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Robin Pam
@robinpam
San Francisco mom. Working to make our streets safer and our city greener with
@KidSafeSF
. Ran the
@SafeParksForAll
campaign for #JFKPromenade
San Francisco, CAkidsafesf.comJoined April 2007
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
Thank you to everyone who worked so hard for this. The win for J is a statement of how much San Franciscans from all kinds of diverse backgrounds love this special space. Parks are for people, and especially for our kids and their future.
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Heather Knight
@hknightsf
The @sfchronicle has called it: Prop. I loses! That means it doesn’t really matter whether J continues to post winning numbers. JFK Promenade will remain car-free! 🎉🎉
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Robin Pam
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Great thread on Stanford’s net commute success. One bit of context: they’ve also moved 4,400 students into new on-campus housing, and 1,000+ staff to apts in Palo Alto and MP. That’s 5,000+ people who no longer need to drive to campus. Transpo solutions need housing to work
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Ari Méndez
@atmendez
In a region choked with traffic, @Stanford froze the number of car commuters coming to campus in 2000. The share of commuters driving alone fell from 69% to under 50% in less than ten years. In 2021 just 39% drove to campus. How did they do it? 🧵
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Robin Pam
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City departments don’t go around looking for nice, harmless things to remove. We pressuring our elected leaders to fix the underlying issues, not pointing fingers at DPW, RPD, and other depts just trying to follow our Byzantine processes and rules.
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Robin Pam
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People abuse this system all the time to complain about good things and gum up city resources. The street signs and art on slow streets are a common target.
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
The big issue here is that anyone can use 311 to complain about nice things that violate the 1000s of layers of red tape on the books. The city is obligated to respond bc they can’t be seen as unevenly applying rules. The fix is to redo/reduce the rules
abc7news.com
SF residents asked by city to remove benches from sidewalk or pay $1.4K permit fee
What residents have had in place for nearly 20 years, is now being targeted by the Department of Public Works as "unpermitted encroachments."
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
Love u Steph, but Klay is the greatest urbanist Warrior of all time
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San Francisco Chronicle
@sfchronicle
Warriors superstar Steph Curry and his wife Ayesha wrote a letter to Atherton leaders in protest of plans of new housing near their home. Here's why. trib.al/R0YWKI7
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
One time a momstagram influencer said it was totally ok to feed your kids yogurt and granola with sprinkles for dinner, and honest to god it may be the best piece of parenting advice for young children I have ever received
My kid shaking sprinkles into a bowl of yogurt and granola with blue food coloring
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Kid Safe SF❤️ 兒童安全舊金山❤️ Seguro para niños SF❤️
@KidSafeSF
Our built environment limits kids’ independence, which isn’t good for mental health! Safe streets and reliable transit are essential for kids to build resilience and autonomy.
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Holly Korbey
@HKorbey
New from me: Researchers are beginning to ask if a lack of childhood independence plays a role in the mental health crisis. "Today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort." kqed.org/mindshift/6062
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
Up there with the cleverest combo of Instagram ad timing (2 days before Christmas) + genius product-market fit (parents scrambling for last-minute gifts) Also: JJ from Cocomelon Cameos??? We’re getting real specific now Bravo
@book_cameokids
marketing team
Cameo kids Instagram ad
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
$1.7M toilets aside, any parent can tell you we need more public bathrooms everywhere. Great story from
@TheFrisc
, and special kudos to
@MattHaneySF
for championing this issue. (Also let’s reform land use and procurement so they don’t cost $1.7M!!)
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The Frisc
@TheFrisc
NEW STORY, BATHROOM BREAK: We hear a lot how #SF is a world-class city with rich history, architecture, culture, and cutting-edge technology, and yet it’s sometimes impossible to find a toilet around here. One that works. twitter.com/stevesilberman 1/
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
The best breakfast sandwich in San Francisco is the Avenues SF breakfast club on Taraval. I will not be taking questions at this time.
Avenues breakfast club
Avenues SF
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David Zipper
@DavidZipper
In
@CityLab
, I wrote about one of the most exciting trends in transportation: The rapid rise of weird and wonderful minicars that are safer, less polluting, and a heck of a lot cheaper than full-sized cars (let alone SUVs/trucks). 🧵 below
bloomberg.com
Tiny Cars, Big Opportunity
Electric minicars are taking off globally, driven by advances in battery tech and growing climate concerns. Could they become the next big thing in the US?
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Kid Safe SF❤️ 兒童安全舊金山❤️ Seguro para niños SF❤️
@KidSafeSF
2022 will be remembered as the year that San Francisco embraced transformation on our streets. In the last 6 weeks, we've secured: ✅ A permanent JFK Promenade ✅ A weekend Great Highway Park ✅ A permanent Slow Streets program, incl.
@SlowLakeStreet
sfchronicle.com
S.F. Slow Streets are here to stay after transportation board approves plan
Roughly half the Slow Streets instituted in San Francisco early in the pandemic are here...
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Robin Pam
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There's a lot of "this slow street makes the other streets less safe, therefore we shouldn't have any slow streets." That's a good argument for broadening slow streets into low-traffic neighborhoods. Make all the streets slow, except the arterials and designated emergency routes
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
Made my first Van Ness BRT trip 🚌 Verdict: this is so great! Minimal wait times, nice boarding platforms, super fast trip, love to zip by traffic When and where can we have the next one
@jeffreytumlin
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People riding the 49 bus on Van Ness
49 Van Ness BRT
Light sculpture on Van Ness BRT line
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
I love Bart and will go out of my way to take transit especially with kids, but these weekend headways are just painful
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Robin Pam
@robinpam
We didn’t choose to run this campaign, but the results show human-centered space is immensely popular and we should create more of it, faster.
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Henry Grabar
@henrygrabar
I cannot get over the fact that the entire city of San Francisco voted on whether to let cars back onto the park road—and there were TWO ballot initiatives about it! slate.com/business/2022/
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