Good luck to all of the water conveyance, retention, and storage mechanisms out there today 🙏

Massive congratulations are owed to the folks at @tvrr.bsky.social for their work on International Boulevard. It is *unquestionable* that their advocacy has saved multiple lives, something not many people can say. Quick 🧵on their blog post. www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/intern...

I very much enjoyed attending the showcase for the National Single Stair Design Competition, put on by East Bay for Everyone and Housing Action Coalition last week.

Every agency should offer financing like this for improvements that enhance public welfare - why doesn't your city offer low cost loans for sidewalk improvements? www.centralsan.org/sites/main/f...

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East Bay for Everyone, as co-host with Livable Communities Initiative, is proud to announce the winners of the National Single Stair Design Competition: www.singlestair.com

Tomorrow, Wednesay December 10, at 6pm @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social will be showing off single stair design competition entrants from the Bay Area along with HAC in Downtown Oakland. See all the details here: actionnetwork.org/events/12102... See you there!

We have hundreds of California four-lane roads to upgrade to meet our mode shift goals. 1) Why does a local agency like ACTC have to lead design for these projects, when that'll mean it's always their first time? 2) Why are we making them design concrete mixes and traffic circles from scratch?

Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu. Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.

Oakland, unlike peer cities in the region, does not appear to have a written procurement conflict of interest policy. That makes it much harder for the City Admin and City Attorney to police influence peddling and corruption for public works when firms inappropriately lobby staff and Councilmembers.

December 10 at 6pm @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social will be showing off single stair design competition entrants from the Bay Area along with HAC in Downtown Oakland. actionnetwork.org/events/12102...

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.

Good letter about @ccta.net proposal for a Mobility Hub at Walnut Creek BART. walkbikewc.com/user/pages/0...

“The new timetable assumes each bus will spend nearly 45% of its runtime idling at BART (or about 6.2 hours of a 14 hour shift). It is hard to escape the conclusion that the timetable is being designed around the limitations of the aging [BEB] capacity.” www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...

Fun facts about the County's #4 buses: - the battery is the same size as a 2025 Tesla Model X - the drivers do not let the charge level fall below 70% www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...

After 42 years, Berkeley is kicking street festivals off of Telegraph Ave. because the fire department has decided on a new, stricter interpretation of the fire code that does not allow 26-ft. fire lanes required next to buildings of 30+ ft. to be blocked even by a street festival

6pm! The meeting starts at 6pm, not 7pm! bsky.app/profile/east...

@walnutcreekgov.bsky.social is hosting a meeting this Weds to get your input on an Iron Horse Trail xing proposal at Broadway/Newell, & a protected bikeway proposal on Newell Ave. Attend in person 6PM at City Hall and/or complete the survey at the link below: www.walnutcreekca.gov/government/d...

In-person meeting on Wednesday Nov 12 at 7pm! The meeting is at 1111 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Oakland.

"rising costs since 1990 are responsible for 11% fewer children, 51% of the total fertility rate decline between the 2000s and 2010s, and 7 percentage points fewer young families in the 2010s" drive.google.com/file/d/1BK6j...

It still blows my mind that in the year 2025 wood smoke is equal to or greater than cars in terms of dangerous pollution, this is true not just in France but also California, according to this BAAQMD white paper.

Gadfly 5 tool - legistar skills - records act knowledge - pithy email writing - politics knower - quick call comfort

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These are incredibly important roles, and an excellent way to give back to your community. bsky.app/profile/mayo...

If outside of Oakland, still report it via the resource list for each East Bay jurisdiction provided at bikeeastbay.org/hazards And use the guidelines here for best results: bikeeastbay.org/wp-content/u...

If it's in Oakland, make sure to report it in SeeClickFix & use the word "bike" or "bicycle" in the description. This will flag it in our @bikeeastbay.bsky.social watch area to be added to the "top ten" priority list sent to OakDOT monthly. I'll review & try to make birthday wishes come true!

Everyone should get to ask for one pothole to get a priority fix on their birthday

The draft 2026 TCAC Opportunity Maps are now out. belonging.berkeley.edu/2026-ctcachc...

The Fairyland jolly trolly and County Connection‘s 4 and 5 routes have one thing in common: outdated rolling stock that hampers their ability to run frequent service

SRVUSD preparing to purchase an office building for its HQ that it can also use to generate rent from other tenants, while also selling its old headquarters... why is office rent uncontroversial, but ground leases for housing are so difficult. www.danvillesanramon.com/san-ramon-va...

[email protected] is the email address where CALFIRE is collecting comments for the single-exit work group. If you live in California and feel any type of way about the issue, send an email! Whatever level of sophistication you can muster would be appreciated. Fine to send a quick/simple one.

You can file a public records request for the cities where officers have their primary residence; the results are revealing, both for stuff like this and how unaffordable this area is even for well compensated city employees

My statement on today’s news of the federal administration’s mobilization of National Guard and federal agents to the Bay Area.

To all my peeps in the Bay, help me get some traction with this petition: c.org/jHwSck4pQQ

🙏 This lot is a synecdoche for development in downtown Oakland pre and post COVID In 2019 the property owner wanted to preserve the warehouse and build a 6 story office/retail. In 2023 they wanted to demolish the warehouse to build 28k sqf of surface parking.

Not really "tough" at all - Pleasanton is a large city that can fix its enrollment problems with additional infill housing, if they made it legal for property owners to build more homes on land they own. www.danvillesanramon.com/blogs/tim-ta...

In 2024 Baker Tilly released a report with suggestions for how Oakland should reform its procurement process to deliver better value for Oaklanders, attract more bidders and allocate bids more fairly to applying businesses - eastbayforeveryone.org/wp-content/u...

This weekend I got around to reading Healy's history of the BART system. Now that SB63 passed and the regional funding measure is before us, it's motivating to read about the past critical moments when Bay Area transit *almost didn't happen*

Upzoning plus the large lots of uptown Oakland worked amazingly. Highlights both the promise of zoning reform from efforts like SB79, and also the need to make apartment construction on smaller lots easier (single stair reform) if we want to replicate this success.

please join me in keeping these two victims of traffic violence in our thoughts. it is so heartbreaking to repeatedly see our residents and visitors, especially the most vulnerable, be subject to such violence on our streets.

join us for an emergency transit-oriented victory celebration at Temescal Brewing in Oakland at 3pm on Saturday the 11th. (Temescal is one of the neighborhoods that really needed this upzoning!)

Today, like every other day, was a good day to upzone Rockridge. Thank you @governor.ca.gov and @scottwiener.bsky.social for finally making it happen. #SB79

Hey Berkeley - you got a couple days left to tell @berkeleyca.gov that you support an ambitious corridor upzoning.

In Alamo at application hearing for the first multifamily housing application in this CDP in 40 years.

@jwbee.bsky.social you can’t fool us Jeff. we know who you are.

Unfassbar... in related news: In der Bay Area kam grad raus, dass dort die Wasserstoffflotte je nach Modell nur zu 43% oder 64% der Zeit einsatzbereit war. Wäre spannend mal Zahlen der SASA zu kriegen.

California is one of the only states to widely deploy sound barriers around highways and we’ve also largely stopped doing that www.nber.org/papers/w34298

We need to get real about where much needed transit operation funds is going to come from. From @adinalevin.bsky.social:

Our comment to @cityofoakland.bsky.social Planning Commission on the General Plan update eastbayforeveryone.org/wp-content/u...