Only rental agencies that are open 7 days a week would be eligible to qualify for the subsidy.
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To be clear: zero subsidy should be given to airport car rentals. There’s little societal benefit to subsidizing car rentals for folk who flew by plane.
The subsidy I’m advocating for could come in the form of discounts for rentals within 15 miles of a home address.
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Ideally, we wouldn’t need car subsidy and instead we would invest massively in public transit. But given how long that shift will take, let’s do something today to make the lives of small car owners and car-free households more economical.
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People buy cars that solve 100% of their transportation needs. Electric cars that solve 98% of a household’s needs could be significantly smaller and be better for the planet and our vulnerable neighbors.
Incentivizing this transition requires easy access to 2% vehicles.
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We must reduce VMT to save the planet, and we must shrink the size of cars in our city to protect vulnerable road users.
To accomplish these goals we must make it easier to not own a car or own smaller cars.
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Subsidy leads to an increase in use. So why do we want an increase in urban car rentals?
Because cheap and consistent access to car rentals make it much easier to not own a car, or not own as big a car.
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Extremely hot take: the federal government should subsidize car rentals in urban locations
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Adding this to the list of reasons we need walkable communities I guess
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A jury found a Ukiah man not guilty of driving under the influence after deciding his actions were justified after he was caught cheating on his wife, which made his driving “necessary to allow him to escape two angry women." trib.al/2cCqkV9
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Here’s an example of the Jevons Paradox applied to transportation – with ominous implications for AVs:
Berkeley researchers gave subjects a chauffeur for a week, mimicking the experience of owning a self-driving car.
Miles driven jumped 83%.
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Notifications and DMs on this hellsite are not working that well right now are they 😬
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Anyone who likes or uses Slow Streets should send an email in support to raise awareness and make this a priority for SFMTA: tinyurl.com/SlowStreetsInf (sending an email takes less than 10 seconds and makes a difference)
Thanks again for your support/advocacy!
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Drivers will drive where they feel comfortable driving at speeds that feel comfortable to them. Without physical barriers Slow streets won’t actually be safe for riders aged 8 to 80.
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Use the link below to send an email to SF staff advocating for better Slow Street treatments!
Slow Streets must be enforced with physical infrastructure. Slow-in-name-only is not acceptable!
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SFMTA is watering down or removing Slow Street signs / infrastructure, endangering people and decreasing usage.
Today, I sent a letter to SFMTA on behalf of 10+ groups calling for critical infrastructure (link in 
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Please help by sending an email now: tinyurl.com/SlowSteetsInfra
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![Slow Streets Mayors and Advocates Call for Critical Infrastructure on all Slow Streets to Ensure Safety, Success, and Permitted Use
Dear Chair Eakin, Board of Directors, and Directors Tumlin, Maguire, and Parks,
I write to you on behalf of more than 10 groups and organizations who activate, care for, and make use of Slow Streets to call for critical infrastructure on all Slow Streets to ensure safety, success, and permitted use. We would like SFMTA to respond by installing signage at every intersection with the current — or more explicit — language, committing to install physical infrastructure — like traffic diverters — on Slow Streets as soon as possible, and considering the other treatments / campaigns outlined below. We would like the SFMTA Board of Directors to legislate signage and infrastructure requirements for Slow Streets, so as to make it unambiguous to staff and the public what should be installed.
In December, the SFMTA Board of Directors made history by [continued]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fod3tf4aMAErqok?format=jpg&name=medium)
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USPS needs an unsubscribe button
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Fascinating thread
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Despite what the news may showcase, it's not fruits & almonds causing the water shortage.
The American beef and dairy lobby has been in full force with misinformation on this issue for years.
But as the feds step in on the water crisis, the truth will reveal itself.
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When did snowboard shops stop carrying wrist guards? Did GenZ decide that breaking your wrist was cool or something?
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Striking chart:
Land and other non-produced assets now account for more than half the value of total assets in the United States.
