Luke Bornheimer (Streets Forward)
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Luke Bornheimer (Streets Forward)
@lukebornheimer.com
Executive Director @StreetsForward.org. Sustainable transportation advocate and community organizer in San Francisco. #BlackLivesMatter
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Streets Forward presents Bike Bus Fest featuring @coachbalto.bsky.social of @bikebusworld.bsky.social, a live band, and free giveaways for a woom bike and other prizes. Join us this Sunday (October 19th) at 10 AM for a family-friendly ride—RSVP now for a chance to win at BikeBusFest.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Join me, @streetsforward.org, @sfbikebus.com, families, and others for Bike Bus Fest, featuring @coachbalto.bsky.social of @bikebusworld.bsky.social and giveaways for a free Woom bike and other prizes on October 19th!

RSVP now for a chance to win a Woom bike and other prizes at BikeBusFest.org 🚲🚌👏
October 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Join us, @streetsforward.org, families, and adults of all ages for Bike Bus Fest, featuring @coachbalto.bsky.social of @bikebusworld.bsky.social and giveaways for a free Woom bike and other prizes on October 19th!

RSVP now for your chance to win a Woom bike among other prizes at BikeBusFest.org 🚲🚌👏
October 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Join us and @sfbikebus.com for Bike Bus Fest, a family-friendly bike ride and celebration featuring @coachbalto.bsky.social of @bikebusworld.bsky.social and free giveaways for a Woom bike and other prizes!

RSVP now for a chance to win a Woom bike and other prizes: bikebusfest.org
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Bike Bus Fest featuring Coach Balto and free Woom kids bike giveaway 🎉 Join Streets Forward, kids, families, and people of all ages for a family-friendly bike…
BikeBusFest.org
October 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Great article on managing Central Parks drives for pedestrians, runners, bikes and carriages. Thanks to @johnsurico.bsky.social for including JFK Promenade and Sunset Dunes for comparison.

@sunsetdunes.org @streetsforall.org @streetsforward.org @walksf.org
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Squeezed by Crowds, the Roads of Central Park Are Being Reimagined
As more urban green spaces go car-free, how does the world’s most-visited city park deal with a growing crush of bike and pedestrian traffic?
www.bloomberg.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
@rollovereasy.bsky.social I’m curious what Chris thinks of the SF Bay Area Bench Collective’s recent installation of Duderstadt-inspired benches at Muni stops, and what he would think of a potential official permitting process for community members to install benches at Muni stops around the city.
June 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Here's the campaign to do this in SF actionnetwork.org/letters/ntor
May 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The movement is growing for protected bike lanes on Valencia Street south of 23rd Street 👏

Join our movement now at valenciaforward.org — signing the petition only takes a few taps and less than a minute, and it's impactful!

Thanks @StreetsblogSF.bsky.social for covering our movement!
May 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In less than three days, 200 San Franciscans signed @StreetsForward.org's petition for protected bike lanes on Valencia Street south of 23rd Street, sending 2,200 emails to policymakers!

Join the growing movement of people calling for protected bike lanes at valenciaforward.org.
May 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Valencia Street has unprotected bike lanes south of 23rd Street and it's time to fix that—we need protected bike lanes for the entirety of Valencia Street!

Today, @StreetsForward.org is launching a campaign to finish the job. Please sign the petition at ValenciaForward.org now.
Sign the Petition for Protected Bike Lanes on Valencia Street south of 23rd Street
Valencia Street south of 23rd Street still has paint-only, unprotected bike lanes, despite curbside parking-protected bikeways being installed between Market Street and 23rd Streets. It's time for the...
ValenciaForward.org
May 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
San Francisco's Vision Zero efforts—to eliminate roadway fatalities and severe injuries—have failed because the City hasn't focused on making it safer and faster to walk, bike, and take public transit, which would help people shift trips from cars to walking, biking, and transit.
May 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The curbside bikeways on Valencia Street between 15th and 23rd are coming along and a huge improvement. Thanks to everyone who supported @StreetsForward.org's campaign for curbside bikeways!

Want to make it safer and faster to bike in San Francisco? Sign up at StreetsForward.org
May 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Valencia Street’s curbside bikeways are now installed between 19th and 23rd Street, replacing the center bikeway and transforming the street into one that is safer and better for business, thanks to people who supported @StreetsForward.org’s ‘Better Valencia’ campaign 👏 Thank you 🙏
April 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Sign here to protect cyclist safety in San Francisco: actionnetwork.org/letters/ntor
March 9, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Your reminder that SFMTA prioritizes cars and driver convenience over people’s safety.

SFMTA could approve a citywide No Turn on Red policy if it wanted, and Mayor Lurie can direct SFMTA to propose it.

Support public safety and citywide No Turn on Red at NTORsf.com.
March 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The recent car crashes that destroyed two businesses’ parklets highlight the negative impacts of cars on our city and the need for policy and infrastructure to help people shift trips from cars to bikes and public transit as well as physical infrastructure to protect parklets.
February 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Bicycles Deliver The Freedom That Auto Ads Promise.

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@lukebornheimer.com @streetsforward.org @sfbikebus.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We congratulate Director Kirschbaum on being named SFMTA’s permanent Director of Transportation and look forward to working with her to transform San Francisco’s streets and transportation system and help people shift trips from cars to bikes, public transit, and other sustainable transportation.
February 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
SFMTA beginning construction of the curbside bikeways on Valencia Street—replacing the flawed center bikeway—is a great step forward.

Now, the City needs to extend the curbside bikeways to Cesar Chavez Street and widen the bikeways for the entirety of Valencia, ideally in 2025.
February 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
SFMTA’s plan to not expand parking meter hours in the evening and on Sundays is disastrous and inequitable, and runs counter to the goals and policies SFMTA and the City claim to prioritize. SFMTA must expand parking meter hours to fund Muni and other transportation improvements.
February 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
SFMTA should be making daylighting intuitive by installing bike corrals, bikeshare stations, planters or benches in daylighting spaces.

In the meantime, ignoring state law and allowing cars to be store within 20 feet of crosswalks decrease public safety.

We need leadership now.
February 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Electric cars—and electric car chargers—will not solve the climate crisis nevermind our roadway safety crisis.

To address our climate crisis and roadway safety crisis, we must help people shift trips from cars to bikes, public transportation and other sustainable transportation.
ABC7 Bay Area segment on electric car chargers and interview with Luke Bornheimer
YouTube video by Luke Bornheimer
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February 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
@rollovereasy.bsky.social Happy CEQA Statutory Exemption Determination Week, to anyone who celebrates!

What about doing next week’s show *in* the center bikeway before it’s replaced with curbside bikeways?

Theme the show around things in the center/middle (e.g. hot dogs, custard-filled cronuts)…?
The Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected the appeal of the Mid-Valencia Curbside Bikeway Project, and construction of the curbside bikeways will begin on February 10 👏

Thank you to everyone who emailed and/or gave in-person public comment!

For more, follow @StreetsForward.org.
January 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Board of Supervisors unanimously rejected the appeal of the Mid-Valencia Curbside Bikeway Project, and construction of the curbside bikeways will begin on February 10 👏

Thank you to everyone who emailed and/or gave in-person public comment!

For more, follow @StreetsForward.org.
January 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The Valencia Curbside Bikeway Project—which was approved by the SFMTA Board in November and supposed to begin construction in early January—was appealed by 3–5 merchants.

Please send an email in support of the project using tinyurl.com/ValenciaCEQA — it takes less than 10 seconds!
January 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM