why do transit agencies buy/install these? like just instal benches its probably cheaper. even if you hate homeless people(bad) you can still buy anti homeless benches (less bad than the lean benches)

Hands Off NYC @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

we really gotta close 4th street bridge to cars. Stuck waymo was completely blocking the T during rush hour today causing a huge backup.

Ugh nevermind, Papan's AB 1557 has now been amended to reduce the speed cap to 16 mph for both Class 1 (pedal assist, currently 20 mph speed cap) & Class 2 (throttle assist, currently 20 mph cap) e-bikes. Imagine if legislators cared this much about 4 mph speed differences for driver of 2 ton+ cars

In other words, AVs will bring about major congestion that governments can’t fix. Happily, there is a solution: Road pricing Managed lanes (like I-66 in NoVA) and congestion pricing (as in NYC) can force AV companies & customers to consider the slowdowns they impose on everyone else.

It's a beautiful day to build some benches!

Built a bench of out reclaimed eucalyptus wood milled by bayarearedwood.com - hard and heavy as hell (weighs more than an 8ft fir bench). Wet with no finish. Eucalyptus lumber gets a lot of hate - maybe undeserved? We will see how this bench ages

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

This year, in honor of Transit Equity Day and Rosa Parks, Transit Columbus and Strong Towns Columbus volunteers cleared bus stops and sidewalks around the city to provide dignity for riders. We built benches to increase accessibility and enable people to rest safely as they journey around Columbus.

In total, twenty-nine people worked together to shovel nine bus stops, and build three benches.

Waymo exec says remote assistance operators are in US and also in Philippines. Markey says that's unacceptable, a national & cyber security risk. And it takes jobs away from American drivers to outsource overseas. "Transatlantic backseat driver is downright dangerous in our country" Markey says.

Thank you to everyone who came out for the #AlexPretti memorial ride in Oakland today. It was a huge turnout, even more than shown here at Lake Merritt, as some people peeled off since the start at Rockridge BART. @bikeeastbay.bsky.social @ebbp.bsky.social

Your friendly reminder that you should NOT support Gavin for president, in no small part bc the $750M emergency *loan* he agreed to became $590M months later. Gavin doesn’t really care about transit, at best

The campaign to save Bay Area transit kicks off this Friday! Join events happening across the region as we start collecting the 200k signatures needed to get this initiative on the November ballot. luma.com/le1g7slf?tk=...

SFBABC just published a 40-pager on how we crank out 10 guerilla bus stop benches in a weekend. I’m proud to have helped write, edit, and photograph this alongside @carterlavin.bsky.social, @mingweisamuel.bsky.social, & others. Get the doc sfbabc.org/join or read my post: medium.com/@michalmigur...

I've been feeling blue about the world, so to cheer me up, my friend and I did some DIY benching. There are new & improved community AC Transit bus benches at: 6 : Telegraph & Wesbter @ Whole Foods 6 : Telegraph & Woolsey @ Smokehouse 12 : MLK & University @ Trader Joes 27 : Ashby & Shattuck

"Why does Sonic need a car?" motherfucker why do YOU? You can run everywhere too if you want to but here you are. Maybe address north american urban design so we can get some 15 minute cities, and quality public transit options.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Come through this Sunday! We'll be joined by @barnalighosh.bsky.social, @cecilialunaparra.bsky.social, @alfredtwu.com, @mingweisamuel.bsky.social, @brandonsedai.bsky.social, and @tsch.uy.

Spotted my first @ehbforbet.bsky.social bench in the wild (at Painter Park). And it’s in a spot that has been in dire need of public seating for a very long time. Thank you, @locallhuman.bsky.social & @ehbforbet.bsky.social !

California Prop 50 ballots are starting to arrive in voters' mailboxes. Don't delay, vote today! #YesOnProp50

Mark your calendars‼️ On Saturday, 9/27 we're hosting our first official campaign event‼️ In partnership with the Minneapolis Public Seating Authority, we will assemble community benches for use in neighborhoods across the city. Food, drinks, and good times aplenty! actionnetwork.org/events/bench...

We're happy to see an official Muni sign at Church/Duboce replace our community-installed one after 3 years! They even reused our mounting hardware 🥺 Make your own sign at munisign.org/

To put this loan amount in perspective: California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less). But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.

The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill. sfist.com/2025/08/22/g...

When a Waymo blows past a stop sign or illegally stops in a red zone, by design, there is no driver present to take responsibility. But what happens when a self-driving vehicle gets pulled over in Los Angeles? By @marinamasako.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/waymo-traffi...

I wrote an op ed for the Chronicle about how important AC Transit's new redwoods service is, with the agency taking a bet on transit as a way of life, not just a commuting tool: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

IDEA: on one-way streets, let's make the sidewalks one-way too! To walk in the other direction, you'd first travel one block perpendicularly, to the next street over. Or maybe that would be ridiculous and we shouldn't do bike lanes that way either? Hard to say

amazing, we added computers to a failsafe system from the 1860s and made it worse. who could have predicted this

If you'd like to help fund art on benches from local artists/writers you can pitch in here! www.gofundme.com/f/support-lo...

Transbay Coalition Co-Founder @carterlavin.bsky.social spoke to ABC7! yesterday about the importance of cities fully legalizing community-led bus stop bench installations in order to encourage & promote this pro-transit act of community care. abc7news.com/post/wooden-...

To city officials who have to monitor, clean and possibly remove the guerrilla benches, they are a source of headaches. And potential legal fallout.

they say if you want to have electeds who care more about transit, start building a bench abc7news.com/post/wooden-...

This is a nuanced perspective on the relationship between NWS cuts and the disaster in Texas: NWS got the forecasts right, but lacked staff who could preplan with and warn local officials of the dangers. P www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Not enough people are talking about the embarrassing state of the @bart.gov faregates. BART claims that their "Next Generation Fare Gates" are able to allow up to 40 passengers per minute. Anecdotal observations show that they're managing less than 1/3 of that, closer to 12 px/minute.

Petaluma Build-a-Bench Workshop (Free) Build benches for bus stops and trailheads, July 26 & 27 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

a lot of bus stops in SF are literally just a pole you have to stand next to, but today some guerilla-installed benches suddenly appeared diy cozy architecture >>>>>

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

Will self-driving Tesla endanger Texas streets? Austin activists staged a demo on Thursday highlighting flaws in the company's "full self-driving" feature: bit.ly/45ZX3bc

Everyone saw Grand Park's hot pink benches being stacked into a barricade on Sunday. What an exceptional statement from RIOS, the benches' designers instagram.com/rios.imagines "These pieces were designed to move, adapt, welcome, connect — and now protect"

benches have gone up at bus stops around the Mission and parts south. thanks sfbabc.org !! everybody deserves comfort and dignity while waiting for the bus

The city of LA has removed three of our crosswalks in the past two weeks amid a budget crisis. We're now getting requests to put in crosswalks that were planned and committed to by LADOT, then rescinded for lack of funds ... where is the money for removals coming from?

The Governor’s proposed sweep of $1.5B from cap & trade funds would cut emergency transit funding for operations & capital. For example: Muni: $200M cut BART: $290M cut LA Metro: $250M cut These cuts create a risk of service cuts.🧵

A California Highway Patrol chase ended in Marvin Boomer’s death on an East Oakland pastor’s doorstep.

CHP led a high-speed chase through Oakland and the suspect crashed into at least four people in two separate spots. The crash killed Marvin Boomer; CHP left his body and his girlfriend bleeding--they prevented bystanders from helping but a neighbor ignored them and drove her to the hospital.

Waymo going the wrong way down Piedmont 🙃

Richmond City Council PASSES the policy & directs stuff to establish a permitting process for community-led bus stop bench installations!!! Huge thank you to Councilmember Jamelia Brown & Vice Mayor Cesar Zepeda for bringing this to council & championing the policy. Excited to work with city staff!

The news of yet another death on our streets lands heavily on my heart today. The dominant environment permits and encourages speed, impatience and inattention by motorists who are increasingly driving heavier, deadlier vehicles. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/p...

We need city leadership that will fight for working-class public services and jobs, not for corporate profits. Sources: SF Standard, sfethics.org lobbyist disclosures, SFMTA Board Minutes

Finally met the folks today who have been stepping up and putting desperately needed benches at bus stops where the cities will not. Consider tossing them some support if you can. sfbabc.org