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Vote with your dollars! Boycott merchants who obstruct traffic safety reform in West Portal:
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San Francisco Katılım Nisan 2024
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There are TWO upcoming events to learn more about the West Portal Station Improvements:
🚇 TODAY, 5/3 from 5:30 pm — 7:30 pm: Welcoming West Portal Committee
🚇 TOMORROW, 5/4 AT 1 pm: SFMTA Board of Directors Meeting
Updates and more info:
@SFTRU/updates-on-the-west-portal-station-safety-and-community-space-improvements-edc93f1258c4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@SFTRU/updates…
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The "speed kills" argument was introduced by physics.
GreyGhost@GreyGhostVolvo
@_Murphy_Dan @Boenau Speed limits can be good, but they must be based on sound analysis, not someone whose argument boils down to "speed kills". When the "20 is plenty" crowd wants to apply that logic everywhere, their credibility is completely lost.
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For years we've been reading about young drivers wanting to opt out of driving. And for years we've continued to plan & design infrastructure that requires driving.
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@slowlysteady Anyone making pedestrians unsafe should be off the road.
Car accidents are 60 times more fatal to pedestrians than cyclist accidents. Slowing down cars should take 60x the priority x.com/Boycott_Some_W…
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Pedestrian collisions (2018-2022): ▶ 0.11% of bicycle collisions are fatal ▶ 6.65% of car collisions are fatal Car collisions are 60 times more fatal to pedestrians than bicycle collisions! Which makes sense, a bicycle is 15-60 pounds and a car is 3,000-8,000 pounds. F = ma
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Vote with your dollars! Boycott merchants who obstruct traffic safety reform in West Portal:
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“I’m sick of seniors being used as an excuse for claiming that driving everywhere in San Francisco is essential. Here’s what [a] 74-year-old would like to see in city transportation […] Noticeably absent is getting into a car and driving everywhere at any time.”
Well said Fran!
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@HangleyJr The fitting, just and *effective* consequence for unintentional injury/death caused by negligent driving is fine, community service and loss of car and license. In cases of criminal negligence jail time. But the thing that will actually make roads safer is fewer bad drivers.
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The US now has a higher road crash death rate than Russia. Here are some tips on how to survive US roads (thread) #roadsafety #publichealth
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Disability: 19 disability spaces were added behind the music concourse to account for the 15 spaces lost on JFK, a net gain for disabled drivers.
Seniors: Phyllis Meehan (78), Mary Fong Lau (78), Karen Cartagena (71), Sudhanshu Ghoshal (82) have all killed people with their cars in the bay area in the last few years. We should be making it harder for seniors to drive (increase insurance rates, increase testing requirements, food discounts for surrendering your license like in Japan), and provide alternatives (like discounted Waymo's).
theguardian.com/world/2016/nov…
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@Boycott_Some_WP @alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni @sfbike Closing a public road in GG Park is discriminatory, period. Doesn't matter if a majority of voters went a long w/ it. Discriminating against older and disabled ppl who now are shut out of the eastern end of GG Park is unethical & discriminatory, regardless of who promotes it.
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UPDATE: WEST PORTAL SFMTA/MELGAR/DEBACLE
Yesterday evening and after @myrnamelgarsf signaled to donors, @SFMTA_Muni and others that she'd like to "take all cars off West Portal", 11 West Portal residents and/or small business owners met as a committee for the first of three meetings to send a signal of their own to D7 Supervisor Melgar and the SFMTA.
Below is a thread of each of the 11 members expressing their perspectives on the traffic changes proposed by SFMTA. NOT ONE SUPPORTS THE MELGAR/SFMTA PROPOSAL! SEE FOR YOURSELF!!
Let's start here, with a committee member who says "I would say in general I feel safe walking down West Portal Avenue"
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@lcwhitlock14 @alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni Prop I & J showed that a supermajority of SF residents support more bike infrastructure and restricting private car transit.
@sfbike are on the side of the supermajority.
It was cute to see merchants on Wednesday say that they cycle and support change x.com/Boycott_Some_W…
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Speaking of Ulloa - West Portal: We have a messy intersection, at the horseshoe, I call it, where the station is, you know, there's a lot of things... even as a cyclist, before I had my multiple knee surgeries, I used to cycle a lot, I used to hate going through that intersection because it's just a disaster.
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@Boycott_Some_WP @alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni Special interest groups are the outsiders like the bike coalition & others who want to impose THEIR own political values on the community. WP residents & merchants live & work there & know what happens there on a daily basis. They must have the most input into traffic changes.
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@lcwhitlock14 @alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni Good.
Special interest groups dictating policy is not democracy.
We elect leaders to enact laws and appoint qualified specialists.
Don't like it? Elect new leaders.
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@Boycott_Some_WP @alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni I understand how the process works. I also know that the entire process could be an exercise in futility, w/ the results and recommendations of the WP committee ending up be completely disregarded by the SFMTA board. SFMTA has a history of disregarding community input & surveys.
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@jrskis Right? My car-brain brother lives in West Portal. While he acknowledges the horror of what happened to that family at the bus stop, he complains about any measures to slow down car traffic or block it from some areas. *sigh*
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What a way to frame making the San Francisco streets safer for pedestrians. Senior drivers feel inconvenienced versus, 8 paragraphs later, a driver killing a family of 4 at a bus stop (followed by a note that accidents are down). sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-…
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@evangoldin @LuigiCPA Nothing.
It's an attempt to undermine and discredit public transit from a car cultist.
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Muni is sooo dysfunctional, they don't even disclose how many daily riders use the L and the K lines.
The N averages 24.5k daily riders, the M line 17.6K, the L and K lines? zero
Muni needs major administration changes before they worry about reconfiguring West Portal.
sfmta.com/reports/muni-r…
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@lcwhitlock14 @alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni Pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, safe car drivers, my kids.
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I bike daily in SF. Waymos over human drivers for safety all the way. Human drivers care more about what’s in the car, waymos care more about what’s outside the car, which makes everyone safer on the roads.
Brian Wilt@brianwilt
The top comments on @Waymo from the San Francisco subreddit, which has 495k members
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@lcwhitlock14 @alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni You misunderstand their purpose.
The committee is not a decision making body. They cannot vote on whether the West Portal Improvement Plan will be approved. Only the SFMTA board can do that.
This is an information gathering exercise to ensure opinions are voiced.
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@alanburradell @myrnamelgarsf @SFMTA_Muni Having watched the entire zoom meeting, I believe that it is very important that the actual committee members take more control of the meeting & the objectives of the committee and not leave it to the appointed moderator. I hope that they come up w/ concrete recommendations.
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You'd have to ask the merchants.
Less than a week after we announced the boycott more than 60% of them had taken down their obstruction signs.
They were doing damage control on Wednesday, talking about how they cycle and believe the "messy" West Portal - Ulloa intersection needs to be redesigned. x.com/Boycott_Some_W…
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How did another merchant (Anna Bullard) get added to the Welcoming West Portal Committee without being part of the official press release?
Alan Burradell@alanburradell
"This proposal diverts traffic to the side streets which will create more danger for children"
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