Car Lite San Mateo
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Getting around the suburbs of San Francisco with one car and too many electric bikes
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"A 2018 pilot project in Washington, D.C. saw dramatic reductions in conflicts, including a 97 per cent decrease in vehicle-to-vehicle conflicts and a 92 per cent drop in failures to yield to pedestrians."
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"The City’s own data indicate that conflicts involving right-turning vehicles are among the most common types of pedestrian collisions ... If adopted, these changes would mark one of the most significant intersection-safety reforms in Vancouver in years."
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Ban right turns on red at intersections, proposes Vancouver city councillor | Urbanized
OneCity councillor Lucy Maloney is pushing for a ban on right turns during the red-light traffic signal at intersections across Vancouver.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"A 2018 pilot project in Washington, D.C. saw dramatic reductions in conflicts, including a 97 per cent decrease in vehicle-to-vehicle conflicts and a 92 per cent drop in failures to yield to pedestrians."
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The pinnacle of bike technology
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The pinnacle of bike technology
How The City of San Mateo subsidizes driving: most street repaving dollars come from general sales taxes, not driver fees.
Awareness is step one to fund our roads more fairly and invest in safer, climate-friendly ways to get around. 🚲🚎🚆
www.carlitesanmateo.com/blog/street-...
Awareness is step one to fund our roads more fairly and invest in safer, climate-friendly ways to get around. 🚲🚎🚆
www.carlitesanmateo.com/blog/street-...
How San Mateo Funds Street Repaving
Who Really Pays to Maintain San Mateo’s Streets?
www.carlitesanmateo.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
How The City of San Mateo subsidizes driving: most street repaving dollars come from general sales taxes, not driver fees.
Awareness is step one to fund our roads more fairly and invest in safer, climate-friendly ways to get around. 🚲🚎🚆
www.carlitesanmateo.com/blog/street-...
Awareness is step one to fund our roads more fairly and invest in safer, climate-friendly ways to get around. 🚲🚎🚆
www.carlitesanmateo.com/blog/street-...
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London’s Low-Traffic Neighborhoods provide a model other cities should emulate.
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
London’s Low-Traffic Neighborhoods provide a model other cities should emulate.
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The best part is seeing what happens when you give children a joyful way to start their day. They show up energized, confident, and connected. This is what happens when streets feel welcoming and movement is part of the morning routine. #BikeBus
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The best part is seeing what happens when you give children a joyful way to start their day. They show up energized, confident, and connected. This is what happens when streets feel welcoming and movement is part of the morning routine. #BikeBus
This story is amazing! Locally I think these modal filters and the housing topics could be the most impactful. We could build out a much safer network with simple modal filters routes that connect to the limited good infrastructure we have.
Give the video a watch
Give the video a watch
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This story is amazing! Locally I think these modal filters and the housing topics could be the most impactful. We could build out a much safer network with simple modal filters routes that connect to the limited good infrastructure we have.
Give the video a watch
Give the video a watch
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Fair questions... but now let me proceed to only somewhat vaguely, kind of answer one of them.
December 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Fair questions... but now let me proceed to only somewhat vaguely, kind of answer one of them.
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Napa valley towns of 5,000 have better pedestrian daylighting infrastructure than my town of 100,000
December 1, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Napa valley towns of 5,000 have better pedestrian daylighting infrastructure than my town of 100,000
I’m fighting a similar battle locally and getting similar responses. Our city insists on communicating via phone calls as much as possible so it’s harder to cite their reasoning but I’m hearing many similar things to this thread.
We just want to walk to the park safely!
We just want to walk to the park safely!
The crosswalks across the "side" streets are unmarked because "The introduction of an unjustified marked crosswalk can create a false sense of safety among pedestrians which would pose increased risk", we are not making this up, it's a direct quote from MD SHA.
On Sat 11/22/25 7:04 pm
the driver (29/F) of a 2007 Nissan Sentra
turning left from Georgia Ave/97 to Tilton Dr
hit & injured a pedestrian (43/F)
crossing in an unmarked crosswalk, "not visible" [to whom?].
