shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

"Just getting politicians and planners on the bus -- so few of them know what it is not to just take the bus when it's convenient, but to truly rely on this. To have it be your first, third and last option." Catch Una Fonte on @nondriverpodcast.bsky.social podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K_8...

if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

This was our family hauler too! SF to LA, Spokane, WA, even Yellowstone -- with 3 adults, 2 kids, luggage, and so on. Easily did it all and with better visibility and a safer hood height for everyone else on the road.

There is a crucial distinction to be made: mandatory "fees," often revealed late in the process, are basically fraud and should be illegal. But fees for options add ons, e.g. parking or storage, if disclosed upfront, are good in that they give renters options. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I just signed an executive order to support faster, cheaper, and easier public transit across California. I'm directing state agencies to prioritize key local transit projects by enforcing clear deadlines, modernizing arrival data and payments, and expanding employee benefits.

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

Got it to ingest Metrolink (and opened a ux issue 🙂) github.com/markegge/gtf...

Great work of explanatory, visual, & public-interest journalism by Michael Keller, Eli Murray, Danielle Ivory, Irineo Cabreros of @nytimes.com, on thousands of needless deaths caused by monster-ization of US vehicles. (Image: Chevy Silverado 1998 vs 2021) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

1/10? On my way to LA from SF via bus-Gold Runner-bus. Stocked up on a sandwich and snacks at Safeway plus brought a cup of ice from home— should be well prepared for the Gold Runner snack situation. Supposed to leave Salesforce Transit Center at 9:40 and ultimately arrive LA Union Station 19:15.

So glad to see LA-area agencies joining others large and small across the state in offering tap to ride!

Excited to share that I've been appointed to the Treasure Island Development Authority Board of Directors by the Mayor of SF! Looking forward to serving and helping implement the ambitious transportation and development plans for the islands. Say hi if you see me on the bus, ferry, or bridge path!

Bringing back this map I first drafted a year or two ago to show how mindblowing fast the D Line Extension is going to be. Time to start adjusting your mental model of LA because she's shrinking Stations are spaced on a grid where each 'tick' represents one minute of travel

It is so thrilling to pull up and watch the bike detected blue light go on. No pushing a beg button far away on the sidewalk. No waiting for a car to trigger a green light for me. Redondo Beach at Artesia and Rindge

And if you're 18 or older, you can help save Caltrain (and the rest of transit in the Bay Area) by gathering signatures with us! We've got lots of events coming up that you're invited to luma.com/connectbayar... It's surprisingly easy and lots of fun.

You know your parking enforcement problem is bad when the construction crew decides to park their bulldozer in a no-parking zone to avoid getting blocked from their site by cars parked in the no-parking zone…

Caltrans was an unexpectedly excellent partner while I served in SF govt. They're doing good work to reinvent themselves, and they need great leaders to continue that work. Apply: www.linkedin.com/posts/caltra...

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

In The Netherlands, if you hit a kid under 14 with your car, it is automatically presumed to be your fault.

If Metro can do this, BART should be able to too! Station retail is one of the things I worked on for many years as a BART director but never accomplished. I think we would have made progress without the pandemic. After the Connect Bay Area measure passes, I hope BART brings back station retail.

Nice work by CM Katy Yaroslavsky to get coffee kiosks in all the new Metro D Line stations opening in May! cdn.mc-weblink.sg-mktg.com/weblink/MTc3...

Props to Seattle for having clear guidance on mobile wallet (virtual) card numbers in their tap to pay rollout -- necessary imo if fare verification relies on riders knowing or sharing those: support.myorca.com/hc/en-us/art...

Not taking away the driver's license of someone permanently who annihlated an entire family is...I have no words. In a city like SF too where the perpetrator could take public transit. www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...

If you can based on your state (IL is included) opt out now: www.clearview.ai/privacy-and-...

This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class. Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.

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

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