Running these "zero emission" buses will emit 30,000 tons of CO2 over their lifetime. Switching to battery electric buses will decrease this by 75% immediately, completely eliminate it by purchasing zero-emission electricity (easy), cost less to purchase, and cost less to operate.

I ran some numbers on the full fuel cycle of AC Transit's hydrogen and battery bus operations based on numbers in the 2025 Zero Emission Program Annual Progress Report, in order to get an idea of the actual carbon emissions of hydrogen and battery buses in real operation. 🧵

Absolutely spot on - and also completely in line with their essential purity/taboo ideas of sex. Tale as old as time: this kind of sex is dirty, but I want it, therefore the dirt 'belongs' to the object of desire, who can be sectioned off and disposed of as contaminated, while I remain clean.

From 2018 to 2024, I rode my bicycle (actually several) to every BART station and recorded it on Instagram. It's a lot of long rides, and I stopped for 3 years because of COVID. But today, midway through a ride, I decided to do it again. Richmond, 35 km.

Driving to get my driver's license renewed when I could have easily taken the bike or bus. For solidarity or something.

And yet, SMART's design requirements for the Healdsburg extension includes gauntlet tracks.

Your friendly reminder that the term "cancel culture" is right-wing framing and you don't have to play along. You can just call it out as right-wing nonsense framing.

My proposal for Waymo in Oakland: OK, but only for trips to/from the nearest BART station. And a $3 fee that goes to funding transit.

I really think that Democrats should demand firing RFK Jr as a condition to Fund the government, and then once he's fired, still vote no.

Love this! If you haven't yet, get your flu and COVID vaccines soon. (I got mine two weeks ago.) They're widely available in California, health insurance covers them, and they're so important to protect your health and the health of our communities.

If you live in California, this is one of the things you should know about its history.

Hydrogen fever has reached the outer rim, or at least Mendocino County.

Wow, I missed this part. SB 79 included a AB 2923 provision for additional transit operators? The station areas around SMART in Sonoma County (not all of which are SMART parking lots) are incredibly barren and ripe for redevelopment. bsky.app/profile/warr...

Honour Charlie Kirk's death in the way he would have honoured yours

You can play chess with a pigeon, but it's just going to shit all over the board and strut around like it won.

More about the wildcat subdivisions of Sonoma County here. 25'x100' lots high up in the hills were given away 100+ years ago as promotional gimmicks, decades later in era of restrictive zoning, some people realized they could consolidate lots to build housing santarosahistory.com/wordpress/20...

On Wednesday, the SMART board will be voting on a design-build contract for 65% design of the Windsor to Healdsburg extension. The contract also includes an option for Healdsburg to Geyserville preliminary designs.

SMART came up with a smart plan here: start the eminent domain process on _their own_ parcels, and require the owners of neighboring parcels to demonstrate their ownership interest. They're bringing the receipts, some of them 155 years old.

There have been a lot of mask off moments this week

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

I guess LA didn't get their 3 billion dollars.

This is getting into the weeds on the details of SB 79, but there are several provisions that apply to counties that are not urban transit counties. Specifically, this means Contra Costa, Marin, Sonoma, and San Bernardino, but the last doesn't have any transit stops that qualify.

Privilege checked today after riding my bike through my walkable neighborhood in Oakland near transit by a dentist tech who told me about her 1.5 hour commute from Mountain House. "Traffic wasn't bad today," she said. Pass SB 79 so my dental tech can affordably ride a bike to work.

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Assembly floor! The bill now goes to the Senate for concurrence, then the Governor’s desk. cayimby.org/legislation/...

Remembering that I can mute keywords for 24 hours.

Guns are bad.

I've noticed that a lot of people just can't comprehend the people-moving capacity of BART. "BART is equivalent to a 30 lane freeway" just sounds like a wild exaggeration. (It isn't)

Your regular reminder that waymos are one deploy away from driving aggressively and dangerously.

:philosoraptor.gif:

Did more work on this project, and now have a train simulator that calculates the theoretical fastest time through the route, taking into account acceleration, braking, stops, speed limit, etc. This tells me that SMART is padding the schedule by about 20%, but that varies per segment.

Imagine paying your staffers so little that they can’t afford to even live in the same county, then pretending it’s the freeway width that’s the problem.

I am curious why the Golden Gate Transit 580 bus charged me $10.80, when the fare to the end of the line is $6. Yeah, I can tap off, but there's no possible place that this bus will take me where the fare is $10.80.

Aaaand... The NIMBYs complained to the coastal commission.

Let's see where the automated bus cameras are issueing the most tickets on the B25 Ooh, I see. It's the entire route...

New updates for my [Mostly Not] Great Redwood Trail bikepacking route from the SF Bay Area (Larkspur) to Eureka/Arcata, roughly following the Great Redwood Trail as construction progresses.

One bright side of eliminating Tier 3 Transit Oriented Development Stops from SB-79 is that Avalon on Santa Catalina Island is no longer a TOD stop. That just seemed... odd.

I created stringline diagrams for the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit schedule, following up on discussions about why SMART can't run a 30 minute Takt. It's currently running a 32-minute Takt after opening the Novato Downtown and Petaluma North infill stations.

My bus system is short staffed, maybe they could come here and help with that.

Bold new way for transphobia to get people killed.

Am I the only one who thinks crackers and cookies belong next to each other in the grocery store?

Eventually the video of Newsom destroying a homeless encampment with his bare hands will resurface. The care part of Care Not Cash.

Can JD Vance prevent the various factions that support Trump's power from erupting into a huge power struggle? The thought is as laughable as Mike Pence stepping in and reconsolidating the right wing.

Let's get to the results. SF only issued warnings for the first several months of the program, along with putting up plenty of warning signage. This had a *huge* result! On the 33 speed camera locations, drivers traveling >11 mph over the speed limit fell ~75%! That was just with warnings!

Netgear sent me email notifying me that my 10yo wifi router will no longer get security updates and would I like a discount on a new one? No thanks, I switched to DD-WRT years ago and haven't missed dealing with the regular "oops we stored your password in plain text" bugs.

I keep returning to the idea that California could set its income tax rates such that they automatically adjust opposite to changes in federal rates. Thus, when republicans lower federal income taxes on billionaires as they did earlier this year, that money goes directly to California.

"what if they put a bike lane IN my car?"

🐋🎨 A gray whale is swimming into downtown Fort Bragg—on a mural. The city’s largest public artwork yet, “The Gray Whale in Kelp,” will be unveiled at KelpFest this fall. mendovoice.com/2025/08/newe... #mendocinocounty #fortbraggca #mendocino #publicart #art

Saving this for later