A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
🚨EMERGENCY RALLY TO SAVE BAY AREA TRANSIT🚨
Governor Newsom promised a $750M emergency loan for Bay Area transit agencies and it's now at risk. This would mean massive service cuts on BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain.
Let’s show Newsom that we won't stand for service cuts.
Time for Bay Area agencies to get their messaging in line with this - all mass transit is wayyyyy safer than driving and continues to improve.
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Join Caltrans on Sunday, July 6th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the West Oakland Farmers Market for a mobile workshop! Explore corridor scenarios, share your ideas for West Oakland’s future, and take the new survey. Learn more at vision980.org #Vision980
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GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
7 1/2. Breaking Through the Opposition: Calling the Other Side Calling an elected official from the opposing party may seem futile, but it’s far from it. Persistent and respectful communication can influence their understanding of your concerns as a constituent. Communication keeps the issue on their radar and can sway them if enough constituents voice the same opinion. Remember, public pressure has historically led to bipartisan support on various issues. Also consider that if your MoC doesn’t hear from a diverse range of opinions within their district, they may (falsely) assume that their views are spot-on. Even the most confident elected official wants to win over swing voters and maintain their seat come election time. Speaking up accomplishes a lot.
The biggest mistake Dems in red states make is NOT CALLING THEIR REPUBLICAN reps.
Calling your rep - ESPECIALLY if they're Republican, is *critical*. Otherwise they just hear from supporters and think they're doing a great job.
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Do you think the main issues were design flaws in not separating the bus lane with permanent barriers (like Van Ness BRT in SF)? The article makes it seem like the report is focused on failures with community outreach…unclear if that would have fixed the unsafe design problems.
I was mostly commenting on the article, haven’t read the report - seems like a big oversight not to mention Covid behavior changes at all.
Very odd there’s no mention of the other big thing that happened in spring 2020 just before BRT opened that caused traffic fatalities and collisions to increase almost everywhere bc streets were suddenly empty and extreme speeding became common 😬
Transit and active transportation advocates should be constantly bringing up these statistics: Driving is far more dangerous than taking transit, by every measure. The more we can get people out of cars, the safer everyone will be. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p...
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
Shocking investigation by @calmatters.org:
California DMV routinely allows drivers "with horrifying histories of dangerous driving, including DUIs, crashes and numerous tickets" to continue to drive. "Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again." calmatters.org/investigatio...
Never understood why it was exempted from our current upzoning process when it is high resource and added almost no housing in the last 20 years....anyone know?
This morning at 5AM, the City closed the gates to cars at Lincoln and Sloat, beginning the Great Highway’s transformation into an oceanfront park.
As we prepare to open a permanent park, we’re excited to share the work underway to make the most of our coast. Starting on day 1.
Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it.
Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on.
Making this my pinned post.
The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
Donald Shoup on a bicycle in two photos decades a apart. He is near a parking sign in both and wearing a crocheted sweater.
Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
There's a standard pattern when a city like London or Stockholm adopts congestion pricing:
It's initially unpopular b/c drivers view congestion pricing as a tax, but support grows as locals see it reducing traffic and improving urban life.
Looks like it's happening in NYC, too -- and quickly.
Instead of a more regressive sales tax, which does little to disincentivize driving, the visitor paid parking seems like an easy win. Odd that it’s only seen as a longer term option (post 2029).
And yet congestion is nearly back to 2019 levels while transit ridership is not. Really frustrating that it costs more to take the bus (benefitting many) than park a private vehicle on most of our public streets (benefitting one). what did they propose as an alternative? More cuts?
Hey @bart.gov your signs at 19th St are acting up - showed an arriving train as an SFO train and then it went the Berryessa direction! 20+ riders had to get off and swap at Lake Merritt :(
Is this not something that one of our legislators like @scottwiener.bsky.social or @matthaneysf.bsky.social can tackle?? Really unfortunate that we have such low standards for getting and keeping a license in CA. :(
We are living through Republicanism boiled down to its essence: Everyone should be deprived of everything, because otherwise, somebody I don't like might get something I don't want them to have. We call it an ideology, but it's really a personality: Greedy, withholding, suspicious, angry, cruel.
You could fit a class IV bike lane and a bus only lane and still have four lanes for parking and/or driving on Harrison. It’s nuts. And never congested in the least.
So much potential!
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Road Hazard: Evidence Mounts on Toxic Pollution from Tires
Researchers are only beginning to uncover the toxic cocktail of chemicals, microplastics, and heavy metals hidden in car and truck tires.
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