@drivingmzstacey @SynergySchool is right there. Make @valencia4people + and there’s a built-in School Street. Reducing traffic flow is better for kids/school communities AND reduces crime.
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@Streets4Schools
Every school deserves to be free from the madness of Motordom. Give kids space to play, clean air to breathe, and the freedom to move without fear of cars.
Schoolhouse Rock Katılım Ekim 2022
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“Group steals ATM from Mission District bar, crashes into patrol car”
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If only people running for office understood that cars enable crime, then they might not give them every flat surface in our cities.
Here are some San Francisco examples:
“Officer Involved Shooting near Union Square”
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It would be much more effective to have @Streets4Schools and concrete enforced slow streets in every neighborhood.
SFPDTrafficSafety@SFTrafficSafety
School is back in session next week. Be prepared for increased traffic in school areas. Drive safe and be mindful of children by the roadways.
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Crossing guards are an admission of poor street design. What happens when the crossing guard isn’t there?
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Every school should have at least one street that is closed to through traffic all day, every day.
Make @Streets4Schools
Secretary Pete Buttigieg@SecretaryPete
Kids are heading back to school; remember to be cautious in school zones. Slow down and watch for students playing near bus stops and crossing the street.
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No helmets.
No fluorescence.
No carpool line.
Happening nowhere in 🇺🇸 85 years later.
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Streets designed for cars have caused untold damage—to public health, the planet, and society as a whole—and we must transform our streets to reduce those negative impacts (and reap the benefits of streets designed for people, including kids!).
What’s missing is political will.
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@PeterNorton12 @rmchase Every crossing guard is an admission of car supremacy. Replace them with @Streets4Schools
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Watch this. We need to make this happen worldwide.
Streetfilms (Now 1,134+ films!)@Streetfilms
Seeing so many great photo posts on social media from friends currently in Paris or doing European train travel and talking about Paris School Streets! Just reminding you that @Streetfilms essentially has the only film on them in the world. WATCH HERE: youtu.be/ezPzocuqKPc
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This is completely backwards. It has robbed generations of children from their autonomy and freedom, now to the point that we all think it can only be achieved via an automobile. It’s a disease that must be cured.
Start with @Streets4Schools
Peter Norton@PeterNorton12
Fresno’s traffic engineer, Robert Dier, was true to his training, which is much the same today. In 1951 Dier did not treat children walking to school as a form of transportation demand requiring accommodation but rather as a source of interference with transportation.
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But perhaps what’s most impressive is the process for creating them:
An iterative process builds trust with locals, then backs it up with capital improvements.
Honestly, it looks a lot like how SF rolled out Slow Streets, except we haven’t invested in greening these spaces.
Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 @fietsprofessor
Every school in your city deserves an experiment with a car-free school street. #Paris shows how to make this happen! 🚧 (1) City adds temporary barriers 🚗 (2) If they lead to problems, they are removed 🤸 (3) If they work, permanent design is implemented (📹 by @Streetfilms)
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These school street transformations in Paris are really incredible.
They’re safer for families, expand an amenity for the schools, and add greenery for the benefit of everyone.
Emmanuel@EmmanuelSPV
Avant / Après la rue aux écoles Rue de la Providence dans le 13ème arrondissement de Paris
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Let’s get all of the “mind losing” out of the way by reclaiming as much of this postage stamp of a city as possible from cars. Don’t wait. Do it all at once.
@BayBridgeBikeLn
@valencia4people
@Streets4Schools
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@LondonBreed This is good. Also end ISCOTT.
Pedestrianize our merchant corridors 24/7/365 and watch them spring to life.
Pedestrianize a street around every school. @Streets4Schools
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Stop the insanity.
Make @Streets4Schools
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When will we prioritize the health and safety of our children over motorist convenience?
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All schools should have car-free streets surrounding. Routes to schools should be safe enough for an 8-year old to ride to school.
Kids biking shouldn’t be a special event.
Kids biking should be normal, everyday life.
Adam Tranter@adamtranter
An important point made by former active travel minister Trudy Harrison today: In schools, when you ask how many kids cycle to school: no hands go up. When you ask how many kids would like to cycle to school: all the hands go up. 🙋♀️🙋🏻♂️ We owe it to kids to enable them.
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@Streets4Schools Same thing for adults, too. We must make it safe for people outside of cars.
Adam Tranter@adamtranter
An important point made by former active travel minister Trudy Harrison today: In schools, when you ask how many kids cycle to school: no hands go up. When you ask how many kids would like to cycle to school: all the hands go up. 🙋♀️🙋🏻♂️ We owe it to kids to enable them.
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“If we can’t make space for our kids, what kind of species are we?”
H/T @Streets4Schools
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