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Marc Hedlund
@marcprecipice.bsky.social
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · Mar 3
Last fall, I was tired of hearing that support for bikes came from a narrow minority of Berkeley, so I commissioned a poll to ask how broad support is here. The answer is that the vast majority of the city, 73%—and even a majority of people who do not bike—support adding more bike infrastructure.
A pie chart showing that 73% of poll respondents support expanding bike infrastructure in Berkeley. A chart showing that 91% of respondents want off-street paths, 86% want concrete-protected bike lanes, and 74% want parking-protected bike lanes. Posts or paint are not enough.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 2h
omfg
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 22h
IMO: Yes! You shop there!
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 1d
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Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org · 1d
Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.
Why electric bikes are everywhere in Berkeley
Residents of all ages and abilities are taking to electric bikes — used for commutes, school drop-offs, grocery trips and joy rides.
www.berkeleyside.org
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 1d
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 1d
jfc
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 1d
Seems like a @berkeleyside.org story should happen
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 2d
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 3d
Go @horbinski.bsky.social!! ❤️🏴‍☠️
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NPR @npr.org · 3d
Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
Why Gen Z protesters worldwide are flying an anime pirate flag
Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 3d
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 4d
Wow! Lovely.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 5d
This rules.
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bikepedantic @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 5d
Bikes can do so many more things than most people think. Today’s wonderful example is Carla Cargo’s feature on @mountvernontrail.org’s bike-based volunteer trail maintenance work. www.carlacargo.de/heroes/carla...
A cargobike with a trailer loading six feet high with crates sits next to a trailer by a river
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 5d
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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 5d
The people posting those flyers either don’t know of the Berkeley Elmwood neighborhood’s repulsive history of weaponizing downzoning in support of racial exclusion, or they embrace it.

belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/defaul...
“A postcard from ca. 1915 depicts a residence in the Elmwood district of Berkeley. Elmwood Park was the first Berkeley subdivision to be assigned the exclusive single-family residential zoning designation. Duncan McDuffie of the Mason McDuffie Company, which created the neighboring Claremont subdivision, advocated for exclusive single-family zoning in Elmwood out of concern that a lack of public zoning could lead to Glaremont becoming surrounded by "incompatible" uses that would affect his subdivision's property values. Gourtesy of Berkeley Public Library. The real estate industry's advocacy for zoning was driven by tightly intertwined interests in generating profit and maintaining racially exclusive areas. Real estate developers, who had often developed large tracts of dozens or hundreds of homes, feared that the allowance of people of color would lower the sale prices of the homes, a concern that white homeowners also voiced. Historian David Freund illuminates the racial underpinnings of zoning: Zoning's original intent must be understood in the context of early twentieth-century racial politics, when enthusiasm for the new science of land-use economics converged with assumptions about racial, specifically eugenic, science. Most early zoning advocates believed in racial hierarchy, openly embraced racial exclusion, and saw zoning as a way to achieve it. But they formulated strategies and sketched out a language for justifying segregation that focused on practical, supposedly nonideologi-cal considerations. 129”
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 5d
"'More Human than Human' is our motto."
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
Yes, strongly agree with that. Literally all for me, too.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
Spot on.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
I am definitely Klein’d out but I think the ongoing reaction to the Coates/Klein debate has been really productive and worthwhile. Maybe not for Klein, maybe not for his fans. But for giving airtime and very helpful reactions to Coates’ arguments: definitely. (The thread is a great example.)
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
NIIIIIICE I will tell them!
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
Seriously.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
“I didn’t mean *here*!” They’re opposed to having more customers nearby.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 6d
This sign from your fourth photo is the one that really gets me going.
A faded sign reading, “HOMES FOR ALL—WE WON’T WAIT!” It’s in the same window as the “Save the Elmwood” sign Libby called out.
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 8d
jfc that guy
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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 8d
Yeah, I wish Berkeley did more of that coordination—both for better results and for cost savings.