journal entry 8.28.2024

There’s this house on my bike route that puts up one of those mist archways for cyclists to ride through on hot days. The person who put it up also installed a camera that counts how many cars, peds, and cyclists go by... I’ll interview him.

when I ride my bike I often come across the same dilema;
I’m at an intersection along a bike route, there is a light that can be activated by pressing a crossing button on the street.
here’s my dilema, 
do I press the button in order to cross safely?
... but a stopped car is an idleling car, which is bad for the environment
... after all it only takes me like 3 seconds to cross but the red light will last more than 15
or 
do I just wait for a break in traffic so that no one has to stop?
...which would allow me to not feel that strange environmental guilt
or
if what I really care about is the environment,
do I press them regardless of if I need to use them?
making it less convienient for cars,
hopefully making them think it’d be easier to use a different for of transportation (yeah right) 

is that anarchy, well not really, but it occupies the humourus bits of “anarchy” I think of sometimes
like putting you american flag stamps upside down... or purposefully giving from answers on youtube ad surveys...    I’m a real rebel