Lots of transit news from BART director Victor Flores - including that the BART board has voted to use standard gauge for the 2nd set of transbay tubes. This will open up the option for Caltrain, High Speed Rail, and Amtrak to cross between downtown San Francisco and the East Bay in the future.

-Initial data indicates the recall —despite getting some prog engagement—was driven by conservative voters who refuse to acknowledge we live in a city and deny our climate emergency. -More D4 voters voted yes on prop K than yes on recall. This vote was not a referendum on the park. 3/3

Four years ago, SSR was started to make the great highway permanently car-free. Now, sunset dunes is one of SF's most popular parks. Like the embarcadero and central freeway removals, there may be more fights ahead, but we're not going back. 1/3

I just called the governor's office and I'm holding a crying baby. What's your excuse? (916) 445-2841, press 1 for English and then 6 to leave a message.

The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY! Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit! cayimby.org/call-sb-79/

California HSR guaranteed $20b in state funding over the next 20 years. There’s still a funding gap in getting to Gilroy and SF, but steady funding will make that much easier to close — amp.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Ladies and gentlemen, SB 79 has passed both chambers! Off to the Senate for concurrence!

Oakland has developed a great Slow Streets network proposal, but they need your input to hone the segments & make sure they’re on the right track. Comments are due by this Friday 9/11. Check out the map at the link below then email [email protected]. www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...

Imagine results like this in the Bay Area. We need congestion pricing here to make it easier and safer for everyone - including drivers - to get around and to help transit ridership grow.

Organizing and/or going to a local community meeting and saying "things should be better, somewhat" has the policy impact power of sending a 100,000 posts.

Congestion pricing is one of the biggest policy successes of the past decade.

Hey it's @cityofoakland.bsky.social

Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

As Mayor of Berkeley—and as someone who regularly relies on public transit—I urge Governor Newsom to approve the $750 million state loan to stabilize Bay Area transit agency budgets and prevent devastating service cuts. Read the full statement: www.mayoradenaishii.com/from-the-may...

TIL: the @oaklandballers.bsky.social use 1.7 million gallons of recycled EBMUD wastewater every year! #WaterWise youtu.be/4fagG8hJGa4?...

Yes Gov Newsom is an 🫏 for attempting to reneg on the $750M loan to keep Bay Area transit afloat. But also remember that MTC postponed our regional transit ballot measure in 2024 to make way for an affordable housing measure, but then that didn’t happen either. Leadership failure on all levels.

For the record, this is not an abstract issue for me. I have a nine month old, I don’t own a car, and I haven’t even driven a car in about a decade. If BART and AC Transit are forced to cut service it’s going to have immediate negative repercussions for me and my family.

This matters a lot more than his tweets.

Who rides transit in the Bay Area? 2023-2024 data is available at public.tableau.com/app/profile/... Except for ferries, the typical transit rider makes less money than the average Bay Area resident - this is even true for Caltrain, which has the highest average rider income other than the ferries.

Stressful morning for BART commuters trying to find alternative ways to get between SF and the East Bay. Biking across the Bay Bridge would be a fantastic option…..if the bike path didn’t stop halfway across 🥲 Sign our petition to get more folks moving!

Absolute greenwashing. This project greatly harms the environment by adding a highway lane and inducing many more vehicle miles and greenhouse gas emissions. This will harm the marshlands and wildlife by furthering climate change. Shame on everyone supporting this.

Gov Newsom still hasn't signed the $750m loan to Bay Area transit agencies that would get us to the Nov 2026 funding votes. He has eight days to act. Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.

Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”

today's ride: the Bay Trail between Millbrae BART and San Carlos Caltrain. great for plane spotting!

Transit Month starts today in the Bay Area and Southern California! 🚃🚈🚌🛳️🚋 Bay Area events at luma.com/transitmonth..., SoCal events at www.socaltransitmonth.org The ride contest starts today, and this week is the online Transit Month fashion photo contest luma.com/rh5jfwxt

Love to see it - bike first boarding doors on @caltrain.com

Great day on the Lafayette-Moraga regional trail (accessible via Lafayette BART!) 🚴‍♂️

Exciting to see CaHSR order $500m in rail materials for the full 119 mile first segment. High speed rail, it's happening, folks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_Q...

Can't wait to ride over the Bay Bridge to Cityside Park soon! secretsanfrancisco.com/cityside-par...

Would you like a personal video of your favorite Bay Area ride? For the second year I am donating this item to my local bike organization. This item and many others are part of the online auction organized by Bike East Bay. Use their link below.

All housing development should be ministerial. Not a single elected should have sway over a development.

ban cars (and don't let your billionaire mayor unban them)

something I started seeing and now see everywhere in SF: driveways preventing a healthy tree canopy. here is a solid 50 foot stretch where no trees can be planted as long as these driveways exist.

This is the same reason why events like Bike East Bay’s Oakland Gran Fondo & Walk Oakland Bike Oakland’s Love Our Lake Day ended. The extreme cost of hiring police for traffic control ate up all the profit & then some.

"The inflation on transportation project construction was higher than grocery store inflation." www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

Looks fantastic. www.mlive.com/news/grand-r...

Ban private cars in cities.

I'm sad I am going to be away for most of Transit Month, but you should still know that this year's lineup is _stacked_. Check it out!

SF Bay Area Transit Month calendar has dropped! 👀 lu.ma/transitmonth...

More of this. www.minnpost.com/cityscape/20...

On Saturday a driver hit and killed women in her 50s as she was biking across 51st at Shattuck 😢 Our hearts go out to her life cut short as she was doing something as simple as riding her bike, and we extend our deepest sympathies to her family and friends www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/bicycl...

"While I support the intent to accelerate housing development, I cannot in good conscience support any legislation that might actually do that."

Fastest path to zero emissions is electrification; the most proven method is electrification; the method that delivers performance improvements that generates mode shift compounding train emission cuts… and yet!

Interim Public Works Director Josh Rowan is absolutely correct here. Oakland needs more administrators willing to speak out about this unlawful conduct.

This is an incredibly alarming article that demonstrates how Oakland City Council continues its pattern of meddling with ongoing procurements, but also that firms participating in procurements and their lobbyists feel comfortable brazenly violating clear bidding rules.

1. You're not even safe from cars when you're inside a restaurant eating. 2. They weren't "involved in a crash" anymore than someone hit by a stray bullet was "involved in a shooting."