Good stuff happening at the Albany, CA library

LA’s response to SB79 and HLA are so depressing…

My earnest advice to white guys with degrees who are struggling to make it in academia or journalism is that instead of blaming Black people you should consider pivoting to the public sector.

I dont fully understand non-profit affordable housers' gripe with developers building low cost units during a lull in market-rate construction... also interesting to see a Peskin endorsed BOS candidate end up at a East Bay non-profit houser www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

No matter how you slice it, US police officers are safer on the job and paid waaaaay more than other countries' police despite doing a…less than stellar job The question isn't more police vs. less police. It's why are US police paid so much while doing such little and such poor police work?

Why is Mayor Lurie issuing an Executive Directive to establish a Street Safety workgroup when there is already a Vision Zero Committee led by MTA? www.kqed.org/news/1206717... www.sfmta.com/units/vision...

Addressing traffic fatalities is the third rail of CA politics

I assume this counts as historic preservation? Picture taken in Oakland at Emeryville/Oak border.

Watching a triple bill with my dad when I was ten: A Simple Plan, October Sky, and Saving Private Ryan (in that order)

@mayor.lacity.gov would rather spend more money endangering more lives then actually implement voter approved safety measures. Never has a city done so little with so many resources...

Another entry in the "how far will LA go to NOT make streets safer" files.

Shot: Driver admits to running red light and severely injuring bicyclist. No citation. Chaser: No injury fender bender where victim was cop. Citation bikeportland.org/2025/12/05/s...

Albany Fire Department: "I'll see your 26 foot clearance and raise you to 30 feet". Albany FD sent a last minute memo to the Transportation Commission raising concerns about the proposal to study protected bike lane on Solano Ave: albanyca.primegov.com/viewer/previ...

Albany Fire Department: "I'll see your 26 foot clearance and raise you to 30 feet". Albany FD sent a last minute memo to the Transportation Commission raising concerns about the proposal to study protected bike lane on Solano Ave: albanyca.primegov.com/viewer/previ...

San Pablo bus and bike lanes in Oakland/Berkeley wont start construction until 2030, a delay of four years... 2026 is not off to a great start :( oaklandside.org/2025/12/04/s...

Glad to see the interim S.F. police chief acknowledge how “incredible” it is for SFPD to be “short staffed” yet crime drops dramatically. Almost as if there’s more to crime prevention than larger PD budgets sfstandard.com/2025/12/03/s...

@bart.gov why is the updated entrance at civic center still closed after construction appears to be completed? The entrance was open for a week about a month ago and then closed back up…

A bit on the nose for progressive consultants to sympathetically compare S.F. Nimbys to MAGA voters: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/l...

New post: a week of hectic back and forth with fire officials and city council over Berkeley street festivals brings out into the open a conflict in city halls across USA. Fire depts opposition to traffic calming and safety measures. Is there a solution? darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-fire-d...

Albany's Trans Comm is hearing a presentation on the planned improvements to the Kains Ave bikeway: albanyca.primegov.com/viewer/previ... @prinzrob.bsky.social Can the Marin cycle track be extended eastbound across SPA all the way to Kains? The clunky two-phase turn leaves a lot to be desired.

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It’s perfect that Marin is giving this absurd example of impact fees ahead of a legislative session where housing policy is aiming to address non-zoning issues just like this: @buffywicks.bsky.social @scottwiener.bsky.social @caspeakerrivas.bsky.social

Rage bait: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...

Third Safeway in San Francisco within about a week being proposed for housing- this time in a Bernal Heights. The other two sites were in Outer Richmond/Ocean Beach and Western Addition/Fillmore: www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

Car carnage on Solano, Albany. Curious if any parklet permit programs require bollard level protection (or if they actively forbid them)

City of LA is dedicating whole teams to undermine SB 79 - their planning department is pulling 16+ staff to find ways to not build housing: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

So much good urbanist news in the feed tonight!

I was looking through Wahab's wiki page tonight and noticed a prominent SB 79 call out at the start of the bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha_W...

I wonder if 2026 is the final year to pass substantial housing reform in CA for a while … Looks like Wiener is going to be replaced by NIMBY-lite N Pelosi’s daughter. Doesn’t mentioned anything on housing in her press vid www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

I wonder if 2026 is the final year to pass substantial housing reform in CA for a while … Looks like Wiener is going to be replaced by NIMBY-lite N Pelosi’s daughter. Doesn’t mentioned anything on housing in her press vid www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Lovely to see local cops abdicate their responsibility to enforce the law and align themselves with fascists: @sfpolicecommunity.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/s...

CA Department of Public Health is now starting to clap back at the Feds with their own blame banners

Caltrans' messaging of its bike/ped work continues to border on mendacious. This *Caltrans* press release says that they are spending $97M on a pedestrian overcrossing in SF. That would be an insane price! But in reality, the $97M is for a ped over-xing *and* 7.5 miles of I-280 pavement rehab!

Back in 2023 we helped pass AB 835, a single stair reform study bill. That study is almost done, and we need your help to make sure the final report is grounded in sound evidence by emailing a public comment. It’ll only take a minute, and it makes a real difference!

Good riddance to someone who fought against affordable housing funding and progressive transportation policies- hope he toils away into obscurity on CAForever: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

OakDot talking like he has the Mandate of Heaven. Good stuff: sf.streetsblog.org/2025/10/21/s...

[email protected] is the email address where CALFIRE is collecting comments for the single-exit work group. If you live in California and feel any type of way about the issue, send an email! Whatever level of sophistication you can muster would be appreciated. Fine to send a quick/simple one.

Parking section of the CA Forever Specific Plan is interesting...No parking maximums for housing and plans for parking garages to be within a 1/2 mile or less of every home, with upwards of 114k parking spaces planned across at least 54 parking garages. Not really incentivizing transit use here...

Parking section of the CA Forever Specific Plan is interesting...No parking maximums for housing and plans for parking garages to be within a 1/2 mile or less of every home, with upwards of 114k parking spaces planned across at least 54 parking garages. Not really incentivizing transit use here...

Rare new construction condos listed for sale in Oakland. I wonder what led the developer to list as condos instead of rentals… My guess is that the risk from condo defect laws was outweighed by low rental prices.

He must know the AI bubble is going to burst soon and really wants government contracts as a backstop

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit! Our statement: cayimby.org/news-events/...

The California fire marshal has created an email address for comments from the public on the legislatively mandated single-exit work group: [email protected] If you have any comments (any at all, whether particularly novel or not), please send them.

AB 2011 was signed into law Sept 28, 2022. Bill deadline was Sept 30. I’m guessing Newsom will follow the same last minute timeline for #SB79

AB 2011 was signed into law Sept 28, 2022. Bill deadline was Sept 30. I’m guessing Newsom will follow the same last minute timeline for #SB79

🚨🚨🚨⬇️⬇️⬇️ Tell Newsom to sign SB79, to allow housing along transit. Literally took me 10 seconds. If you don't like telephones, you can leave a digital comment in the link below. Active Bill -> SB79 -> Please sign SB79. #sandiego #safestreets #bikesky

We are not out of the woods on SB 79. Los Angeles NIMBYs have lost their minds over the prospect of more homes being built near taxpayer-funded transit stations. Sadly, the Governor might be listening to them. Please make the call: cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

I haven't seen much discussion on Patel stating that FBI embedded agents in the ADL. Does the FBI often embed agents in non-gov orgs?

@bart.gov Why are upwards of 80% of BikeLink lockers at El Cerrito Bart Station out-of-service? Cc: @rebeccaforec.bsky.social