these are getting weird

Not bad www.sfcta.org/sites/defaul...

It's worse than the headline - Cubic didn't even know about its multiple AT&T accounts so didn't pay for one, which led to major Clipper outages at BART. Nearly every month there's another Clipper 2 failure. Cubic should be paying MTC and transit operators significantly for the rollout debacle.

The choice is clear. A status quo that has let ICE run rampant in our streets and fought against Angelenos. A right wing extremist who would openly court ICE to invade our city. And our plan to protect immigrants and make LA the strongest sanctuary city in the country. Choose on June 2nd.

One of the issues was that Cubic didn't pay an AT&T bill. Cubic gave some kind of long explanation about AT&T not telling them the bill was due...

Worth noting that the loan to operators that bridges the gap between July 1st and if/when the Connect Bay Area act funds are disbursed, the loan that keeps transit funded consistently, is funded through the TCIRP program that @airresources.bsky.social just voted to gut 🙃🙃🙃

Update: Despite Massive Opposition, Newsom’s Air Regulators Approves Billions of Dollars of Giveaways to Big Oil CARB Voted to Approve As Is While Big Oil Cashes In, Communities Lose $4 Billion for Housing, Transit, Clean Air and Water Full response coming soon.

CARB has been a repeat villain in quiet wonky policy choices that actually have big consequences for pollution and getting things done in California. Two prior examples: - Dis-incentivizing electric trolly-buses - Pushing hydrogen/battery train incentives (a scam) over proven electrified trains

For those following along at home, CARB’s vote today essentially guts the greenhouse gas reduction fund and eviscerates the state’s largest sources of funding for affordable housing and public transit. At a time when we should be doubling down on them, we’re pulling away.

"Solving climate change by subsidizing the price of gasoline" is, uh, probably not the way I would go about things, though?

Hey transit agencies! Let’s stop wrapping parts of the bus that don’t need to be just to keep a consistent color block. It’s silly and I hate riding in window wrapped buses.

While Bay Area transit supporters have been doing our best to collect the signatures needed to get a $1B transit funding measure on the ballot, Gavin Newsom's CARB appointees are prepping to vote TO TAKE BILLIONS FROM public transit actionnetwork.org/events/emerg... www.kqed.org/news/1208484...

The signature gathering effort was wildly successful and people in the Bay Area will be voting on a measure to save public transit in November missionlocal.org/2026/05/bart... via @missionlocal.org

Emergency Rally Wednesday in SF to save California's biggest program for affordable housing and public transit from getting gutted and fed to Big Oil companies. We have 3 days to spread the word as far and wide as possible for the rally the day before the vote! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

The thing about the US is that we can’t even build a single high-speed rail line and the department of transportation of the largest, wealthiest state wants to waste people’s time by studying a fake mode of transportation. These two facts are related.

Manhattan Bridge views are the greatest, especially when the two trains sync up jusssstttt right

I'll see that and raise you a "nothing". I think there's a good chance that absolutely nothing comes out of this plan. They spelled Sean Duffy's name as "Duggy" on headline of the press release. Why are we taking it seriously?

This June election, voters have the opportunity to continue funding SMART service in Sonoma and Marin Counties and paving the way for future expansions to the north and east. That's why Seamless Bay Area and @transbaycoalition.bsky.social urge Yes on Measure B, the SMART Initiative.

this is just the beginning unless we stop them and take the country back. the rest of your life will be working and having the money you earn sent to trump's people to compensate them for killing us.

vancouver's new articulated trolleybuses from solaris, 100% low floor with 4 doors for lower dwell times and better handling of crowds. will be the only of their kind in north america when they enter service.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

Wild that @airresources.bsky.social wants to give billions of dollars to Big Oil by taking money away from public transit & affordable housing programs Read more: envirovotersedfund.org/cap-and-inve... and send a letter actionnetwork.org/letters/carb...

More info is here calbike.org/ab1557ab1942/ I suggest calling assembly member Haney's office in SF and complaining about AB1557 at (415) 557-3013 Please call. It is much more effective than email.

There's so much evidence that speed cameras save lives, but they also make a small number of drivers angry and are ripe fodder for the culture wars, so it's impossible to say if they're good or not.

