I made a huge mistake ending my first tour as a @thewaroncars.bsky.social groupie. You’re telling me I’m gonna miss my homie @uytaelee.bsky.social (good seeing you at CCA <3) and hopeful future homie @tomflood.bsky.social? The FOMO… 😭

Last stop (for now) on my “Unofficial” groupie tour of seeing @thewaroncars.bsky.social 3 times in two weeks. It’s was great seeing y’all in SF and for giving me a reason to come to Seattle! This city is incredible! Also thanks for answering my silly question again! :)

Clipper 2.0 is going to revolutionize how we get around the Bay. Something as simple as taking the bus to the train will be rewarded, not punished. From my house in Berkeley to my friends in the Castro could be literally half the price as today. Check it out: clipper2.hikingbytransit.com 🧵 1/7

Don’t give me a giant Scrabble board and expect me not to share my opinions.

i think the biggest loser tomorrow will be @nytimes.com

En route to Seattle via @amtrak.com to see @thewaroncars.bsky.social and @nerd4cities.bsky.social again after going to their incredible collab at Hunters earlier this year! Might as well snuggle up with a book as the lights dim! PS Lmk if you guys need more fantastical questions for this chat too!

Save the date! We're doing an AMA on r/fuckcars on November 4th at 1 pm EST. Can't wait to discuss Life After Cars with one of the best online communities out there. @fuckcarsreddit.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/

Cuomo illegally parking his *white ford bronco* in the bike lane is beyond parody. the guy clearly has a humiliation fetish at this point or something

Settings > data privacy > data for generative AI improvement OFF

You can keep him if you wanted, Berkeley, we wouldn’t mind. 🙃

I don’t even watch baseball but I have a friend who texts me that I’m not allowed to pee when the dodgers are playing because of a superstition she built when we worked together so yeah I’m glad it’s over just so I’m allowed to pee again

Andrew Cuomo hates New York City and the people who live here.

My (not particularly hot) take is that the fractured political structures of the Bay Area are one of the biggest challenges between us and solving large problems. Special districts are effectively magic to most residents.

Suprise, surprise! Another great episode from the backlog of Talking Headways. This time, @theoverheadwire.com chats with Andres Sevtsuk. The topic? The power of small businesses in communities. Almost feels analogous to greenery in water capture for urban spaces. Strong roots hold spaces together.

Who do I need to @ at the 27 Bay Area transit agencies and / or the MTC to make this spookiness happen?!

So much fun judging the NOPNA Halloween Block Party costume competition today! Thank you to NOPNA for bringing the community, kiddos, and puppies together for another amazing event.

It's not that every individual driver is a murderous asshole (I'm not!). It's that car dependency as a whole is dangerous. It's that cars are deadly when they hit people. It's that our society prioritizes drivers above all else. It's about a system that is dangerous for anyone not in a car.

The entitlement in this piece is unsurprising (from Marin? no way!) but reprehensible. Start up a Casual Carpool system and quit your whining. (That said, thank you, “woman from Santa Rosa” and @carterlavin.bsky.social, for your excellent contributions.)

Just reiterating that I will not be voting for this man and anyone who finds that distressing has years to push Dems into choosing a good nominee instead.

Ban dots, legalize DOT! 🎉

Another great episode of Talking Headways by @theoverheadwire.com featuring Karel Martens! This time, the focus is unfiltered equity when building transportation systems. I loved the idea of setting one goal with conditions as opposed to having multiple goals. This could prevent conflicting needs.

This is next level US streetcar, wow! Tragic that SF keeps locking into hybrid streetcar/metro. It can be much better! Merge above ground portions of J and K, L and M, N and T (via F tracks). Make Market Tunnel only S Shuttle trains. T becomes A Very Useful Shuttle™ between Chinatown and Moscone.

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Something has to change in SF, the gatekeeping needs to stop. We need more housing built. Now isn’t the time for hopes and wishes and political alignments. We have to stop letting perfect get in the way of good here. Build. Housing. (Link in first comment)

“It’s so endemic, it’s so pervasive, it’s so ubiquitous, that people don’t recognize just how much it is all around them” I've been talking motonormativity with @grist.org. Also features @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social grist.org/culture/cars...

NIMBYs argue in bad faith because their real goal is to filibuster new housing until it isn’t financially feasible anymore? This is new information to me. I’ve never heard of that before.

I don’t watch baseball. I didn’t want to watch baseball. I watched baseball.

Baltimore and the surrounding suburbs is such a peculiar experiment in American urban development. I would love to connect with some urbanists over there to see how things are going!

Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Stop trying to sweeten the deal, Andrew. I'm already voting for Zohran!

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC. “This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…” So good!! 🔥

Find out how to say it tonight on @thedailyshow.com!

it will never not be odd that 80 percent of america lives in cities but the only real americans are the rural ones

I have never ridden the N to Ocean Beach and seen it stop at every single stop. But it's great: every stop more kids get on, headed toward the Great Hauntway!

Surprise! Another fantastic episode of Talking Headways by @theoverheadwire.com! This time, Jeff interviews Tim Fendley of Applied. The topic is one of my favorite pieces in the urbanism space, wayfinding! “You can’t see what you can’t see.”

8 days later

Back at Hunter’s, I asked @thewaroncars.bsky.social and @nerd4cities.bsky.social what they’d declare war on after the war on cars is won. Someone in the crowd screamed “LANDLORDS!” California and SF accept the mission and we’re bringing receipts. 🏘️⬆️🌆

The urbanist creator transit card signatures have grown! From top to bottom! @milesintransit.com @nerd4cities.bsky.social @rmtransit.bsky.social @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @uytaelee.bsky.social @theoverheadwire.com @thewaroncars.bsky.social Who am I missing? I’ve got some ideas! 🙃😻🫡🎉

A haunted house, but it's just the sounds of a cat about to puke in a dark room.

Every single time I take a train, be it a long haul between cities or the public transit variety, I’m furious that we did cars to ourselves. It’s so much more pleasant than driving, taking a bus, or literally any part of taking a flight. I will always vote for trains if given the opportunity.

Some tickets are still available for our event tonight. See you there, San Francisco!

How do I know that Bluesky is becoming mainstream and likely to get bigger? I'm becoming irritated by all the sports content. That's how I know.

RSVP today for our upcoming All Members Assembly Meeting on Wednesday, 10/29, at 5:30 pm. We'll be joined by SFMTA's Director of Transit, Brent Jones. You won't want to miss it! Check your email for more details, or become a member at buff.ly/yUcgd4S

You guys are always welcoming folks to The War On Cars, time to turn the tables! @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social, welcome to my urbanist creator transit card signature collection!

Great watch!

"State housing officials will sweat the details and reject the plan if anti-housers try to retie the Gordian process knots that got San Francisco in trouble originally."

Hell yeah to the woman who just brought a tree on the bus #TransitOrientedGreenery #transitisessential

!!!!! Avengers-level team up right here, literally my two favorite podcasts merged into one!