Vanessa Cascio
@vanessacascio.bsky.social
Working with communities so all kids can joyfully move.
#SafeRoutestoSchool #SafeRoutesEverywhere
❤️🩹Public health professional
🙋🏻♀️People-centered facilitator
📣 Social justice driven
🚲 Bike/walk advocate
🏜️Arizona roots
📍DC home for now
#SafeRoutestoSchool #SafeRoutesEverywhere
❤️🩹Public health professional
🙋🏻♀️People-centered facilitator
📣 Social justice driven
🚲 Bike/walk advocate
🏜️Arizona roots
📍DC home for now
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Change is on the move in Tucson. Bold, outspoken leaders with real records on transit justice and complete streets are stepping up. People-first politics is winning ground.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
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Tucson City Council primary: Dahl, Shaw in tight race; Schubert and Barajas claim victory - AZ Luminaria
Tucson’s City Council primary election is today. Here’s what’s on the ballot, where to vote in person or drop off your ballot, and results when polls close at 7 p.m.
azluminaria.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Change is on the move in Tucson. Bold, outspoken leaders with real records on transit justice and complete streets are stepping up. People-first politics is winning ground.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...
When a child is killed by a driver, the question isn’t “Where were the parents?”
It should be: “Why was the street designed like a death trap?”
Pointing fingers at grieving families while leaving dangerous roads untouched isn’t just wrong, it’s obscene.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
It should be: “Why was the street designed like a death trap?”
Pointing fingers at grieving families while leaving dangerous roads untouched isn’t just wrong, it’s obscene.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
When a child is killed by a driver, the question isn’t “Where were the parents?”
It should be: “Why was the street designed like a death trap?”
Pointing fingers at grieving families while leaving dangerous roads untouched isn’t just wrong, it’s obscene.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
It should be: “Why was the street designed like a death trap?”
Pointing fingers at grieving families while leaving dangerous roads untouched isn’t just wrong, it’s obscene.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
📣 TAKE ACTION: Contact your U.S. Senators by Friday, May 23 & urge them to include the Safe Routes to School Coordinator bill in Surface Transportation Priorities. Every state needs a coordinator to help make walking/biking to school safer for kids. #SafeRoutes
May 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
📣 TAKE ACTION: Contact your U.S. Senators by Friday, May 23 & urge them to include the Safe Routes to School Coordinator bill in Surface Transportation Priorities. Every state needs a coordinator to help make walking/biking to school safer for kids. #SafeRoutes
Every kid deserves a safe walk to school, not a daily dodgeball match with SUVs. School Streets = calmer mornings, cleaner air, and way fewer honks. Let’s make this the norm, not a novelty.
We are going to try out what I think will be Denver’s first ever “School Street” on bike to school day next month.
We need a few volunteers that day to help us make it happen. Please consider signing up!
www.brownbikebus.com/brown-school...
We need a few volunteers that day to help us make it happen. Please consider signing up!
www.brownbikebus.com/brown-school...
April 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Every kid deserves a safe walk to school, not a daily dodgeball match with SUVs. School Streets = calmer mornings, cleaner air, and way fewer honks. Let’s make this the norm, not a novelty.
Proud of my hometown 💓
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Proud of my hometown 💓
Proud of my six year old who joined me to lobby Senators to Vote “NO” today. His message was simple: “No, this is not ok.” Thanks to @booker.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov for welcoming us into your office and speaking with us.
March 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Proud of my six year old who joined me to lobby Senators to Vote “NO” today. His message was simple: “No, this is not ok.” Thanks to @booker.senate.gov and @slotkin.senate.gov for welcoming us into your office and speaking with us.
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Absolute 🔥🔥 from Sarah McBride: "We will not take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection. I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird and it is bizarre.”
March 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Absolute 🔥🔥 from Sarah McBride: "We will not take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection. I appear to live rent free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. The Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird and it is bizarre.”
Relishing small acts of defiance. This week, DC began removal of the iconic Black Lives Matter mural. This week, we were greeted with a replica. Albeit temporary and simple, but a poignant moment.
March 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Relishing small acts of defiance. This week, DC began removal of the iconic Black Lives Matter mural. This week, we were greeted with a replica. Albeit temporary and simple, but a poignant moment.
