Brianinja

@brianinja.bsky.social

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Professional Chicagoland suburban transportation planner by day. Cargo ebike suburban dad by night. Enjoys birds and cute art. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him.

A bike trailer holds 18 2x4x4s, some metal pipe, and an orange 10 gallon work bucket
A poster for Studio Ghibli Fest at a nearby theatre
A cargo bike is parked in a regular parking lot space in front of a hardware store. Several AC filters are in the cargo bike bin.
Screenshot of ventra app saying "Select fare type Pass products are not available to load to your card. $ Add transit value Transit value is money stored in your Ventra transit account that's used to pay for regular fares as you ride CTA and/or Pace. Π Add a transit pass Passes are good for unlimited rides for one person from the first time they're needed to pay a fare."
Map of the urban development footprint of metropolitan Chicago in 2030, showing an even larger urban core and suburban agglomeration.
Map of the urban development footprint of metropolitan Chicago in 1950, showing substantial agriculture space surrounding the urban core and suburban network.
An ebike is parked in a traditional parking space
A bowling alley with nearly every surface covered in TV screens, most showing the exact same thing
Wrigley Field in Chicago, viewed from the 3rd base line
Really cute Nintendo Switch case that has a pink-purple-blue gradient that looks like the bi pride flag.
A green bicycle has a black and white sticker that reads "Bicycles deliver the freedom that auto ads promise"
A concert in a park that isn't starting for awhile, but every inch is taken up by random people folding chairs, with only about a quarter of the chairs actually occupied.
A Google Maps screenshot of Bethalto, Illinois. A rural/exurban community which is surrounded by major highways and only has one 1/2 mile bike trail segment.
Image from AAA slide: Recommendations: Strategic Roadmap Unified Data & Reporting • Adopt a unified national taxonomy (such as SAE or similar) to resolve classification chaos • Develop agency-level data workflows to cover micromobility risk data Education & Enforcement • Assure that regulatory loopholes that out-of-class vehicles are met with enforcement and/or education Inclusive Infrastructure & Urban Design • Build protected and self-enforcing infrastructure • Provide adequate and uniform on-street parking corrals. Consider an auditory warning for silent electric devices.
Menti Q&A question asking "Will Cook County support a moonshot regional rail project like #Build The Tunnel to link the Metra lines so they can ride through the Loop instead of just stopping?"
Plaque for a "Michael Bolton", no, not that one.
The Chicago lakefront skyline rises to the left of the Lakeshore Trail, a green bike in the foreground. To the right, Lake Michigan seems to extend forever to the horizon.
A child in a rainbow skirt rides a scooter down the sidewalk in a tree lined neighborhood.
A green road bike with black fenders hangs from a bike rack inside a train. An arm in front of the bike is giving a thumbs up.
The rainbow hued cover of the book, The Book Of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk, founder of the OUTWORDS Archive
A satellite map of Google Maps driving directions along Illinois Route 53 from Northwest Highway to Lake-Cook Road, with a callout box just short of Lake-Cook Road.
Panorama image of bikes and scooters lined up along a fence
A Pace OnDemand bus is turning into a parking lot to pick up a passenger.
Transit app for Metra run 331 to Waukegan. Shows two other users using the Transit app in addition to the individual who took the screenshot.
Three regional rail Chicago Metra trains are lined up across three platforms, with a group of people waiting to board a train. The waiting platform is for the UP-N to Waukegan.
A transit tracking app showing that a train will arrive 2 minutes after the scheduled departure of a half hourly bus.
A pair of solar LED flamingos that cast a fun decorative pattern with their lights.
A long tail cargo bike, all lit up with faerie lights
