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- Ooh, this autosubmit is cool. Is it open-source for individuals to add more cities, or expose it as an API?by tadzikpk
- Hi I'm the creator! Not open source yet but that's the plan. Already have data dump implemented for admins, might open that up too. Happy to have contributions to add more cities. Right now the sticking point is getting API keys... Because a lot of cities like New York and Chicago have systems but they also restrict access.... Honestly not sure how to get more API keys more quickly but probably local people on the ground would help.
Dm your GitHub and I can add you!
by jlansey - I kind of like watching people try to poke government into action, but the end results are usually the same. The process of paying a large amount of taxes and then on top of that begging for them to enforce the actual laws and making tools they can use, etc. It would seem they really just don't want to enforce laws or aren't capable of doing so.by ddtaylor
- for nyc, there's https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reported-nyc-311-made-easy/id9... that makes submitting violations super easy. If the vehicle reported is a taxi/uber/lyft/rideshare vehicle registered with taxi and limo commission (TLC), the submission goes to TLC and drivers can be (and often are) assessed a fine after a hearing (which can be months/years in the making but they do happen eventually).
the bad ratings are from dark days when the app was unmaintained. there's a new team working on it and it's awesome now
- How is this better than the official NYC 311 app?
I am assuming that maybe except for some TLC vehicles reporting won’t change anything. Do you have a different experience?
I could probably report 20 vehicles a week on a 2 block stretch of road.
by stephenbez - Is something wrong with bike lane uprising? They've been doing this for years, very active where I am, well connected both with activists and local politicians.by giraffe_lady
- BLU is doing fantastic workby enlightens
- Bike Bureau makes official-311 reports in ~30 cities, and our data is open for activists to use. Also our UI reduces time to report by a lot.
BLU keeps their data secret and no reports go to officials. They do great work though and I'd love to share BB data with them.
Which city are you in?
by jlansey - Do the cities that accept the reports do anything with them?by lokar
- I guarantee Seattle doesn't, lol.by loeg
- So far a single Boston 311 report has been closed with a ticket... Out of something like 300 reports... So yes?? Also a cop in Brookline has confirmed receiving them and acting on it though we don't have any evidence to corroborate that with.by jlansey
- love the facial anonymization feature: https://loudbicycle.com/bb/report/21y
i wonder who that is :)
- It was a good idea on paper :Dby altairprime
- I've previously asked my municipality for numbers on how many tickets they give for cars illegally parked in cycle lanes. It was something like ~6 a day in total. Between over a hundred city officers out and about to ticket stuff. Which is weird, because just on my bike commute home I see more cars in cycle lanes like that. There are multiple social media accounts dedicated to photograph cars in their local cycle lane. It's epidemic, and no one cares to fix it. And this is in a bike friendly city (Oslo).by matsemann
- If you use this in Oslo, you would be the first international report!by jlansey
- > One report documents a problem; many reports can make the case for enforcement and safer, protected bike lanes.by metabagel
- Many reports document many problems. The case has already been made!by rafram
- I know it’s not exactly a bike lane, but if I took a camera on just one trip down a San Francisco “slow street” I could probably report a dozen violations on any day.by laweijfmvo
- Please do so. If nobody complains the police think nobody cares and ignore it. When people complain that is when things changeby bluGill
- In Boston we have a 311 app and I've taken to reporting every single bike lane obstruction I can find when walking about. I don't bike myself anymore after an accident last year in a bike when I was hit by a taxi. Things are definitely trending in the wrong direction in Boston.by hexator
- This app connects to 311 in Boston! Makes it easier to submit.by jlansey
- My favorite one is a "Share the Road" sign with a bike on it, intended to remind drivers of bikers' presence -- but placed in the middle of a bike lane. Palo Alto loves these for some reason
- by econ
- Oh yeah. We had one road crossing where they put a knee height sign up warning drivers about the bike crossing directly in the middle of the bike lane.
And the sign was facing the drivers so it was even less visible to cyclists. I ended up hitting it with my leg a couple of times because I was watching for traffic and not paying close enough attention to the sign.
by jandrese - "Bikers on Road" sign only object in the middle of the bike lane during a construction project which isnt impacting the bike lane. Portland OR staple. could be cultural? seen Portlands affinity for irony mentioned beforeby boogieknite
- Worked with Jonathan a long time back on a smartwatch project and he was developing Loud Bicycle as a side project at that point, happy to see that he's still working on bike safety.
For anyone in SF (since it looks like this doesn't report to SF 311 yet) there's a similar but more generalized app called Solve SF which aims to make submissions quick and simple. Snap a picture, auto-classify, submit with all forms filled out.
by redfern314