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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 1h

No membership-based YIMBY group in California is supporting Prop 45. The campaign also has zero transit org supporters. Much to consider

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 2h

It took me nearly a year to make it happen, working with staff so it didn’t feel totally overwhelming to them. If folks are interested in pursuing in other cities, I’m happy to walk them through how we’re doing it, at no hard costs to the city and minimizing staff time.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Huzzah! Transit improvements that get people out of cars and onto buses anywhere in the world is a climate win for everyone.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can do politics and this book will train you on everything from getting started to working in coalitions to deploying inside/outside strategy. As Bill McKibben said "Politics isn't magic; it's work, and this will show you how to get it done most effectively." press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The article and the framing is such a clear sign that fully-throated pro high-speed rail outside/grassroots advocacy is desperately needed in California. @movecalifornia.bsky.social & @transbaycoalitiocalmatters.org are stepping up to fill that void calmatters.org/politics/202... (1/2)

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California’s high-speed rail authority made a legislative wishlist. It mostly stalled out

California’s bullet train agency said timely construction of the rail line depended on these reforms. They mostly failed.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On Capitol Corridor to Sacramento right now, whizzing past I-580. Absolutely love not having to battle it out in traffic.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Huh, looks like Amazon ranks my book as #186,722 on the list of most sold books.....yay? Wild to try to imagine how many unique books there are in the world and how many come out each year! www.amazon.com/You-Want-You...

Screenshot of Amazon's page for If You Want To Win You’ve Got To Fight which says the book is #66 on the best seller list for urban & land use planning books

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Your vote to save BART, Caltrain, bus, and paratransit service across the Bay is key AND tonight if you do 1 volunteer phone bank shift -- even with no previous experience -- you can help get 30 other people to vote yes on Measure RTM. Sign up here luma.com/connectbayar... and please RT

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

View and follow events from Connect Bay Area on Luma. Organizing for the Regional Transit Measure on the November 2026 ballot. Vote Yes on RTM November 3rd! Learn more, request window signs and lite...

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you are excited about community organizing in the Tri-Valley & are somewhat technically-minded wrt bike infrastructure, please consider applying for this half-time role & work w me at @bikeeastbay.bsky.social: bikeeastbay.org/advo_app/

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Advocacy Coordinator Application - Bike East Bay

We’re hiring! Advocacy Coordinator Position Overview Bike East Bay seeks a part-time Advocacy Coordinator to build grassroots advocacy capacity for safer and more equitable streets and provide support...

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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve been phonebanking for this and I’d highly recommend it! Or just tell your friends - YES on RTM!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026

By the way, re: this entire thread and the pathology it references, everyone should read @carterlavin.bsky.social's book: "If you want to win, you have to fight." It's about transportation advocacy but it's also about [waves hands] all of this.

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Få If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight af Carter Lavin som Paperback bog på engelsk

Få If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight af Carter Lavin som bog på engelsk - 9781642833737 - Bøger rummer alle sider af livet. Læs Lyt Lev blandt millioner af bøger på Saxo.com.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The transit/bike/street safety advocacy world (and the world in general) is filled with such cool, creative, generous people who want the world to be better for everyone and it's one of the biggest honors of my life to get to work with so many of them.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*SportCenter intro music* The results are in. This year the East Bay transit advocacy community and the North East Corridor transit advocacy community swapped @elisejoshi.bsky.social @renzaro.com @thecanavigator.bsky.social for @stevenhigashide.com & Hayley Richardon of @transitcenter.bsky.social.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Having talked with literally thousands of people face-to-face this year about the coming transit cuts if we don't pass the Regional Transit Measure (RTM) I've encountered a surprising subset of folks who don't understand that: It costs transit agencies money to run service.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026

Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heading to Sacramento to give a talk next week and just booked my Amtrak tickets. The second some folks (maybe in Solano County or Davis area) are up for taking lead on a campaign to electrify Capitol Corridor, I'll be eager to lend a helping hand

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Check out what the AC Transit Board candidates for Ward 3 Oakland, Piedmont, and Alameda have to say! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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AC Transit - Ward 3 - Google Drive

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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over 250 Bay Area candidates responded to our questionnaire about transit, safe streets, and bike/pedestrian infrastructure. Check it out before you cast your ballot in the November election!

