@carterlavin
Training folks to win transportation changes like bus lanes, bike lanes, & car-free plazas. Author of "If you want to win, you've got to fight: a guide to effective transportation advocacy" https://islandpress.org/books/if-you-want-win-youve-got-fight#desc
Please add your comments to the survey, especially about the dangers of painted bike lanes
Painted bike lanes on 2nd are dangerous door-zone lanes used more for double parking, and are not appropriate for a transit hub. OakDOT should follow the bike plan and install protected bike lanes on 3rd
Call & write to your reps to tell them to stop funding the war machine
And if you are a California and want to tell our senators to fund transit, write them a letter here actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.
"This is your playbook for turning your vision into reality" --- a very nice review of my book! Check out the review
www.linkedin.com/posts/rlberg...
And check out the book at your local library or get it from @islandpress.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social
Noted BART rider, Muni enthusiast, and Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu will be celebrated next Thursday, March 12th at Oakland City Hall. It's only appropriate to celebrate someone who understands the joy that public transit brings by gathering signatures to save public transit! Come join!
This country can afford anything it wants. Single payer healthcare. Affordable housing. Modern transit systems. High speed rail. Everything is a choice.
Awful
A pretty cool thing about having written a book is randomly getting texts & DMs from folks with pics of them and the book.
Always brightens my day
(Ends up you can get it at the Cal library)
Or get your own at
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
@islandpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social
Each and every one of us can make the world a better place.
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Imagine having robust transit options where geopolitics don’t affect the cost of your commute.
Mid-day @bart.gov train from 19th St to SF. Chatting a bit with fellow riders.
An elderly couple in from Connecticut visiting their child at Cal
A person in from Kentucky
Some friends talking about their career paths and a dozen others going about their day.
BART is a treasure worth protecting
No idea how all that works.
I recommend getting it from wherever you most like getting books.
You can order from @islandpress.bsky.social 's website and get 20% off with discount code FIGHT
And building the political power you need to win those improvements for your community can be pretty straightforward too--
Here's a book that'll help you in the process!
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
It's also pretty easy (logistically) to significantly scale up a community's transit, walk-ability, and bike-ability.
Every improvement that makes your community more comfortable and convenient to get around outside of a car helps more people use less oil
Would be nice if the federal government helped fund transit though, so call your senators & congressional rep to demand transit operations funding!
Or write a letter here actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Bay Area transit agencies face massive budget shortfalls now and the funds from the Connect Bay Area regional measure (if it passes) won't start coming through til next year.
So the loan is needed to stop cuts til the regional measure money starts flowing.
They are unrelated.
The federal government pretty much does not fund transit operations (they do give some crumbs to transit capital projects).
So there is no delay in transit operations funding from the feds since they don't really fund it in the first place.
The loan is needed cuz...
Huzzah!
The book mentioned in the post, on a Library New Additions shelf.
Hitting up the Anacortes Publoc Library and look.what they have on the shelf! "If You Want To Win, You've Got to Fight" by @carterlavin.bsky.social
Thanks for having me!
We hosted a community conversation with @carterlavin.bsky.social discussing his book If You Want to Win You've to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy. It's now on our YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAx-...
Warning: This video will make you do this a lot:
Morally- yes
Strategically -- also yes.
When asking someone to do something hard, you'll have more success if you take steps to make it easier/less punishing for them to say yes.
Knowing the cost of your ask helps you understand what you need to do to make your ask easier to say yes to
Just another case study ahead of this event tomorrow evening in Oakland.
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Good to know, thanks!
How many people per train? Also, how easy/hard is it to add sections to the train & expand capacity that way?
Sometimes activism is stuff like writing a book to help train your fellow activists
However more commonly activism is stuff like getting 120' of PVC pipe, dozens of connectors and lots and lots of poster board to prep for a big night of crafting
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
File this under "I can't believe that worked"
I used to keep my to-do list on a tiny note pad and I'd fill each page with tiny written to-dos.
Switched to using a much larger note pad, writing larger and having more space b/w items
Same number of to-dos, but it feels a lot less stressful
Aww, a new (and positive) review of my book just came through. Check it out! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
And if you've read it (and liked it) please consider taking a minute or two to write a review to help others find it
the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control
to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive)
Find subscribe links here: