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Action Committee for Transit @actfortransit.bsky.social · 1h

You're riding your e-bike to get to transit to get to work, on a sidewalk that is officially a bike path, and a distracted driver hits and seriously injures you in a marked crosswalk designed for drivers to drive right over.

E-bikes are not the problem, and neither is riding on the sidewalk.

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Laura @3deckerlaura.bsky.social · 1h

Raised crosswalks everywhere when

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 2h

Some losers are bitching about the Court St bike lane that is under construction, per usual. I've lost all patience with these people. Let's check out the reality on the ground with @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social

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Saad Asad @realsaadasad.bsky.social · 9h

Thursday, San Diego Planning Commission decides whether SDSU staff, UCSD Health nurses, and students can live near two trolley stations—or if we keep forcing them to drive from East County.

Let's dive into the College Area Plan! 1/9 🧵

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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 11h

For those of you on my feed who aren't from NorCal: this is an asinine construction project. The original SR-37 is built on a mudflat and it'll be underwater in a decade or three. It's a marginal road between two Bay Area suburbs, and they're spending $11 billion on it.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 15h

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

Cross section of 114' wide bridge structure with each direction having a 12' outside shoulder and a 10' inside shoulder.

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🧮 Seattle Data Nerd ⁘⁙⁚ 💡 @dpsea.bsky.social · 10h

San Francisco's automated speed cameras after 6 months:
• 50% drop in extreme speeding
• 36% reduction in violations overall
• System PAYS FOR ITSELF through tickets
• Zero staff monitoring needed (fully automated)
• Revenue funds more safety improvements

This is what actual Vision Zero looks like.

Split-screen illustration comparing two public safety models: the left shows an automated speed camera reducing speeding and funding a “Community Safety Fund” in green-blue tones, while the right shows a dim red surveillance control room labeled “Resource Drain” with operators watching multiple screens.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · Sep 5

First the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail closure to enable a study for adding a car lane, and now this. It feels like MTC has lost the plot wrt the nexus between transportation and climate.

MTC Bay Area @mtcbata.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today’s passage of AB 697 marks a major advance for long-running efforts to start work on a suite of projects to enhance North Bay marshlands and wildlife habitats, reduce flooding, improve traffic flow along Highway 37, and introduce transit service between Vallejo and Novato.

Legislature passes bill paving way for Highway 37 improvements

Today’s passage by the California State Senate of Assembly Bill 697 — sponsored by the Solano Transportation Authority, authored by Assemblymember Lori Wilson of Solano County and passed by the Assemb...

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San Diego Bikeist @sdbikeist.bsky.social · 10h

Here it is, your #BlueSky #Bike Content of the Day for Tuesday, 10/7/25. Now THAT’s a protected bike lane! To hell with flexi-posts and painted buffers -

West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 2d

Yup they're pretty sweet

New Toronto barriers for bike lane on Andover near Delridge

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 9h

And the expanded highway will outlast the marsh after it dries up from climate change as a monument to mankind's stupidity.

MTC Bay Area @mtcbata.bsky.social · Sep 5

Today’s passage of AB 697 marks a major advance for long-running efforts to start work on a suite of projects to enhance North Bay marshlands and wildlife habitats, reduce flooding, improve traffic flow along Highway 37, and introduce transit service between Vallejo and Novato.

Legislature passes bill paving way for Highway 37 improvements

Today’s passage by the California State Senate of Assembly Bill 697 — sponsored by the Solano Transportation Authority, authored by Assemblymember Lori Wilson of Solano County and passed by the Assemb...

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · Sep 5

This is a highway expansion project through the middle of wetlands. This is not a project to be proud of. 😱

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 9h

right back at you, buddy

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Conrad Nobert @conradnobert.bsky.social · 16h

If you're 40+ and you don't ride your bike around town what even is your plan for healthy aging?

I just don't understand older people who hate bike lanes.

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West Seattle Bike Blog @westseattlebikeblg.bsky.social · 11h

lol just now seeing this

Flyer reading:

California Ave is for CARS ONLY!

The best thing for our community is maximizing CAR STORAGE and CARS DRIVING on California! Join us in supporting cars over people!

The Farmer’s Market is already the WORST time of the week:
★ families strolling
★ kids playing
★ local businesses benefitting from all the foot traffic
DESPICABLE and frankly UN-AMERICAN!

And now there’s talk of extending that safe, quiet environment of community and human connection for the whole weekend! Who wants that? WE DON’T!

The ONLY thing our neighborhood’s most popular commercial corridor needs is TWO LANES of car storage and FOUR LANES of car traffic. There’s simply no room for anything else.

Together, we’ll keep California for CARS NOT PEOPLE!
Join us @ CarsOnlyCalifornia.com

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Robin Richardson she/her @canadarobin.bsky.social · 12h

This is super interesting and important; I wish I had learned about this sooner. My 18yo is pursuing pilot training, and it's sobering how much more care is taken in training a person to pilot a plane than in training one to drive a car. What if we took driving as seriously as we do flying?

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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 15h

Pedestrian-only spaces are not just for Central Park. They are the secret ingredient to great walkability and a fundamental element of livable cities. Let's stop treating them as a park luxury and start making this low-stress living a standard feature of our streets.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 14h

Speed safety cameras are astonishingly successful. We know the tools that reduce traffic violence. Legalize them.
www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 14h

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Elisabeth @affabletoaster.bsky.social · 15h

A few days ago a Tesla pulled away from the curb about half a block in front of me (on bike) and then very slowly crept down the street. Driver was kind of hunched over, and as I overtook I glanced inside to see him messing around with the touchscreen.

iPads and cars, together at last! Joy.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 16h

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 17h

According to our local news bike lanes both cause drunk driving crashes and make it harder to drive to the bars!

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 17h

Bike Lane Derangement Syndrome

Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 18h

Driver commits armed robbery. Post blames bike lanes. These are my neighbors. ffs

Screenshot of fb post of screenshot of citizen app

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 1d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 18h

💯 I also see literally 50% of drivers around here staring at their phones.

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 21h

💯 Maybe a draw with cars rolling the stop limit line with tinted windows so I don't know if they're going to stop. I've started preemptively honking at any car with tinted windows 🤷‍♂️

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