Police (MCP289200JQ) did not find anyone at fault.👀
the driver (29/F) of a 2007 Nissan Sentra
turning left from Georgia Ave/97 to Tilton Dr
hit & injured a pedestrian (43/F)
crossing in an unmarked crosswalk, "not visible" [to whom?].
Police (MCP289200JQ) did not find anyone at fault.👀
December 1, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I’m fighting a similar battle locally and getting similar responses. Our city insists on communicating via phone calls as much as possible so it’s harder to cite their reasoning but I’m hearing many similar things to this thread.
We just want to walk to the park safely!
We just want to walk to the park safely!
Need our local transit to hang on and find some steady funding then learn from these expansions. If another North American city can do it there should be lots of good stuff to build off of.
IMPORTANT: “I boarded Montreal’s brand-new light metro line for its first voyage. From the front of the driverless train, the crowd got a privileged view…The journey was not just a tour of the REM’s 14 new stations, however—it was a preview of the most ambitious transit expansion in North America.”
Montreal's New Rail Line Is the Future - Macleans.ca
Canada has forgotten how to build fast, cheap transit. A new megaproject has the fix.
macleans.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Need our local transit to hang on and find some steady funding then learn from these expansions. If another North American city can do it there should be lots of good stuff to build off of.
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I read the NYT Marin e-bike story about a teen who fell while trying out a borrowed illegal e-moto. We don't ban all cars because someone crashed an illegally modified car on the streets.
A car can hit a cyclist & throw them much faster than the speed of an e-moto. Helmets won't save them
A car can hit a cyclist & throw them much faster than the speed of an e-moto. Helmets won't save them
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I read the NYT Marin e-bike story about a teen who fell while trying out a borrowed illegal e-moto. We don't ban all cars because someone crashed an illegally modified car on the streets.
A car can hit a cyclist & throw them much faster than the speed of an e-moto. Helmets won't save them
A car can hit a cyclist & throw them much faster than the speed of an e-moto. Helmets won't save them
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The article says police would like anyone with information about the crash to email them, so I did.
Fuck cars.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Fuck cars.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The article says police would like anyone with information about the crash to email them, so I did.
Fuck cars.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Fuck cars.
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Bike lane goals
Less about how wide they are and more about them being *sidewalk-level* and separated from the pedestrian side by trees. They even have light signals with sensors to trigger green lights when stopped at the curbie! (Low res video)
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Bike lane goals
Don’t store trash in the bike lane but also can we have this awesome level of protected bike lane too? How can Fresno get nicer things that we do here 😾
To the Fresno person that piled their trash in the bike lane: may you have the Monday you deserve.
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Don’t store trash in the bike lane but also can we have this awesome level of protected bike lane too? How can Fresno get nicer things that we do here 😾
I hit the best kind of traffic the other morning. Love seeing more cargo bikes around San Mateo 😍
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I hit the best kind of traffic the other morning. Love seeing more cargo bikes around San Mateo 😍
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Anyone who claims there isn’t enough parking just remember
There are over 2 billion parking spots in the US alone
That’s enough parking for every American to own 5 cars
If we put all the parking spaces into one giant lot it would cover over the entire states of Connecticut and Vermont
There are over 2 billion parking spots in the US alone
That’s enough parking for every American to own 5 cars
If we put all the parking spaces into one giant lot it would cover over the entire states of Connecticut and Vermont
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Anyone who claims there isn’t enough parking just remember
There are over 2 billion parking spots in the US alone
That’s enough parking for every American to own 5 cars
If we put all the parking spaces into one giant lot it would cover over the entire states of Connecticut and Vermont
There are over 2 billion parking spots in the US alone
That’s enough parking for every American to own 5 cars
If we put all the parking spaces into one giant lot it would cover over the entire states of Connecticut and Vermont
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Active commuting with children is often cited by parents as quality time spent interacting with their child and the environment, rather than time spent isolated in separate metal boxes.
