One can only hope the EU shows this much resolve

Glen Parkers really love Glen Park, and for good reasons — but not always the right reasons. Here are the right reasons www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

This is reason #1234 to hate Donald Trump, but I’m pretty sure he’s never spent any time anywhere other than New York or Florida www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

90-92 to 93-97 doesn’t sound like much, right? But this is how roads work (or don’t work): reach the tipping point, and things go downhill fast … or slowly. This is why planners will tell you that a car-based system doesn’t scale. Someone should tell our tech overlords

I do sometimes wonder how America would be different today if Lincoln hadn’t been so high-minded

I love social media so much

I think if folks saw the inside of Potrero Division they’d be very worried for the state of Muni’s infrastructure. Presidio is not much better

Another recent positive transpo change near my home on the east side of Lake Merritt, Oakland: a new @baywheels.bsky.social bikeshare station. Slowly but surely, getting around my neighborhood is getting safer and easier

I will vote for whichever candidate says their AG will prosecute ICE agents who committed crimes

Everyone talks about SUVs and giant pickups, but where I live, Dodge Chargers are the plague on society

No fan of the A’s move to Vegas, but the US trademark office rejecting “Athletics” when it’s been the name of a major league baseball team for 125 years is wild

I’m sure others have pointed this out, but Mamdani is a completely different animal from San Francisco progressives www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

If this isn’t just a headshot of Mork from Ork then what are you even doing museumofboulder.org/request-for-...

Welcome to your future, kid. I’m sorry we let you down #kingtide

So we’re deposing Latin American leaders again? Awesome

Honestly, I am so happy I am Gen X and not Gen Z in San Francisco. Poor kids

Democrats won’t do this because this administration has proven that reporters and voters can’t tell the difference between legitimate and politically motivated investigations

My one new year’s resolution is to keep things upbeat, so: Thank you City of Oakland for these new curb ramps at 19th St & 6th Ave. These were diverters dating back to the ‘50s (!), so they weren’t designed as modal filters. But 19th is the only good(-ish) E-W bike route thru the n’bhd. Thank you!

Happy 2026, everybody! Here’s to the year we save Bay Area transit sfbike.org/news/2026-is...

Again, nativism sucks, whether it’s America First or I’m a Fifth-Generation San Franciscan. You happen to have been born here, good for you

If we could deport the 1/3 of this country who are nazis, sure. But not to end this year on a bad note. 2026 is when we start taking this country back from you tiny fascist pricks. Happy new year!

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Larger legislative bodies are so obviously a good idea, but you can’t accrue power or make money off of it, so it will never happen. Reason eleventy thousand I hate politics www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

I mean, the bad guys have sort of won if we’re just walking away from the model of shared fed/state/local responsibility (which is absolutely defensible given federal revenue sharing, not to mention the national economy). But, maybe this is just surviving the next three years

Couple of movie recs: Train Dreams and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein. Very different films, but both beautiful and moving

Every transit professional knows this, but equity

Some more Christmas Day reading. I think my favorite part about this is the way Marco takes down the whole idea of the 15-Minute City, which was always urban design babble marcochitti.substack.com

Happy holidays everyone. Please enjoy this heartwarming (and spot-on) Christmas Day reading

New blog post by @ctillier.bsky.social. I'd be curious to learn more about proposal #4 for improving trip time, modular/quick-build platform height increases, and about comparable examples.

It’s as if it exists in isolation, with no neighborhood amenities, like, say, parks

Altho it’s often right (-ish) — deep underground subway stations are problematic

My kindergartener rides to school. Just one problem, there’s very little bike parking, even though it’s easy to bike to

He may not be the worst president ever but he is without question the worst person to ever serve as president.

Right, it’s politically necessary to start here, just as it was politically necessary to start in the Central Valley

The “speed limits should be higher” lobby still exists

If I’m being honest, this is 40% of what keeps me here

Suburbia could me so much less bad with just a couple of tweaks: 1) This 2) Ped/bike cut-throughs at cul-de-sacs 3) Alleys, with garages in back 4) Sidewalks. Just sidewalks

As a college student in the ‘90s my two favorite orgs were Amnesty International and the ACLU. Oh how the mighty have fallen

Shockingly, Clipper 2 is not going well for me. Express mode is on but it still wants me to double click and unlock. Anyone else?

This season could still end in heartbreak, but as a Man City fan, I can’t get enough of imminent managerial sackings at both Liverpool *and* Real Madrid

Is it wrong that this excites me almost as much as the LAX station

Among other things, I dabble in typefaces. You know who shouldn’t? The fucking United States Secretary of State

Can we keep Jeff Kent out of the Hall just because he was a jerk? #sfgiants www.sfchronicle.com/sports/ostle...

As a Man City fan, this has been the greatest weekend of Premier League football in a long, long time

The cycle never ends. 2025 = 2015 = 2005 = 1995. Point is, SF and tech are inseparable partners in this boom and bust cycle www.businessinsider.com/tech-hopeful...

This is a point that a lot of very well-meaning advocates don’t understand. At the same time, focusing too much on productivity over ridership is how you get peak-only services

OTOH, he’s actually talking about global best practice. Pretty sure he’s BS-ing in this case, but maybe we should subject some of his other policies (using that word loosely) to that sort of analysis

Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch / Never build a building til you’re 50, what kind of life is that?