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Meet Mr. Barricade, the man building Bay Area bike lanes for cities too small to do it themselves
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Meet Vignesh Swaminathan, a full-time professional engineer in the Bay Area and part-time social media celebrity who goes by the moniker Mr. Barricade.Courtesy of Vignesh Swaminathan
The first time I cross paths with Mr. Barricade, he’s standing on a random street corner in San Jose.
He’s wearing the kind of black suit you’d find inside the pages of Esquire, the kind where you’d spend a full minute asking yourself, “could I pull this off?” before deciding “nope” and flipping ahead to find out more about Tom Holland’s dark side.