Happy Caltrain Electrification Day! Here's to one year of 25% faster local trips and 15 minute peak, 30 min weekend service! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

a year ago i was on the verge of quitting my job in redwood city because of slow and infrequent trains, but I held out for @caltrain.com electrification. a year on from that and my commute is so easy i barely think about it

It's been one year since the smashing success of Caltrain electrification. We now have data showing electrification, level boarding, and through-running would cut travel time on the San Bernardino Line by 1/3. Your move, Metrolink. calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

Thrilled that 90+ people registered so far for the online #TransitMonth2025 event about my book, If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy, where I'll be interviewed by @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social's Adina Levin on Tues 9/30 luma.com/o7tavt2c?tk=...

Join us for a casual community-building, transit-themed happy hour in Redwood City! We are celebrating San Mateo County's decision to join a 2026 regional transit funding ballot measure that will prevent cuts and improve service on Caltrain, BART, and SamTrans.

Carter's book is excellent so check this out if you're in the Bay Area.

​We're excited to host the Bay Area’s own @carterlavin.bsky.social, for a discussion on his upcoming book If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy. 📅 Tuesday, 9/30 from 6:30-7:30pm PDT 📍 Online Webinar lu.ma/o7tavt2c

"Public Transit Visions in Speculative Fiction" now at 1st Unitarian at Geary/Van Ness busways + online due to popular demand. Tomorrow, Tuesday 9/16 with @audthentic.bsky.social @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @vwoo.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social and me Deets below

Today, CER launches our paper “ElectroLink: Modern Passenger Rail Service for Southern California.” ElectroLink shows how electrification, level boarding and through running can speed up trips, improve access for all riders, and bind together the region. ⚡♿🚴 calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

Due to popular demand, the event will now be live streamed and is being moved to the Unitarian Universalists Society of San Francisco so we can seat more people! RSVP here: luma.com/0olo6szj

The bills to renew the Cap & Trade program just passed, including: * $200 million in continuous funding for transit service. * $400 m in continuous funding for transit & rail capital * $800 m for affordable housing near transit * $125 m for transit passes * ongoing funding for high speed rail

And SB63 passed the Senate at 1:30am! Now on to the governor's desk! It took a lot of organizing and mobilizing and compromises to get to a bill that will save and improve Bay Area transit - now on to the governor, and to people power to help gather signatures and pass the measure!

SB63 passes Assembly Floor! Transportation Chair Lori Wilson reads from a letter signed by over 30 local electeds in San Mateo County expressing their support. Assembly Members from all 5 counties speak in favor.

What if mobility tech were designed to serve the public good, rather than private profit or the convenience of the privileged? Join me and some of my favorite thinkers on 9/16

In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics. Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination. luma.com/0olo6szj

California transit loan bill watch. 🚨 SB 105 🚨 Despite some misleading headlines there is now legislation that expresses everyone’s intention to work out the terms of a state loan for transit agencies such as BART.

Rides equal raffle entries in the Transit Month Ride Contest! Each transit system offers different prizes. Rides on Tri Delta Transit could win you a prize pack incl. an insulated TDT tote & two 20-Ride Passes. Post your rides & challenge your friends to pass you on the Leaderboard: ridecontest.com

A special thank you to all of our sponsors for making Bay Area #TransitMonth2025 possible! @mtcbata.bsky.social @airdistrict.bsky.social @sfbayferry.com @sfcta.bsky.social There are still 50+ events you can attend this September so check out the calendar at luma.com/transitmonth...

Hats off to advocates in SF for fighting for transit funding. (And nice shirt.)

Transit riders throughout the Bay stepped up and together we won BIG! @transbaycoalition.bsky.social @sftru.bsky.social @streetsforallsf.org

@sfchronicle.com coverage: With Bay Area transit funding on ‘life support,’ advocates rally in S.F. for state money   www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

As Mayor of Berkeley—and as someone who regularly relies on public transit—I urge Governor Newsom to approve the $750 million state loan to stabilize Bay Area transit agency budgets and prevent devastating service cuts. Read the full statement: www.mayoradenaishii.com/from-the-may...

Today, the message was clear: transit is not optional. Fund transit now.

fund transit

Rally at the state building steps in SF demanding that the Gov keep the budget deal to keep transit running, save San Francisco and the Bay Area @governor.ca.gov

The rally marches to the state building. What do we want, Transit Funding. When do we want it? Now! @governor.ca.gov

Senator Wiener says that the budget deal may have inched back from the brink!

