@emmagf
Does this mean that the NYC trash system will finally enter the late 20th century?? Can’t happen fast enough.
Will give them 21st century if the truck is electric, but that may be pushing it, given the power requirements.
“Go gently. Enjoy. Leave no trace.” is a much more effective request. We need more people witnessing the beauty of natural spaces to inspire stewardship.
Apparently people are trying to gatekeep Shell Ridge Open Space preserve, so let me be clear, the below photo is Shell Ridge. It’s great, you should go there and enjoy the public land available to all
The only way we get to zero road user deaths is to collaboratively develop a system that is safe and forgiving for everyone, not just one road user group over another. That's certainly not going to happen with engineer-bashing in an echo chamber. That will not change anything.
Whether or not your city has one of these bounty programs, this
@Casey
Neistat video is a great way to sell the idea to some of your local stakeholders.
Take a look at this dramatic video. A driver who was attempting to make a turn on a residential street in Southern California went airborne and ended up crashing into the garage of this home. That person was later taken to the hospital with minor to moderate injuries. Story here:
Heavy trucks *do not* belong in cities.
If you can’t figure out how to break it down into smaller delivery trux, then bring them in only during overnight hours. How is this so difficult?
Oh
@MercedesBenz
you definitely surprised us with the GLE's moves. And no - we didn't expect a dancing car. I'm sure there are some rollers in East LA who could show it a thing or two.
@AutoMobilityLA
@FlyingCarShow
LA’s police chief
@LAPDChiefMoore
blames cyclists riding on streets that don’t have bike lanes and pedestrians that don’t wear reflective clothing for a year of record road deaths in LA.
@MarquisEaly
@TheWayWithAnoa
@SpeakerPelosi
Do not pin this on a demographic. I find this political tiptoeing almost as reprehensible as 🍊🤡 himself. That there is not universal condemnation from Congress is a vile betrayal of our constitution.
I’m with
@IlhanMN
.
Walking on two feet is a species-defining characteristic and we have done so for 100,000 years. It is the motorist’s responsibility to control their lethality. Driving is a privilege and a CONVENIENCE. Traveling safely outside of a car is an inalienable RIGHT.
Do Better
@MIOHSP
.
Pedestrians should wear reflective clothing and lights at night and wear bright colors during the day. Be seen. Stay safe while walking. Learn more pedestrian safety tips at .
In Golden Gate Park, 20 feet away from where a driver killed Heather Miller while she was bicycling 5 years ago.
At ~6:20am a driver somehow launches themselves behind these trees and onto the sidewalk. While runners and cyclists enjoy the park by headlamp.
Ban cars from GGP.
@AsherDeMontreal
@HaveAGOMobility
It’s. A. Lane.
Preferably a proper one for bikes/scooters. And when we don’t need the lane, it’s a transit island, Rideshare pickup/drop off, a parklet, perhaps more sidewalk for pedestrians, a food truck spot, pop up retail, 311 kiosk, micromobility charge zone, almost anything.
@Annaisaac
I’m in my first week with a chip company. Just before my start I was introduced to some of my Michigan co-workers. A guy in his 30’s asked if I would be in HR. Uhh no.
What
@Apple
should turn their Apple Car team towards? Apple Train.
Building beautifully designed, lightning fast electric train systems across the US and around the world, is the product we really need.
@SMarr311
@YokohamaRides
@BMW
I’m gonna be tweeting this until this is everywhere.
You want to reach
#VisionZero
?
You want to address
#ClimateEmergency
?
You want a more vibrant city that’s good for business?
You want quiet streets?
You want clean air?
You want healthier people?
Make your city look like this.
The next few days it’s going to be hotter than hell across New York — so we’re making admission and parking free at all our State Parks, pools, and beaches tomorrow and Thursday!
Take your families to beat the heat, and enjoy it on us ☀️🌊
This afternoon, a driver killed a 4-year-old girl and seriously injured her mom before fleeing the scene at Teutonia/Vera.
@MayorMKE
called a press conference, saying, "that is straight bullshit, that is straight garbage. It pisses me off."
Absolutely LOVE this series, the Mayor of Boston
@wutrain
is taking public transit with different residents to learn about their commutes and how to make the systems/city work better for people!
