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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It is frankly climate denialism to say we're just going to rebuild these tracks over and over again at great expense and not move them off the beach (which is strikingly absent from this article).

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The tunnel needs to get built and the line needs to be electrified to make the tunnel practical.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's wild to me that, while Del Mar alts are fairly far along in study, the best we have for san clemente track relocation is an OC supe saying earlier this month that OCTA will 'soon' embark on a study to relocate the tracks... IN 30 YEARS. They intend to keep the tracks here for 3 MORE DECADES.

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yes this should be a single unified procurement. Why are these already already almost EOL. I'd expect to see 6-7 years not 3-4 even if this is basically a repackaged phone.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 28/09/2026

SF, close out transit month with a discussion about the future of rail in San Francisco. Learn about Bayview Caltrain, The Portal, Link21, Geary Subway, and more at 5:30 this Wednesday, 9/30 at the SF Main Library luma.com/tbrr62n7

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The Future of San Francisco Rail Projects · Luma

Advocates will present on the future service vision for San Francisco rail, including the full map of projects (DTX and Link21, Central Subway Extension, Geary…

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The only sane way to do this via land would be upgrading several lines and buying a dedicated pool of electric locomotives, building a conveyor belt on rails. Been done in other parts of the world and arguably in the US as well but it takes cooperation across industries.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 26/09/2026

We had a packed house last night for Transit Costs Reform Happy Hour LA! We're building a movement for abundant transit we can afford. Thanks to @nickandert.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

Dozens of people listening to Nick Andert speak

Packed room of people listening to Nick Andert speak

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

199th of 268 days (74.3%) of the year with WindWaterSolar meeting>100% of demand for part of the day Compares with 186 days in '25 thru 268 days 119 in '24 51 in '23 56.1% of all electricity in CA produced with WWS in '26 Solar up 52%, wind up 23%, batteries up 309%, gas down 47% in '26 v '23

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工an Monroe 🚰 @eean.dev · 26/09/2026

dear Lord I've seen what you've done for others and I want that for me

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Brianinja @brianinja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People want to talk about trains but are missing out on the transformative power of a well-organized bus network. Colorado's Bustang has knocked intercity bus service out of the park and added 18 new routes since launching Bustang in 2015. Illinois should directly copy Colorado's success.

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Bustang - Wikipedia

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ve spent 3/5 days doing modbus configuration and there’s still more to do. I want to be done already. Not helped by the fact that we have almost no documentation on how 1 family of meters was configured so it’s blind checking.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The backers of Prop 45 are counting on the public not being able to tell infill homes near transit from building new roads into wildland / fire areas for sprawl's sake. EB4E recommends a NO on 45 this fall. eastbayforeveryone.org/2026/03/05/s...

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Vote No on Prop 45: Streamlining Sprawl/Freeways is NOT Pro-Housing | East Bay for Everyone

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We should retire the standard queen & double/full size beds and only do California queens & double/full XL. The extra 4in of length is incredible nice to have and doesn’t significantly change what rooms they can fit in.

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That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Waymo makes transit service worse in San Francisco. Their vehicles block bus zones, double park where the bus cannot get by, get stuck and generally suck. They are also getting noticeably worse as time goes on and the company pushes the boundaries of what it can get away with.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 23/09/2026

Metrolink released a study finding hydrogen trains would reduce capacity and travel times at a large cost - but are still considering a pilot anyway. Take action and tell Metrolink to study electrification, not pilot hydrogen THIS Friday! #Electrify Metrolink actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Metrolink say no to hydrogen pilots and commit to electrification

Metrolink is hearing the results of a study on the feasibility of running hydrogen multiple unit (ZEMU) trains on the San Bernardino and Antelope Valley Line trains. The results of the study are now i...

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Brendan Dawe @dawe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kind of amazing how underappreciated “make the buses go faster” would save service hours, free up bus availability, and actually sell more fares, all of which are positives on a transit agency’s balance sheet

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow, looks like the AC Transit Board doesn’t want to hear from us. Email instead calling for censure of Director Young: www.actransit.org/form/contact...