I wrote about a city being set in motion

LA is going to put the Bay Area to shame, and it’s something I never thought I’d see. LA the ultimate car sewer, transforming itself into an urban utopia. Meanwhile, BART might close some stations. Bus frequency is being reduced. And SF might vote again on Sunset Dunes.

And how unready Dems were, for that matter: schemes like California and Virginia sprang up in response to Texas, quite late for Virginia. But it was clear what was going to happen with Callais in June 2025, as soon SCOTUS punted on the prior hearing and ordered expanded one.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Absolutely WILD that California regulators appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom are planning on taking billions away from affordable housing, public transit, and high speed rail and giving it to the biggest polluters in California. Tell them hell no actionnetwork.org/letters/carb...

There's a long way still to go in less than a month! Please sign and sign up to connect signatures if you can! We need this, guys

they are stealing power in our country from the people and will enslave us if we let them succeed.

The Manufacturing Decarbonization Incentive would defund the State Rail Plan (TIRCP) and jeopardize CA High-Speed Rail's fixed funding guarantee, essential for private financing. Speak out now against this giveaway to oil companies!

A huge frustration to me in the e-bike backlash has been a bunch of public health professional testifying in Sacramento saying, "We're seeing e-bikes crashes that look like motorcycle crashes." No, dudes! You're seeing *literal* motorcycle crashes and calling them e-bikes because they are electric!

Something that would be good to hash out now is what an end to partisan gerrymandering would actually look like, given a very wide state-to-state discrepancy in schemes for independent redistricting and how effective they seem to be

Scoop from WIRED's @aarianmarshall.bsky.social: First responders have warned feds that Waymo is backsliding. Head of San Francisco emergency mgmt: “We are actually seeing something interesting: backsliding of some things that had [been] improved upon. They are committing more traffic violations.”

This is such an important point about speed cameras. We have overwhelming data that the vast majority of drivers quickly learn where they are and adjust their driving habits to avoid getting ticketed. This makes them a bad way to generate ticket revenue but a super effective way to reduce speeding

Come get packets and trained up at any of these upcoming @connectbayarea.bsky.social events! luma.com/connectbayar...

⏰ Happening tomorrow morning from 8:30-9:00AM! Hope to see you there ➡️ walksf.org/cameras

Sending a helicopter to circle for hours over a planned road closure is such an annoying thing for news stations to do

@sfmta.com @sfmta.bsky.social no buses running on the 15 this afternoon? Cool cool cool

<deep breath> My fellow travelers, I do not hate you because you chose to take the 5R to Van Ness during the evening peak (instead of the subway which is faster and has more capacity) Our true, shared enemy is Daniel Lurie, whose dumb idea it was to stop you from taking the local 5

Happy #EarthDay! 🌎 The best transit 🚌🚊can do for the planet is getting people out of single occupant vehicles. And we should electrify🚊⚡️more diesel trains not primarily because of rail locomotive emissions but because they make trip times shorter which attracts more riders from their cars.🚗

Just keep those windows clear

An under-regulated Waymo will be a disaster for cities just like under-regulated TNCs were. This has been staring us in the face for tears. There are real safety problems here. But trying to make safety the main/only framing is distracting from the biggest structural risk: an explosion in VMT.

Tucker Carlson is misleading people about having misled people. It's good that the MAGA coalition is fracturing, but you don't gotta hand it to any of these folks.

*tech tycoons create social media algorithms to make rubes scared of boogeyman* (several years later) Tech Tycoon Group Chat:

Im just loling that this article quotes a bunch of West Oakland BART parkers and they're from Berkeley and the Hills -- places with BART stations or stations closer by. On one hand this is ridiculous but on the other hand its what happens when transit is expanded with highway infrastructure.

We are heartbroken to learn that another pedestrian life has been lost on our streets, this time at the intersection of Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue. You can read our statement at walksf.org/releases.

I just saw a local 5-Fulton on Market St! 👀 Has @sfmta.com @sfmta.bsky.social finally ended the idiotic service pattern where the local only runs between Leavenworth and 6th Ave??