Biggest mistake US transit advocates make is siding with capital's long running austerity campaign against public services by focusing on transit labor costs over transit service funding Countries with robust transit and high ridership have strong unions and healthy transit funding

this title sucks shit what it doesnt mention is cops on a high speed chase with this vehicle we KNOW that high speed chases dont work and always increase the risk to bystanders. they should be banned

Criminalizing poverty and then forcing prisoners to work for corporations with no pay is how US has kept slavery going after the 13th Amendment housingnothandcuffs.org/2026/04/16/s...

Crashes and serious injuries dropped 15 percent and 52 percent respectively in West Harlem after New York City swapped vehicle storage for curbside trash containers, according to data crunched by @davecolon.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/17/c...

Benefit of transit automation is not cost savings, it is service flexibility WMATA estimates $57M cost savings for $7.6B capital project Cost savings of automation are so minimal it is not worth it for the savings alone. It is worth it to increase service which requires MORE funding, not less.

All right y'all: On Tuesday, I am talking with Tom Steyer, who is rather suddenly & unexpectedly the frontrunner in the California governor race. I want to get his thoughts on climate & clean energy policy, in CA & nationally. Got questions?

The future is analog futurism.com/artificial-i...

Thurmond, Yee, Villaraigosa, and Mahan need to drop out to avoid being spoilers that hand CA Governor to the GOP They have all been unable to attract enough voters to be viable emersoncollegepolling.com/california-2...

Checking in with VC urbanist twitter where they have tech pilled themselves into hating bike lanes because they get in the way of Waymos Widening roads and removing bike lanes was always the end state of supporting more cars in cities

Everyone dunks on BART for having delays during wet weather but like Caltrans lets the same sections of 880 and 580 flood every year, every rainy day and nobody calls to defund Caltrans.

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

I’m not sure how to take this news. The Bay Area Council has been one of the most oppositional forces to progress on sustainable transportation in the Bay Area. During her time as Oakland Mayor, Schaaf was good on some transportation issues, terrible on others. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Tomorrow (4/13/2026) is the CA Assembly Transportation Committee's hearing on Asm Papan's AB1557, proposing reduced 16 mph Class 1 & 2 e-bike top speeds (down from 20 mph now), starting 2027. I sent my comments opposing the bill (attached) & you can too, here: calegislation.lc.ca.gov/Advocates/fa...

We are entering the fast fashion era of the tech industry

@unfaresf.org Sat, April 11th 6:30PM fare checkers on BART at Fremont

If Harris runs then Newsom doesn't so I am all in on team Harris...

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

If you think AV car companies are just going to respect current traffic safety laws without lobbying to change them in their favor, then today is a good day to learn about the history of jaywalking laws www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxop...

If we want a livable planet in the future then we have to make some sacrifices like drive less, eat more veggies, and ban slop factories www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Cars do not belong in cities, and removing the driver from the car doesn't change that in the slightest Even if every car in Phoenix was a robotaxi it wouldn't even come close to the safety and livability of Paris with a robotaxi ban

"Transit is 95% safer than cars, without a single algorithm. If AVs pull riders off the subway and onto robotaxi apps the safety math goes in the wrong direction. Switching passengers from cars to AVs may save lives, but taking them from transit will cost lives." nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/08/w...

It is mindboggling that, in the face of climate change, increasing traffic, gas prices, and *everything else*, the California legislature's highest transpo priority this session is limiting the use of e-bikes. Genuinely a real possibility of the CA e-bike industry being regulated out of existence.

Matt Dorsey just posted that he is a self-proclaimed Zionist right as Israel is in the middle carpet bombing residential neighborhoods in Beirut xcancel.com/i/status/204...

Time to boycott Philz Coffee, which has banned Pride flags at their stores File this one under private equity ruins everything www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Nationwide Strike this May Day No Work. No School. No Spending.

I wish SF had paused AVs to get it right too "NYC won a generational battle for congestion pricing, surrendering ground to an unregulated robotaxi fleet would be an act of self-sabotage" Cities need to introduce a VMT tax on ride-hail before it expands further nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/08/w...

If your parents gave you $10k every year starting in 2008 to buy mansions in SF, LA, and Fresno It wouldn't be a surprise that 18 years later their $180k was only able to cover a partially constructed tract house in Fresno, a shared room in SF, and friend's couch in LA This an analogy for CAHSR

Some good news today! SB 1167 would prohibit e-motos from being marketed and sold as e-bikes and hold manufacturers and vendors accountable. This is critical legislation, as e-motos and e-bikes have been conflated, and without this efforts will increase to restrict e-bikes, reducing e-bike usage.

This shit is INSANE. We should all be in the streets demanding removal of this madman.

Rally at the White House tonight

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

Lots of love to all of my friends of Iranian descent out there, many of whom have family and friends still in Iran. What a godawful time.

Every ZIP Code along Hopkins has majority support for expanding bike infrastructure. Every district along Hopkins voted for Measure FF (which funds paving + bike infrastructure) and against Measure EE (which promised paving without bike infrastructure). This isn't a culture war; it's consensus.

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

We are at the stage of AI Psychosis where companies are using LLMs to generate fake polling data to validate their priors www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

If Trump drops a nuclear bomb tonight then everyone needs to be in the streets immediately and stay there until Trump is gone

I hope Americans are prepared for a very violent future. If we do not do something about this President and his threats/actions then we will not have peace. Globally we will be ostracized even after he is long gone. I don’t think people realize how bad this is.

Remove Trump from office before he starts a nuclear war by any means necessary www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

President Trump threatened to obliterate every power station and bridge in a country of 90 million people on Tuesday night in prime time and basically no one is bothering to even ask him how that is not a “war” that would require authorization from Congress under Article I of the Constitution.

These rules are cruel. Imagine the outrage if a college student was kicked out of a dorm because they left a for 72+ hours when a family member had died. Unhoused people are whole PEOPLE and programs must treat them that way. Strict and harmful rules like this lead folks back to the street.

the 'electability' question is increasingly clear www.sosavstate.com/p/gavin-news...

TRAIN GO HERE. DUH!

Pretty persistently frustrating that enviro opposition to data centres get clumsily dismissed as "NIMBY" when, as you can see here, it's well-evidenced and packed to the brim with real-world examples of material harm. And GP goes further than most in pointing out the end-goals of the system:

Waymo is not the solution to the US traffic safety crisis Per-capita fatalities are a function of per-mile fatality rates by mode AND number of miles traveled on that mode Improving sa fety requires both increasing safety per-mile AND shifting trips to safer modes First some stats:

BULLDOZE THE FREEWAYS its the only true way to do environmental and racial justice

72 should have 5 minute frequencies in the East Bay. We can make this happen. First step is passing Connect Bay Area measure. Then next year campaign to restore 72R. And after that make bus rapid transit happen from Oakland to Richmond. BRT would spur huge ridership, housing and economic growth.

Either fund CAHSR enough to run frequent service to downtowns, or value engineer the project even further to just be a grade separation project for current Gold Runner service The current proposal to single track to rural stations is not worth it

If 72 was in SF it would have 5 minute frequencies and bus lanes www.instagram.com/reel/DWmxkn9...

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.