Here's a bike advocacy conundrum for you. We must loudly protest that streets are too dangerous, but highlighting the dangers scares people away from bicycling. I'd love your thoughts on navigating this. I've included a few ideas in the attached article.

Y'all stop it with the dancing on this dude's grave. Killing our political opponents will only works if we kill millions of them, and I don't want to do that. Here's a distraction: people absolutely destroying Anne Coulter at a roast for Rob Lowe. www.instagram.com/reel/DOZPUKl...

My favorite kind of bike infrastructure is just a street. A "slow street" with few vehicles and top speeds of 20 mph. They are social infrastructure! I wrote about SF’s slow streets in a recent issue of my newsletter. davesnydersf.substac...
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I know you know that we now live in a dictatorship, enforced with violence. How do we fight back without escalating the violence? As I've contemplated nonviolence, I applied it to local advocacy and provided some advice because it takes courage. But you'll win. Be brave.

Bike share is not an exclusive club! But most pricing models provide affordable rates only for those who pay for a membership. For most people, a bike share trip is absurdly expensive. That's a really dumb way to provide a transportation resource. Ditch the membership model!
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As a San Franciscan I’m supposed to deride Los Angeles as an obscenely car dependent metropolis of superficial people stuck in traffic. But I love LA. It’s not like that. It’s reasonably bikeable now, and has the potential to be amazing. Don’t believe me? Read it: davesnydersf.substac... #urbanism

Have you heard of ride-outs? They remind me of Critical Mass and are also important to our movement to reclaim city streets as places to build community, not just drive through in fast machines.
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My love letter to local bike advocates. In the context of our corrupt and undemocratic national govt, local organizers fighting for the right to safely and joyfully walk and bike in our communities are laying the foundation for a new system.
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Autonomous vehicles are the future of cars, and that’s great. They're much safer and potentially more efficient. But it’s not guaranteed. This article shows how the San Francisco Mayor’s proposal to allow Waymos on Market Street is dangerous. #urbanism

With our national government as it is, local advocacy is the best path toward effective social change. That's why I supported the League's local advocacy programming. I talk about why it's so important in this issue of my Movement Newsletter.

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After 12 weeks of publication, I can say I'm proud of my weekly newsletter. Here's issue #1 (rb.gy/lu5o1n), that includes my origin story as a bike advocate, and a picture of the Velorutionary Manifesto I co-wrote in 1990, and Le Manifeste Vélorutionnaire by Parisian activists in 1976!

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Proud to see this flag flying above my street morning.

I was wrong about bike share when it first arrived. Now I realize it’s transformational. It’s time to double down and expand it! I discussed this in my latest newsletter.🚲 https://davesnydersf.substack.com/p/bike-share-is-transformational-its

My dear beloved fellow bicycle advocates: your intersectional and inclusive organizing at the local level is exactly the right work to be doing now. It's laying the foundation for a new society that we get to build after the fascists in power destroy this one. open.substack.com/pub/davesnyd...?