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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

Feel like one of the biggest urban/suburban cultural differences is grocery shopping. When asked how I bring home a week's worth of groceries w/o a car, the answer is...I don't. I pick up groceries multiple times per wk, sometimes just enough for that night's dinner.

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5 months

Completely seriously, the suburban school drop-off is the most wasteful, inefficient aspect of American transportation today.

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5 months

Incase anyone was wondering I am pro team golf carts for student transportation.

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Marcel Moran

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2 years

Used to be a highway

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@marcelemoran

2 years

Remove a parking spot and plant a tree

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2 months

Terrifying finding from this new study - every 10 cm increase in a vehicle's front-end height causes a 22% increase in pedestrian-fatality risk.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

You can either design bike-lane barriers that protect cyclists and damage cars, or protect cars and damage cyclists.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 years

Very telling that many cities see the solution to crowded parks as closing the parks, whereas they see the solution to crowded roads as building more roads.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

@StevenGreenhut "Miserable shopping tasks" is not how I describe a short walk to a vibrant store, but to each their own.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Make driving in cities harder. Make it more annoying, more indirect, and more expensive.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 years

Drivers hope no one else drives. Cyclists want everyone else to bike.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 months

The pace that Paris is: - pedestrianizing streets; - building bike lanes; and - planting trees should be the goal of every US city

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2 months

Un avant goût des avant / après des mois à venir quand la végétation aura poussé après les travaux fait en hiver. Ici la Rue de Moscou, avec la photo en été 2023 après des travaux commencés en hiver 2022.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

NEW Research. I wanted to know which of San Francisco's 6,400 intersections have marked crosswalks and which do not. I used satellite imagery to map each one, which reveals geographic patterns in crosswalk provision and quality (1/7)

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

10 months

My radical, extreme housing take is that it should be legal to build this on any lot in San Francisco

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Begging the architecture/design community to realize that a home is not 'as green as it gets' if you have to drive to it.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Let's bring back trees planted in the middle of streets.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 months

The single best thing Paris is doing right now with its streets is pedestrianizing those in front of schools. Increases play space, reduces air and noise pollution, and creates a setting for parents to connect before and after the school day. Rue Milton

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

Small lots allow small businesses to thrive. Low rents mean people can take chances, try niche ideas, specialize

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@SamEshaghoff

5 months

I am in awe every time I walk by Fellini. Less than 30 sqft of real estate and always busy.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

11 months

Conserving water in the West is not about "shorter showers," it's about meat and dairy.

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@marcelemoran

5 months

@_jameshatfield_ My dude they have smartphones in other countries and their pedestrian-fatality trends go in the opposite direction

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Sidewalks. Bikes lanes. Bus lanes. That's it. 14th Street.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

A nation built around the car leads to these anti-social monstrosities

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

NEW Study: New Yorkers have long complained about cars parked on sidewalks and in crosswalks outside of NYPD station houses, but how widespread an issue is this, and how long has it occurred? I visited all 77 station houses to find out.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

When the bike lane goes all the way to the airport. Bergen, Norway.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

The "Law and Order" crowd gets real quiet once you start talking about speed limits.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

@sanbrunamo My single mom would grab groceries on her walk home from work - so you might be the one a little short on info, champ ;)

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

I went to every NYPD station house, across all five boroughs. The vast majority included cars parked on sidewalks and in crosswalks. Aaron Gordon, of Vice News, features my new study here:

Extremely Thorough Academic Study Confirms NYPD Park on Sidewalks

“I think the extent and the egregiousness of the parking that I was investigating really surprised me,” the researcher said.

www.vice.com

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

There's a large group of Americans who simply cannot handle the notion of making city streets nicer to *be in* rather than convenient to *drive through* Opposition to speed cameras, traffic calming, etc. flows from that basic mindset. It's incompatible w/ progressive planning.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

What on earth is going on at the Times? How does this qualify as a story?

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 months

One of the most underrated qualities of biking is *reliable travel times.* Your bike commute will almost never vary by more than a few minutes.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 months

When the government plows the roads, but leaves sidewalks like this (to say nothing of bikeshare), what message does that send to citizens?

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

What a strange thing to mandate building setbacks when people adore streets that bring with them a sense of enclosure.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

The position of San Francisco YIMBYs is, basically, that it should be legal to build more of these.

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@marcelemoran

1 year

YOU JUST LOVE TO SEE IT

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@marcelemoran

1 year

Sigh. Having a garage does not mean the public sidewalk in front of your house is *also* your parking spot

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@marcelemoran

2 years

American cities need public restrooms.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 days

Your city can do this, too

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6 days

Avant / Après Rue des Martyrs dans le 9ème arrondissement de Paris

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 years

Every time San Francisco has *decreased* car access, it has improved.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Just forever incensed this is the fastest rail option between California's two major regions.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 months

One simple trick every city can do to reduce pedestrian deaths

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

🧵SF City Attorney @DavidChiu sent a cease and desist letter to Amazon, Etsy, eBay, and Walmart demanding they stop selling illegal license plate covers. I've been tracking the sale of those devices on these platforms, and the effect has been immediate 📉

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 months

Remember the goal is not: "Convince NIMBYs to accept new housing," but: "Remove NIMBYs veto power over housing approvals"

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Just completely bankrupt regional planning. Rather than give cyclists one of *TEN LANES* dedicated to cars on the Bay Bridge West Span, we're going to spend $400 Million to cantilever a new bike path.