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Bay Area Transportation Candidate Questionnaire 2026 November General — Seamless Bay Area

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Phone banking from home to save BART, bus, and paratransit service is great. Did 2 hours tonight, talked to a bunch of folks about the measure and I got a good amount of walking in while pacing around. Join the fun and sign up for a shift! luma.com/connectbayar...

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Phone banking for the Regional Transit Measure and there is a specific sort of joy that comes from pacing a bunch and making a zillion calls. Action is an excellent treatment for anxiousness sign up to phonebank here luma.com/connectbayarea

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2 taco themed transit events in the Bay this weekend www.ca.transitmonth.org/bay-area

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Bay Area — California Transit Month

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Very flattered to see a review for my book If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy which says the book is "Better Than 'Rules for Radicals'" (over the top? maybe. check it out and decide for yourself) www.amazon.com/You-Want-You...?

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If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy: Lavin, Carter: 9781642833737: Amazon.com: Books

If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy [Lavin, Carter] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Gu...

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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I would encourage you to take no comfort from polls. If they’re right, great. Better, though, to assume they are wrong and act as you would if the polls said your desired result is way behind. (And they are probably wrong.) Here’s a Halloween poll from a decade ago to motivate you.

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ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @renzaro.com · 24/09/2026

Joel Young is at a rail transit conference in Europe tonight (AC Transit has 0 railroads) and I am in Oakland waiting for a bus that has been 0 minutes away for 10 minutes

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 24/09/2026

AC Transit is in the middle of a reliability crisis with only 93% of service running, a fiscal crisis with a $50M budget shortfall, and an ethics crisis with majority of board covering up independently confirmed harassment of another board member And directors aren't even showing up to meetings 😲

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What’s extra absurd about this is that in my 12 years on the BART Board - heading a rail agency - no BART director ever attended an out of country rail conference. If AC Transit directors really want to attend rail conferences, there are plenty in the US.

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The AC Transit Board has refused to hold Director Young accountable so let’s make some noise and urge them to censure him. Join me to make public comment at the AC Transit Board meeting tomorrow, Wednesday at 5 pm, 1600 Franklin St, Oakland or on Zoom: actransit.legistar.com/MeetingDetai...

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gotta re-build those phone banking muscles! Pretty tired after making 50 calls in about 80 minutes tonight (4 folks said yes to volunteer shifts and a lot of voicemails). Help out by signing up here! luma.com/connectbayarea

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To get to work on time, you'll need to wake up 20 minutes earlier so you can battle through even more traffic in the Caldecott tunnel. Or you can vote YES on Measure RTM to save & improve BART, bus, and paratransit service in Contra Costa & the whole Bay www.spur.org/sites/defaul...

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nowhere in the above timeline: "AC Transit assigns any consequence for gender-based harassment by one of its own other than covering its ass" Opportunity to speak out: bsky.app/profile/rebe...

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I turn 38 today! Excited for many more years of street safety, bike, transit, and high-speed rail advocacy. Today it'd be especially nice if you recommended my book If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy to someone, left a review online, or got a copy

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kinda wild that the Bay Area had (at least) 3 big transit parties today: @bart.gov glowfest @sfmta.bsky.social heritage week And the We Love Los Angeles Party celebrating progress on @cahsra.bsky.social

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good organizing and advocacy is a lot like climate change. Shifts the entire ecosystem and makes certain outcomes way more likely, but can't guarantee. E.g. this summer I helped lead a push that saved ~$350M in Transit funding. And that built off decades of work from other groups.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Excited to see so many folks registered for today's We Love Los Angeles Party & Celebration of progress on California’s high-speed rail! It's in SF at the Salesforce park, come on out actionnetwork.org/events/we-lo... And help get the project built faster! actionnetwork.org/petitions/bu...

