Parking costs the US about a trillion dollars per year! For every $1 paid by vehicle owners, society pays another $1 for their parking.
vtpi.org/pscp.pdf Annual vehicle costs are about $5K, the same magnitude as paAnnual parking costs range from $600 annually for suburban, 170 to 600 square feet of land are required per parking spac
But California is leading the way to reform by eliminating parking mandates near transit with the signing of #AB2097.

sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via @sfchronicle
One more reform would similarly, still allow people to build parking, but make sure it is paid for rather than mandated or provided for free.

@alex_lee's #AB2206 would make sure that employees who don't use parking would get an equivalent benefit.
cal.streetsblog.org/2022/09/19/bil…

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Sep 23
I'm feeling frustrated that taking a bikeride in the late afternoon in SF Westside leaves me more stressed. And sad that we're talking about taking away rather than adding #SlowStreets.
We have @JFKPromenade and @GreatWalkway -- for now -- but that still requires me to bike through the gauntlet of angry cars in OMI, Sunset, and Forest Hill to get there.
I go out of my way to pick the least trafficked streets possible -- 8th instead of 7th, Holloway instead of east Ocean, western Ocean & Vicente instead of Sloat -- but that didn't prevent me from being punish-passed on 6th Ave for trying to bike outside of the door zone.
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Aug 7, 2021
So does reopening the #GreatWalkway to 🚘 have a climate impact? We can calculate that using the @NCST_Research induced travel calculator travelcalculator.ncst.ucdavis.edu. 🧵
Adding 2 mi x 4 lanes = 8 lane-mi of class 3 roadway in SF (if fully reopened) would mean 21 million more vehicle miles traveled each year.

Estimating 0.4 kg CO2/mi (lifecycle) from @TheICCT theicct.org/news/global-LC… yields 8000 tons CO2. /2
That would counter the @SFEnvironment climate plan of reducing SF's transportation emissions from 2.5 to 1.2 million tons, primarily by getting people out of cars. sfenvironment.org/sites/default/…

In fact we need MANY MORE #StreetsForPeople like #GreatWalkway to get this done. /3
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Jun 28, 2021
Seems like a good time to help people in the PNW replace gas furnaces with heat pumps that reduce carbon pollution and provide air conditioning. /1 #electrificiation nytimes.com/2021/06/27/us/…
Meanwhile, @yoohyun_jung reports on a very sharp SF increase in AC adoption, more than 11 percentage points in 4 years.
sfchronicle.com/local/article/…
We have to make sure the news characterizes this as not only a climate threat but an opportunity. /2
In 2019 our report with @ethree_inc showed that the biggest predictor of cost-effective CA building electrification was existing or planned central AC. And our data implies new AC adoption would be swamped by the climate benefits of eliminating gas. ethree.com/e3-quantifies-… /3
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Apr 26, 2020
I also have a story like @MayUseFullLane, from Dec 30, 2011. I had a concussion from an avoidable bike crash that caused long-lasting symptoms.
Here is a 🧵.
A favorite memory of Berkeley grad school is biking in the hills for exercise, which I did several times per week. I preferred to meander the steep, winding roads, in neighborhoods I now recognize as having exclusionary zoning: and this afforded safe, scenic streets for some.
In South Berkeley my favorite rides required just 1 unsafe crossing at Alvarado and Tunnel. In 2004 I emailed @CityofBerkeley asking for a crosswalk or a light and they said they were "looking into it." 7 yr later it had still not arrived.
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