Chipped in what I can, donation links in the thread. They won't win.

@cityofsantamonica.bsky.social Big Blue Bus becomes the 1st agency in the state to add yield signs to buses, saving time at every stop. Thanks @caltransit.bsky.social for sponsoring the state bill authorizing and @electdanhall.bsky.social and @nzernitskaya.bsky.social for moving this locally for me!

It doesn't embarrass me to admit that Bernard Sumner ranks among my favorite lyricists. Somehow he offers universal truths in the most banal language. Luckily the rhythm section and synths help. Happy birthday. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/r...

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Sharing a transit success story - got from TI to Point Reyes trails in just over 2 hours last Saturday morning. Quick transfers from Muni 25, to Golden Gate Transit 101, to Marin Transit 68 (which ran a high floor bus!). The latter 2 buses were pretty full - including a big group of trail runners.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Can ICE enter a home to make an arrest with only an administrative warrant? @orinkerr.bsky.social says DHS’s new policy is probably unconstitutional. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-...

Wow. My bad FlixBus experience where we drove around Hollywood for 45 minutes is nothing compared to this...

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

When people say transportation research should get "back to basics," what do they mean? 🙃 This exhibit comes to mind – on the 4th Fl of the MLK Library, just a few blocks from #TRBAM #CrossroadsConvening

Clipper 2+Caltrain fare inspection process: at SF they do it at the platform door. Using a bank card via Apple wallet, I unlocked and pulled up the card thinking that would help but the handheld balked anyway. Attendant looked some more and asked if my card number was 1234 and if so I was good 1/2

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

California has made real progress on land use and permitting — but we still aren’t building housing at the scale we need. One reason: the way we build homes hasn’t kept pace with innovation. That’s what our new Select Committee is focused on.

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Congestion pricing has improved commute times, bus speeds, noise levels, traffic safety, and businesses and restaurants have seen more profits. A runway success by any measure. And a model for other cities too. Gift 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I think the most effectively way to frame this issue is, "Don't you want choice in where you live and how you get around?" When framed this way, multimodal reforms transform from a burden (e.g. "we have to do this because of climate change/sprawl/costs/etc") into an amenity.

you can submit a feedback form with positive feedback! I have done this for a bus driver who did really great deescalation of a conflict between passengers www.transitchicago.com/feedback/

perhaps too jaded but I can’t imagine any public transit agency in the US allowing a security guard to make their own signs around construction areas; they will just rather have no signs, period spoon-tamago.com/duct-tape-ty...

Ever looked at our High Quality Transit Stops dataset and wondered why a particular major transit stop was identified? These maps go step by step and explain our spatial methodology for identifying bus intersection major transit stops. Hoping this helps clarify a complex process, feedback welcome!

Oof. And to think I was going to take the next bus off the island. Suppose it'll be the ferry for me this evening (buses are still running but going to the Toll Plaza and back will add delay). Depending on how much of the ramp is blocked, this also affects drivers coming from Mainland SF.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar

Still no typical coffee shop on Treasure Island, but adding “$3.50 Nespresso at Bay Padel” to my list of places where purchasing a coffee is at least sometimes possible.

Impressed with the Shellmound St bikeway in Emeryville, haven’t seen a speed bump used at a mixing zone before but I like it (and the channelization)

Bad journalism has real-life consequences.

Starting next week, riding this bus and most other buses to BART will be FREE! Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies. Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.

Investments in public transit have failed to provide the right incentives for infrastructure projects to get completed in an affordable and timely manner. Join this webinar to learn how reforms to the shape, type, and speed of investment can transform project delivery and service outcomes.

Blogged about the Treasure Island Ferry, including a couple service ideas. www.treasuredtidings.net/posts/ferry/

A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out. With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line. bsky.app/profile/thew...

Bearistotle ass reasoning

I am studying for the American Planning Association's professional certification exam and I am kind of blown away by the planning profession's lack of faith in itself and confidence in its own judgment. We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!

Fire recall mode graphic for our fancy elevator call panels!

Transit Signal Priority is an umbrella term for multiple strategies that reduce delays for transit vehicles at signalized intersections, potentially down to zero. Here, I'm comparing the trade-offs between a "French-style" and an "in-phase" TSP strategy, more common in North America.

My bus operator, ending an emphatic explanation to a bus full of UC Berkeley students about moving to the back to make room: "I tell you what - the Stanford kids? They would have figured this out already."

Anybody have any favorite examples of world-class residential bike parking? Can be from anywhere...

this is awful. this man is so brave for testifying. Broadview is inhumane on every level

Hoping I get to see these in the wild!

many people are saying this (comparing right now to early Covid) lauriemerrell.com/posts/dispat...

"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."

Speaking of fast bike problems, did at least get TICD to fix this sightline with SFMTA's help.

It’s great to see misguided mandates on public transit emissions go from a policy wonk topic, to getting real attention. $$$ goes further getting more people on transit than switching to costly and unreliable battery-only buses. missionlocal.org/2025/10/sfmt...

Caught it live, this was a great speech.

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Riding BART on Saturday? We will have long trains. Parking is free. You can now pay for BART by tapping your contactless credit/debit card or using Apple Pay or Google Pay at the fare gates. No set up and no need to use a machine. Just Tap and Ride.

Always rewarding when we can enable analyses like this one, I'll pass it along to colleagues not on Bluesky. We'll keep producing and expanding this dataset to include more transit service attributes relevant to SB79 as well as visualizations of our process: github.com/cal-itp/data...

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!