Watch complete video here (this app makes you trim):
• Every city should have a connected network of slow + no car streets. Parks, long stretches, and also commercial corridors. People need this. And most businesses benefit greatly from permanently being car-free. See examples from around 🇺🇸 and 🌎 at
10/
There’s nothing like listening to drivists say they have to keep driving on Great Highway because the people walking and biking destroy our pristine coastline. Long live
@GreatHwyPark
@hannahcwiley
@khuey_
How the hell can you be involved in 13 crashes and still have a driver’s license?
• Can
@CA_DMV
be charged as an accessory to murder?
• How old is her car? Can the
@MercedesBenz
dealer also be charged for not doing a background check?
• How did an insurance co. cover her?
• We cannot have the police be the thing that “keeps us safe” from drivers. We need infrastructure which protects us. And if there are streets with “lots of collisions” we should remove cars until we figure out what the hell is going on.
11/
We can't outsource all jobs to technology, but street safety and mode enforcement should and can be controlled by infrastructure design and retractable bollards, not the police.
This works 24/7/365 and keep streets safe for people.
this week
@SFMTA_Muni
looked at the deadline on their
#VisionZero
goal and basically said it's not gonna happen. Yep, that's pretty clear.
So the board pushed back. You can watch the whole meeting at the link below, or read this 🧵 for the 💥.
1/
@sundeep
@elonmusk
1) that we still care about this + 0-60⏱ shows testosterone is the most dangerous drug on 🌍
2) if you really want to do this, just close Sand Hill Rd & bring vehicles of similar specs
3)
@Ford
if you still lose, it’s another reminder of how late you are to BEVs
cc:
@WAutoJ
@WarrenJWells
The world is largely digital. No one’s wasting trees. Only in per character situations does it matter.
Period-Space fluidity is necessary for full-justify and other stylistic needs.
Why does this bother you so?
Eliminating parking minimums is good, but what if we instituted a HOUSING minimum for every existing parking space? In order to keep the space, there must be a certain number of OCCUPIED housing units within a 15 min walk. If not, it must be converted.
Homes for people, not cars.
Help!!
@SFPD
female officer in car 272 just sirened me for riding uphill IN THE LANE on 19th between Missouri and Texas. She said “you’re not the only one who needs to use this road”
If
@sfpd
doesn’t know the vehicle code, how do we expect drivers?
A number of sideshows took over the streets in San Francisco and Oakland on Sunday. Video from the sideshow at Embarcadero and Washington streets near the Ferry Building shows a car completely engulfed in flames.
@berkie1
I cannot wait for subsequent analysis of:
• health outcomes
• CO2 emissions
• road maintenance expenditures
• personal transportation expenses
Perhaps then we will finally accept how deadly, poisonous, and costly the American Way is.
@Euhzil
@elonmusk
Every once in awhile you get to see someone who must be living under a rock....or had a totally remote vacay...or awoke from a coma to this thread...👆👆👆
The full-board of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors just spent TWO hours discussing a proposed 7-story/24-unit housing project in the tony Pacific Heights neighborhood - in the midst of a housing crisis.
This had already been approved by Planning + Historic Commissions
@sfplanning
@sfbos
@wafoli
@HACdotorg
@MikeChenSF
@AaronPeskin
VOTE: There are 10 ayes and 1 nay, with Sup. Peskin in the dissent.
Instead of the project going back to the drawing board, this housing will move forward, and the NIMBY and antigrowth advocates will have to fight another day.
Finally their boss arrived. They figured out what to cite me for, took my thumbprint + pics of my wrists.
Lawyers will say there’s nothing to be gained from tweeting this. But this isn’t about my case, it’s illustrative of how demented our city, state, & society are.
9/
For crying out loud - this city is 47 square miles and surrounded by mostly water. We should default to no cars and add them back where absolutely necessary.
Who runs this town? An oil company??
Why is it that any other profession would be sued into oblivion, but somehow transportation engineers get to keep building the same deadly garbage with no recourse?
There have literally been so many fatal SoCal bike crashes in the last week that I can't keep them straight anymore. We've seen an average of almost one death a day for the last seven days.
• Oct 2021,
@GavinNewsom
vetoed two laws that were very important to people outside of cars. “The Idaho Stop” & “Decriminalizing Jaywalking”.
This is a known tactic which police use to harass BIPOC. If he hadn’t vetoed it, there would’ve been no reason to arrest me today.