Bay Bridge bike path on track for 2030

A dedicated bike and pedestrian trail connecting Oakland and San Francisco has been in the works for over a decade.

oaklandside.org

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 months

Small storefronts keep rents low and allow small businesses to experiment

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

You are not obligated to bike in a way that merits drivers' approval.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

If I wanted to add bike parking here it'd take years of meetings, but you can leave your car here w/o a license plate for *3* weeks no prob!

Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

No plate, Clinton at E Broadway. Reported on 311.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

@emilymbadger European cities are *eliminating* pedestrian deaths, and they are not doing it by: - banning dark clothing - banning cell phones - banning automatic transition cars There is a clear path to safer roads - traffic calming, lighting, lower speed limits, enforcement.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

My Sunday: 1. Walk to subway. 2. Walk to bookstore. 3. Walk to subway. 4. Walk with friends in park. 5. Walk to subway. 6. Walk home with groceries. Life in cities means exercise without planning for it.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

The single biggest obstacle to progressive city planning is the status quo bias. Americans are surrounded by cars since birth and just can't see unbuilding that. Telling someone a two-ton metal box isn't a sensible way to move one person for a 1 mile trip is radical.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

Close a car lane, build a bike lane. Rue Juliette Dodu.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Always remember $150 bike -> elitist $20,000 car -> working class

Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone

@Mottel

1 year

@marcelemoran @CitiBikeNYC The bike racks could have been better placed. Bike use for a single affluent gentrifier ensconced in the ivory tower is not the same as a large working class family of 8, and that's before various religious realities.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

I think it's really important that planners and urban designers watch this. For some people there is no amount of traffic calming or infrastructure that will undo their rage behind the wheel. You have to suspend their license and arrest them.

Kyle Iboshi

@KyleIboshi

6 months

Dash cam video shows a road rage incident in June when a Portland driver plowed through barricades and nearly hit several people along the Rose Festival's Grand Floral parade route. Here's video & full story:

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Went to a cafe/smoothie place this morning in SF that would not accept cash. I politely explained to them that this violates San Francisco law, and they need to change this. Banning cash is a barrier for unbanked persons.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

I honestly can't believe it. It happened. It finally happened.

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@marcelemoran

5 months

@chesterBirdbath Lack of traffic-calming, lower speed limits, and traffic enforcement. When a city gets it right:

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

Interesting to see Google Maps roll out more details on bike trips, such as % of route on separated bike lanes

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

Noticing a lot of these license-plate frames around NY. Are these meant to obstruct automated cameras from correctly detecting the plate?

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

Congrats again to everyone who wrote New York City's obituary. Nailed it!

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

Nuclear Power is amazing and the anti-nuke folks were unequivocally wrong.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Apartment buildings in SF's residential neighborhoods are good...actually.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

A lot of congestion-pricing opponents (ostensibly) worry about the low-income driver who will have to pay the charge. What about the low-income transit rider who stands to benefit? One group is 18 times larger than the other.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

The progressive planning agenda is made up of things like: "it should be legal to build apartment buildings in cities" and "cyclists shouldn't routinely be killed while riding" and for many, that's just too radical

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

9 months

Absolutely disgraceful article by @mrichtel in the NYTimes - blaming e-bikes for deaths caused by *cars.*

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

10 months

It's good to remember that merchants: 1. Operate in bad faith to preserve parking for themselves; 2. Have been proven to underestimate non-driving customers in every study of the issue; 3. Are not the only relevant constituency in transit planning

San Francisco Adds Street Parking Back to Geary Project

Some merchants seek two-year delay on transit-only lanes.

sfstandard.com

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 months

I guarantee you the 150 people who could be permanently housed by this definitely want it

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Increase bike parking✅ Improve crosswalk visibility✅ Reduce car parking✅

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 months

The seas of parking in Irvine, CA are just brutal

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

Seeing Paris bike to work, in the dead of winter, gives me so much hope.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 years

San Francisco's Parklet program ("shared spaces") represents the single largest reduction in on-street parking in the city's history. That's it, that's the tweet.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Love this new color treatment on Church Street

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 years

Pretty wild to sit in a modern American city and realize cars are: - primary cause of local air pollution - primary cause of local noise pollution - primary impediment to safe walking and cycling - primary source of carbon emissions

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 months

It basically needs to be a license suspension if you're caught driving without a license plate, like this Cadillac Escalade in SoHo.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

Love this tiny detail of Apple Maps: showing which exits bring you to which subway tracks

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 months

Absolute insanity that NYC is not covered with cranes right now. So much demand to live here and not nearly enough homes. Zoning kills dreams.

