@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

LukeBornheimer

@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social

Sustainable transportation advocate. Creator of SlowStreets.us, Better Valencia, help lead SF Bike Bus and Protected Arguello, Friends of Great Highway Park Boardmember. Lead organizing and advocacy for Car-Free JFK Promenade, Great Highway Park, and Slow Streets in San Francisco.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Car-free streets are great for races, events, and building community. More of this! 👏❤️

📸 Car-Free JFK Promenade during/after Bay to Breakers

video/mp4

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Protected bike lanes, transit-only lanes, and car-free streets help people shift trips away from cars, reducing car traffic and demand for parking, among other benefits (e.g. roadway safety, climate action).

We need leaders who prioritize data-proven solutions to these problems.

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

If SFMTA wants people to shift trips, it needs to install best-practice designs — like curbside protected bike lanes with protected intersections and traffic diverters — rather than half-measures like the Valencia Street center bikeway and transit-only lanes that lack separation.

Graphic of curbside protected bike lane with a protected intersection
Graphic of a diagonal traffic diverter
Graphic of transit-only lane sign partial separation

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

SFMTA continues to delay or water down bike and transit projects to capitulate to the people who oppose improvements — including SFFD — which results in ineffective infrastructure (e.g. Valencia center bikeway, Masonic “raised” bike lane, Slow Streets).

We need leadership ASAP.

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Rather saying “we’re giving people choices” or “prioritizing safety,” SFMTA and electeds should frame these improvements as beneficial for people who drive/use cars (e.g. reducing car traffic and demand for parking).

San Franciscans — and Americans — are self-interested people.

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

The great news is that the improvements do, in fact, benefit people who drive/use cars by reducing car traffic and demand for parking — this is backed up by mountains of data and empirical research!

The improvements also increase economic activity and revenue for local business.

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

SFMTA/policymakers should also share data and directly dispel misinformation spread by opponents of sustainable transportation and roadway safety — stop acting like opponents are good-faith or well-intentioned people, and educate the press about the facts behind the improvements!

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

This looks/sounds horrendous and is terrible for people, our city, and the planet.

SFMTA and policymakers continue to try to “make streets and transportation work for every person and mode of transportation” (aka maintain the status quo of car-dominated and prioritized streets).

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Currently, two of our biggest challenges are:

1️⃣ A movement that’s too small, too weak and too disorganized, resulting in “better than nothing” projects being approved

2️⃣ Policymakers and SFMTA staff unwilling to design, approve, and install best-practice infrastructure quickly

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Legislation allowing for the Great Highway Extension — the section between Sloat and Skyline Boulevards — to be closed to car traffic and have a multi-use trail created there has passed the Board of Supervisors 🎉

Now it’s time to make Great Highway Park a 24/7 oceanfront park!

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Making Great Highway Park 24/7 will allow the city to make the space even more accessible, welcoming, and enjoyable, including by installing permanent bathrooms, seating, tables, shading, children’s play equipment, and more.

It could be a new 17-acre park! https://www.sfgate.com/politics-op-eds/article/sf-politicians-can-create-a-park-17654154.php

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Follow @GreatHighwayPark, if you don’t already!

Then check out https://GreatHighwayPark.com.

Learn about the why at https://GreatHighwayPark.com/why.

Find events at https://GreatHighwayPark.com/events.

And have an impact (or increase your impact) at https://GreatHighwayPark.com/donate.

Join our inclusive movement 🤗

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

This comes on the heels of the California Coastal Commission rejecting an appeal by opponents of Great Highway Park who were trying to close the park to people and a staff report debunking the misinformation opponents have been spreading for 3+ years ⬇️

We need a 24/7 park now!

https://sfba.social/@LukeBornheimer/112413598963847821

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Fantastic feature about the “battle for the streets of New York” in the New York Times, which is broadly applicable to streets in San Francisco and all major cities.

Cities must transform their streets and transportation, in part, to reduce car traffic, and must “show not tell.”

