless. Mostly those places don't even have sidewalks because it's safe enough to walk on the street. Marking out a bike lane of any kind would be absolutely ridiculous in such a place.

And then on the other hand you have other streets where bollard protecting the bike lane is perfectly sensible if not necessary. And in between you have places where bollard protection would be overkill but a painted buffer zone makes sense.

So there is no general answer to your question. Buffered bike lanes are one option that makes perfect sense in some streets but not so much in others.

Can someone file a lawsuit or a "stay of order" or whatever it's called, against texas DOT?

Link them to https://www.instagram.com/segregation_by_design/, start firing off affidavits. Scare them!

also a good read, regarding changing big institutions: Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

Strong Towns is a good one.

Duplexes are a form of multi-family housing. Other forms of multi-family units or triplexes (3 unit), quadplexes (4 units), multiplexes (5 and over), apartments, condos, among many others.

Missing Middle Housing is an excellent book on the different kinds of multi-family.

Porqué tomas el metro si puedes pagar un taxi. I hate duo lingo, useless. Go to preply and sign up for a tutor. Read modern books like Harry Potter in Spanish with them. Mine is Arianny https://preply.com/es/?pref=Mjc0NDgyNA==

The project might turn out to be as counter productive as it is ambitious.

It has talked about for a long time but I fear that it might become a reality.

(Most of what is published about this is in french. Google "Québec troisième lien" to find more about it if you don't mind reading something translated with Google. But I suggest rather https://www.deepl.com/translator.)

I had a class last semester that talked about the design problems with urban development. My professor recommended this book if we wanted to know more. It's about how to fix suburban sprawl, as stated in the title.

For 2, they have these two wheel cart things with a bag that you can fit maybe 2 bags of groceries in and wheel it on the sidewalk to your apartment. You see them sometimes in the US but in a collapsible wire mesh format.

https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Folding-Shopping-Converts-Handle/dp/B081Q815XY/

There's a few companies that make pepper spray with mounts specifically for bikes. This is what I use, it's surprisingly inconspicuous, and is mounted directly on my stem so I can get to it very quickly if needed. I keep it more on me for dogs than anything, but I do a lot of night riding so it's not a bad thing to have. Just make sure pepper spray is legal to carry where you're at.

I have this book 'transit maps of the world' with the subway systems of cities around the world. Its interesting to see how some smaller cities have relatively elaborate systems and some major cities have very little.

https://www.amazon.com/Transit-Maps-World-Worlds-Collection/dp/0143112651