Less than 10% of cards have been upgraded to Clipper 2, there have been many outages leading to lost revenue for transit agencies and frustrated riders, and it will be months until the system is fixed. MTC must hold Cubic accountable. Huge thanks to @azul415.bsky.social for staying on this story!

The Canary Islands enveloped in dust as waves and vortices swirl off of them. A fascinating, complex view.

Caltrain electrification brought record ridership through 30 min weekend and 15 minute peak service. But if the Connect Bay Area measure doesn't pass, all of that gets thrown away, with weekend service eliminated and weekday service cut to hourly. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

By the time I am 70 I will have blocked every telephone number in existence due to end of the month democratic fundraising texts.

And if you're 18 or older, you can help save Caltrain (and the rest of transit in the Bay Area) by gathering signatures with us! We've got lots of events coming up that you're invited to luma.com/connectbayar... It's surprisingly easy and lots of fun.

A reminder that the long-awaited pattern change, featuring *much* cooler temperatures & some precipitation (mainly north & in higher mountains), will arrive by Tue. This won't meaningfully ameliorate the now-historic low snowpack conditions, but it sure will be nice for a change!

Next big event to gather at? This weekend's Hunky Jesus contest in Dolores Park! luma.com/843y4bgs Events like Hunky Jesus and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's Easter in the Park can totally get us the signatures we need. We just need you! Thank you @missionlocal.org for the shout-out.

Glad to see Fielder has decided to take a leave of absence rather than resigning. I hope she is able to take whatever time she needs.

SF politics sees some petty shit, but this really takes the cake. Or the cat food, as the case is.

It's not too late to come help save public transit tomorrow by gathering signatures at No Kings! With nearly 200 RSVPs across the Bay Area, tomorrow may be the largest one-day advocate signature collection effort for public transit ever assembled. luma.com/connectbayar...

We shouldn't need to wait five years for the city to "study" 7th and Irving. SFCTA just did a study of the area, and could go back to their suggestions and adopt more aggressive safety plans. Would some car drivers and local merchants likely be mad? Yes! But people would also be less likely to die.

Loved joining El Cerrito/Richmond Annex Walk & Roll last night to gather signatures for the @connectbayarea.bsky.social campaign at El Cerrito Plaza BART. Lots of BART riders had signed already and many who hadn’t were eager to sign. Want to help to save transit? Volunteer: luma.com/connectbayarea

Took a little bike ride to deliver some petitions, and found a surprising back up at Twin Peaks Blvd & Clayton, heading north. Odd time of day for a backup, I think. But wait, it's Waymo commiting crime! In this case, an illegal left turn on to Carmel from Twin Peak Blvd.

come join us at No Kings!

Who drives/who dies in San Franciscos streets

The level of my antipathy for @sfchronicle.com headline editors is off the charts.

come join us at No Kings!

I'm happy Hurabiell decided to spend her time running for Congress. She has no chance of winning and it exposes her views in a way that wouldn't have otherwise happened, due to her overall lack of notoriety. It's also a big distraction from her other crusade: defunding SFMTA and Muni.

So excited that SF has decided becoming a police state funded and powered by unaccountable private surveillance companies like Flock. The amount of private money and lack of care about the 4th amendment is very frustrating. sfstandard.com/2026/03/25/s...

We've made it as easy as possible to kill multiple people with your car and get away with it, especially if the car in question is a Mercedes www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Good to see a school board member talking about a core problem with school funding: a broken state formula that will only ever ratchet down spending. I don't understand why this has been verboten to say, but credit to Kim for not acting like we can solve the problem with more local austerity.

The N has developed self-sabotaging behavior.

The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.

Public transit has so many amazing people fighting for it in the Bay Area. 🥹

Reporting from various sources paints a picture of an airport that should have been closed due to lack of staff: * One controller handling ground and approach at one of the busiest airports in the US * Controller who made the fatal error still handling ground at least 20 mins later, no replacement

suffice it to say this is exactly the kind of disaster everybody has been endlessly saying would become more and more inevitable when you push the ATC system well past the breaking point having a functioning government actually matters

Timeline relief.

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

Research around the impacts of Uber and Lyft has long foretold the impact of AVs: More empty/single occupancy vehicles creating traffic. That some boosters have actively denied this for years has made it hard to take their other AV analysis seriously. Zipper has been a clear voice for sanity.

For your weekend reading consideration: "Autonomous vehicles will cause urban traffic jams that governments cannot untangle."

Tailpipe pollution is half of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, yet transportation dollars fund highway widening on US 101 & SR 37. We can shift the narrative toward bikeways, pedestrian amenities, and smarter spending. transformca.org/californias-...

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

It's past time for democratic candidates for CA governor consistently polling below 10% to loudly drop out and make it clear they do not want votes. It is not a ranked choice voting race, and they need to stop treating it like one.

Sometimes California gets regulation more right than not, and CA ISO is one such example. California has replaced the need to important ~12GW of energy generated with natural gas every night + growth in demand in the past five years.

California transit agencies could build 240,000 homes on land they own, with nearly half falling under the new transit-oriented density law. A major opportunity for housing near transit hubs. www.planetizen.com/news/2026/03...

Every basin has below-normal snowpack. Some have melted out almost entirely. That's not unheard of for low elevations in mid-March, but what highly unusual is the lack of snow at middle and high elevations across such a broad region. Winters like are becoming increasingly common.

Well, if yesterday's map was ridiculous, I'm running out of superlatives to characterize today's. Countless locations from Pacific Coast to Great Plains are currently experiencing all-time record March warmth, w/ some locations approaching/exceeding April (or even May) records.

Next weekend's (3/28) No King rallies across the Bay Area are an amazing opportunity to gather signatures for the Connect Bay Area and Stronger Muni for All transit funding measures. Come join us as we work to get these vital measures on the ballot this November! luma.com/connectbayar...

Transit ridership in the Paris region is now 5% higher than it was in the pre-Covid period, as car traffic along the Paris ring highway & within the center city is 15 to 20% lower than pre-Covid. www.institutparisregion.fr/mobilite-et-...

Thank you to the thousands of workers who keep the Bay Area moving. #TransitEmployeeAppreciationDay mtc.one/4lABeox

Police car chases should be banned.

If you plan a transit trip, navigation apps estimate time spent waiting for the bus/train & walking from a station to your destination. But for drivers, apps assume zero minutes spent looking for parking and then walking, as though everyone quickly finds an ideally convenient spot. Seems ...off.

Oh no, I need to hide my chocolate from this heat!

we've gone all-in on the car economy, lowered fuel efficiency, subsidized massive debt-taking, all on a rapidly-depreciating large asset it's absolutely a path to financial ruin

In fact, this will approach the Jun 2021 PacNW/BC heat event in terms of meteorological anomalousness (though not, fortunately, in terms of absolute surface temperatures. It is still *March*, after all!) Western snowpack, however, will plummet at an unprecedented pace.

Zoom's UI/UX has always been shit, but it's getting worse. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Volunteers with @transbaycoalition.bsky.social are at the Oakland celebration for Alysa Liu to gather ballot initiative signatures to save BART right now. Thank you!!

Shout out to our BART Riders