There are more people, more cars and more bicycles. And that’s not all.
Dining sheds are squeezed beside bike lanes. Home delivery has exploded, ushering in more e-bikes, cargo bikes and trucks.
It’s all crammed into streets laid out over 200 years ago. The result? A chaotic struggle for space unlike any the city has ever seen.

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Perhaps one of the best examples of “show not tell” was the transformation of Times Square by @jsadikkhan / @mikebloomberg through the closing of the area to car traffic and “installation” of hundreds of dollar-store lawn chairs, which helped people imagine what the area could be.

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

San Francisco has an opportunity to similarly transform Upper Great Highway into a full-time, 17-acre oceanfront park, Great Highway Park, including by installing seating, tables, shading, bathrooms, and children’s play equipment.

Will San Francisco do it? https://www.sfgate.com/politics-op-eds/article/sf-politicians-can-create-a-park-17654154.php

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

West Portal continues to be unsafe for people, problematic for Muni, and bad for business because it prioritizes private cars over people, safety, and business 😔

Support the proposed improvements for West Portal now at http://WelcomingWestPortal.com — it takes only takes a few taps 🙏

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

The Valencia center bikeway continues to show its fundamental flaws and highlight the need for curbside protected bike lanes.

Please sign the petition to make Valencia better for people, safety, and business at https://BetterValencia.com; if you already signed, share with others 🙏

video/mp4

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Also, since I’m hearing that SFMTA is looking into a center-running bikeway for Arguello Boulevard — despite thousands of people and numerous elected officials calling for SFMTA to install curbside protected bike lanes — now’s the perfect time to go to https://ProtectedArguello.com.

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

San Francisco ranks third worst in the nation for drivers, due to the high cost of car ownership, relatively high amount of time to drive in the city, and slow average speed downtown.

The City should do more to help people shift trips away from cars to bikes and public transit.

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

East Bay @KidicalMass was huge and joyous — look at all these kids, adults, and smiling faces!

Help make it safer to walk and bike around Lake Merritt now at https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/a-safer-better-grand-avenue-at-lake-merritt#

If you want to join a future SF Kidical Mass ride, sign up for updates at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc66uR5mhFzVf9QJy0x13BeHArp0J9n2k4GvmRNuIPBmjuNKg/viewform?usp=sf_link

Shoutout and thank you to @marcprecipice for organizing and sponsoring East Bay Kidical Mass and all the freebies!

video/mp4

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

“More kids on bikes.” “I scream, you scream, we all scream for bike lanes!” ❤️👏❤️👏❤️

image/png
image/png
image/png

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

video/mp4

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

video/mp4

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

This is the future I want to live in.

image/png
image/png
image/png

LukeBornheimer, to random
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

The California Coastal Commission rejected an appeal opposing the Great Highway Pilot (aka Great Highway Park) unanimously (9-0)!

This ruling allows the Pilot to continue, but doesn’t make @GreatHwyPark 24/7 or permanent. Help us do that by signing up at https://GreatHighwayPark.com.

LukeBornheimer,
@LukeBornheimer@sfba.social avatar

Great to see the Coastal Commission’s ruling — a unanimous rejection of the appeal by Great Highway Park opponents — getting covered by the reporters: https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/coastal-commission-rejects-appeals-on-great-19451322.php

Help us make Great Highway Park 24/7:

Follow @GreatHighwayPark
Sign up for updates: https://GreatHighwayPark.com/signup

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • provamag3
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • InstantRegret
  • GTA5RPClips
  • ethstaker
  • Youngstown
  • everett
  • slotface
  • osvaldo12
  • rosin
  • mdbf
  • kavyap
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • ngwrru68w68
  • Durango
  • modclub
  • cubers
  • khanakhh
  • Leos
  • tacticalgear
  • cisconetworking
  • vwfavf
  • tester
  • anitta
  • normalnudes
  • JUstTest
  • All magazines
    •