Traffic was bad…took 7 hours to get from Williamsburg, VA to my home in the Philly suburbs
But, at least the flowers at a rest stop were pretty

Please Stop Externalizing Your Costs Directly Into My Face, by @sir:

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

Abusing beaches as highways

"Overcrowding due to a surge in visitors at some of Queensland's pristine beaches has raised safety and environmental concerns.Reports of offences including reckless driving, littering and even defecating have increased at 4WD beaches in recent years amid a domestic tourism boom."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-major-change-at-popular-4wd-beaches-and-campgrounds-as-popularity-soars-224716506.html
#beaches #dunes #traffic #cars #vehicles #SUVs #4WDs #Biodiversity #wildlife #Invertebrates #birds #shorebirds #MigratoryBirds #turtles #NSW #Queensland #Australia #regulation #climate #tourism

Traffic on beaches
It's the Wild West - turning beach ecology into a Woolies car park

Off-road vehicles are allowed to cause "serious ecological harm" to beaches, dunes and estuaries ecosystems. Vehicles traffic is causing "unequivocal serious and widespread damage" to coastal dune ecosystems. "All of the species had suffered negative effects caused by off-road vehicles. The four-by-fours running over them basically crush them to death."

"Professor Schlacher said the Noosa North Shore, Rainbow Beach, K'gari and Bribie Island were among the car-accessible beaches that were being "pummelled to death"". On Bribie Island "there can be 1,200 vehicles on the beach in one day, and that's ridiculous. It's just like a Woolies car park."

Ban 4WDs from beaches >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/call-for-four-wheel-drive-ban-aussie-beaches/104990150
#NationalParks #beaches #dunes #traffic #cars #vehicles #SUVs #4WDs #Biodiversity #wildlife #Invertebrates #birds #shorebirds #MigratoryBirds #turtles #NSW #Queensland #Australia #regulation #climate

Use of a rearview mirror is far from a unanimous practice of people who bike. Many riders don’t use any sort of rearview mirror until they are hit by a car, or nearly are. While not a bicycle equipment requirement by California law (yet), having a rearview mirror is smart!

There are companies selling rearview mirrors of various types, e.g., bar-end, handlebar-mounted, helmet-mounted, glasses-mounted.

This month we’ve been trying out TriEye—glasses with an integrated mirror in the lower corner of the lens that allows seeing behind you with a tilt of your head. (And yes, with respect to biking in a country with left-hand vs right-hand traffic flow, TriEye has options for both left-side and right-side mirrors.) For more info, visit https://trieye.com/.

Of course they take a little getting used to—and very soon they feel natural. Most importantly, wearing the TriEye absolutely makes us feel safer in traffic!