So last night a driver was ticketed for parking in a red zone in front of my house.
This morning, the front of my house is covered in motor oil.
Incredibly anti-social behavior.
I never understood the “not everyone can ride a bike” equity argument.
Driving a car requires passing a literal state-administered test that people fail all the time.
It breaks my brain that NIMBYs have succeeded in blocking coastal wind farms that aren’t visible from shore, but yet Santa Barbara somehow has oil rigs visible from its gorgeous beaches 🤯
It’s disqualifying for a candidate for Senate to this deeply misunderstand the single most pressing issue facing Californians
Housing is expensive because we have a shortage. Wall Street is investing in housing *because* the shortage is structural.
Just solved a Page Street mystery! Turns out the owner of the tow truck who constantly parks in the lane on Page Street lives across the street from where he parks.
After three years of owning an ebike I just had my most expensive maintenance service ever: $450
Tell me again how e-bikes are luxury goods and cars are for the working class?
Why the heck are homeowners responsible for fixing sidewalks? This would be way cheaper if the city just dealt with it and could negotiate a bulk discount on the work.
So apparently
@cruise
vehicles don’t know that they need to come to a complete stop when a pedestrian is in a marked crosswalk.
Just had one pass my dog and me within 2ft. This is not the safe, law-following behavior I was promised.
SF’s tough-on-crime crowd:
2022: Crime is the DA’s fault!
*replaces DA. crime stays the same*
2023: Crime is the Police Commission’s & Dean Preston’s fault!
… I’m getting the feeling that these folk don’t know what causes crime, and are just using it as a political wedge.
This is how Paris’s Fire Department lowered response times while adding tons of protected bike lanes: they shrunk their fire engines!
If Paris can do this (where the median building is ~7 stories), I’m surprised that
@SFFDPIO
can’t.
An actual conversation with a Left NIMBY:
Them: We should only build 100% affordable housing
Me: Where will you get the money for this?
Them: In a few years, SF should have a public bank which will help
🤯
Hot take: inclusionary zoning is only a thing because the Leftists who want affordable housing found an ally in NIMBYs who want none, with predictable effects
Real Leftist policies would create general taxes to fund subsidized housing, rather than taxing new housing construction
Having a hard time reconciling mobility advocates cheering Bird leaving San Francisco.
Every scooter rider is an ally in the quest for a less car-dependent city. The city being unable to keep micromobility services is a problem.
I don’t believe we’re doing “corporations are responsible for climate change, not you” discourse again.
We *are* responsible. We buy the products. We lobby for more parking and wider highways. We refuse to swap out our gas stoves for induction. We travel by air. It’s us.
I love that SF is expanding “no turn on red”, but until we do this city-wide or state-wide drivers are not going to respect it. Drivers don’t read. They assume.
Paging
@SecretaryPete
: we now have data showing that giant vehicles are 45% more likely to result in fatalities when they hit vulnerable road users than standard-profile cars. It’s time for regulation!
Neighbors determined that being able to park their private vehicles in the same spot for two more hours a week was more important than having clean streets. For some reason, the city listened!
We hear a ton about folk who don’t pay fares on transit, but we don’t hear about the plethora of vehicles with expired tags.
I’m on a road trip and ~10% of vehicles have outdated tags. Drivers aren’t paying their fair share for our roads.
@DeTahmineh
@PGon2wheels
You realize there are disabilities that prevent people from driving, right? Cars are not accessible for all. And we haven’t even started talking about the cost of these multi-ton vehicles.
Valencia Bikeway Pilot: Jan. 2024 Update 🧵
The Valencia Bikeway Improvement team is finalizing the 3-month evaluation report & early bike usage results are promising. Average daily bike volume is estimated to be ~3% higher than baseline pre-pilot conditions. Continue ⬇️
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@kentlind
@KCGrock
Kent, you’re an investor, which means your opinions are usually driven by data.
Did you know that car usage is positively correlated with wealth, and bike usage is negatively correlated with wealth?
The elite are the car owners, statistically.
@jakedecker
City has said they’ll clean it, but I’m doubtful they’ll do anything since this is private property. PD said they won’t investigate. Fun way to start the day 😬
Seven years and three developers later, 400 Divisadero is still absent of housing. 🫠 Here's what’s up with one of San Francisco’s most infuriating empty lots.
@rkeuler
He is! Maybe he thought I’d go from filing a 311 report to vandalizing, which at best would have been ill advised even without him recording me.
For CA folk filling out your ballots: consider No on 30. I’m all for taxing the wealthy, but we should be funding transit rather than doubling down on spending on cars.
Spotted: Three robo cars stalled in the same intersection in San Francisco. This time, it’s
@Cruise
cars jamming the intersection of Valencia/21 St. in the Mission.
Parking enforcement guy banging on windows trying to communicate w/ Cruise. Traffic backed up for blocks.
@sethmeisterg
Other electeds in the Bay Area take transit. And security could certainly board Muni, or walk/bike alongside the Mayor if security is the concern.