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Over here 👀 for familiar DC faces.
Thanks to those who have already created #DCStarterPacks - super helpful!
Any others to add?
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Thanks to those who have already created #DCStarterPacks - super helpful!
Any others to add?
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November 12, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Over here 👀 for familiar DC faces.
Thanks to those who have already created #DCStarterPacks - super helpful!
Any others to add?
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Thanks to those who have already created #DCStarterPacks - super helpful!
Any others to add?
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Several years ago, partners in the City of Tucson led robust engagement to create an equitable #CompleteStreets policy. I’ll never forget hearing from undocumented families: safe, predictable, well-marked streets meant less confusion, reducing the risk of being pulled over.
The conversation about the role of enforcement in Vision Zero is fraught right now, but it's going to get a *hell* of a lot more complicated if Trump is successful in giving more traffic cops many of the same powers as ICE. My latest for SBUSA.
How Trump's Mass Deportation Plans Could Make U.S. Roads More Dangerous — Streetsblog USA
President-elect Trump's promise to deport one million people per year will make America's streets less safe.
usa.streetsblog.org
December 10, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Several years ago, partners in the City of Tucson led robust engagement to create an equitable #CompleteStreets policy. I’ll never forget hearing from undocumented families: safe, predictable, well-marked streets meant less confusion, reducing the risk of being pulled over.
Ooh, some great holiday book recommendations. ‘‘Tis the season to stock up the bookshelves! 🤓📖
Some new reading material!
📚 When Driving Is Not An Option by @nondriver.bsky.social
📚 Human Transit (Revised Edition) by @humantransit.bsky.social
📚 Climate Action for Busy People by Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Thanks @islandpress.bsky.social
Excited to dive in to these!
📚 When Driving Is Not An Option by @nondriver.bsky.social
📚 Human Transit (Revised Edition) by @humantransit.bsky.social
📚 Climate Action for Busy People by Cate Mingoya-LaFortune
Thanks @islandpress.bsky.social
Excited to dive in to these!
December 10, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Ooh, some great holiday book recommendations. ‘‘Tis the season to stock up the bookshelves! 🤓📖
A well-worn desire path on a hilly median leading to a multi-use trail. Wonder how often neighbors have to dart across this roadway to get to this nice pathway. Not to mention the pop-up lawn furniture for people watching or to take a break from trekking back up the hill? #saferoutesnow
December 7, 2024 at 9:03 PM
A well-worn desire path on a hilly median leading to a multi-use trail. Wonder how often neighbors have to dart across this roadway to get to this nice pathway. Not to mention the pop-up lawn furniture for people watching or to take a break from trekking back up the hill? #saferoutesnow
@bikeshare.bsky.social is my go-to for biking around DC- easy, convenient, and affordable transportation. But Xmas tree hauling has really leveled up my perception of these mighty mobility machines 🤩
December 5, 2024 at 11:21 PM
@bikeshare.bsky.social is my go-to for biking around DC- easy, convenient, and affordable transportation. But Xmas tree hauling has really leveled up my perception of these mighty mobility machines 🤩
This sexy new protected bike lane in Tucson was a decade in the making. Mad props to advocates and agency staff for helping folks realize that change doesn’t need to be scary!
news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2...
news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2...
New protected bicycle lanes opening in downtown Tucson
Project on Stone Avenue also adds pedestrian crosswalks and landscaping
news.azpm.org
December 5, 2024 at 1:01 AM
This sexy new protected bike lane in Tucson was a decade in the making. Mad props to advocates and agency staff for helping folks realize that change doesn’t need to be scary!
news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2...
news.azpm.org/p/azpmnews/2...
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Thank you to all of the transit operators and numerous support staff still working today to allow people to reach and spend time with friends/family today.
November 28, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Thank you to all of the transit operators and numerous support staff still working today to allow people to reach and spend time with friends/family today.
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Transit Rider Group Starter Pack! Official organizations that are fighting for better mobility and transit.
go.bsky.app/6Pw2jpk
go.bsky.app/6Pw2jpk
November 26, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Transit Rider Group Starter Pack! Official organizations that are fighting for better mobility and transit.
go.bsky.app/6Pw2jpk
go.bsky.app/6Pw2jpk
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A parent shared with me a map made by their 9 year old child (of that intersection) which was sent to the city 3 years ago.
