Seen on Gilman… traffic calming/cycle track cannot come sooner to this corridor. It’s a nightmare and always strewn with car debris.

TIL that El Cerrito has two BART stations because Albany refused to allow a station within city limits (presumably on Solano Ave).

Curious how much the risk of a transit death spiral is factoring into financing decisions for S.F. and the Bay Area. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/d...

Just found out there was a chance Todd Fields could have directed an adaptation of Barbarian Days with a script by Steven Gaghan... what might have been

A pragmatic pro-housing leftist candidate running for mayor of the biggest city on the west coast against one the most vociferous NIMBY elected officials in the state? Be still my heart! www.latimes.com/california/s...

It’s been sad watching Horn’s fall from grace over the years. There’s been many red flags but tapping Seneca Scott as your rep might be the biggest of them all… www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

BART and Mandela Station Partners LLC will start construction on the Transit-Oriented Development project at West Oakland Station this year. Phase 1 is currently scheduled to start in mid-2026 with the construction of 240 affordable housing units on the southwest portion of the station parking lot.

Civic Center/UN Plaza turned into de facto parking lot

$1.4M/unit for subsidized artist units in SF. This must be a new record for subsidized housing, right? www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

Tables and seating area in front of Dewies on Solano destroyed over the weekend. An ebike must have been driving too fast.

Thanks everyone! As we requested, the proposal to pave Hopkins without bike or transit improvements was referred to Council’s infrastructure committee, which will hopefully modify it before it goes to full Council. More to come!

I've already been asked three times in the past 24 hrs to sign the petition to fund transit. Always good vibes chatting with the volunteers.

My email to Berkeley City Council's policy committee over the proposal to not have bike lanes with the Hopkins Street re-paving. It's worth remembering that despite the controversy, the majority of Hopkins Street area residents voted for the pro-bike lane measure in 2024.

Has @cselmendorf.bsky.social opined on YIMBY Law's coming lawsuit? sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/y...

CA Forevers hard pivot and new grand strategy is to get in on the government's trillion dollar plus annual military spending. sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/c...

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:

Enjoyed a new quick build post-protected bike lane on 17th in downtown Oakland with the family. Love to see these small improvements that create a more connected network

Good for Wiener - not sure why he hadn’t gone this far previously when he’d already crossed the Dem line on this issue long ago.

WE WON BITCHES

Chronicle article details increase use in Drug Crt/ MH Diversion over past 5 yrs and doesn’t acknowledge cooccurring crime decreases in SF. Whether the 2 are connected is a question, the article quotes opponents criticizing the prgm for driving crime: www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/d...

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...

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.

So you’re telling me there’s a chance.gif

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...