Daniel Varghese

@drvarg01

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Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Jun 16

Cooked up two group rides for leg day subscribers next week! More details and cal invites in this week's newsletter! legday.substack.com/p/one-week-t...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Jun 10

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· May 1

The cyclist // the TooGoodToGo order

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Mar 13

Spotted on Bergen and Flatbush

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Feb 20

went hard at the bike plant february tune up sale ... details about the built in LEG DAY legday.substack.com/p/the-orange...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Feb 20

10 years of deez links!! here's to 10 more!! www.deezlinks.com @deliacai.bsky.social

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Dec 17

I was not familiar with your game, Joshua Goodman gothamist.com/news/mayor-a...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Dec 12

Not the cloud storage wrapped...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Dec 9

There are approximately 3 million parking spots in New York City that allow people to store their vehicles overnight for absolutely no cost. Add them up, and those spaces occupy around 11,000 acres of land, or 5.6% of the city’s total area. Mini-storage is a massive business in this space-starved city, but it’s completely free for people to store one type of private good. This begs the question of why we are charging people to use environmentally friendly buses and subways, thereby discouraging their use, while providing free car storage for polluting, traffic-inducing, pedestrian-harming vehicles, thereby encouraging their use.

Why should we reconsider a decision that was made over 70 years ago? Because if the City metered all of its parking spots, it could collect $3.8 billion annually by charging just $3.47 per spot per day. The City could then transfer that revenue to the MTA to completely cover the approximately $3.8 billion per year the MTA would give up by ending fares on both buses and subways, making the city’s mass transit system totally free.

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Dec 8

who could have anticipated this

ut the racial breakdown of that crackdown suggests that the push for safer space for pedestrians is being carried out in a disproportionate way:

Black cyclists got 37.1 percent of the sidewalk-riding tickets, but Blacks comprise just 20 percent of the city population.
Hispanic cyclists got 34.4 percent of the tickets, but they comprise 28.3 percent of the population.
Meanwhile, white people, and to a lesser degree, Asian people, are getting tickets at a lower rate than their portion of the population:

White cyclists got 10.1 percent of the tickets in the most-recent period, even though white people comprise 31 percent of the population.
And Asian cyclists got 13.6 percent of the tickets even though they comprise 15.6 percent of the population.

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Nov 10

Stats for the nerds

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Nov 10

scenes from my sunday ride into new jersey with river road and back home through the empire state trail

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Oct 22

I had a blast!!!

Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Daniel Varghese on a three-tiled Google Meet window

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Oct 7

Inject this energy into my veins

"I imagine this bill would make me very popular with City workers who drive into work every day from Rockland, Nassau, and Suffolk," Restler told Hell Gate sarcastically. "Fortunately, they're not my constituents."

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Jun 26

Just learned @peopleforbikes.bsky.social says Brooklyn is the best city (of over 300,000 people) for cycling in the US ... feels like our current mayor should be celebrating this instead of trying to actively make the existing infrastructure we have much worse!!

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· May 23

what sadist designed this interface

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· May 23

trying to pay a national grid bill

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· May 6

a preview!

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Mar 19

i like this bike

image of a green road bike from miele, with an italian flag decal and red grip tape on the bars

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Mar 18

lmao perfection ...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Mar 18

in this week's leg day, i made a bunch of stupid collages to commemorate two years as a city cyclist legday.substack.com/p/my-descent...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Feb 27

Come ride with us this weekend!!!! open.substack.com/pub/legday/p...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Dec 8

hey look at my bike

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Dec 5

Oh my god

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Nov 19

do you like coffee? bikes? ME??!??! come to the first ever Leg Day coffee ride! more details in the newsletter legday.substack.com/p/stopping-f...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Oct 1

some pictures of my bike in long island city

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Aug 23

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Aug 1

thrilled to announce the launch of LEG DAY, my newsletter about finding joy as a New York City cyclist! You can read the first post and subscribe RIGHT NOW! open.substack.com/pub/legday/p...

Daniel Varghese@drvarg01· Feb 29

alt hed: don't listen to the edc dorks www.wsj.com/tech/persona...