This tragedy in Colton is a deadly reminder of the dangers of hydrogen in transportation. We need to electrify freight rail for a safe, zero emissions way to haul goods. abc7.com/post/1-dead-...

Governor Newsom highlights Caltrain electrification as a good investment. We should invest in Metrolink electrification next, right @governor.ca.gov?

Want to make this happen? Call into the Capitol Board Meeting tomorrow at 10 to support electrification, the 3rd track to Roseville, and more Sac regional service. actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

BNSF, AAR: This is impossible

Electric Capitol Corridor and 3rd Track to Roseville need your support this Wed at 10 am. 3rd Track to Roseville will now take 24 years to finish, opening in 2036 with only 3 (not 10) trips. Email the board by 3 pm 2/17: #ElectrifyCapitolCorridor actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

Caltrain Baby Bullet project timeline - 1998 planning study - 1999 implementation plan - 2000 SB2003 appropriating $127m folded into budget signed in June - 2002 construction starts with a 2 year schedule requiring weekend service closure - 2004 construction complete on schedule and service starts

The state is 2 weeks late on its legally-mandated report on Southern California regional rail governance. We need real solutions: centralized funding and governance independent of hyper-local interests. Thank you Senator Blakespear for holding them accountable! sd38.senate.ca.gov/news/sen-bla...

Wow, I'm impressed. Bloomberg has the best article on the Sepulveda Line I've seen. No errors, very detailed, pushed back on nimby talking points, centered voices like Matute, Schneider, and Raman, and even mentions an EIFD! Full marks.

Trump just rolled back regulations on planet-warming greenhouse gases. California can step in by moving aggressively to electrify its passenger and freight railways, and get cars and trucks off the road.

Electrify the San Bernardino Line! Now is the time to move forward. #ElectrifyMetrolink www.pressenterprise.com/2026/02/07/m...

What are the transportation big challenges in California, and how can we address them? We have a magazine of key findings of five years of work on this, from researchers at @uclaits.bsky.social, @berkeleyits.bsky.social, UC Davis ITS, and UC Irvine ITS, coordinated by @susanshaheen.bsky.social:

"'The future of rail in Bayern is electric" A few years ago Germany led the world on hydrogen train deployment - now they are pivoting to overhead electrification and batteries after H2 trains proved to be a dud. Will CA do the same? www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructu...

Rails to busway+trails with maybe a conversion back in the future Dumbarton express is now running 35 min service and abandoned a clockfaced timetable. Start with 20 min service, bus lanes down Willow Rd to 101 if not Middlefield (could be 7am-7pm only past 101) sf.streetsblog.org/2026/01/22/s...

How do we fix the SCORE program? We need Metrolink to support these 3 reforms: - Independent infrastructure manager to take over capital projects from counties - State capacity for design & engineering - Multi-year framework funding (not patchwork grants) calelectricrail.org/wp-content/u...

The SCORE program, needed for 30 minute systemwide Metrolink service, has a $300m budget gap. The budget was set prior to advanced design, and utility relocations uncovered in design process pushed up costs. We need separate funding & staff capacity for design so this doesn't keep happening.

Wait, so you can just fund design and engineering instead of running everything through competitive grant programs? 🤯 Which CA governor candidate will do this for regional rail electrification?

1/2 Greenpeace study shows link between the quality of public transport and trust in democracy. In communities with poor local transport services, the right-wing populist AfD party tends to perform better.

⚡FULL ELECTRIFICATION ⚡ @governor.ca.gov shouts out Caltrain electrification in his State of the State speech.

The upshot? Twenty bus routes altered, another 15 eliminated, and a light-rail line that will stop at its halfway point, requiring a transfer to get from Clackamas Town Center to downtown Portland.

Want to reduce US reliance on oil? Fund transit and electrify our trains!

NEW: Mayor Mamdani chose the third full day of his tenure to announce that he will complete the full safety redesign of deadly McGuinness Boulevard in Greenpoint — a project that was created under Mayor Bill de Blasio, but watered down by Mayor Adams in a corruption scandal. buff.ly/T2rESWz

sometimes it feels impossible to imagine US towns and cities without car-dominance. but i think if we could get a few humming along, and people could visit and see how fun life is using transit and renting e-bikes, we could turn the tide. a good goal is to work on the prototypes!

