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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

Starting today: drivers in California MUST change lanes when trying to pass a cyclist.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

I never understood the “not everyone can ride a bike” equity argument. Driving a car requires passing a literal state-administered test that people fail all the time.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

It is a policy failure that San Francisco’s Mayor takes a SUV to work daily when she lives ~1 mile from City Hall.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

6 months

It breaks my brain that NIMBYs have succeeded in blocking coastal wind farms that aren’t visible from shore, but yet Santa Barbara somehow has oil rigs visible from its gorgeous beaches 🤯

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

5 months

It’s disqualifying for a candidate for Senate to this deeply misunderstand the single most pressing issue facing Californians Housing is expensive because we have a shortage. Wall Street is investing in housing *because* the shortage is structural.

Katie Porter

@katieporteroc

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Washington has failed, decade after decade, to write housing policy that puts people before Wall Street's profits.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

When did “car access” become equivalent to “disabled access” in the minds of so many Americans?

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@TheFederman

10 months

Uhm @PeteButtigieg why is it legal for the default “self driving” speed on a Tesla to be greater than the current speed limit?

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

4 months

Just solved a Page Street mystery! Turns out the owner of the tow truck who constantly parks in the lane on Page Street lives across the street from where he parks.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

6 months

As of today, bike riders in California can enter an intersection on the pedestrian signal – they no longer need to wait for a green traffic light.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

7 months

After three years of owning an ebike I just had my most expensive maintenance service ever: $450 Tell me again how e-bikes are luxury goods and cars are for the working class?

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

3 months

Some of SF’s leftists believe single family homes are for the poor, and condos are for the rich 🤦‍♂️

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

If Prop J passes, here are the roads you can still drive on in Golden Gate Park

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

Why the heck are homeowners responsible for fixing sidewalks? This would be way cheaper if the city just dealt with it and could negotiate a bulk discount on the work.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

10 months

So apparently @cruise vehicles don’t know that they need to come to a complete stop when a pedestrian is in a marked crosswalk. Just had one pass my dog and me within 2ft. This is not the safe, law-following behavior I was promised.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

9 months

SF’s tough-on-crime crowd: 2022: Crime is the DA’s fault! *replaces DA. crime stays the same* 2023: Crime is the Police Commission’s & Dean Preston’s fault! … I’m getting the feeling that these folk don’t know what causes crime, and are just using it as a political wedge.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

Holy shit San Francisco got itself together tonight

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@TheFederman

9 months

This is how Paris’s Fire Department lowered response times while adding tons of protected bike lanes: they shrunk their fire engines! If Paris can do this (where the median building is ~7 stories), I’m surprised that @SFFDPIO can’t.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

11 months

An actual conversation with a Left NIMBY: Them: We should only build 100% affordable housing Me: Where will you get the money for this? Them: In a few years, SF should have a public bank which will help 🤯

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

7 months

Hot take: inclusionary zoning is only a thing because the Leftists who want affordable housing found an ally in NIMBYs who want none, with predictable effects Real Leftist policies would create general taxes to fund subsidized housing, rather than taxing new housing construction

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

11 months

What’s stopping your city from daylighting intersections with concrete?

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

4 months

@seaweedanxiety This explains a lot

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Dan Federman

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1 year

Having a hard time reconciling mobility advocates cheering Bird leaving San Francisco. Every scooter rider is an ally in the quest for a less car-dependent city. The city being unable to keep micromobility services is a problem.

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Dan Federman

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4 months

Anyone know this guy? Could use some help identifying a violent driver on Market St.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

10 months

The time for community input is when a zoning map is changed, not when a building is proposed.

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@mnolangray

10 months

What's your most radically YIMBY opinion?

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Dan Federman

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10 months

I don’t believe we’re doing “corporations are responsible for climate change, not you” discourse again. We *are* responsible. We buy the products. We lobby for more parking and wider highways. We refuse to swap out our gas stoves for induction. We travel by air. It’s us.

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Dan Federman

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4 months

The entitlement of drivers continues to astound.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

Car lobby really did an amazing job erasing all the folk whose disabilities make it impossible for them to drive.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

4 months

@paulnakada It just means that drivers all drive through the bike lane. It’s not much better

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

So this is normal now? No plates

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

6 months

This is an unacceptable way to treat pedestrians @sfpublicworks

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

I love that SF is expanding “no turn on red”, but until we do this city-wide or state-wide drivers are not going to respect it. Drivers don’t read. They assume.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

7 months

Paging @SecretaryPete : we now have data showing that giant vehicles are 45% more likely to result in fatalities when they hit vulnerable road users than standard-profile cars. It’s time for regulation!

