Another small earthquake. Wild.

Transbay Caltrain, let's do it

Earthquake again?

Mayor Pete, wtf are you doing man??

I just wrote an op-ed about how Governor Newsom should sign SB 720, which would reform California's red light camera law. www.marinij.com/2025/09/22/m...

Posting this to give @bretdevereaux.bsky.social an aneurysm.

Another great East Bay Kidical Mass this past weekend. Huge turnout!

99% of the time my wife sets her sunglasses down like this and honestly it makes me worry.

Kind of crazy that we put a multiuse path next to a 65 mph+ freeway, separated it by a chainlink fence and a 2' berm, and said, "Yeah, that looks fine."

PSA to kids' bike makers PLEASE use schrader tubes on your bikes. Rural, low income communities don't have: A. bike pumps B. bike shops C. If they are lucky, the local gas station has a tire inflator for schrader valves. I just got workout hnd pumping 30 prestas bc my compressor is for schrader.

From Novato's Climate Action Plan: Apparently the city plans to permit the housing units required in the 2024 RHNA cycle and then stop growing for the subsequent 20 years.

Wearing rainbow pattern clothing as a straight person: (A) Queer solidarity, or (B) Stolen valor

The food of My People.

Last night's declaration of a $100k fee on H-1B visas has been hugely disruptive to many Asian American families. Even with the update that it doesn't apply to current H-1B visa holders, it remains an attack on many already living in the US and had been counting on getting one to remain. 1/

This post has now been deleted. Suggesting it really was a DM to Bondi, violating presidential Records Act, and basically all national security protocols. But who cares. All the laws are for trampling now.

I have to lol at dads bringing their 3 year old to soccer with cleats and shin guards.

2 years of default urban/village 20mph in Wales has resulted in over 1,000 fewer killed or injured. The data shows a 25% reduction in casualties on the 20/30mph roads. Drivers gain with damage risk, crashes and premiums down. Well done Wales. bit.ly/4ppl030

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

I find this fact very pleasing.

It's gonna be a long day on the bike!

It's that simple folks!

Occasionally I'll have the mental impulse to send my 3-year-old (who does not have a phone obviously) a text while she's at daycare.

You would think the Golden Gate National Recreation Area HQ would have better bike parking than: "lock it to the railing outside." But you would be wrong.

"Are these the towers that launched a thousand shitty NIMBYs?"

In this analogy, are white people...the Nazis? 😬

Got my flu/covid vaccines. There was a little bit of a wait at the Berkeley Kaiser, but otherwise it was seamless. Get vaccinated!

$11B for highway widening, <$1 B for Metrolink. There's why we "can't afford" to electrify Metrolink.

If you drive your loud-ass motorcycle after midnight, they should take it away from you.

Saw this at my kid's daycare and my Netrunner neurons all lit up

Cars hate one thing and it's bollards.

11 years ago, RailPac put forth a similar Electrolink proposal. Metrolink dismissed it with the same arguments they're still using now. In that time, Caltrain electrified, while Metrolink has made only modest improvements. But a lot has changed since 2014. Will Metrolink change their tune this time?

I was a big fan of Ezra Klein (regular listener of The Weeds and Vox's Ezra Klein Show) until like 2018, but man I just find him *incredibly* annoying now. I know there are still people who enjoy his content (hi mom) but his self-importance is too much for me to handle.

Obviously I talk a lot about bike/ped safety. But something that is really crazy is how much less safe you *in a car* since 2010. In spite of all the additional safety technology, vehicle occupants are less safe today than they were 15 years ago.

In another daily example of School street mismanagement, a yellow school bus had to wait multiple minutes to get past a double parked delivery truck and a double parked parent doing drop off.

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This is why the Charles Marohn, "gentle density" approach is bullshit and doomed to failure. The NIMBYs will tell you that they just want gradual densification, *but they are lying to you!*

Man, I forgot about the very funny politics of last year's California Prop 5.

"Traffic calming makes riding bikes and walking a lot safer...but if there's a fire IT MIGHT KILL A LOT OF PEOPLE TOO." (image from the draft Berkeley Bicycle Plan)

If Newsom signs SB 79, it will make the politics of the MACSOTS plan to increase SMART service *very* interesting.

I just requested that the Berkeley Public Library order the new AASHTO Bikeway Design Guide.

Our media has collapsed. Only Teen Vogue soldiers on.

Marin construction contracting works in mysterious ways.

UCLA alum here: Fuck no.

I literally get up from my desk for 2 seconds and this interloper appears.

Extremely pessimistic outlook for Sausalito projected in their Shoreline Adaptation Plan. To wit, much of the city will be underwater on a daily basis in 70 years barring hundreds of millions of dollars of investment (in a city home to 7k people).

The story of a NIMBY in 3 acts: Act 1: Move to a new suburb Act 2: Become annoyed that other people are moving there too Act 3: Run for mayor to stop people from moving there

Unbelievably grim account of what happens after you are hit by a car in California. sfstandard.com/opinion/2025...

If the feds have it their way, your kid will at least be unvaccinated when they get squished by a truck walking to school.

RETVRN (but with better emissions controls)