It helps that dearie has a formal civil engineerinig degree and experience, when he deals with municipalities on cycling matters, both infrastructure design and "softer"/more complex issues of advocacy, program planning.

He can see very clearly sometimes anal thinking of some engineering departments and firms, where in university engineering programs, engineers normally aren't trained, to look after the human factor at all nor psychosocial matters in the cycling experien/mode share.

In his words they're, just taking their "slide rule", prescriptive engineering standards and not being flexible.