On Lake Street, kids can run free now that their street is slowed. It’s brimming with adorableness, right down to the homemade “Black Lives Matter” signs adorning most windows.
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On Lake Street, kids can run free now that their street is slowed. It’s brimming with adorableness, right down to the homemade “Black Lives Matter” signs adorning most windows.2/
On Lake Street, kids can run free now that their street is slowed. It’s brimming with adorableness, right down to the homemade “Black Lives Matter” signs adorning most windows.2/
On Lake Street, kids can run free now that their street is slowed. It’s brimming with adorableness, right down to the homemade “Black Lives Matter” signs adorning most windows.2/
On the other side of town in Bayview Hunters Point, home to 35K people, 88% minority, predominantly black, and more children under 12 than any neighborhood in the city, there is one tiny Slow Street and one of their central playgrounds is a safe sleeping site. Kids are trapped
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On the other side of town in Bayview Hunters Point, home to 35K people, 88% minority, predominantly black, and more children under 12 than any neighborhood in the city, there is one tiny Slow Street and one of their central playgrounds is a safe sleeping site. Kids are trapped3/
On the other side of town in Bayview Hunters Point, home to 35K people, 88% minority, predominantly black, and more children under 12 than any neighborhood in the city, there is one tiny Slow Street and one of their central playgrounds is a safe sleeping site. Kids are trapped3/
On the other side of town in Bayview Hunters Point, home to 35K people, 88% minority, predominantly black, and more children under 12 than any neighborhood in the city, there is one tiny Slow Street and one of their central playgrounds is a safe sleeping site. Kids are trapped3/
On the other side of town in Bayview Hunters Point, home to 35K people, 88% minority, predominantly black, and more children under 12 than any neighborhood in the city, there is one tiny Slow Street and one of their central playgrounds is a safe sleeping site. Kids are trapped3/
In fact during most of my rides thru BVHP, I’ve seen almost no children despite them having at least 6K in grades K-12. How can anyone in SF say “Black Lives Matter” when most in our city are living near/on a superfund site with no safe spaces for people...especially kids?
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Swing back to the West Side of town and you’ll find the twin wonders of @GreatWalkway (fka Great Highway) and #CarFreeJFK in @GoldenGatePark. Watching toddlers riding bikes makes my heart sing and they’re everywhere! How can you not want this for every kid, every day??
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But these streets aren’t even a part of the @sfmta_muni Slow Streets program. They’re actually from @RecParkSF as noted by the pinkish, rather than SFMTA red color on the map.
Do you notice any discrepancies on this map?
The NE has nothing. The SE has essentially nothing...
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But these streets aren’t even a part of the @sfmta_muni Slow Streets program. They’re actually from @RecParkSF as noted by the pinkish, rather than SFMTA red color on the map.Do you notice any discrepancies on this map?The NE has nothing. The SE has essentially nothing...6/
But these streets aren’t even a part of the @sfmta_muni Slow Streets program. They’re actually from @RecParkSF as noted by the pinkish, rather than SFMTA red color on the map.Do you notice any discrepancies on this map?The NE has nothing. The SE has essentially nothing...6/
If you should ever wish to leave #CarFreeJFK you might do so via The Panhandle. Please don’t. The paths are too crowded for humans at anytime, let alone during a global pandemic.
There’s supposed to be a bike lane going in on Fell, but...
7/ https://twitter.com/Momifornia1/status/1282483869392855040
That isn’t happening until perhaps August - a full 5 months after the beginning of shutdown. Let’s review the space allocation in the Panhandle. I can’t imagine how they could possibly make space for car-free humans 🤦‍♀️...
8/ https://twitter.com/drivingmzstacey/status/1249518520259362819
Luckily people living on this side of town can make their way to Page St, an SFMTA #SlowStreet
Check out the delight captured by @sfmta_muni Board Member @aeaken nearly 3 months ago and it’s only gotten better, bringing the neighbors together safely.
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https://twitter.com/aeaken/status/1253833181540712448?s=20 https://twitter.com/aeaken/status/1253833181540712448
The Mission is home to ~57K, over 1/3 Latinx, who from the @UCSF study are 20x more likely to contract #COVID19.
Instead of 1,013 acres of @GoldenGatePark, there’s just 16 of @DoloresPark. So there should be MORE & BETTER slow streets, for equity & saving lives, right?
Wrong.
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The Mission is home to ~57K, over 1/3 Latinx, who from the @UCSF study are 20x more likely to contract #COVID19.Instead of 1,013 acres of @GoldenGatePark, there’s just 16 of @DoloresPark. So there should be MORE & BETTER slow streets, for equity & saving lives, right?Wrong.10/
The Mission is home to ~57K, over 1/3 Latinx, who from the @UCSF study are 20x more likely to contract #COVID19.Instead of 1,013 acres of @GoldenGatePark, there’s just 16 of @DoloresPark. So there should be MORE & BETTER slow streets, for equity & saving lives, right?Wrong.10/
The Mission is home to ~57K, over 1/3 Latinx, who from the @UCSF study are 20x more likely to contract #COVID19.Instead of 1,013 acres of @GoldenGatePark, there’s just 16 of @DoloresPark. So there should be MORE & BETTER slow streets, for equity & saving lives, right?Wrong.10/
The Mission is home to ~57K, over 1/3 Latinx, who from the @UCSF study are 20x more likely to contract #COVID19.Instead of 1,013 acres of @GoldenGatePark, there’s just 16 of @DoloresPark. So there should be MORE & BETTER slow streets, for equity & saving lives, right?Wrong.10/
Despite the Dark Red crossroads on the @sfmta_muni map, it’s as if the program didn’t exist in The Mission at all. Signs that were placed were simply moved aside or run over. No children walking or biking on their own and few bold enough to actually walk on the streets. RIP.
/11 https://twitter.com/paulvaldezsf/status/1283145748012384258
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