Anthemos Georgiades

@anthemos

2 months

🗽 NYC 1BR rents are ⬆️ an astonishing 18.3% YoY A 1BR in NYC now costs $4,200 a month (2/3)

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

My 'super radical' proposal for the Ocean Beach Parking Lot is to charge cars a reasonable hourly rate, and use that money to fund restrooms, picnic tables, and showers.

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@marcelemoran

8 months

Love floating the bikeshare station out to protect the bike lane. Chinatown

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@marcelemoran

4 months

Tree-bed protected bike lane, coming to Rue Claude Bernard

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

Simple, effective graphics from the Times:

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Many replies to this tweet are an incredible example of the way we look past illegal car behavior. "Just walk around" is not so easy for people in wheelchairs, parents with strollers, those with low vision, etc. The sidewalk is not an optional parking lot.

Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

1 year

Sigh. Having a garage does not mean the public sidewalk in front of your house is *also* your parking spot

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@marcelemoran

2 months

Hudson River Greenway

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Boston's single worst transportation policy, by far, is charging *zero dollars* for residential parking permits.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

Davis, CA stands alone

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

3 months

What always shocks me about illegal license-plate covers, like this one at Houston and Clinton, is the conspicuousness of it. 24 hours a day, you're breaking the law, for all to see.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

@b19hoffman I definitely believe 40,000 traffic deaths a year calls for some changes

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

Not enforcing traffic laws has cascading negative effects. This car without license plates also doesn't move for street cleaning. Been over a month now, Lower East Side.

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@marcelemoran

1 year

Why is such a large percentage of food delivery in New York City brought by bike, and yet such a tiny percentage in San Francisco? Why doesn't SF have as vibrant a bike-delivery ecosystem?

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

9 months

Every politician fighting congestion pricing cites the "burdened" driver. None consider the transit rider stuck in car traffic.

Jessie Singer

@JessieSingerNYC

9 months

I grew up in New Jersey. My dad took the bus to work in the city every day. Congestion pricing would have meant he came home faster. I would've given anything for that. The future that Phil Murphy wants is one where New Jersey's bus commuter parents get home to their kids later.

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Marcel Moran

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3 months

@michaelkruse @politico @POLITICOMag A sad and troubling read. So many conspiracy theories, and estrangement from relatives. Doesn't have to be this way.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

@PhilWalkable @Apple @Google The Australia, Britain, Canada, and France lines are declining because they're not using smart phones?

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

4 months

Since October, Paris has extended the Rue La Fayette double-wide bike all the way north to Stalingrad Metro. It's absolutely incredible (nearly doubling its overall length), and a model for other cities.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

10 months

A driver just tried to run me over on a bike - he reversed 30 ft at high speed to try to hit me. Waller, between Cole and Shrader, 7:50 PM. Going to ask neighbors to see if anyone caught it on a doorbell camera. I may have the license plate but need 2 confirm. Life as a cyclist.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Driver this morning screamed at me for biking on Oak St, and motioned over to Page St. The existence of a bike lane somewhere else does not take away my right to bike on other city streets!

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

@KendraWrites Agree with this whole thread. Very briefly - as @PeterNorton12 as written about - US media did rightfully treat automobiles as a scourge, especially in terms of kids (before the "look both ways!" directives flourished.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Always INCREDIBLE to see drivers speed past me biking in the traffic lane just so they can wait at the red light ahead.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

2 years

Avoiding transit because of COVID has never been rooted in fact, but I think a ton of Americans internalized that mindset.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

6 months

Curb-side bike lanes are best practice for a reason. I just had to call an ambulance after a guy got doored riding in this painted bike lane. Wythe Ave and 5th St.

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

9 months

Of all SF's neighborhoods, Chinatown's sidewalks are the least compatible with their usage. High pedestrian activity, low car ownership, and yet narrow sidewalks. Obviously Peskin has no vision, but imagining sidewalk extensions, transit bulbs, street trees, benches, rain gardens

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1 month

The suburban mindset *necessitates* the idea that cities are unsafe. The driving, the isolation, the exclusivity have to be rationalized as a separation from and bulwark against some form of danger. The city becomes that danger.

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Marcel Moran

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4 months

A car-centric transportation system has left the US with: - runaway climate change - 40,000 annual road deaths - minority neighborhoods bulldozed for and severed by freeways

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Marcel Moran

@marcelemoran

5 months

@DanRosenheck Was saying the other day the average American voter doesn't know who their governor is, who their two US senators are, and who their U.S. rep is.

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Marcel Moran

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2 years

Not the first to point out, but I think we do love college in part because it's the most walkable communities we'll ever live in.

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