Market Street

Guardians of civilization 🤲

Quick build safety infrastructure at neighborhood park:

A couple quick trips with the Burley Travoy 🚲

Happy final night of Hannukah, for those who celebrate! For the Maccabees, who fought for religious self-determination under the Seleucid Empire

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

A blighted lot in my hometown has been tied up in an inheritance battle for 30+ years. I asked my dad about it, and he told me there was a concerted effort to make it a daycare. I asked, "what happened?" My dad said, "the parking and traffic would have been a nightmare so the city blocked it" 😟

Car culture in a nutshell @nextdoorsv.bsky.social

I walk or bike past the site of this photo on a nearly every day basis. Incredible. A daily reminder of innocent citizens forcibly boarded onto buses and driven to internment camps.

In San Francisco, earning less than $185,000 salary qualifies you for low-income housing:

E-scooters are a land-use blessing

The production mentality prior to the automobile asked, “How can I worship and serve through the local church?” The new consumer mentality began to ask, “What can a local church give/provide me?” christianindex.org/stories/auto...

The absence of density

Happy Hannukah 🕎

A few years ago, I worked for the City of #Cupertino on a plan to convert a dead mall into a mixed-use center with hundreds of homes. Furious neighbors feared it would lead to overcrowded schools. Shortly afterwards, the district announced it would close schools due to falling enrollment.

I enjoyed conversing with @randolwhite.bsky.social about how bus service connects neighbors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy85...

Either architecture or public school funding has declined…

Walking, holiness, the whole shebang: maxmautner.com/2025/12/15/i...

“Operator error”

Jay Kelly is good train propaganda 👍

Update: City of San Mateo Commission Votes Unanimously to Keep Humboldt Bike Lanes - sf.streetsblog.org/2025/12/15/u...

City of San Mateo's Economic Development Work Plan draft basically revolves around SB330 applications--well done, @yimbyaction.bsky.social 👏🏗️ sanmateo.primegov.com/api/compilem...

Left: @caltrain.com suggests that expecting mothers access priority seating. Right: @samtrans.com does not? 🧐

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

In my 20s I never picnicked--big mistake! Picnic all life long, all year long

I sometimes have difficulty, rallying for bicycle activism—dialoguing with neighbors who do not believe your physical safety is meaningful is absolutely draining, depressing.

"The car tire chemical 6PPD and its toxic byproduct, 6PPD-quinone, were common pollutants in the urine of 60-100% of those tested." Yep. Your body is slowly transitioning to become a collection of toxic car tire particles. But at least parking is free. www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/t...

E-bikes are just incredible. That's all!

Weekday night, downtown San Mateo, CA

One of my CSUN Urban Studies professors, Dr. Brettany Shannon, said: “Prioritizing the automobile over the pedestrian route can qualify as not just inaction, but quite frankly, violent inaction…Insurgent planning is the community’s response to that continued stagnation.” knock-la.com/crosswalk-co...

Maybe fund transportation infrastructure that allows me to safely walk with my family to the local park. I deal with that everyday, unlike an airport.

You are a great moral leader, @scottwiener.bsky.social — I hope others find your same moral courage ❤️ jweekly.com/2025/12/08/w...

Next month's event: San Carlos, arrive in style by @caltrain.com / @samtrans.com ! 🚅 🚌🚶🏽‍♀️🚲 actionnetwork.org/events/penin...

The inaugural San Francisco peninsula car-free happy hour! 🌮🍻

Deviant fun 👌

“I rode my bike here.”

“Illegal working”

10-15% of the San Francisco Bay Area affordability crisis is driven by car dependence. Each time I swipe my Clipper Card at the train station or boarding the bus I laugh to myself, depriving the automotive industry chucklefucks of their vig. Opt out of the vig, don't perpetuate the problem.

FSA/HSA is a dirty scam

Transit thriving

How The City of San Mateo subsidizes driving: most street repaving dollars come from general sales taxes, not driver fees. Awareness is step one to fund our roads more fairly and invest in safer, climate-friendly ways to get around. 🚲🚎🚆 www.carlitesanmateo.com/blog/street-...

Yo if Keanu Reeves can be a successful actor you can do anything in this life

See you there! 🛴

Tell me: if your politicians do not ride public transit, then why do you expect public transit to improve?

Blog post up: maxmautner.com/2025/12/02/j...

I think about Andor ~1x per week

5/mile daily running streak continues

Rock and roll @samtrans.com

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!