Land value tax is a no-brainer.
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If you haven’t done it before: go to the Panhandle during the race tomorrow am! The panhandle is absolutely stunning without any cars on either side.
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HeadsUp: The Kaiser Permanente @sfhalfmarathon & 5K is this Sunday, 8am. The 18, 33, 43 & 44 will have reroutes near @GoldenGatePark. #KPSFhalfmarathon sfmta.com/travel-updates
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Just realizing that Stanyan, Masonic, and Baker will closed to cars north of Page — in addition to Oak and Fell being closed between Stanyan and Broderick — which means cars are literally going to be diverted onto a Slow Street. This is embarrassing.
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Some folk make it their entire personality to not understand how filtering works in an economy.
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How reports two road deaths within 24 hours. As ever, drivers get different treatment. It's bias, conscious or not.
"...hit by cyclist"
"...collision with car"
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Of course, ideally we’d have real traffic diversion instead of flimsy signs attempting to discourage through traffic. But let’s keep experimenting with cheap materials as we figure out what we want long term.
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I want intersections designed like the bollard one below, even if we don’t get bollards.
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Slow Street signage should lead to conflict between large vehicles – conflict helps slow folk down! But it shouldn’t lead to conflict between vulnerable road users and large vehicles, as the current design does.
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I’d love to see Slow Street signs in the center of the street, just wide enough that a car (or fire truck) can fit through.
That way cars have a choke point, but bikes/scooters/etc have a dedicated path through intersections that don’t require facing off with cars.
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Am I the only one souring on the placement of SFMTA’s Slow Street signs?
Current placement doesn’t discourage through traffic, and leads to cars driving head-on towards folk on bikes as they enter a street.
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The 85% speed limit rule is both incredibly frustrating and also directionally correct.
If a significant portion of drivers are driving over the speed limit, then we should install traffic calming. Making a speed limit artificially low doesn’t do that much on its own.
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The assembly member who just won’t stop dropping incredibly good legislation.
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Today, we introduced AB 413 to institute daylighting to improve public safety. CA’s pedestrian fatality rate is more than 25% higher than the national average. Daylighting is an important measure that increases visibility of pedestrians & bicyclists at crosswalks & intersections
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Good morning, Bay Area. According to our evaluations, 69 of your 109 local jurisdictions are now subject to the builder's remedy. 🧵
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California’s Air Resources Board plans to offer $1000 point-of-sale discounts on e-bikes to anyone making 300% of federal poverty line, or about $85,000 for a family of 4
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I love seeing what it can and can’t infer from the prompt. Here, it understood what a selfie is, that if Jesus is the one taking it he should be in front, and that “The Last Supper” always has him in the middle of the table… but not that there should only be one of him.
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We deserve safe streets without the threat of violence, and we deserve real action that will get us there. Vision Zero is just a platitude until we enact changes to our streets that actually protect our most vulnerable street users from violence, intentional or otherwise
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FYI I’m pretty sure your plan does not violate emergency access guidelines and SFMTA is using an outdated metric here.
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Valencia document: sfmta.com/sites/default/
Here is CA’s relevant fire code: up.codes/viewer/califor
SF’s 2022 fire code does not update this section of the code: sf-fire.org/files/2022-09/
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The Last of Us playing the main track from the movie Arrival is throwing me. Great choice of music for the scene though.
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I love the sound of people loudly playing music. I love the sound of people being near-belligerently drunk. I love the sound of friends yelling to one another as they pass through my block.
I hate the sounds of cars. This isn’t a consistent philosophy and I’m okay with that.
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Of course, this is one example where electric cars will actually solve a real problem. But I don’t want to wait 10+ years to stop hearing VROOOOOOMs in the distance.
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It’s absurd that noise pollution from muscle cars is legal in cities.
If you’re accelerating fast enough that I can hear you from blocks away, you should get a fine in the mail.
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