That said, if the only way to safely move through the city is to be driven in an Escalade… that’s a policy failure.
Our legislature needs to start overriding these vetos.
It is not acceptable for an executive to be completely disengaged from the legislative process up until a bill hits his desk.
@timcourtney
@proales
@jakedecker
We don’t have an external camera. I do have one in my garage. And I have recording of the guys who stole some bikes out of it a few years back. PD still did nothing.
This morning a car driver accelerated at me on Slow Page while I was walking my dog in front of the French American school’s drop off zone. Guy hit me with the driver’s side mirror.
We really need traffic diverters every other block. Drivers can’t be trusted cc
@DeanPreston
Why is this in my For You feed? No one I know liked, retweeted, quote tweeted, or replied to this tweet. I don’t follow Garry. There is no “promoted” tag. Is Twitter just putting whatever it wants in my feed?
@karl_s_graham
They are! Though we’re working on changing that. Turns out it’s literally safer for cyclists to treat stop signs as yields: states that have adopted the Idaho Stop law have seen decreases in cyclist crashes.
I do not understand my fellow homeowner millennials in San Francisco who are anti-market-rate housing. You just went through the hell that is our housing market and… you don’t want to try to save others from that?!
35k people use 47 miles of slow streets daily. We have a population of 874,961 and 1398.4 total miles of streets. This means 3.36% of our streets are slow, and 4% of the city walks or bikes on these streets daily
Slow streets are a smashing success!
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Fun fact of the day: any car that can haul 6,000 pounds is ineligible for a residential parking permit in San Francisco.
This means most large vehicles can’t park for >2hrs in residential neighborhoods. Further proof F150s, Suburbans, and Cayennes don’t belong on city streets.
Is Aaron Peskin progressive on anything?
Seems to me he’s a man of “no”. No scooters. No bike lanes. No housing. No office cafeterias.
Seems like a deeply conservative politician.
@KCGrock
Remove the bike lane. Bikes are private transportation for a very small elite. How many more workers need to lose their jobs over this nonsense.
Drivers will not follow rules when they believe they are being inconvenienced unless physical barriers force them to. I am begging
@SFMTA_Muni
to learn that pleading with drivers does not work.
Looks like
@SanFranciscoDSA
doing a great job protecting and serving. Parking in the bike lane to deal with some paperwork. Legal parking is of course available across the street.
I just supported No Turn On Red (NTOR) citywide in San Francisco to make it safer, easier, and more comfortable to cross streets.
Let SF know you support NTOR with just a few taps!
Not only is the Valencia bike lane design horrible, but the rollout has been negligent as well.
Paint put in before signals added. No alternative bike routes designated: “shared” lanes only. Beyond disappointed in SFMTA.
I’m a proud SF cyclist. Always will be.
But this new diagonal bike lane on 23rd & Valencia is a failure and dangerous.
I was recording because I have a genuine question for
@sfmta
: what do you expect to happen when the light turns green?
According to CA’s DMV: cars should enter a bike lane 200ft before an intersection, and then AFTER ENTERING THE BIKE LANE they should signal that they plan on turning.
Unreal seeing the pro-cars-everywhere ballot measure folks gathering signatures at the farmers market under the guise of “access for seniors with disabilities” when there are more accessible-only parking spaces now than there were before JFK went car-free.
Extremely funny walking through Corona Heights and seeing homes with multimillion dollar views with Aaron Peskin signs in their windows.
Old money SF proudly declaring no one else should get to enjoy what they do.
I would love San Francisco’s Land Use & Transportation committee to come out strongly in favor of using diverters on Slow Streets to eliminate dangerous cut-through traffic.
I know both
@DeanPreston
and
@myrnamelgar
are good on safe streets. That’s a majority of the commission!
My jaw dropped when I saw this street treatment. This bike “infrastructure” on Market/Portola is negligent.
We know shadows create conflict with drivers, and we know drivers are more likely to speed in the left lane. What you see below is a death trap.
Why is the D1 supervisor in San Francisco trying to landmark a decades-long-abandoned theater instead of trying to purchase it as a potential affordable housing site?
Widespread adoption of AVs means *more* cars on our streets, not fewer. Safer, rule-following cars, but still cars.
Higher net VMT means more demand for travel lanes. AVs will make it even harder to win dedicated space for transit and bikes.
The cost of collecting fares via Clipper in the Bay Area is $46mil/yr
Assuming a $3 average fare region-wide, we need at least 42,000 paying riders/day *just to cover the costs of collecting fares*
Spending 5+% of fare revenue on fare collection is nuts.
@seamlessbayarea
, help!
So
@SFMTA_Muni
just sent out an email updating us on the progress Valencia’s bike lane project. They are planning on adding “K-71 bollards” to the lane shortly
Here’s how those K-71 bollards are advertised by the manufacturer. It does not seem like K-71 is mean to protect people
@SFFDPIO
Can you elaborate what the challenges were? The barriers are flex posts and 3” tall rubber bumps – your vehicles can pretty easily drive over these.