everyone DROP EVERYTHING and get your wallets out it's time for my favourite annual tradition !!!

BART is planning changes for platform assignments at Daly City that will balance headways and enable more cross platform transfers at Bay Fair and MacArthur. bart.legistar.com/LegislationD...

we ate this methinks

ready to help save muni 🫡 this is your resident bart AND muni defender reporting for duty to get your signatures for the regional and sf measures!

bro

valentraine-r for the second time in a row iktr 🙂‍↕️ highlights: - having a clipboard (from signature gathering) for my speed dating bingo card - transit nerds everywhere <3 and an exclusive car for queer people - bart staff allowed us to take the posters on trains leading to a scramble to get them

NOOOOOOOO

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nice to meet you @idothethinking.bsky.social on the 7 bus party!!

take me already 😭

brb bawling even more about ep 5

brb bawling over heated rivalry ep 3

omg look an article!

it was nice to see you at car free happy hour @rebeccaforec.bsky.social! i forgot to show you the bart brochure i kept that showed fares and schedules back in 2014 :’)

@benschneider.bsky.social ’s book featured on BART!

SHUT THE FUCK UP OMG GIVE ME 17 OF THESE ASAP

clipper 2.0 launch day, a thread

happy clipper 2.0 eve! the transition will take place over many weeks, but it's been months since i first started talking about the expected release date. it's good to finally have its first parts up and running soon. here's to an integrated bay area transit experience & more improvements to come!

HAPPY MONTH OF CLIPPER 2.0 LAUNCH (fingers crossed) (knocks on wood) the countdown officially begins!

New Clipper system coming Dec. 10th! Next Generation Clipper means: • Instant fund loading • Family account management • Bank card and mobile wallet payments Learn more: https://www.caltrain.com/clipper

changing my picture to reflect my display name more accurately felt cute in my @bart.gov sweater 🙂‍↕️💅🏽

@carterlavin.bsky.social ’s new book on home turf @bart.gov 🫡

The Bay Area is at risk of massive transit service cuts if we don't pass a 2026 regional funding measure. It cannot be overstated how disastrous cuts would be for our entire region. Please read this thread for actions you can take to save Bay Area public transit. And share to spread the word! 🧵⬇️

Clipper Board meeting slides now up! December 10 will bring about a host of features for Clipper 2.0, with other features to be introduced in the future. @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social @adinalevin.bsky.social @tsch.uy @kaleomark.bsky.social @infrastructureweak.bsky.social

this diva is so loved @sfmta.bsky.social

subway builder brainrot so severe it got me planning bart track layouts for my new save on @bart.gov itself 🤷🏻‍♂️

Clipper 2.0 is going to revolutionize how we get around the Bay. Something as simple as taking the bus to the train will be rewarded, not punished. From my house in Berkeley to my friends in the Castro could be literally half the price as today. Check it out: clipper2.hikingbytransit.com 🧵 1/7

Ride @bart.gov @sfmta.bsky.social @rideact.bsky.social or other Bay Area transit agencies ? You're about to save a bunch of money with Clipper 2.0! Our trip saving calculator built w/ @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social & @tsch.uy will show you how much. See for yourself > clipper2.hikingbytransit.com

after my goethe zertifikat i decided to treat the east bay with modernised (and somewhat rerouted) light metro revivals of six of its former streetcar routes

why i lowkey ate that mündliche prüfung… 🙂‍↕️💅🏽

a happy Goethe Zertifikat B1 to those who are taking it (me) (i wanna die /j)

after several weeks on the Bay Area save, here is my progress so far. some features include: - Key System resurrected <3 - wBART to Hercules, BART to Marin, and BART to Downtown Livermore - Geary Blvd light metro my beloved - VTA 5xx rapid to light metro conversion - (Soon) Caltrain buildout

I came dressed as Squid Game’s Front Man (if he liked @bart.gov) 🙂‍↕️

also the way my officemate saw me featured on the bart insta oop--

me when my financial decisions finally come to fruition (also my first time inside the @bart.gov office!!)

someone save me from subway builder

we officially have a date recommended for clipper 2.0 roll-out: december 10. home stretch (fingers crossed)! @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social @adinalevin.bsky.social @tsch.uy @kaleomark.bsky.social @infrastructureweak.bsky.social @idothethinking.bsky.social

it's upon us, hopefully!

Yay, SB63 signed into law, authorizing a regional transit funding measure for the SF Bay Area, essential to save and improve service for BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain! Bill allows a signature-gathering effort that would passage with 50%+1 of the vote. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

BREAKING: The Governor signed our legislation to authorize a Bay Area regional funding ballot measure for transit. SB 63 is critical to avoid massive service cuts at Muni, BART, Caltrain & other systems. We need to stabilize & modernize these systems for the Bay Area’s future.

BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW. Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.

to quote sabrina carpenter, tears are running down rn

Here are the Subway/Metro Station design guidelines that were compiled by UMTA/USDOT in the 1970s in an attempt to prevent WMATA-style cost overruns again. It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352

as a next gen clipper tester the interagency discounts cant come soon enough for all of us

On October 3rd he asked me what day it was…

this is just over two days on bart, on week 5 of transit month. *two* days. the spiraling was crazy. but also? *grabs popcorn*

happy 65 years ac transit! we’re doing back to back celebrations for transit in here perioddd

ride contest rivalry heating up on the last day… mhm mhm 🙂‍↕️

met a diva on the street today (key system pls reincarnate as an automated light metro i beg)