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Active commuting with children is often cited by parents as quality time spent interacting with their child and the environment, rather than time spent isolated in separate metal boxes.
These parking cost numbers are even more wild in the SF Bay Area.
~30% of people don't or can't drive but we all get to pay these costs. At current interest rates that is a ~$450/month payment on a single garage parking space 😳
~30% of people don't or can't drive but we all get to pay these costs. At current interest rates that is a ~$450/month payment on a single garage parking space 😳
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 PM
These parking cost numbers are even more wild in the SF Bay Area.
~30% of people don't or can't drive but we all get to pay these costs. At current interest rates that is a ~$450/month payment on a single garage parking space 😳
~30% of people don't or can't drive but we all get to pay these costs. At current interest rates that is a ~$450/month payment on a single garage parking space 😳
Even fake speed cameras are effective! An interesting tactical urbanism approach.
"Drivers immediately began slowing down, and locals noticed the road felt calmer for the first time in years... It achieved more in two days than the council had in years."
www.regit.cars/car-news/fru...
"Drivers immediately began slowing down, and locals noticed the road felt calmer for the first time in years... It achieved more in two days than the council had in years."
www.regit.cars/car-news/fru...
Frustrated residents put up a fake speed camera to slow down drivers - only for the council to remove it once it started working
Catford residents installed a fake speed camera to curb speeding on Sandhurst Road, successfully calming traffic before council workers removed it, reigniting a
www.regit.cars
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Even fake speed cameras are effective! An interesting tactical urbanism approach.
"Drivers immediately began slowing down, and locals noticed the road felt calmer for the first time in years... It achieved more in two days than the council had in years."
www.regit.cars/car-news/fru...
"Drivers immediately began slowing down, and locals noticed the road felt calmer for the first time in years... It achieved more in two days than the council had in years."
www.regit.cars/car-news/fru...
Seeing this when the street had a center turn lane and is through a residential area is even more maddening
If you could easily lose your life riding in a painted bike gutter, always and unapologetically ride your bike on the sidewalk.
November 15, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Seeing this when the street had a center turn lane and is through a residential area is even more maddening
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Thanks Brian for pointing out the double standard for cars. www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/lett...
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Thanks Brian for pointing out the double standard for cars. www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/lett...
Get out on a bike with your kids!
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Get out on a bike with your kids!
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We should absolutely be redesigning our streets to prevent speeding, but in the meantime technology like this is one of the better tools we have to force lower speeds. It doesn't solve all dangerous driving, but it's a step in the the right direction, and I'd love to see this become more widespread.
"The bills in D.C., Virginia, and Washington all received strong bipartisan support—D.C.’s vote was unanimous—reflecting a growing consensus among leaders that proactive solutions are necessary to protect and modernize public safety and traffic enforcement."
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Inside the Rise of Intelligent Speed Assistance - Move Magazine - AAMVA
With Intelligent Speed Assistance legislation, states are taking steps to reduce reckless driving and save lives.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We should absolutely be redesigning our streets to prevent speeding, but in the meantime technology like this is one of the better tools we have to force lower speeds. It doesn't solve all dangerous driving, but it's a step in the the right direction, and I'd love to see this become more widespread.
What a headline. "For the most part, the three commenters didn’t object to the plan itself. They objected to what they considered not enough community outreach." The lengths cities go to appease everyone in these projects is just wild.
thefrisc.com/bayview-stre...
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Bayview Street Safety Project Delayed By 3 Complaints, Minutes Before a Vote
Calls for more outreach surprised SFMTA officials, but they shelved the plan’s approval for now. Will it jeopardize future funding?
thefrisc.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
What a headline. "For the most part, the three commenters didn’t object to the plan itself. They objected to what they considered not enough community outreach." The lengths cities go to appease everyone in these projects is just wild.
thefrisc.com/bayview-stre...
thefrisc.com/bayview-stre...