Taller cars and trucks are more dangerous for pedestrians, according to crash data

Vehicles with higher front ends are more likely to cause fatalities in crashes with pedestrians than smaller cars and trucks, according to new research from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

www.npr.org

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the requirements for having an opinion in San Francisco:

Marie Hurabiell ❤️

@MHurabiell

2 years

@TheFederman How many kids do you have Dan? Do you own a car?

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

11 months

When you don’t protect bike lanes with concrete, the predictable happens.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

9 months

Public comment enfranchises the predominantly wealthy at the expense of everyone else.

YIMBYLAND

@YIMBYLAND

9 months

What’s a local government opinion that will have you like this?

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

10 months

Neighbors determined that being able to park their private vehicles in the same spot for two more hours a week was more important than having clean streets. For some reason, the city listened!

Aldo Toledo

@aldot29

10 months

This S.F. neighborhood banned street sweeping. Now, residents are begging to get it back

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

6 months

We hear a ton about folk who don’t pay fares on transit, but we don’t hear about the plethora of vehicles with expired tags. I’m on a road trip and ~10% of vehicles have outdated tags. Drivers aren’t paying their fair share for our roads.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

@DeTahmineh @PGon2wheels You realize there are disabilities that prevent people from driving, right? Cars are not accessible for all. And we haven’t even started talking about the cost of these multi-ton vehicles.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

6 months

The parking-protected lanes increased ridership by 50%. Center-running lanes increased ridership by 3%. Center-running lanes are an utter failure.

SFMTA

@SFMTA_Muni

6 months

Valencia Bikeway Pilot: Jan. 2024 Update 🧵 The Valencia Bikeway Improvement team is finalizing the 3-month evaluation report & early bike usage results are promising. Average daily bike volume is estimated to be ~3% higher than baseline pre-pilot conditions. Continue ⬇️ 1/

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

9 months

Gavin is daring the legislature to override a veto. They should accept the challenge.

KTVU

@KTVU

9 months

Gov. Newsom vetoes Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes in California

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

8 months

@kentlind @KCGrock Kent, you’re an investor, which means your opinions are usually driven by data. Did you know that car usage is positively correlated with wealth, and bike usage is negatively correlated with wealth? The elite are the car owners, statistically.

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Dan Federman

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4 months

@rkeuler He is! Maybe he thought I’d go from filing a 311 report to vandalizing, which at best would have been ill advised even without him recording me.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

For CA folk filling out your ballots: consider No on 30. I’m all for taxing the wealthy, but we should be funding transit rather than doubling down on spending on cars.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

10 months

It’s absurd that CA regulators loosed these machines on our streets without any financial penalties for misbehavior.

Dustin Gardiner

@dustingardiner

10 months

Spotted: Three robo cars stalled in the same intersection in San Francisco. This time, it’s @Cruise cars jamming the intersection of Valencia/21 St. in the Mission. Parking enforcement guy banging on windows trying to communicate w/ Cruise. Traffic backed up for blocks.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

3 years

I don’t understand the mentality that leads to sitting in traffic for minutes instead of having your child walk a single block to school.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

3 months

Looks like the insurance rates of good drivers are about to go up to subsidize the insurance of aggressive drivers out there.

Dare Obasanjo🐀

@Carnage4Life

3 months

I was shocked to read the story of a man being unable to get car insurance because GM sold the driving history from his 2021 Cadillac to data brokers used by insurance companies. It looks like this has become a PR disaster for GM and they’re stopping the practice.

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Dan Federman

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9 months

@jedwinmok Also… traffic and parking mean even with a car 15min cuties are often 30min or more. The unpredictability is maddening

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Dan Federman

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4 months

I just stole my own bike with an angle grinder in the middle of Hayes Valley. AMA

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

3 years

San Francisco has failed to live up to its transit-first policy: more than 95% of our road space prioritizes cars.

San Francisco is a car-first city

The city’s allocation of street space is anything but “transit-first”

medium.com

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

@sethmeisterg Other electeds in the Bay Area take transit. And security could certainly board Muni, or walk/bike alongside the Mayor if security is the concern. That said, if the only way to safely move through the city is to be driven in an Escalade… that’s a policy failure.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

9 months

Our legislature needs to start overriding these vetos. It is not acceptable for an executive to be completely disengaged from the legislative process up until a bill hits his desk.

Sameea Kamal

@SameeaKamal

9 months

BREAKING: Newsom vetoes SB403, caste discrimination bill

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

@Dodgerz4Ever No

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

3 years

This morning a car driver accelerated at me on Slow Page while I was walking my dog in front of the French American school’s drop off zone. Guy hit me with the driver’s side mirror. We really need traffic diverters every other block. Drivers can’t be trusted cc @DeanPreston

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

Why is this in my For You feed? No one I know liked, retweeted, quote tweeted, or replied to this tweet. I don’t follow Garry. There is no “promoted” tag. Is Twitter just putting whatever it wants in my feed?

