Another tragedy this morning – another child was hit by a car. This time with lacerations and broken bones.
To counter that, check out these two boys who offered to carry supplies for me.
These girls covered their hands in chalk from the street design activity, then sang a song while doing a handclapping routine.
I didn’t recognize the language they were singing in. I assumed it would be Dari, Pashto, or Farsi. Nope. Korean. They learned it all on Tik Tok.
First on-bike day. ABCQuick Check.
The Vice Principal notified us that we would not be able to do walking field trip because it was too dangerous to take the kids, not only to Bell St and Hurley Ave, even to the parking lot to practice on a real crosswalk. The reason: a child was hit by a car this morning before school. So proud of the people who worked that day for instantly being able to pivot and create four stations around campus to practice what students had learned in lesson 1,
a little street design,
and a visit to the garden.
The team in our happy place – the stage of the cafeteria. Brando, Joel, Joseph, Lorge, BarbaraL, Deanna, Winona.
For 4th and 5th graders, today was helmet fitting.
I organized a bike parts activity for students who had finished.
2nd and 3rd graders were presented with pedestrian safety, lesson 1.
Nine months ago, June 2025, Avery asked if I had any projects where he could earn money. Sure, the chairs on the front porch needed to be refinished! He did all the sanding over the summer and then the project stalled. Recently Thais was able borrow a paint sprayer from the neighbor and finish the job. Dave made these chairs for me shortly after I moved here in March 2017.
LOL: Thais informed me there would not be a future refinishing of these chairs.
Friday.
A team from SABA’s Ride Ready Repair came to Greer to check the the bikes stored in the trailer. All Bike Fridays.
I scouted the other supplies in the trailer and planned the bicycle course in the area the vice-principal designated. Hmm, I will have half the amount of space actually needed for bike drills and it’s in a L shape. Next “hmmm,” two classes at the same time = about 55 kids and only 30 bikes.
This evening in Elk Grove. Population = 179,000. Two residents showed up. SacRT needs to come up with another community engagement strategy.
After presenting the Active Transportation Commission’s annual report to the P&PE Committee, councilmembers recommended the report go the Budget Committee for consideration to be included in the City of Sacramento’s budget. We were last on a packed agenda and butting up against a required closed session – so I skipped lines in my speech and talked really fast.
Final result: this report should now go to the entire City Council within the next couple of months. This is the closest ATC has ever gotten to having any of our recommendations funded. And yet … there is NO chance active transportation will get even the smallest slice of the pie due to a significant budget deficit. More cyclists and pedestrians are killed each year than are murdered. 30% of the budget goes to the police department and 0% is allocated to make our streets safer. Frustrating.
Carson (out there somewhere):
I didn’t know about Breakthrough Sacramento until Patricia from SABA and I were asked to attend a cohort meeting to talk about advocating for active transportation. On their website, it says they provide “a year-round, tuition-free, college preparatory program for academically-motivated, ethnically diverse students from under-resourced schools in the Sacramento area.”
Another community engagement evening in
Again, sparsely attended. Two blind residents provided valuable input.
This resident (the only other attendee) is a frequent user of bus and light rail. Every word was recorded.
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