12/
BREAKING: California Governor
@GavinNewsom
has been diagnosed with
@carblindness
. It was discovered late today when he vetoed
#AB122
(Idaho Stops) and
#AB1238
(Decriminalize Jaywalking).
Unless aggressive treatment is pursued, this cyclist gives him ~13 months.
It’s kind of hilarious that they are using my safety as a reason to get out of the roadway. That I might get killed by a driver because it happens on Valencia ALL THE TIME!
Seriously she said that not once, but twice.
My response: you’re kinda proving my point.
/6
@sfchronicle
I think you forgot:
• Open Carry
• Abortion Rights
• Rate of COVID19:
•• cases
•• hospitalizations
•• deaths
•• vaccinations
• Preventable deaths due to energy (toss-up)
• Deaths by MVA
• Religion in public school texts
• Caliber of education
• % college educated
That moment when the Abernethy Bike Bus joins with the Clinton Bike Bus at Ladd Circle is something everyone should witness at least once in their lifetime. One of the Seven Wonders if the Modern World 🤣🚲🚌🚌❤️.
@BikeBusWorld
@CoachBalto
Cities should have play streets, school streets, linear parks, and pedestrianized merchant corridors. Having the world revolve around personal motor vehicle transport is making us less human, bankrupting our cities, and burning the planet. It’s got to stop.
We should require
@WorldBollard
or similar anywhere that drivers are permitted to travel this close to people outside of cars. Why is this not already the default?
If the federal government wants to fund transportation, skip the megaprojects. Start with a billion bollards. These will save more lives and help us build strong towns everywhere.
@MillCityGirl2
@LauraGMitchell
Pretty wild that you begrudge a small portion of pavement for the safe operation of a non-violent, zero emissions, zero GHG form of transport in the same breath as demanding PUBLIC space to store your giant deadly, polluting personal item.
@kelseyhuse30
Older than that babe, older than that...
And Act II is often way better because neither of you have to repeat the silliness of “young & dumb” in Act I.
Hi
@CA_Trans_Agency
please drop hydrogen. This is a boondoggle put forth by the oil industry which currently manufactures 95% of the world’s hydrogen. It will NEVER be green for transport here. In California we have abundant sun + wind available to power.
1/
San Francisco plans to keep 🔥🌎🔥
When road managers like
@sfmta_muni
@CaltransD4
fail to build safe networks for bikes, they are planning for emissions, pollution, injury, and death.
Today was Sunday Streets in San Francisco - on Valencia. Which I and many others believe should be
@valencia4people
- car-free 24/7/365. Seriously - zero motor vehicles - just people walking, rolling, maybe a golf cart or two.
2/
@DavidZipper
I adore this group and have even helped organize with them in the past, but this protest is dead wrong. We should be mandating “livability” on all forms of transport. The status quo is not delivering. Bikes will always be better, but if we have cars, they should be electric AVs.
Hi
@NHTSAgov
- perhaps you don’t know this, but you’re the agency responsible for motor vehicle standards (FMVSS)
You can:
• limit motor vehicle size + outlaw deadly styles
��� require speed limiters, AEB, driver monitoring, event recording
You CAN do this for us. Why don’t you?
There was part of me that was excited to see cops on bikes in SF because that NEVER happens. But these cops had a job to do and that was to make way for cars. People CANNOT get in the way of cars. Because the drivers might kill them!!!
The police just want to keep me safe 🙄
/5
This 1000x.
Rip off the band-aid and just pedestrianize. We need as many of these spaces as possible. Figure out how to make it all work *while it is closed to motorists* and MULTIPLY it.
@philritz1
I love how in the land of two-car garages, all of the streets are named “trails” but you need a car to get anywhere…unless you walk in the middle of the road.
•
@urbanistcole
reminded me of what I and MANY others continuously say.
It is indeed tragic how much of our cities are surrendered to cars. Local drivers had to drive on one of the 2000 other streets for FIVE whole hours. How did they ever survive?
13/
Next time someone says you need cars to bring businesses back to downtown or revive a merchant corridor, show them this. It’s the opposite that’s true.
I hate to ask
@recallsfboe
, but can we go after the other 4 BOE members now? They’re effectively dismantling Lowell HS - all because they do not understand ERAF and how San Francisco is short changed in comparison to other districts. 
