If you're willing to come over the river to Cambridgeport, DeLeo's on Hamilton Street has been honest, cheap, and right on every time that I've gone there.
This winter has been especially bad with the road narrowing due to widened snow banks.
Cambridge recently held a data challenge, opening up accident data for public analysis. Data accumulated over multiple years showed a very large number of parked vehicles getting hit. Was that problem explored? No. I tried, requesting street and lane width information never supplied. Instead, responses took the cues from the City and focused on the small subset of motor vehicle-bicycle accidents.
Right, I wonder what Markk02474 was trying to get at. I believe this "lane width" information is already in the public domain, via the city's "street plan" submitted with the deed office.
Probably not, and that is what counts in order to make use of it.
Given all the property damage and police resources consumed with numerous accident reports, there is value to analyzing data to look for information that pops out. We might expect the sun to be a factor on east-west routes near sunrise and sunset, or travel lane widths (which do reduce accidents), or turn radii.
Instead of a look outside the box for anything approach, there was a defined agenda seeking data and analysis to fit it.
Cambridge wasn't interested in letting the data take people to conclusions, instead, they gave the conclusion they wanted people to fit the data to. My point is that there was data showing lots of people suffer from having their parked vehicles hit, so this side mirror replacement query is common and perhaps preventable.
If you have any mechinical talent at all Id suggest going to an auto salvage yard and getting on there save yourself a few 100 dollars its only a few screw holding it on if its a power miriror then a few wires its not rocket science LOL
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If you're willing to come over the river to Cambridgeport, DeLeo's on Hamilton Street has been honest, cheap, and right on every time that I've gone there.
Rampant parked vehicle hits
This winter has been especially bad with the road narrowing due to widened snow banks.
Cambridge recently held a data challenge, opening up accident data for public analysis. Data accumulated over multiple years showed a very large number of parked vehicles getting hit. Was that problem explored? No. I tried, requesting street and lane width information never supplied. Instead, responses took the cues from the City and focused on the small subset of motor vehicle-bicycle accidents.
Oh, and an epidemic of side-mirror destruction?
Or are you just taking out some time from your day to complain about bicycles again?
deeds
Right, I wonder what Markk02474 was trying to get at. I believe this "lane width" information is already in the public domain, via the city's "street plan" submitted with the deed office.
Is it a GIS data layer?
Probably not, and that is what counts in order to make use of it.
Given all the property damage and police resources consumed with numerous accident reports, there is value to analyzing data to look for information that pops out. We might expect the sun to be a factor on east-west routes near sunrise and sunset, or travel lane widths (which do reduce accidents), or turn radii.
Instead of a look outside the box for anything approach, there was a defined agenda seeking data and analysis to fit it.
Not complaining about bicycles, just government agendas
Cambridge wasn't interested in letting the data take people to conclusions, instead, they gave the conclusion they wanted people to fit the data to. My point is that there was data showing lots of people suffer from having their parked vehicles hit, so this side mirror replacement query is common and perhaps preventable.
focused on the small subset
Probably because those have a much greater likelihood of causing personal injury than a car hitting a parked vehicle. I'm just guessing.
Well
If you have any mechinical talent at all Id suggest going to an auto salvage yard and getting on there save yourself a few 100 dollars its only a few screw holding it on if its a power miriror then a few wires its not rocket science LOL
Been there, done that
And that was in pre Internet days. I would think any reasonably sized salvage place would have inventory online now.