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If you have opinions on how to improve the Ohlone Greenway in Berkeley, you are in luck, as there is an online survey in which those opinions can be expressed, until March 1. A link to the survey and overview of the project are linked below. https://fehrandpeers.mysocialpinpoint.com/ohlonegreenway
Ohlone Greenway V2

@Eeeszy That wet cement darted into the street! #BanCars

No wonder people are getting hit by cars left and right...

Blue Car Enrages Workers by Ending Dry January in Wet Cement
https://sfstandard.com/transportation/dry-january-wet-cement-driver-san-francisco-street/

Blue Scion Enrages Workers by Ending Dry January in Wet Cement

The driver allegedly ignored cones and workers as he drove ahead.

The San Francisco Standard
I love you, bike people, but "just ride a bike" is not a good response to the fact that transit sucks. I DO believe we can have it all: great transit, great walkability and bikeability, and great access for people with disabilities of all kinds. These things all overlap!
In 2022 my household spent the same $$ on our total car use through a car share as my parents spent on JUST GAS. Car ownership and car dependency is expensive!
The Knitting Clock, a clock that knits a new scarf every 365 days. "It knits 24 hours a day, one year at the time, presenting the physical representation of time as a creative and tangible force." https://kottke.org/23/01/the-knitting-clock
The Knitting Clock

Artist Siren Elise Wilhelmsen designed a clock that knits while it tells time -- the clock makes one two-meter long scarf every

kottke.org

This is important β€” closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid in Forbes. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople #cities #cars #streets #urbanism #Spain

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/03/08/closing-central-madrid-to-cars-resulted-in-9-5-boost-to-retail-spending-finds-bank-analysis/

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis

City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Forbes
One of the nation's biggest funders of pro-tenant causes owns a single-room-occupancy hotel in Skid Row with chronic elevator malfunctions for more than five years. Tenants have fallen down the shaft, slept in the lobby and stayed in their rooms for days https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2023-01-20/ahf-madison-hotel-elevator-lawsuit-story
A powerful nonprofit owns apartments for poor tenants. Why are some tenants trapped in their rooms?

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has spent tens of millions on pro-tenant causes. Yet elderly and disabled tenants at one of its buildings complain they have spent months at a time without a functioning elevator.

Los Angeles Times
@SafeStreetRebel and members of the Latinx Dem Club, Chinatown Community Development Center and Calle 24 memorializing our neighbor who was killed in this crosswalk on Jan 10.

RT @[email protected]

And now...time for a break from the extremely wet & active weather pattern in CA! One weak/cold system will bring some light showers to NorCal (mainly mountains) early Thu, but other than that, it appears that a dry pattern will prevail for 7-10 days. #CAwx #CAwater [1/3]

πŸ¦πŸ”—: https://twitter.com/Weather_West/status/1615377367706525696

Daniel Swain on Twitter

β€œAnd now...time for a break from the extremely wet & active weather pattern in CA! One weak/cold system will bring some light showers to NorCal (mainly mountains) early Thu, but other than that, it appears that a dry pattern will prevail for 7-10 days. #CAwx #CAwater [1/3]”

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