Using my credit card to take BART at SFO for the first time! 😍

“Diggy Scardust” is simply the best tunnel boring machine name, ever. And may be for the rest of time.

This thread is exactly why @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social exists. Connections and integration of regional and local systems are key to a transit system that maximizes mobility for the greatest number of people.

Toronto Union Station on a Tuesday afternoon at 5:15pm. 95% ridership recovery! assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload...

Public transit is the best way to get to a wedding in Niagara! #gotranist

California needs major reforms to achieve our vision of a world-class, seamless public transit network. Join this webinar to learn from @seung.bsky.social, @icgee.bsky.social, and Dr. Jason Chang about the lessons we can learn from South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. actionnetwork.org/events/what-...

Seoul's transit in the 90s was in crisis, but fare integration, bus priority & network management reforms in 2004 transformed the network in less than 2 yrs, leading to the world-class system the region has today. My latest @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social blog: www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/5/...

After a week in Seoul I just tried to tap off of Muni.

After over a year of listening to advocates around the state, the SB 125 Transit Transformation task force proposed a great set of project delivery reforms (see our letter). When transit agencies opposed, they voted to table all of them. Deeply disappointing. calelectricrail.org/wp-content/u...

South Korea's public transit is among the best in the world - abundant, cheap, and integrated. It offers many lessons for California & N America at a time when many are losing faith that government is capable of doing big things. 1st of a 3-part blog series: www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/4/...

@seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social is profiled in the new @PBS docuseries Climate California, which tells the stories of climate leaders. Join us Sunday, 4/20, 3:30 for a screening and panel, part of @climateweek.bsky.social with host Charles Loi, me, & other featured activists and orgs lu.ma/1qbjsbwq

Trip to study transit in South Korea in T-3 days… please send me tips! Or, if you’re a local advocate, I’d love to meet with you!

How can we advance transformational public transit projects cost-effectively? Project sponsorship is a key practice used by a growing number of agencies, including Metrolinx & East West Rail. I'm moderating a CPCS webinar on Apr 3 with some experts - join us! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Less than 48 hours away - see you Thursday! ⬇️

Remember when McDonalds and Coca-Cola used to be the greedy companies that were destroying the world? Seems so quaint now compared to the corporate greed and absolute disdain for ethics we are seeing now.

Does the news have you feeling down? Channel your energy toward something positive - come out and meet the @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social community at our 2025 Kickoff social and fundraiser next Thursday 2/13. Register here: lu.ma/by63hp6m

This is such a great video and I hope my fellow members of the California Transit Transformation Task Force watch it.

Took the high speed train from Taipei to Kaoshiung in just 90 minutes. Was unfortunately in the middle seat, but the upside: equal view outside both sides of the train. Also the ride is only 90 minutes!

When I take public transit in a new city, I like to write down my first impressions immediately. It’s important to remember what’s easy & hard so that we can channel that empathy to design more user-friendly transit. So, some thoughts on my 1st 8hrs in Taipei...1/x (or see the blog link below):

I have arrived in Taiwan to study public transit for a week & lessons for CA! I’m already finding the high speed MRT from Taoyuan airport to Taipei to be a seamless. The airport feeds you straight to the MRT, and payment was simply tapping my credit card at the gates. @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social

Someone put me in a transit starter pack already! I’m sorry it took me so long to join.

Seen this morning. Starting to look a *bit* more like transit.

Huge document drop on the California State Rail Plan website, including a statewide network takt diagram and full list of infrastructure projects. For the first time, we are seeing the state planning an electrified "Sac-OAK-SF-SJ Mega Corridor": dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-...

Most exciting diagram in State Rail Plan: Clockface headways and built-in timed transfers ❤️⌚🚄

Tomorrow's CA Task Force meeting is in Clovis (pop 125k), next to Fresno, at its Transit Center. At that size, it should be somewhere you can get on transit (with planning), but the lack of connected transit in our state makes it impractical - for me it'd take 6hr 45 and involve 4 or 5 transfers.

Happy CA Transit Transformation Task Force meeting Eve! Tomorrow's Agenda: - Vote on policy recs on transit workforce, land use, and TOD value capture - Discuss fleet & asset management goals, needs, funding - Discuss options for new revenue to fund transit ops. calsta.ca.gov/-/media/cals...

Sara is a great leader and I couldn't imagine a better candidate for @sfmta.bsky.social Board! She's an experienced transportation professional with public sector experience at @cityofoakland.bsky.social & MTC. She was a cofounder of @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social and is an advocate for riders.

Hey bsky community! Question for the group: I’m going to Taiwan in a few weeks for a transit deep dive where I plan to some blogging. What site should I blog with? Last time I did this I was with @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social so I used its blog. A sample: www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2023/7/...

Alberta is one of the most exciting places for transit planning in N.Am right now - @cpcs.ca is leading the development of an ambitious Passenger Rail Master Plan, laying out a long-term vision for passenger rail in Alberta, including HSR between Calgary and Edmonton. www.alberta.ca/passenger-rail

@wmata.com recently approved its Better Bus Network - an operator-agnostic plan for an integrated redesign of the bus network across the region, and a vision of what the region would do with 35% more service hours, if voters approve them. A model for the Bay Area. www.wmata.com/about/news/M....

California’s Transit Transformation Task Force could transform transit in our state. Yet, at the last mtg, many transit agencies continue to resist basic reforms common proven to build ridership in other countries, like fare and service integration. cal.streetsblog.org/2024/11/12/s...