Harold Findley

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@DrTaraGoddard I guess this is the point where I sit back and listen to learn something I haven't yet considered. However, it sure seems to me that unconscious bias explains all aspects of the process. Bystanders, police officers, reporters, policymakers, all the way up the chain.

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@DrTaraGoddard Could simply be our brains perceiving status. Our brains unconsciously slide to defend higher status individuals. (Just as our brains unconsciously slide to blame lower status individuals.) We're not even aware of it.

No need for a "reason" (except to justify it afterwards).

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@martynschmoll @boyonabike62 If we look through their concern for the environment to what they're actually saying, there are a couple of interesting things.

First, they feel a need to drive (whether psychologically or structurally). Second, they know the harm of driving (it's "pollute more" not "pollute").

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@scottgoblue314 @walksf If you want to join in and make someone else's morning, you can sign up here:

https://t.co/b0npk39GpF

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@goldendenizen @MattHaneySF I do reside in AD-17. I'll vote for @MattHaneySF on your behalf. (And on my behalf, and the behalf of everyone else who needs our streets to transform into safe sustainable equitable public spaces.)

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@lmc Lai also called it the California 1. Maybe people who haven't bothered to learn the name of the line shouldn't be voting on it.

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@lmc When I heard "car storage" I felt like we were already already in public comment. Great to hear SFMTA using this kind of blunt accurate language,

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@MayUseFullLane I'm friends with a conductor. They get immediate time off when it happens. It's very traumatic for them. (Not only that they're on the train when it happens, but they're directly involved with the scene.)

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@bobbyfijan My favorite part of how efficiently they managed the project is the dedicated rail cars going every day throughout the day. Workers commented on how the steel was still warm from the Pittsburgh foundry when it was being put in place in New York.

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@burritojustice @katsiegal You can tonight!

https://t.co/kQgpbJ9uQC

[Safe Street Rebel @SafeStreetRebel]

Happy Thursday! Reminder: this is what SF leadership wants our beautiful public spaces to be for.
#Joinus tonight at 5:30pm at the Murphy Windmill for another fun slow ride protest to demand the Great Highway be a permanent park. See you soon!

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@fauvescraper @graue The city (https://t.co/nHRXzSxzQ9) says there about 1,400 miles of streets:

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@fauvescraper @zachlipton @goldendenizen @sfmta_muni @sfplanning An even more accurate representation would account for the proportion of time people with cars are walking, biking, taking transit. (So that 47.8% would be bumped up by whatever proportion the car owners aren't using their cars to get around.)

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@skttrbrain Always find it so interesting how people who drive can see all the problems caused by cars, yet can't see THAT the problems are caused by cars. In this case, they can't see the social division caused by cars (and find it easier to pretend it doesn't exist when forced to see it).

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@desertflyer @StevenHill1776 What gets me is that the pro-car people treat staffers like dirt, yet they're still going to bend over backwards to make these streets driver-friendly. More a result of driver privilege than driver rudeness (which comes from privilege) -- but still wish it didn't work that way.

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@safestreetrebel Anyone interested in learning how the rise of automobiles massively increased police power (hence massively increased police abuse of the non-privileged members of our society) should read Sarah Seo's Policing the Open Road.

https://t.co/cGZYATQulK

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@safestreetrebel Anyone interested in learning precisely how motoring interests upended the social structure of our cities to accommodate cars (and create a superior driving class) should read Peter Norton's Fighting Traffic.

https://t.co/zPygGVFHhD

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@grescoe Sofia Bulgaria's Serdika II metro station is an archeological site. (The photo below is of a 4th century Christian basilica in Roman Serdica.)

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@lmc @lilyrosesloane I didn't know much about him before. My opinion of him has plummeted.

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@bambipotf Also, I want to believe them when they say it has nothing to do with the police. Yet I turn on the zoom call and see SFPD Chief Scott right at the top.

[Harold Findley @HaroldFindley]

@dmtrubman Trouble, oh we got trouble
Right here in Center City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Parking