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Build the California High-Speed Rail Sooner!

As millions more people call California home in the coming years, high-speed rail will keep us connected with less traffic, air pollution, and expensive freeway widening. Because California has made...

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tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 19/09/2026

Just heard that AB 1599 was signed into law! Once fully implemented, one physical stop on the ground will have one name and one ID in apps (and other datasets)! Data standardization is a *major* part of transit integration. This is wonky but so important! www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2026/6/...

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AB 1599: Seamless Interagency Stop Data - the California Transit Stop Registry — Seamless Bay Area

On June 23, the California Senate Transportation Committee is expected to hear and vote on a good bill to standardize bus stop data, making transit more convenient for riders and enabling smarter plan...

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Awwww, a person just reached out saying the read my book If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy and then went out and won a new stop sign in their community!!! Love to hear it and how readers are fought for improvements in their community

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Transbay Coalition @transbaycoalition.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the Bay? Love SoCal? Want High-Speed Rail built sooner, better, and at lower cost (or just to learn more about the project)? Come on out tomorrow! actionnetwork.org/events/we-lo...

event flyer (human-made) saying We Love LA! A Party Celebration the California-High Speed Rail which is 9/19 from 3-5pm at Salesforce Park in San Francisco

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Transbay Coalition @transbaycoalition.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Greetings from MacArthur BART after the RTM event this morning! Going to a Day of Action event means that not only getting to meet cool people, but you also get some cool swag to show your support!

Three people stand in front of the MacArthur BART fair gates. In the foreground is a person wearing a mask in a yellow shirt. In the midground, there are two people holding up YES on MEASURE RTM signs.

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Transbay Coalition @transbaycoalition.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy Day of Action for the Regional Transit Measure! Super excited to see folks throughout the day (or already, if you were at Oakland!)

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Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As COVID-19 cases continue to increase, it's important to know accurate information about COVID-19 in order to protect yourself and others! Get the facts about common myths, and take steps to protect yourself and others.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bay Area transit advocates gathered signatures to save transit, and now they're delivering the vote. Want to make a difference for our region? No better place to invest your time than informing voters and networking with future leaders luma.com/connectbayar...

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

View and follow events from Connect Bay Area on Luma. Organizing for the Regional Transit Measure on the November 2026 ballot. Vote Yes on RTM November 3rd! ConnectBayArea.com

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Read this whole thread for a reminder of many of the terrible things Joel Young has done while serving on the AC Transit Board. And then donate to or volunteer for @valencia4actransit.bsky.social, a fantastic transit-dependent candidate who's running against Joel. www.valenciaforactransit.com

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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit • Ward 3

Adriana Valencia is a frequent transit rider, community transit advocate and product manager running for AC Transit in Ward 3. Unable to drive because of a vision disability, Adriana relies on public ...

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 16/09/2026

Vote No on Prop 45 It fast tracks highways and data centers, but not high speed rail

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Want to have an more productive time winning changes to make your community an easier place to get around while driving less? @princetonupress.bsky.social has the book for you! (30% off with discount code PUP30) press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 16/09/2026

AC Transit staff even presented to the board last year that bike lane projects in Oakland and in Alameda had no effect on bus speeds or reliability

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bro this guy needs to go, it's enough already. We have ghost buses, 30 minute headways and a dying bus system and this guy is stopping fixes at every opportunity while harassing people. Vote Adriana Valencia as soon as you can.

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Transbay Coalition @transbaycoalition.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TOMORROW (Thursday) Help save transit throughout the Bay Area by comming out to the Yes on RTM (Regional Transit Measure) campaign kick-off events throughout the Bay Area. Find the one nearest to you here: luma.com/connectbayarea

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Connect Bay Area · Events Calendar

View and follow events from Connect Bay Area on Luma. Organizing for the Regional Transit Measure on the November 2026 ballot. Vote Yes on RTM November 3rd! ConnectBayArea.com

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