Started reading "If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight" by @carterlavin.bsky.social this evening. So far, it gives a reminder that we cannot avoid politics if we are to change transportation outcomes. Hope to do a review when I am done. #BikeTO #BikeSky

Coming up next week on May 22! Join us and Transbay Coalition co-founder Carter Lavin for a virtual gathering to ramp up support for California's crucial high-speed rail project.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Same promo code ☝️ should work on Tactical Urbanism @mikelydon.bsky.social transit advocacy book @carterlavin.bsky.social Killed by a Traffic Engineer @wesmarshall.bsky.social When Driving is not an Option @nondriver.bsky.social Curbing Traffic @modacitylife.com #NACTO26

Matt Mahan's housing platform is banning apartments in residential areas and fast tracking housing if bundled with a datacenter 😵‍💫

CALIFORNIA — There's a theme here. 🔥

Buy this. Read it. Use the techniques it talks about to make your community better.

6 months ago today, my book If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy hit shelves. Since then: -People have bought over 1,300 copies -A mountain state street safety advocate rebooted a stalled out campaign (1/4) press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

A hell of a video. Seems like the standards for refurbishing to 160mph need to be higher or is it something else?

I've got "If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight" on my bedside table! I love that each chapter has questions to get you thinking about how to apply what you've learned to your own local politics.

Not even sure X knows about my book, but on BlueSky I feel like a dozen or so bike transit or street safety supporters have gotten my book in order to more effectively fight for changes in their community press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Once again, political organizing/lobbying has an amazing ROI. Unfortunately lots of folks make money by doing terrible things to communities!

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Transit supporters, history buffs, and people in New England who like to lift heavy things for a good cause -- go help @mapcenter.com relocate!

We're starting in on @carterlavin.bsky.social's new book, If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight this Friday — 7 PM at King Bee! Join us as we discuss the introduction and Chapter 1. Order your book: thelittlegayshop.com/products/if-...

If I got my math right, the average Californian uses ~42 gallons of gas a month at $6 a gallon. About 90 cents (?) of that is state taxes. Policies that'd help people consume ~7 fewer gallons a month save people more money than a gas tax holiday www.fool.com/money/resear...

The federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. Gas is up about $1.36/gallon on average since the war began. That's just the beginning of the problems with this idea, which would also drain the Highway Trust Fund.

It's here - the 2026 Illustrated summary of this year's major California housing bills! #caleg tinyurl.com/2026housingb...

And that's without any sort of significant shifting of our transportation system away from highways and sprawl and into improving walking, biking infrastructure, public transit and high speed rail. We have so so so much more opportunity to drastically cut fossil fuels & improve quality of life

Doing a little casual book party next week since I sorta missed doing a book launch party when it first came out 6 months ago -- come on through! luma.com/nxqyonhn

Heading off to the Anticoh Jazz festival to collect signatures to help save our BART and bus service throughout the Bay! I know we can win this if we keep working towards it and have hope And as Solnit says, "hope should shove you out the door"

Another good day for us all to keep fighting for a better world

Absolutely WILD that California regulators appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom are planning on taking billions away from affordable housing, public transit, and high speed rail and giving it to the biggest polluters in California. Tell them hell no actionnetwork.org/letters/carb...

Not that I'm surprised given past candidates, but so telling that we can't even rely on the Green Party candidate to have any climate ambition. (h/t @transbaycoalition.bsky.social candidate questionnaire www.seamlessbayarea.org/candidate-qu...)

Looks like a great book for our American friends on here. The message seems to be that you need to go into battle to win better #transit. It shouldn’t be this way but Carter lays out how to do this. #TransitSky

California regulators want to give billions to Big Polluters and cut transit and affordable housing funding. Speak out to defend public transit and make sure polluters pay! actionnetwork.org/letters/carb...

Next Thursday throughout the whole 9 County Bay Area is Bike To Wherever Day! So get out on your bike and join the fun. Check out the energizer stations here: www.bayareabiketowork.com/event-inform...

For the same price as about 4 gallons of gas, you can get this @princetonupress.bsky.social book that's a step-by-step guide for getting more bus service and safer biking conditions in your town. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Calling all transit, bike, and street safety advocates! My book If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy is 50% til 6/9 with code SPRING50 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... War on Car's @brooklynspoke.bsky.social said it "should be required reading"

Was the mini beach by lakeside drive & Cameron Stanford house something just for the movie?

Watching Made in America and omg, the opening scene of Whoopi Goldberg biking on Telegraph Ave in Berkeley!!!

Love to see benefits of @cahsra.bsky.social 's work already. Gotta get the Caltrain electrified to Gilroy too!

Currently on Caltrain heading from the South Bay toward SF, and the train is packed. That would’ve been unthinkable a couple years ago pre-electrification, especially on a Saturday night when headways were once per hour or longer. Frequency matters!

If I had a nickel for every time Michael B Jordan is in a movie where a purplish magical plant gets dramatically burned, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice (Black Panther; Swapped)

We could have had rapid transit to Livermore TODAY. BART Board considered a plan for bus rapid transit in 2018 that was fully funded. But Livermore interests - arriving on a chartered bus - came out in force with anti-bus signs urging BART Board not to approve BRT, and we couldn’t get the votes.

While Trump is giving communities pain at the pump, there are lots and lots of things local city councils, mayors, county reps and state legislators can do to make it easier for people to get around without a car

Writing is easy Writing clearly and understandably is tougher Writing clearly, understandably, and concisely? That's a tall order

Being in front (or anywhere near) a driverless big rig on the Grapevine has got me wanting the high speed rail finished ASAP Would be nice if Newsom pushed through reforms so utility companies weren't consistently delaying the project.

"ohh nothing I do matters, might as well give up and let the monsters win" is literally loser talk. Organize with others. Build power, build community, fight like hell for each other. Not sure where to start, try tactical urbanism

you can do this with e-bikes, too cities can just give them away instant livable cities hack with massive improvements for local economy, quality of life, safe streets, and public health outcones

During book talks, I'm often asked why I use "Fight" in the title -- If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight and what do I mean by that. And it's something along these lines

Come get packets and trained up at any of these upcoming @connectbayarea.bsky.social events! luma.com/connectbayar...

“If you’re in the Bay Area, one of the absolute most important things you can do for the climate is get yourself a signature packet, talk to neighbors, get some signatures, help us save our transit,” says Carter Lavin, co-founder of @transbaycoalition.bsky.social. 🧵 2/3

We're wrapping up Solidarity Cities this week, and we're excited to reveal what's up next: Beginning May 15, join us in reading @carterlavin.bsky.social's new book, If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy! Preorder: thelittlegayshop.com/products/if-...

This is a radical improvement in outdoors access for South Bay residents. Before, bayshores and some grassy foothills were accessible by transit, but the world-famous redwoods were off limits. With seamless transfers, no longer! cc @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social @transbaycoalition.bsky.social

Love to see it! Get your copy of If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy from your local indie bookstore (or library) today

Join us tomorrow for our book club! We'll be discussing If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy by Carter Lavin. So much information packed in a great read! All are welcome, and you don't need to read the book to participate! luma.com/9hsntyd2?tk=...

Support Indie bookstores and learn how to more effectively politically organize! Get a copy of If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy bookshop.org/p/books/if-y...

Want more rail service in your community? Call your Congressmember today and urge them to provide more funding for Amtrak. Find their number here www.house.gov/representati...

If Redwood City has the staffing and budget to remove a bus stop bench, then it has the resources to install benches at bus stops to make the city more accessible to all.