Safe Street Rebel

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End car dominance and save the planet one direct action at a time. Likes: bus lanes, bike routes. Dislikes: cops, the petrostate 🌎Unceded Ohlone Land (SF) safestreetrebel.com

Closing the 4th St bridge to cars and opening it to trams and people would make this deadly intersection safer and make transit more reliable. Let's do it. See this vision in action in this illustration from our blog post on the topic www.safestreetrebel.com/blog/communi...

A community-made diagram of a redesigned 4th and Channel St intersection, including wider curbs, bike lanes, and a car-free 4th street bridge.
Snake Plissken@ralphlorenzo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

we really gotta close 4th street bridge to cars. Stuck waymo was completely blocking the T during rush hour today causing a huge backup.

DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS: Turns out there WAS room for more safety improvements at 4th and Channel St, as the community-installed curb extension has been officially replaced with a separated bike lane. This is a start, but we need MORE here and across the city.

A freshly installed separated bike lane next to the memorial for a 2 year old killed by a driver at 4th and Channel St in San FranciscoAnother view of the new bike lane and narrowed vehicle lanes, facing north.

We’re back. Two weeks ago, a driver killed a 2 year-old child at 4th and Channel—the third pedestrian fatality of 2026. Since then, all SFMTA has done was repaint the existing crosswalks for a photo op. So the community took matters into our own hands.

Photo showing a curb extension installed by community members directly in front of the memorial for the child who was killed at the intersection two weeks prior.

Some in South Minneapolis have created what they call “filter blockades” on Cedar Ave. A handout says the roundabout like blockade is meant to bring neighbors together to strategize against ICE while also identifying traffic coming into the area. Minneapolis February 1, 2026

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This Sunday, Feb 1st is our first Slow Ride of 2026! Join us for a chill pace along Slow Cayuga, Slow Somerset, the Bayview Community Pathway, and Slow 20th Street. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at our first stop or after the ride! Meet: Balboa Park, 11am (roll at 11:30) Finish: Dolores Park

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Slow Ride SF

Sunday Feb 1st, 11am

Meet us at Balboa Park for a chill pace

Roll at 11:30am

Image: Cartoons of turtles, birds, and other fanciful creatures riding bicycles, and a bicycle and pedestrian road sign in a barrel labeled Go Slo Yo.alt:
Route map from Balboa Park in the Excelsior to Dolores Park in the Mission, via stops at Palega Rec Center in the Portola district and Youngblood-Coleman Playground in Bayview. The overall shape of the route moves from west to east, north, and then back west.

One of the many ways one can be anti fascist is to be pro public transit, to fight for communities where people can walk and bike safely, and to oppose the onslaught of cars in our cities. cars bring isolation and harm, streets for the people build community and let us resist.

Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It is so funny that the Save Our Street people in Saint Paul are having all of their meetings at the church led by a pastor whose day job is running the local ICE field office.

SFBABC just published a 40-pager on how we crank out 10 guerilla bus stop benches in a weekend. I’m proud to have helped write, edit, and photograph this alongside @carterlavin.bsky.social, @mingweisamuel.bsky.social, & others. Get the doc sfbabc.org/join or read my post: medium.com/@michalmigur...

Weeknotes, 2026W02: Benches

For the past year I’ve been helping build bus stop benches. I joined a two year Bay Area project that has built and installed over 100…

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Join us for our first Slow Streets Slow Ride of 2026 on Sunday, Feb 1st! Start: Balboa Park, 11am (roll out 11:30) End: Dolores Park Slow Streets covered: Cayuga, Somerset, Bayview multimodal corridor, Minnesota, 20th St

Slow Ride SF

Sunday Feb 1st, 11am

Meet us at Balboa Park for a chill pace

Roll at 11:30am

Cartoons of turtles, birds, and other fanciful creatures riding bicycles, and a bicycle and pedestrian road sign in a barrel labeled Go Slo Yo.

We’re rallying in front of City Hall on Monday @ 12pm to support the Muni Forever Proposal! Join local advocates and neighbors along with our socialist-in-office Supervisor @jackiefielder.bsky.social to fight for a plan will that protect tenants and fairly fund and improve Muni.

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Muni is in a funding crisis.
We need a ballot measure that will expand service and fairly fund