Creative Producer WhatsApp, frmr candidate for City Council, NREC Commissioner. Safe streets, environmental justice, sustainable cities, climate emergency.
South Pasadena, Ca
Joined June 2011
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Michelle Hammond retweeted
Them: “I support safe streets but it takes too long and is too expensive”
Us: “We installed, in total, over 3,000 linear feet, five city blocks of bike lanes with this machine in one single day."
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Michelle Hammond retweeted
In Paris, emergency response times have fallen b/c firefighters can use the city's growing cycle lane network. (H/t @theoverheadwire)
Something to share with bike lane opponents who claim to be worried about emergency access.
www-leparisien-fr.translate.…
Michelle Hammond retweeted
The degree of disdain that a lot of very powerful traffic engineers demonstrate toward pedestrians and biklings is astonishing. We pay these people, and they actual seem to enjoy trying to kill and maim us.
As part of #BikeMonth @NHTSAgov has a photo library of "misuse" of bicycles
Here's an example 🤦♂️
nhtsaimages.zenfolio.com/p62…
Michelle Hammond retweeted
If there is an extra $200m that can be given to schools, maybe we actually put that money toward education. Safety will be increased if we add even a single restriction to getting a gun in this state.
Michelle Hammond retweeted
WIN!! One of Europe's busiest airports, Amsterdam's @Schiphol just announced it will BAN private jets. This comes after months of protest from @GreenpeaceNL and @NLRebelion.
Who will be next to #BanPrivateJets?
Michelle Hammond retweeted
Warming will fuel more supercells in the U.S. and that those storms will move eastward from their current range. The new study says that makes it more likely that the lethal storms will strike more often in the more populous areas of Southern states. apnews.com/article/tornadoes…
Michelle Hammond retweeted
Keep in mind ➡️ Cycling 🚲 is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities(!)👇👇
theconversation.com/cycling-…
Michelle Hammond retweeted
With the reintroduction of my bill, the E-BIKE Act, we hope to not only get #morebuttsonbikes, reduce traffic, and help tackle the climate crisis but also incentivize the purchase and increase access to e-bikes for everyone.
techcrunch.com/2023/03/22/ho…
Michelle Hammond retweeted
BREAKING: A 9-year-old and a local TV news staffer were among three people shot to death in Orlando, Florida, by a 19-year-old.
Gov. DeSantis is currently trying to pass permitless carry - legislation opposed by police that would strip background checks and training from gun ownership. cbsnews.com/news/orlando-sho…
Michelle Hammond retweeted
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." E. B. White
Michelle Hammond retweeted
"We may have reached a critical threshold: mountain lions getting killed by cars faster than they can reproduce,” said Fraser Shilling, at UC Davis @roadecology , who released a statewide map of the lethal collisions between 2015 and 2022. @LouisSahagun
latimes.com/environment/stor…
Michelle Hammond retweeted
Space is not an issue, nor is technology. There are so many examples of such transformations out there. Our streets have the potential to be so much more than just a means of transportation. They can be vibrant spaces for community, culture, and connection.
Michelle Hammond retweeted
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
Michelle Hammond retweeted
Induced demand works both ways, and Utrecht’s Vredenburg is a prime example of how creating more space for cycling creates more cyclists.
As the cycle track grows, so does cycle traffic—now nearly 40k/day—requiring expansions that have made it 10 m. (33 ft.) at its widest point. – at Utrecht, The Netherlands
Michelle Hammond retweeted
“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michelle Hammond retweeted
It is the scientific consensus that hundreds of millions if not billions of people will be forced to migrate due to climate change within the next few decades. A lot of those people will end up dying. The geopolitics of a billion climate migrants. Let that fucking sink in.
