Everyone has a take on the Engardio recall... here's mine. The recall doesn't mean mode shift and car-free spaces are disastrously unpopular, but it does mean urbanists in SF should rethink the strategy of being in coalition with moderates/conservatives. scott.mn/2025/09/23/e...

These victories matter more than ever. “Metro reinstates two LA bus drivers who vowed to protect riders from ICE An LA County Supervisor and thousands of residents spoke out in support of the bus operators, who now have a 60-day unpaid suspension from their jobs”

Still beautiful; still one of SF’s most popular parks. Sunset Dunes forever.

Four years ago, SSR was started to make the great highway permanently car-free. Now, sunset dunes is one of SF's most popular parks. Like the embarcadero and central freeway removals, there may be more fights ahead, but we're not going back. 1/3

Hats off to advocates in SF for fighting for transit funding. (And nice shirt.)

We're happy to see an official Muni sign at Church/Duboce replace our community-installed one after 3 years! They even reused our mounting hardware 🥺 Make your own sign at munisign.org/

🚨49 hours til the Emergency Rally to Save Bay Area Transit🚨 Join us at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco at 9am on Monday to urge Governor Newsom to follow through on his commitment for emergency funding to stop cuts to BART, Muni, Caltrain, and AC Transit actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Emergency rally to save transit funding 9am at Civic Center! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Gov Newsom still hasn't signed the $750m loan to Bay Area transit agencies that would get us to the Nov 2026 funding votes. He has eight days to act. Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.

Lurie allowing Waymo/Uber onto Market while cutting Muni service for 240,000 daily riders is despicable, and keeps anyone without tons of wealth out of downtown. We will not let the Mayor and his corporate buddies create an SF for the wealthy only. Sign the petition. Direct action coming soon.

'Tombstones': Our reporter Matt Sage found at least five bikes and mopeds at a federal immigration courthouse in NYC that haven't moved — evidence that their owners have been disappeared by ICE:

Homeowners: "Our streets need protection from homeless people!" City: "Here are dozens of concrete barriers." Bicyclists: "Our bodies need protection from fast-moving traffic!" City: "Here are a few plastic pixie sticks."

Astonishing to hear several BCDC commissioners state that: Ending 24/7 bike/walk access to Richmond San Rafael Bridge curtails maximum public access to the Bay, AND that such a move is unprecedented, BUT they still plan to curtail access. Why? The purpose of BCDC is to protect & expand access.

The petition to keep the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail open 24/7 is now fewer than 75 signatures from the 5000-person goal. Check it out & share now so we can meet & exceed that number ahead of the August 7th meeting & vote! bikeeastbay.org/rsr

Opinion: The bench bandits speak: San Francisco needs to sit down and relax

Why those 8 mph matter ⬇️

Cops have never and will never do traffic safety enforcement www.reddit.com/r/carfreebay...

If this is interesting to you, check out some research on the use of bikes in disaster response from my colleague Dr. Sarah Kirkpatrick! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

another reason concrete is better than cameras. there are real solutions to traffic violence without making excuses for mass surveillance

Volunteers with bikes needed this Sunday, July 13 from 10am-12pm ‼️🚲 Help us deliver meals to our unhoused neighbors in Oakland. We're teaming up with Community Kitchens to make it happen, but are short a few folks for this weekend. Can you help? RSVP at portal.ckoakland.org/forms/bike

🍉🚲 Ride for Palestine! 🚲🍉 This July we will be slow riding with a larger event hosted by the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA). When: Sunday, July 20th at 8:30 AM Roll: 9:00 AM Where: Meet at MECA HQ @ 1101 8th Street, Berkeley Register with team SSR bit.ly/J20RFP_SSR by July 15th! more info↓

A new study of vehicular crashes in the UK shows that—after accounting for driver characteristics, road conditions, & more—adult pedestrians & cyclists had a 14% higher fatality rate when hit by an SUV rather than a regular car. Children had a shocking 77% higher fatality rate when hit by SUVs.

