Been watching the 1974 “Planet of the Apes” tv series with my kid. My fav episode is #3 “The Trap” where Gen Ursus & astronaut fall into a BART subway station during an earthquake and need to work together to survive! @apthornley.bsky.social @transitcenter.bsky.social @2avesag.as

Older Americans have the highest rates of gun suicide of any age group. Not by a little — by a lot. Why? I spent months exploring this question through data, field reporting, and interviews with experts. Our story is up today on @thetrace.org www.thetrace.org/2025/09/gun-...

My daughter is hyped for transit month!!

I appreciate fog a whole lot more after making this Cloud Chasing video with Milo.

I had a lot of fun riding BART with Zayn and his family and sharing their love for transit! Check out this Behind the Scenes photo it looks like we have no choice but to start a BART band now?!

Very excited to share these today

We got Peter out cruising the Carquinez Strait!!! Everyone needs to experience its glory

SCOOP: The Trump admin has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling ICE officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three officials with knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

New summer ritual: The first day it crosses 90 degrees in Martinez I bike along Carquinez Scenic Dr. to see Capitol Corridor Train 548 come around the bend just past Port Costa … magical!

The Martinez waterfront along the Carquinez Strait is sort of the tropics of the Bay Area?

Biking, BARTing, and posting

I was in line for coffee and heard this voice. I thought “That dude sounds JUST like Ryan Coogler.” I turn around, and IT IS Ryan Coogler! People were coming up and singing his praises, so I had to as well. We chatted about Skyline, Saint Mary’s, 70 mm at the Grand Lake, etc. Extremely cool dude.

Bike to Wherever Day 2025 is almost here! This Thursday, May 15, there will be “energizer stations” popping up throughout the BART system. Click the thread below to learn more ⬇️

Time for Sinners in 70

Meeting Terence Blanchard on the job a new career high point

🚨 🚇 TOMORROW, Tuesday May 6th is All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day! BART staff will be on trains in the morning to offer free stickers to riders. If you are spotted wearing one by staffers later in the afternoon you get a prize! We want the Bay Area to come ride and experience transit improvements.

Find me at @bart.gov May The Fourth event if you want to discuss the disastrous state of journalism in the Republic … I used to work at THE DAILY CORUSCANT now I’m a social media guy for the JEDI COUNCIL. (PLO KOON is a great mentor… KI-ADI-MUNDI is a glue guy, MACE obvi gr8, KIT FISTO is wild)

A wild assignment on BART today!

Angel City officially the team of destiny …. ?

The LA Times announced plans to lay off 14 journalists, or about 6% of the newsroom's rank-and-file employees. Your contributions will go directly to help with their rent/mortgages, medical expenses and other bills. Ty @laurajnelson.bsky.social for organizing www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

Birders are kinda magical people huh

Time for a @bart.gov bike ride

Send me here to die

This is pretty spicy

So this is cool: Yesterday was Earth Day 🌎💚 AND it was also *our first day of 2025 with more than 200,000 riders*! Bay Area transit agencies have seen increasing ridership in the first 3 months of the year. BART ridership was up almost 6.5% from 2024. Come ride with us!

🚨 ALL ABOARD BAY AREA TRANSIT DAY IS MAY 6 🚨 WE WANT YOU BACK!!! Bay Area transit agencies in partnership with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Bay Area Air District are encouraging residents to ride transit on Tuesday, May 6, for All Aboard Bay Area Transit Day. 🧵 ⬇️

I must find this person

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Easily the coolest thing I learned today 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

BART continues to try creative things and to create destinations on its system. You're not likely to fill a train with a nature walk, but you are going to expand how people think about how to use the system (and get media coverage). Every agency should be doing this sort of work!

Some protest signs on BART

I spent Saturday morning among the birds!

7:20 am on @bart.gov catching up on my @oneblakeminute.bsky.social gems on RONIN and THIEF. 💙

The morning yawn

The Happy Bus Commuter

UPDATE

Letter of endorsement: Cheeseboard partially babes pizzas on ur bike

Well I had a fun morning in West Oakland ⬇️ Got off Capitol Corridor in Berkeley, got CoRo coffee, biked over to Raimondi Park.

SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by @josephcox.bsky.social show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

The midday urge to bike to Top Dog

Great reporting from CalMatters: “We found nearly 200 drivers with a valid license whose DMV record shows a conviction for misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter but for whom there is no suspension listed.” calmatters.org/investigatio...

⚽️ 🧡 My lil gal’s first @bayfc.com game 💙 ⚽️ Tough loss but we can always tell her she saw a sick Alyssa Naeher save IRL.

Get ur automated BART alerts here ➡️ @alerts.bart.gov

Highlight of making this video: Going inside the escalator pit at 12th St. BART and seeing this incredible old Oakland tribune “WELCOME HOME RAIDERS” sign from the 90s still duct taped up

Freaky Takes legit incredible. Truly insane a movie this full of Oakland lore movie was made at all, never mind that it was good! plus a @amendelson.bsky.social sighting!

Time to get FREAKY

Don’t be traffic. Ride into the weekend faster on BART!

These guys need to learn about work life balance boxd.it/9iYY7F

Val memorial HEAT rewatch RIP

You've probably seen these three original watercolor paintings by celebrated poet-artist-naturalist Obi Kaufmann at BART stations across the Bay Area. Now you can bring these wonderful artworks home as 11x14 art prints! They are available for purchase here: www.railgoods.com/bart/accesso...