Mom. Outdoor enthusiast. Seeking safe streets for my kids and my parents. Salvadoran-Irish. Immigrant. She/Her. Views/Typos = Mine
San Francisco, CA
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What if we all chose to walk or bike for just half of our car trips of under a mile?
We’d save about $575 million in fuel costs and about 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.
@SlowLakeStreet
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A new supervisor should start by listening. Instead, D4 Supervisor Alan Wong says he’ll sponsor a ballot measure to remove Sunset Dunes Park — without community input.
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If you want a quick explanation for the growing number of kids with anxiety/depression/behavioral disorders, this right here is it.
We used to move our bodies, routinely, rigorously, daily -- just en route to school.
Now, kids sit in cars. Caged monkeys. Losing their shit.
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Every time a city prioritizes non-car travel, pedestrianizes thoroughfares, expands transit, improves bike networks, implements congestion pricing or creates new public spaces, that city becomes better.
It’s not a war on cars. It’s an effort to make cities better & more livable.
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While @JoelEngardio’s loss tonight was not a shock to anyone, it still remains a heartbreak. I’ve been involved in SF politics for over a decade now, and I have never met a man kinder, more decent, and more sincere than Joel.
It is very sad to see the good guys lose
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
📰 The Bay Area Reporter (@eBARnews) just weighed in, urging Sunset/D4 voters to reject the recall:
💬“Recalls should be reserved for elected officials who’ve demonstrated negligence in office, or been convicted in a criminal case…”
#NoOnTheRecall #NoOnA
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We cannot go back to how dangerous and chaotic Market Street was, and these changes are opening up the door to going back.
That's why we're protesting Mayor Lurie bringing cars back to Market Street tomorrow at 5PM at Market & Montgomery.
Details at 🔗 walksf.org/marketprotest
#SaveCarFreeMarketStreet @sfbike @StreetsForAllSF @SFTRU
kqed.org/news/12053305/advoc… – at San Francisco, CA
If we really cared about kids’ safety, we’d ban cars before e-bikes. In 2021, 162,000+ kids were injured in car crashes, that's 445 per day. E-bike injuries among kids? Around 1 per day. Let’s be honest about what’s actually dangerous.
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti… via @sfchronicle
People up in arms about NYC’s $9/day congestion fee hurting low-income folks — but no one blinks at the $29/day (AAA avg) car dependency forces them to pay every single day, just to own and operate a car, before they even reach a job.
Car dependency is the real tax.
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Caltrans has widened 101, NIMBYs have fought hard to block infill housing, defend parking, and prevent transit expansion and *gasp* bike lanes, and I have to inform you --
Their plan is working, perfectly. It is literally going exactly how you would expect.
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SLOW RIDE ALERT!
Thursday, March 20! -- NEW PARK, NEAT ART!
Meet at 5:30, Roll at 6 @ Dolores Park
Bike through GGP, Great Highway, to Clement Street Art Walk via Slow Street
ALT New park & Neat art. Slow streets, Slow ride. Thursday, March 20th. Meet at Dolores Park at 5:30, Roll at 6. Slow ride to clement St Art Walk through Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway.
ALT Map showing a route from Dolores Park to Clement and Arguello via the Great Highway (Ocean Beach Park). The route goes via Dolores, 17th St, Sanchez, the Wiggle, Panhandle path, car-free JFK, down Great Highway and back, then up to Clement, 23rd Avenue, and Lake Street. There's a drawing of a snowy plover. The background of the image is rainbow-colored.
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Guys, sorry/not sorry, I am full-on LMAO at potential death of US car industry at the hands of an electric car salesman who made his billions scamming guilt-ridden liberals out of their cash so they could pretend they were solving climate while driving four blocks to Whole Foods.
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In San Francisco we have two commercial streets one block apart: Clement and Geary. Clement is a two lane calm street, Geary is 6 lanes.
On Clement, business is booming, because it's a lovely place to be, especially during the 0 car farmer's market. Geary OTOH....
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The analysis of Slow Streets crash data by Transpo Maps confirms the fact that when drivers go safe speeds, there are dramatically fewer crashes.
"If drivers would slow down on all San Francisco streets, we’d immediately see dramatically fewer crashes — just like what’s happened on Slow Streets," says Walk SF executive director Jodie Medeiros.
#SlowOurStreets #SlowStreetsSF #VisionZeroSF @braitsch
kqed.org/news/12028444/sf-st…
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Interesting that people jump to asking "is it safe to fly?" but not "is it safe to drive?"
A single plane crash burns into the collective psyche for weeks or months. Meanwhile, the 100+ daily traffic deaths in the US barely register. The brain chooses spectacle over routine.
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Thanks to artist, Orlie K, for illustrating some park projects we’ve done across SF!🌁🍃
From markets to playground renovations, these aren’t just fun events and beautiful new spaces. These projects make public spaces safer, more environmentally resilient, and so much more✨
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This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding, yet 66% of people did so when driving. And if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid
forbes.com/sites/carltonreid…
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The social media outrage over congestion pricing isn’t really about congestion pricing. It’s a fight over who pays for public goods—and suburban drivers want the subsidies to keep flowing without paying their share.
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"it's bad to memorialize pedestrians killed by drivers because it might make their driver/killer feel bad" seems like some sort of new frontier in car-brain culture
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Wanting an end to pedestrian deaths, is not politicizing a tragedy.
It's just not wanting people to die.
San Francisco has now seen more traffic deaths in 2024 than in any year in the last decade. The latest one happened Friday on the Great Highway. — @low___impact sfstandard.com/2024/12/28/gr…