But doesn't the 14/14R/49 have extremely high ridership? Yes! Highest west of the Mississippi. But the advertising revenue is low compared to maintenance costs, so no shelters, no benches. This is what I think of when I frame the outcomes of neo-liberal outsourcing of government responsibility.

The new budget law will be an absolute bonanza for state surveillance tech, AI grifters, and Silicon Valley giants that are increasingly comfortable abetting the authoritarian project to remake the US state. My latest:

Thanks Benjamin! We're really proud of this project-- when people get to see and feel what safer streets look like, they become champions for lasting change. A single block can be powerful. More details coming soon on how to borrow our materials and do your own pop-up!

A new analysis of @Boston.gov ambulance data reveals that reckless drivers are dramatically more likely to strike pedestrians who live in the city's predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods.

IT'S PRIDE MONTH, SSR!! We will be riding slow as usual, meeting new people, and enjoying an educational tour of some historical queer sites between the Castro, Mission, and SOMA. Start Location: Dolores Park, 19th Street Meetup: 10:30am Saturday, June 28th Rollout: 11:00am

if you take a waymo, you are complicit in the laws it breaks when it drives and parks.

Holy shit, this Waymo just made an illegal left turn around the median diverter at 19th and Shotwell. Not the first illegal thing they’ve been programmed to do, but a new level of brazen

cars are emerging as a political fault line all over the country, from Prop K in SF to the NYC mayoral primary. which side are you on? www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-...

Zohran's right. flex posts need to go the way of Andrew Cuomo's career "we need bollards, we need to replace these flex delineators... there are New Yorkers who do not bike because they're afraid of their safety... we need to further protect our already protected bike lanes."

we should not be widening highways because of climate change we definitely should not be widening this highway in particular because it will soon be literally underwater...because of climate change...caused by highways

"Nationally, half of all Black people say that secure bike parking will allow us to ride more often. Locally, in a densely populated city where a quarter of households report losing at least one bike to theft, the figure is sure to be much higher. Secure parking makes cycling accessible."

IT'S PRIDE MONTH, SSR!! We will be riding slow as usual, meeting new people, and enjoying an educational tour of some historical queer sites between the Castro, Mission, and SOMA. Start Location: Dolores Park, 19th Street Meetup: 10:30am Saturday, June 28th Rollout: 11:00am

bet a bike hit it #sf

Waymos, like all drivers, treat the bike lane as buffer zone. it was only a matter of time before somebody got hurt www.mercurynews.com/2025/06/10/s...

4:35 PM: Fare inspectors at Geary Blvd & Laguna St Outbound

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

Let's see if SF follows Richmond's lead rather than kneejerk removal

a lot of bus stops in SF are literally just a pole you have to stand next to, but today some guerilla-installed benches suddenly appeared diy cozy architecture >>>>>

Los Angeles, 2025 📸 afpphoto

A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with Public Works. buff.ly/8iJvNaq

State cop cars are being DESTROYED by protestors who are throwing all kinds of rocks, bricks, bicycles, and scooters onto them. Sent to me by someone on the ground. The CHP has kept 101S closed for unknown reasons, and thought it was a great idea to park all their cars directly under a bridge.

the people deserve benches at bus stops so they can ride with dignity

benches have gone up at bus stops around the Mission and parts south. thanks sfbabc.org !! everybody deserves comfort and dignity while waiting for the bus

The protesters have turned on the Waymos

the amount of hate mail I got for this piece shocked me. drivers just fucking love killing pedestrians and they do not ever want to feel bad about it for even a second www.motor1.com/features/713...

It's Friday. It's lunch time. It may be the last day offices in Sacramento are open before the state budget is decided. Call your representatives now and demand they provide sufficient funding for public transit to avoid cuts! www.movecalifornia.org/state-funding