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

JFK PROMINADE FOREVER

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

@karl_s_graham They are! Though we’re working on changing that. Turns out it’s literally safer for cyclists to treat stop signs as yields: states that have adopted the Idaho Stop law have seen decreases in cyclist crashes.

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Dan Federman

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2 years

I do not understand my fellow homeowner millennials in San Francisco who are anti-market-rate housing. You just went through the hell that is our housing market and… you don’t want to try to save others from that?!

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

JFK Promenade has seen an INCREASE in daily trips since it went car-free!

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

35k people use 47 miles of slow streets daily. We have a population of 874,961 and 1398.4 total miles of streets. This means 3.36% of our streets are slow, and 4% of the city walks or bikes on these streets daily Slow streets are a smashing success! 🧵

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

I’ve been giving @SFMTA_Muni a lot of hate recently so it’s time to champion a great quick build project! Look at this lovely bike lane!

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

3 years

Fun fact of the day: any car that can haul 6,000 pounds is ineligible for a residential parking permit in San Francisco. This means most large vehicles can’t park for >2hrs in residential neighborhoods. Further proof F150s, Suburbans, and Cayennes don’t belong on city streets.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

@MostlyDiff @dlberes “But I don’t want anybody seeing me on my e-bike. It’s just kind of embarrassing.” 👆 actual quote from the article 🤦‍♂️

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

8 months

Anyone suggesting that bikes are transit for the elite – completely ignoring the plethora of data to the contrary – gets immediately muted.

Kent Lindstrom

@kentlind

8 months

@KCGrock Remove the bike lane. Bikes are private transportation for a very small elite. How many more workers need to lose their jobs over this nonsense.

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Dan Federman

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9 months

Is Aaron Peskin progressive on anything? Seems to me he’s a man of “no”. No scooters. No bike lanes. No housing. No office cafeterias. Seems like a deeply conservative politician.

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Dan Federman

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4 months

@PageSlowStreet Guy saw me filing the 311. Said he was about to move it. 311 closed the ticket ~40min later with “couldn’t locate”

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1 year

Drivers will not follow rules when they believe they are being inconvenienced unless physical barriers force them to. I am begging @SFMTA_Muni to learn that pleading with drivers does not work.

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Dan Federman

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11 months

Looks like @SanFranciscoDSA doing a great job protecting and serving. Parking in the bike lane to deal with some paperwork. Legal parking is of course available across the street.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

10 months

Just saw my first Cybertruck in the wild. It looks like absolute shit.

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10 months

I just supported No Turn On Red (NTOR) citywide in San Francisco to make it safer, easier, and more comfortable to cross streets. Let SF know you support NTOR with just a few taps!

Support No Turn On Red citywide in San Francisco

Help make it safer, easier and more comfortable to cross streets in San Francisco San Francisco currently allows drivers to make turns on red lights, which is dangerous, especially for people...

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Dan Federman

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11 months

We should not wait YEARS before we even begin to address the housing crisis. In a crisis, you don’t make perfect the enemy of the good.

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2 years

I’m begging @SFFDPIO to learn to park without impeding a bike lane. This incursion is just for bagels 🤦‍♂️

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Dan Federman

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1 year

Not only is the Valencia bike lane design horrible, but the rollout has been negligent as well. Paint put in before signals added. No alternative bike routes designated: “shared” lanes only. Beyond disappointed in SFMTA.

Alex Danilowicz

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1 year

I’m a proud SF cyclist. Always will be. But this new diagonal bike lane on 23rd & Valencia is a failure and dangerous. I was recording because I have a genuine question for @sfmta : what do you expect to happen when the light turns green?

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Dan Federman

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2 years

Unreal seeing the pro-cars-everywhere ballot measure folks gathering signatures at the farmers market under the guise of “access for seniors with disabilities” when there are more accessible-only parking spaces now than there were before JFK went car-free.

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Dan Federman

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10 months

It shouldn’t be possible to getaway quickly in a car from a tourist location: we should have traffic calming that makes that impossible.

BAY AREA STATE OF MIND

@YayAreaNews

10 months

Police sit back and watch thieves break into tourist’s cars and steal all their belongings in San Francisco, California 😳

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4 months

@nbrhoodwrkshop The first image could be a pic of Alamo Square, one of the most-photographed places in California

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2 years

FedEx truck going down @PageSlowStreet just ran straight over the Slow Street signs. My kingdom for some actual bollards.

