YIMBYs are seemingly getting more and more into transit policy. Thread on how the politics and strategy of transit is and isn't similar to the housing world:🧵

Internet arguments in a nutshell

they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"

I like how "The West" in this article is just the United States. Even poor European countries like Portugal and Poland have high-speed trains!

Beyond Meat made the best shit i ever tasted in my life: breakfast sausage links and then just discontinued it for their nasty burger patties. Life is cruel

I love waiting 14 mins at rush hour for the bus in downtown Berkeley because Shattuck has no bus lanes and city leaders dont want to implement our climate action plan

One single local BRT line in Oakland (AC Transit Tempo) serves more riders than the entire VTA Light Rail system, and has a Cost Effectiveness that rivals our top *regional* transit services Bay Area should be super-funding East Bay BRT if they distributed funding based on objective metrics

legendary thrift pull

University and MLK shoukd be an X style Shibuya crosswalk. Its too crowded and people want to diagonally cross.

Aggressive immigration enforcement in South Texas has led to significant construction delays and economic disruption.

Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value

I think the reality is residential developers don't factor in ground floor retail into their proforma's profitability. Creating vibrant retail is not their concern; building homes is. If they have to build the space its configured for a leasing office or resident services.

Any Berkeley / Oakland area artists interested in painting some benches? dm me.

Okay so after mikesbikes fixed the tires riding on incline streets was a breeze. It was a flat tire hurting my legs. Mission accomplished.

My eardrums learned a lesson in using gas station air pumps mean for autos on bike tires.

Whats an alternative to Substack that allows for paid subscribers?

Why do people refer to Arlington Avenue / Arlington Blvd in the Berkeley Hills as "The Arlington"? I've heard this a lot and even saw it in a city art piece at Aquatic Park.

The only people who unironically think SF was some awful city are Fox News viewers in the middle of nowhere. Nobody of wealth, power or influence actually ever thought this. I have conservative relatives whose entire views of California are shaped by Fox News.

I'll be there! Talking about the need for an AC Transit measure.

This is how Portugese sounds to me when im in public and I hear it and my brain is desperately trying to figure out if its Spanish or something else.

Bike rider randomly got beside me and told me he thinks my tires are flat. Which they appear to be! Might explain why uphill riding is so painful

Big news in California, with filing deadline very near: Nithya Raman, a progressive city councilor and a leader in the local left, has decided to run for mayor against Mayor Karen Bass (and many others). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

How to get to Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl LX from Downtown San Jose on VTA 🚈🏟️ Check out transit.app for trip planning and vta.org/sblx for more information. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89MLvUa/

In British TV boarding school is for the rich while on French TV it seems exclusively for ill behaved kids. Kinda weird.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We all shit on the Times about headlines, but this is top of the home page and is admirably clear. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Mamdani is a smart operator (laudatory)

I wish I could tell people like me, who first came to Bluesky and felt pummeled by performative scolding, that now it feels a lot less like that and a lot more like that brief window when Twitter was pretty good: useful, occasionally ridiculous, a place to discover new thinkers & writing

Sorry to say but having a U.S. driver's license means absolute nothing insofar as driving safely in this country. the DL test is just more of a registration at the DMV than any actual competency filter.

In becoming a bike rider im suffering the consequences of never doing leg day: it hurts my thighs to pedal uphill. Hopefully by cycling daily that pain will numb.

If the Connect Bay Area measure fails, BART would slash service by 63% in January 2027: Reduced base schedule: 3 lines with 2 trains per hour, resulting in 240% more transfers NO evening service, service ending at 9 pm Close 10 lowest ridership stations...

I'm not trying to be a white knight but ever since I was a teen I never got the male obsession with younger women. Women older than you will probably live as long as you do, are more experienced in all subjects, and overall have life together better.

California's great outdoors is more transit accessible than you think -- I've added trailheads all across the state to Hiking by Transit, ready for your outdoor adventure! Check it out: hikingbytransit.com

Uhhhhh lol.

I like how new BART trains were quiet in the transbay tube for like a year and then they just went back to being as loud as the old trains.

Obsessed with the implication that the bird is perhaps too busy to attend Sabrina Carpenter’s birthday party.

Does bluesky put furry content in anyone else's feed or just me? Like i dont follow any of these accounts or like any of this content (im not against it) but im baffled why bsky thinks i like this lol.

The BART ambassador program has been a tremendous success and im glad @replsimon.bsky.social wants to make it federal. Its made BART much better for riders by providing a non violent, non police alternative to our public health crisis. www.berkeleyside.org/2026/02/04/l...

Incredible. @bryanculbertson.com noting that AC Transit operators are forced to cover the Clipper readers with their hand for the first minute the system boots up in order to avoid a system crash.

Watch Miles In Transit take @rideact.bsky.social's TEMPO line with me through East Oakland for his bonus episode on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

It's Elmo's birthday

I find it extremely scary that people have become ever reliant on AI chatbots to form their political opinions. Interent literacy is already horrendous enough but the abuse and misinformation will have generations of consequences

Doing some bench buffing of graffiti in downtown Oakland before work. If you ever see a SFBABC bench with offensive language or really bad graffiti, go to SFBABC.org click the bench on the map anf report it. We'll buff it in 24 hours or less.

There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it

How do people in San Leandro pronounce Estudillo?

noice

I think the issue with Nicki Minaj is that she was chronically online and consuming tons of negative information about herself, so her coping mechanism was becoming extremely religious, and religious zealots are the types who get drawn into Trump.

Call me skeptical, but it sure seems like releasing Victims Names "accidentally" was intentional.

Mines were sold as part of the trans atlantic slave trade, probably by hostile tribes and what DNA evidence best suggests was in Mali, to the Welsh tobacco plantation owners in the colony of Virginia.