The next time someone says, "Oh, I'm just going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, what's the big deal?" you should show them this

Electrolink - electrification, level boarding, and through-running - would bring the Surfliner to 2.5 hours travel time. California deserves a train like the Northeast Corridor - let's make it happen! calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

CA is investing $53m in new diesel locomotives that will last for decades. It's good that Metrolink can retire its dirtiest locomotives, but where is the plan to electrify? #ElectrifyMetrolink www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/08/g...

When you see L.A. City reps announcing "Large Asphalt Repair" it's basically the city giving the middle finger to folks in wheelchairs, on bike, on foot, on the bus

The State Rail Plan has over $100 B of projects across every major region of the state that will greatly improve transit access in car-dependent areas. But there is no plan to fund it - the state just expects local goverments to apply for small competitive grant programs with unrelated incentives.

Union Pacific (modern descendant of Southern Pacific) today: electrification is impossible.

The metric should not be whether drivers hate it. The metric should be whether it makes our streets safer for everyone. And by all accounts this accomplished that. That’s more than worth a few seconds of all of our time

With the Tesla Tunnels officially canceled, the opportunity to invest in the SBL is here. Electrolink would transform San Bernardino County - let's make it happen!

BEGGING San Francisco to put rail down Geary. Or at least make the 38R proper BRT like Van Ness

Checks out

Google Maps thinks I couldn’t POSSIBLY be on a train in SoCal

If service-led planning was mandatory, SBCTA wouldn't have wasted years of staff time on this boondoggle and would be already advancing better alternatives. And while the ONT connector thankfully did not have success w/ grants, patchwork competitive grant programs kept hope alive for years.

California is pausing its hydrogen hub, which has been a driving force behind the hydrogen train boondoggle. Will this pause investments into unproven hydrogen trains, and accelerate investments in proven, fast, zero-emissions electric trains with overhead wires? archesh2.org/california-p...

Whoever is CA’s next governor must make electric rail and transit funding a priority! 🤔

I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal

Bike, transit, and street safety advocacy can (and often should!) be lots of fun. Building community and making the world a better place is fun! And the better you get at it, the more fun/less stressful it is.* This book will help you have an easier time of it islandpress.org/books/if-you...

100 years later, CA still struggles to implement a) Electrified, through-running, higher-speed mainline rail for long haul trips d) unified operations (vs 30+ uncoordinated agencies in greater LA) e) Service-led planning f) building a) on existing ROW rather than new duplicative lines

Help prevent massive cuts to Caltrain, sign up to support the By Area Transit Funding Measure! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The California delegation must say no to an infrastructure reauthorization that cuts transit funding! And regardless of what happens in DC, next year the state should prioritize building rail state capacity and streamlining 3rd party permits so that we can build more with the money we do have.

The cost of the Roseville 3rd track has nearly doubled since 2024, and will now provide only 6 round trips at first. Largely downstream of Capitol Corridor's lack of state capacity and extortion by powerful 3rd parties like Union Pacific. We need to fix this ASAP. calelectricrail.org/project-deli...

The Pacific Surfliner is the 2nd busiest passenger rail line in the country. In recent years, it has suffered frequent closures due to erosion. In August, @thecacoast.bsky.social delayed repairs because just 1 (!!) person complained. Now that permit isn't being considered again until November.

I’ve been reading this book and it’s probably the best straight-to-the-point guide on how to make a difference with transportation advocacy I’ve read. Nice job Carter!

1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")

The amount budgeted for *all* transit, not just regional rail - is far less than we need to complete the State Rail Plan on time. And starting soon, all of it will be awarded as competitive grants that cause years of delay. CA urgently needs to fix funding to meet climate goals.

California will spend $31 billion on transportation this year with about 3% of that budgeted for support for transit agencies. lao.ca.gov/Publications...