I just got back from visiting Yosemite National Park (my first time in 16 years of living in CA). We camped at nearby Camp Mather and on Tuesday we decided to bike to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir to see where our drinking water comes from. At the entrance to the park, we were charged $300 to enter the park on our bikes. 12 adults and 3 children at $20 each.

As we were trying to negotiate with the rangers, a massive 10,000 pound Ford F-WTF with 4 people in it entered the park for only $35.

It is obscene that the @NationalParkService is subsidizing road destroying, forest-fire accelerating motor vehicles and giving the finger to anyone who chooses to visit our national parks sustainably by walking or biking.

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I designed stickers for Transpo Maps and I'm really happy with how they came out. If you donate $50 or more to support our work helping people fight for safer streets, I'd love to send you some!

https://transpomaps.org/donate

Tomorrow at 11am, U.C Berkeley students and residents will be taking over Telegraph Avenue to demand that three blocks from Bancroft to Haste be immediately made car-free. I pulled data from the Berkeley police department and U.S. Census and found that in the neighborhood surrounding Telegraph:

• 71% of households do not own a car
• 77% of residents walk, bike or take public transit to work
• 72% of residents are people of color
• 96% of residents are under age 34

In 2023 the neighborhood saw 35 vehicle crashes which is a crash approximately every 10 days.

It is beyond inequitable to continue to allow dangerous, polluting vehicle traffic on this historic street which should be a safe, healthy space for people to shop and congregate.

My latest op-ed for Berkeleyside shows that banning cars from Telegraph will not only make the street more equitable and accessible but will improve public safety and provide an economic boost to local businesses.

Link to op-ed: https://shorturl.at/ayHOV

It's really sad to see @sfstandard perpetuating a stereotype that applies to a tiny fraction of people who ride a bike in San Francisco.

This kind of language incites violence against the thousands of moms & dads in SF who bike because they cannot or choose not to drive a car.

TW – A cyclist was just hit by a driver whipping a K-turn on Haight St.

I rushed outside to administer first aid. Cyclist has serious face/head trauma but should survive.

My neighbor and I stayed with him and kept talking to him until SFFD arrived.

We shouldn't have to live like this. Cars are responsible for so many of San Francisco's problems and are destroying this city!!

It's now been 7 months since SFDPH has updated SF's official #VisionZero dataset. 2 weeks ago I submitted a PRR which they just closed citing "ongoing technical issues".

It is pathetic that a city "committed" to ending traffic violence can't even manage basic data collection data on it.

What's further infuriating is that this issue has been brought up multiple times by myself & other advocates at SFMTA board hearings & yet Jeffrey Tumlin (dir of transportation) and Amanda Eaken (board chair) have done nothing to address it.

In fact, no one on the board has even acknowledged that this is a problem.

Crash data is critical to evaluating our progress towards VZ. Without it, we're literally flying blind.

I've offered multiple times to help SFMTA, SFPD & SFDPH organize & analyze this and other VZ data and every offer has been ignored.

PRR: https://sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com/requests/23-5854

SFMTA just released plans for a quick-build on Hyde St & they're finally showing crash stats to underpin why it's desperately needed.

However they should also be showing that 90% of households on Hyde are car-free & that prioritizing car access on Hyde is inequitable to that community.

The vast majority of Tenderloin residents don't own a car, yet it is ground-zero for traffic violence in SF. It is also one of the most transit rich areas of the city. The fact that we allow obscene levels of unnecessary cut-through traffic terrorize these residents is deplorable.

The plan for the quick-build is linked below. SFMTA is suggesting a road diet from 3 lanes to 2. SFFD will almost certainly veto that & find ways to water down the other designs as they always do. SFMTA should be calling for a car-free Hyde street & making compromises from there.

Hyde St Quick-Build Plans 👇
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/08bbf0f7b79f4017a01032dd8564e93f?utm_source=MarketingCloud&utm_medium=email

Traffic Violence in San Francisco 👇
https://transpomaps.org/san-francisco/ca/fatalities

Car Ownership in San Francisco 👇
https://transpomaps.org/san-francisco/ca/car-ownership