Kids riding to school on car-free JFK Drive this morning.
Magic.
It’s a glimpse of a city where kids are people, too, and we make allowances for them to enjoy it in the only ways they can.
Ok people - if you care about San Francisco, I need you to do all that you can to get
@viggyswam
put in charge of streets at
@SFMTA_Muni
. He is simply magical and could change this city for the better.
🧵
@sfgogi
@SundayStreets
Thank you for taking a stand. Very glad that you’re ok. The driver should have their license revoked. Period. Anything less is a cop out.
Cars are deadly weapons and their operators MUST be held responsible for their actions when they wield it.
The city wasted no time removing the safety infrastructure the community installed yesterday. Crews responded to remove the road diet in 2 hours, yet we’ve been waiting for more than 2 years since Andrew Zieman’s killing for SFMTA’s promised road diet.
@sam_d_1995
It should not be available to consumers for any reason. That
@Ford
does this is simply craven - ditto for
@GM
@Dodge
Every government official who allowed this and those who don’t stop it, should be forced to put their loved ones on the line.
@manicode
Omg. My dad. He’s retired and sitting around in rural Pennsylvania with little to do. COBOL Fortran...he could even send it on a jaz drive. Call him, please!
@nytimes
How dare you go after the victims instead of the killers. Ebikes aren’t the problem - car proliferation is.
This is the type of framing is sickening Americans and the planet. Stop it.
Last night I got the ride of my life. And what made it so exciting was that it was actually quite boring. I got my first real-world ride in the fully-electric, completely autonomous
@Waymo
1/
Hi
@Cruise
- what the hell is this?
And please read the thread with other anecdotal evidence. Seeing this, I understand why people are annoyed with AVs.
I could do this alone because im a white mom with no record until today. Could my friends of color have done this alone with the same confidence today?
15/
What this treatment says:
• pedestrians: we will protect you from the maniacal cyclists with concrete
• cyclists: you are entitled and so uncivil to the kind and gentle motorists. We will protect you with plastic sticks
Thanks
@SFMTA_Muni
! 🤦♀️
Hear me out. Border walls at San Francisco limits. The only way to enter is via bike, bus, train, or ferry.
Deliveries may happen via small electric trucks overnight. And ecargobikes + golf carts at any time.
Instantaneous best city ever.
It’s worse than you could imagine. For over half a century we Americans have been making ourselves bigger and less healthy. Meanwhile the auto industry has been making their products larger and more deadly to anyone outside. And ALL of this is irreparably damaging the planet.
@EricaJSandberg
@AdamSchaffer15
🙋🏼♀️ I’m neither male, nor 20-30.
I’m the mom of two teens and I ride a bike nearly everywhere. I wish my kids could also ride a bike everywhere, but it simply isn’t safe enough. Our streets are overrun with cars, many of them have drivers who, like you, hate bike people.
1/
The 🇺🇸 does not care for pedestrians & cyclists because they do not bear the full cost of those injuries or deaths. Countries that bear the cost of caring for their citizens do more to prevent expensive injuries to them.
Why Sweden clears walkways and cycle paths before roads
"Three times as many people are injured while walking in icy conditions in Sweden than while driving. And the cost of those injuries far exceeds the cost of snow clearance."
@LdnOntBikeCafe
#biketo
@IIHS_autosafety
Could it be that allowing children to pilot motor vehicles is a factor? Or maybe internal speed limiters on ALL vehicles might help.
Biking or taking the bus seems a sound idea in contrast to teens driving.
Any thoughts that aren’t essentially Climate arson,
@IIHS_autosafety
?
@sfbike
The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition fails to endorse
@Scott_Wiener
, arguably the most Pro-Bicycle candidate that this city or perhaps even the state of California has ever seen.
(
@JohnBauters
isn’t running for state office...yet)
I think I have officially outgrown fireworks. I’m thinking of all of the sensory issue people, pets and vets and anyone who has lived through war. They used to be in distinct areas. Now they are absolutely inescapable.
EVERY e-cargo bike displaces car trips- to school, shopping, soccer...
Why not offer e-cargo rebates at least equal to paid out for EVs, which have 10x the GHG emissions, are less affordable, more dangerous, & consume more road space?
@bccycle