Mildly interesting
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The 50mi from the Bronx to Brewster used to be the Putnam Railroad, in service from 1881-1958. I get it at Ardsley, less than a mile from my house. I can take it up 40mi to Brewster or down about 12.5 to Van Courtland Park in the Bronx without leaving paved trail.
Further south I’m maybe a mile or three on roads until I get to the trail along the west side highway that takes me to lower manhattan.
Up north there’s a few miles of road at Brewster until I’m on trail again for another 50 miles to New Palz.
Plenty, in other words.
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@Mik said in Mildly interesting:
Bikes are 10 times more dangerous than cars? Surprising.
I think that stat is a bit misleading, since bikes are a lot slower than cars. Arguably a better statistic is deaths per time spent traveling.
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I think 40% of those deaths are cardiac associated from Lycra cutting off blood flow.
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The Grappler, a new device used to stop high speed chases.
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Meh… Not sure that I care for them forcefully stopping a stolen car in the middle of a busy highway like that.
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65 years ago, 1960, Meet the cast of The Flintstones: Left to right: Bea Benaderet as the voice of Betty Rubble, Jean Vander Pyl as the voice of Wilma Flintstone, Alan Reed as the voice of Fred Flintstone, and Mel Blanc as the voice of Barney Rubble and Dino. Together they brought life to the modern stone age family.