Senator Scott Wiener says that California should stop underfunding public transit compared to other states with major transit systems @scottwiener.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov

Rallying in San Francisco to save transit. @governor.ca.gov please fulfill the budget deal

We want the alternate reality where Governor Newsom saves San Francisco by confirming the budget deal to keep Muni, BART, Caltrain and AC Transit running.

See folks tomorrow at 9 am! (I rescheduled meetings to be there - if you’re on the fence about attending and can make it, please do - it’s so important.) And if you’re on BART’s red line in the East Bay, want to head there together? Here’s the train schedule. Meet in the second car.

Having a great time riding BART with transit advocates to the emergency rally to save transit! With AC Transit Director @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social @georgespies.bsky.social @ericpanzer.bsky.social @martens742.bsky.social and 7 bus champion Joanna Pace.

In addition to the rally, we also need people calling the Governor to demand that the previously agreed on loan to fund Bay Area transit be restored. Instructions on how to make calls during business hours are at tinyurl.com/transitsos

Come out to the Emergency Rally To Save Bay Area Transit Monday at 9am to help Governor Newsom get the message and fulfill his promise to save our communities' transit service! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

A very special Transit Month Car Free Happy Hour will be at… Temescal Brewing Tuesday, September 9 starting at 5:30pm 4115 Telegraph Ave, Oakland AC Transit lines 6, 18, 57, BayWheels bike share, MacArthur BART @tvrr.bsky.social @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @walkoakbikeoak.bsky.social

🚨EMERGENCY RALLY TO SAVE BAY AREA TRANSIT🚨 Governor Newsom promised a $750M emergency loan for Bay Area transit agencies and it's now at risk. This would mean massive service cuts on BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain. Let’s show Newsom that we won't stand for service cuts.

RALLY IS STILL ON AND MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER. The State Government MUST fulfill its promise to the people and fund transit to prevent devastating cuts. Please please help spread the word and come out Monday morning

This Sunday come learn about Bay Area transit history! RSVP on the Transit Month calendar (link in our bio).

🚨49 hours til the Emergency Rally to Save Bay Area Transit🚨 Join us at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco at 9am on Monday to urge Governor Newsom to follow through on his commitment for emergency funding to stop cuts to BART, Muni, Caltrain, and AC Transit actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Gov Newsom still hasn't signed the $750m loan to Bay Area transit agencies that would get us to the Nov 2026 funding votes. He has eight days to act. Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.

It's #transitmonth in the Bay Area! www.tiktok.com/@streetsblog... @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social

My Dress To Impress on Transit entry for #TransitMonth2025! Taking the fairy @rideact bus to the Children's Fairyland 75th Birthday parade & party

Transit Month starts today in the Bay Area and Southern California! 🚃🚈🚌🛳️🚋 Bay Area events at luma.com/transitmonth..., SoCal events at www.socaltransitmonth.org The ride contest starts today, and this week is the online Transit Month fashion photo contest luma.com/rh5jfwxt

I’m so excited to be joining this stellar Transit Month panel in SF with some of my favorite humans. Join us Tuesday, September 16 at SPUR

The panel will surely bring up the General Motors funded Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair which inspired the Jetsons and raises the question of who gets to create visions of the future, with what models of society and places, to benefit whom? tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

Also, a secondary villain in that story made his career by designing the autonomous system and politically driving a thru-running project. Notable for our world that this empire has intergalactic travel before they get urban thru-running.

The best opportunity to fix this right now is for people to comment on the MASCOTS plan about how the 32 minute SMART frequency is squandering all the value the other agencies are creating by aligning routes and schedules.

Y'all have of course seen the vibranium-powered train and lively pedestrian streets in Wakanda, showing transit and a dense city as a high-tech and humane place... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Inspiration for the panel came from the sentient trains in Terraformers by @annaleen.bsky.social, with transit coordination and planetary plan informed by @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social who headed Muni and was influential at the time in developing real-world Bay Area coordination. Both on the panel!

What are your favorite examples of transit in sci-fi/fantasy and what do they say about people, places and politics in the alternate world and this one? Prepping for this upcoming Transit Month panel on public transit visions in speculative fiction - sign up here: luma.com/0olo6szj?utm...