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4 months

@seaweedanxiety Yeah he had been. I was wondering how he got there. Never thought to hit the three dots.

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Dan Federman

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8 months

@IDoTheThinking It’s fire departments in my experience that block improvements like this

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2 years

I would love San Francisco’s Land Use & Transportation committee to come out strongly in favor of using diverters on Slow Streets to eliminate dangerous cut-through traffic. I know both @DeanPreston and @myrnamelgar are good on safe streets. That’s a majority of the commission!

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Dan Federman

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2 years

A @nextdoorsv story in two parts.

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1 year

My jaw dropped when I saw this street treatment. This bike “infrastructure” on Market/Portola is negligent. We know shadows create conflict with drivers, and we know drivers are more likely to speed in the left lane. What you see below is a death trap.

Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

@LukeBornheimer @SFMTA_Muni @LondonBreed Left-lane shadow on a 35mph road is absolutely asking for someone to get run over.

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1 year

Just saw a F350 drive through the Market St bike lane onto Page. I’m souring on flex-post “infrastructure” from SFFD and SFMTA

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Dan Federman

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10 months

@KNXBaird @JohnBauters @knxnews Number one complaint… leading to what exactly? Where’s the danger here?

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Dan Federman

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2 years

Middle Dr is going exactly as you’d expect. Cars everywhere 🤦‍♂️

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2 years

I just bike to Upper Haight from 3rd and Folsom before my buddy who drove could even cross Van Ness. Bikes are the fastest way around this city!

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1 year

Widespread adoption of AVs means *more* cars on our streets, not fewer. Safer, rule-following cars, but still cars. Higher net VMT means more demand for travel lanes. AVs will make it even harder to win dedicated space for transit and bikes.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

Why is the D1 supervisor in San Francisco trying to landmark a decades-long-abandoned theater instead of trying to purchase it as a potential affordable housing site?

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

So @SFMTA_Muni just sent out an email updating us on the progress Valencia’s bike lane project. They are planning on adding “K-71 bollards” to the lane shortly Here’s how those K-71 bollards are advertised by the manufacturer. It does not seem like K-71 is mean to protect people

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

8 months

The cost of collecting fares via Clipper in the Bay Area is $46mil/yr Assuming a $3 average fare region-wide, we need at least 42,000 paying riders/day *just to cover the costs of collecting fares* Spending 5+% of fare revenue on fare collection is nuts. @seamlessbayarea , help!

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Dan Federman

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10 months

I’m watching the SF Board of Appeals hearing right now, and San Francisco’s planning department is attempting to require the owner of The Alexandria (a long-abandoned, decrepit theater) to spend a half-million dollars to repair a sign damaged during winter storms.

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Dan Federman

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2 years

@YuBalance It’s almost as if Rec and Park wants folk to drive TO the park instead of THROUGH the park 🤔

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

10 months

@clawrence @PeteButtigieg That’s not true! You can manually set the cruise control to be above the speed limit, but you can’t set a default speed for cruise control to be above the speed limit.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

7 months

@SFFDPIO Can you elaborate what the challenges were? The barriers are flex posts and 3” tall rubber bumps – your vehicles can pretty easily drive over these.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

What happened to the people-centric Valencia blocks on weekends?? Just biked through and the bike lane parking was the worst I’ve ever seen.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

10 months

Putting my foot down: this isn’t YIMBY.

Malibu Stacy

@CentristStacy

10 months

@wanyeburkett Agreed, this is why I'd call myself specifically a market-rate YIMBY. I think it's totally fair to object to, e.g., a random homeless shelter in an affluent suburb, but I also think housing supply shortages are real and more places should upzone to allow more market-rate housing.

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I’m not Dean Preston’s biggest fan by a long shot. I find his views on housing to be (at best) incredibly wrongheaded. But the “he’s denying housing to enrich himself” attack is silly. Guy is already wealthy. Before running for office he was a non-profit attorney.

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Dan Federman

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5 months

@katieporteroc ’s scapegoating of Wall Street while ignoring the structural reasons for our housing shortage literally improves Wall Street’s profits by making their housing investments more profitable.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

2 years

Groups advocating to allow cars on more roads using #AccessForAll is borderline parody: more than a third of San Francisco residents don’t even have a driver’s license.

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Dan Federman

@TheFederman

1 year

Thank you Schlock’s for putting up barriers to prevent parking in the bike lane! SFMTA could learn a thing or two from this treatment – it doesn’t take much to discourage bad driver behavior

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Dan Federman

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2 years

Who is @TheLeagueSF pissed at? They consistently advocate for the status quo and they’ve been pissed off for well over a decade now.

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