"Red X's indicate the locations I have almost been hit by cars" Think about that.
"Red X's indicate the locations I have almost been hit by cars" Think about that.
November 25, 2024 at 3:46 PM
A parent shared with me a map made by their 9 year old child (of that intersection) which was sent to the city 3 years ago.
"Red X's indicate the locations I have almost been hit by cars" Think about that.
"Red X's indicate the locations I have almost been hit by cars" Think about that.
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🔥 OPINION: “The career of teaching becomes more and more undesirable even for the most passionate of educators. Good teachers are leaving some of the best schools in Arizona, thanks to heavy workloads and low pay.” 😢
www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...
www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...
My school is one of the best in Arizona. Even it can't keep good teachers
Good teachers are leaving some of the best schools in Arizona, thanks to heavy workloads and low pay.
www.azcentral.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:25 AM
🔥 OPINION: “The career of teaching becomes more and more undesirable even for the most passionate of educators. Good teachers are leaving some of the best schools in Arizona, thanks to heavy workloads and low pay.” 😢
www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...
www.azcentral.com/story/opinio...
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“Dual-mode households (cars & ebikes) can reduce their car use by 19% compared to those solely reliant on cars, particularly affecting shorter trips. This supports households moving to one car and adopting a ‘car light’ lifestyle.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
momentummag.com/study-shows-...
momentummag.com/study-shows-...
Study Shows How E-Bikes Are Shifting the Transportation Landscape
a recent study highlights the benefits of e-bikes, including reduced reliance on cars and increased mobility for people of all ages
momentummag.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:13 PM
“Dual-mode households (cars & ebikes) can reduce their car use by 19% compared to those solely reliant on cars, particularly affecting shorter trips. This supports households moving to one car and adopting a ‘car light’ lifestyle.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
momentummag.com/study-shows-...
momentummag.com/study-shows-...
High-visibility crosswalks and curb extensions reduce crashes by 23-48%. These are low-cost, high-impact treatments. highways.dot.gov/sites/fhwa.d...
November 26, 2024 at 12:26 AM
High-visibility crosswalks and curb extensions reduce crashes by 23-48%. These are low-cost, high-impact treatments. highways.dot.gov/sites/fhwa.d...
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November 24, 2024 at 3:06 AM
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We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.
November 23, 2024 at 4:53 AM
We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.
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Every coffee shop I rode by on my way to a lunch meeting today had several bikes parked outside.
On a 35°F day.
Not everyone wants to bike in winter (or ever), but when we make it safe & comfortable to bike via protected & connected bike lanes, more people choose to bike.
And we all benefit.
On a 35°F day.
Not everyone wants to bike in winter (or ever), but when we make it safe & comfortable to bike via protected & connected bike lanes, more people choose to bike.
And we all benefit.
November 23, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Every coffee shop I rode by on my way to a lunch meeting today had several bikes parked outside.
On a 35°F day.
Not everyone wants to bike in winter (or ever), but when we make it safe & comfortable to bike via protected & connected bike lanes, more people choose to bike.
And we all benefit.
On a 35°F day.
Not everyone wants to bike in winter (or ever), but when we make it safe & comfortable to bike via protected & connected bike lanes, more people choose to bike.
And we all benefit.
Reposted by Vanessa Cascio
I can spend $60 on gear for my kids and that’s easy compared to gas. I cannot spend $300,000 on hospital bills when the cars squash us.
#WinterBiking is easier when you have access to a network of connected, protected & cleared (of snow/ice) bike lanes.
As an individual, it’s far easier to find solutions to stay warm & deal with remaining ice/snow than it is to find ways to stay safe when forced to bike with car traffic.
As an individual, it’s far easier to find solutions to stay warm & deal with remaining ice/snow than it is to find ways to stay safe when forced to bike with car traffic.
November 23, 2024 at 2:06 AM
I can spend $60 on gear for my kids and that’s easy compared to gas. I cannot spend $300,000 on hospital bills when the cars squash us.