A flyer advertising an event. It shows four people biking of various ages, genders, and backgrounds. The text reads: BIKE THE HEIGHTS! JOIN US FOR THE SLOW ROLL BICYCLE RIDE MEET AT HARMONY PARK 6PM ON THE 4TH FRIDAY EVERY MONTH STARTING APRIL 24 WEAR YOUR HELMET & LIGHT UP YOUR BIKE 2025 RIDE SCHEDULE APRIL 24 MAY 22 JUNE 26 JULY 24 AUGUST 28 SEPTEMBER 25 OCTOBER 23 ORGANIZED BY: SAFE STREETS ALLIANCE for Arlington Heights
Two poster signs. One is a series of young child scribbles in multiple colors. The other sign says "Pro America is Anti War"
A man is boarding a Pace Suburban Bus OnDemand vehicle.
A feathered tyrannosaurs rex that looks like a sparrow
The "is this a pigeon" meme of a man with glasses, holding up his hand and gesturing to a butterfly.
A stacked chart of a rider's eBike and traditional bike mileage broken by month, showing Bike riding maxing out at a monthly average of 100 miles, then decreasing from fall through early spring to 0-25 miles, until an eBike is bought, whereby the total monthly average is closer to 150 miles or more, even during fall and winter, with several months reaching over 300 miles, and winter mileage between 50-75 miles.
A kite flies in a clear blue sky above a grassy park
Ink sketch of the interior of a train.
Witness slips for HB4588 showing 242 opponent witness slips to the bill.
Spotify numbers for Five Iron Frenzy's Blue Comb '78 showing 411,766 listens but only 191,171 listens for Banner Year.
Graph of mean and median household net wealth by OECD country. The United States is highlighted. The graph comes from a report: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2021/05/inheritance-taxation-in-oecd-countries_2d33ceae/e2879a7d-en.pdf
Ke Hey Quan as Waymond Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once
BlueSky mapper showing @tomflood, @chiwho.bike, and @fixingnorthamerica, relatively near each other, with @brianinja exiled to the wildlands.
Cecilia Giménez's 2012 attempted partial restoration of the Ecce Homo fresco
A toddler is reaching into a 24 pack of Miller Lite. There are 9 cans of Miller Lite standing upright around the toddler already.
Protestors turning out at a suburban downtown rally against ICE, its brutality, and its tyrannical leaders at every step of the ladder who deserve no compromise and at best only the cold bars of prison.
Temperature chart showing that it is -10 F with a feel if -30 F in Arlington Heights, IL
Ink sketch of the interior of a coffee shop, looking towards the entry doors. People are talking, others just sitting and enjoying their drink
This man is your FRIEND. He fights for FREEDOM" poster with a picture of a white male in a Canadian World War 2 armed forces uniform and beret with a puff.
US Level 122 map, illustrating which states the user has lived (CO, IL, OH), stayed (WA, CA, NV, UT AZ, NM, LA, MO, WI, MI, FL, PA, DC, VA, NC, SC, visited (WY, SD, NE, KS, TX, IA, IN, KY, TN, MS, MD, NY, MA), stopped (WV), passed (MN, AR), and never been to (AK, HI, OR, ID, MT, ND, AL, GA, DE, NJ, VT, NH, ME).
Watercolor of a coffee shop
You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?
A watercolor painting and ink drawing of a local cafe scene
Transit app Wrapped saying: "The paparazzi even started calling you... The train emperor"
Damage calculator Crossover Examples: Seat Arona Supermarket Truck (Empty) Examples: Articulated Lorry Number of journeys required to do the same damage to the road: 140 It would take a crossover 4 months of doing the same journey every day to damage the road as much as one journey in a supermarket truck (empty). Another way of thinking about it is that for every 140 Crossovers, the Crossovers will cause the same amount of damage as a single Supermarket Truck (Empty).
The Village only removes snow from sidewalks adjacent to Village property. There is no ordinance requiring any property owner(s) to clear snow from sidewalks adjacent to their property.
A Prinoth SW 4S tracked snow plow clears a sidewalk in a public park.
A mostly-eaten bowl of tonkatsu ramen.
A modern streetlamp stands alone in a snow covered field punctuated by trees. It casts a bright light that illuminates the falling snow.
A cast iron skillet with tofu scramble, onions, and kale, on a stovetop.
Calvin's dad from Calvin and Hobbes shouting SURE! "CYCLISTS HAVE A RIGHT TO THE ROAD TOO, YOU NOISY, POLLUTING, INCONSIDERATE MANIACS! I HOPE GAS GOES UP TO EIGHT BUCKS A GALLON!"
A Radio Flyer L885 e-cargo bike, front basket loaded down with kid gear, with a child partially visible sitting on the rear bench.