Katie Matchett (@sidewalkstarts) 's Twitter Profile
Katie Matchett

@sidewalkstarts

Come for the enthusiastic advocacy for walking, kids, cargo bikes, and safe mobility, stay for the withering feminism (and the occasional beach pic).

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A pedestrian struck by an SUV or pickup truck is 41% more likely to die than a pedestrian struck by a sedan at the same speed. We need to reign in supersized vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2023/06/23/rep…

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They look like just a few plastic bollards, but they represent over three years of work on the part of advocates, residents, academics, city staff, elected officials, and other slow street allies. Thank you to everyone who made this happen.

They look like just a few plastic bollards, but they represent over three years of work on the part of advocates, residents, academics, city staff, elected officials, and other slow street allies. Thank you to everyone who made this happen.
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Love to see cities supporting access for kids and their parents. Mobility for children is about more than sidewalks and car seats.

Love to see cities supporting access for kids and their parents. Mobility for children is about more than sidewalks and car seats.
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What do you when it’s one of the busiest days at the beach, and you need to get your kids and all their stuff there anyway? Take the Beach Bug! Amazing what three years of planning and some parking meter funding can get you.

What do you when it’s one of the busiest days at the beach, and you need to get your kids and all their stuff there anyway? Take the Beach Bug! Amazing what three years of planning and some parking meter funding can get you.
Circulate San Diego (@circulatesd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🕯️ Join Families for Safe Streets San Diego and Circulate next week for #WorldDayOfRemembrance on Nov. 17th. Learn more about the event and how to get involved: circulatesd.org/2023_world_day…

🕯️ Join <a href="/SDSafeStreets/">Families for Safe Streets San Diego</a> and Circulate next week for #WorldDayOfRemembrance on Nov. 17th. Learn more about the event and how to get involved: circulatesd.org/2023_world_day…
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Join us for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims on Nov 17th. Traffic deaths are preventable. We have knowledge & tools. We need the will. #WDoR2023

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Walk kid to school, bike to get groceries. Celebrating the intersection of mobility, care work, and gender on this #InternationalWomensDay2024

Walk kid to school, bike to get groceries. Celebrating the intersection of mobility, care work, and gender on this #InternationalWomensDay2024
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For a longtime active transportation advocate, nothing is so simultaneously awesome and terrifying as your kids being able to bike/scoot themselves to the drugstore on their own.

Katie Matchett (@sidewalkstarts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If I have to have one more conversation with my tween about how she will die if she doesn’t get an e-bike I’m moving us to Copenhagen.

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Community: we would like to cross the street here.* City of San Diego: No, just walk up this “sidewalk” a block to cross instead. *while taking this photo I watched five people cross here.

Community: we would like to cross the street here.*

City of San Diego: No, just walk up this “sidewalk” a block to cross instead. 

*while taking this photo I watched five people cross here.
Katie Matchett (@sidewalkstarts) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My most consistent act of micro-feminism is reminding people that I schedule meetings around my kids, because while reliable childcare disappears after 5th grade (or sooner), 11-year-old children *weirdly* aren’t capable of caring for themselves independently at all times.