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Required viewing for all those interested in California transit

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it’s hard to argue that AC transit hasn’t been on a 45 year managed decline after the passage of prop 13 decimated local funding in the early 80s Bus fleet is down over 20% from the early 1980s when 850 buses were on roster down to about 650. service hours in the past decade have slashed

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Streetsblog California @streetsblogca.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Newsom’s Climate Record Is Better Than Most Governors. That’s Not Good Enough. Encouraging numbers from CARB are good, but the state needs a dramatic change in its transportation funding. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/09/22/n...

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Newsom’s Climate Record Is Better Than Most Governors. That’s Not Good Enough. - Streetsblog California

Encouraging numbers from CARB are good, but the state needs a dramatic change in its transportation funding.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is essentially the decision before voters. Except it should be a giant SUV not a trolley, because if the transit measure fails the SF cable car service will also be eliminated.

Trolley problem meme for “Bay Area regional transit measure”, with the options being “pass: higher sales tax” with one person on the tracks or “fail: wreck the entire local economy” with five people on the tracks

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

HCD also smacked down Beverly Hills' attempt to limit density bonus height in their local alternative plan (Palo Alto next!), and Burlingame's attempt to get out of SB 79 by rezoning their high school and train tracks (please be serious, cities) www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/defaul...

Obligations Under Other State Housing Laws
Additionally, the City is advised that because a TODAP is part of a local jurisdiction’s municipal code, other state housing laws apply that operate independently of the TODAP provisions, including the State Density Bonus Law (SDBL) pursuant to Government Code sections 65915-65918, not the modified version of SDBL in section
65912.157, subdivision (d). Therefore, pursuant to the SDBL, the City must remove language referencing and incorporating section 65912.157, subdivision (d) from Section 10-3-5102.8 (A) of its TODAP Ordinance.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SPUR’s new report details how catastrophic it will be for Bay Area transit riders if the public transit funding Measure RTM fails. But drivers will feel it too, w an estimated doubling of Bay Bridge crossing times and more than 3X longer through the Caldecott Tunnel. www.spur.org/sites/defaul...

“The Bay Area's Top Three Highway Bottlenecks After Potential Transit Cuts
The Bay Bridge, Caldecott Tunnel, and I-680 in Walnut Creek/Concord would experience some of the most significant travel delays in both directions if looming cuts to transit service are not prevented.
Bay Bridge
+33
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+43
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
Caldecott
Tunnel
+20
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
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MINUTES
P.M. PEAK
1-680
(Walnut Creek/Concord)
+15
MINUTES
A.M. PEAK
+20
MINUTES
P.M. PEAK”

“EXHIBIT 4
Traffic Delays at Most
Current Highway
Bottlenecks Would
Double With Proposed
Transit Service Cuts
Line and station closures and reduced service frequency would compel transit users to drive, worsening current highway bottlenecks.
Source: SPUR-Jacobs.”

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 22/09/2026

Metrolink has gone 6 months without a budget. With no dedicated funding, member agencies cannot agree on whether to run more or fewer trains. No one has stepped up with a plan to fill the funding gap, like the Bay Area has. This is no way to run a transit system. Governance reform now!

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jfc we can’t even get legislators to make vehicular manslaughter count for more than 2 points against someone’s license.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anthropic donating $250k to the Regional Transit Measure has scandalized a lot of the opposition. It seems straightforward to me. The AI industry is highly concentrated in FiDi, which depends on BART, Muni and Caltrain for job access.

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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Newsom’s car brain is so infuriating. - vetoed safety stop-as-yield (aka Idaho Stop) twice on spurious reasons. - cut active transportation in each budget (restored by legislature). - transferred e-bike rebate money to EV car rebate program.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Karen Bass has a supermajority of the city council in her corner and apparently the ability to get any random bullshit written into state law. Any ‘change’ she wants to make she’s had the ability and opportunity to make. She doesn’t want change, she wants to keep locking in the status quo.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AC Transit board meeting schedule posted, contains an agenda item to purchase 13 hydrogen fuel cell buses. The zombie technology just won't die.

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Coming up on 8 hours of this AI created training for work and I’ve disliked every second of it. So many typos, mispronunciations and creepy avatars

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccaforec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m flying to Anaheim next week, and I’d so much rather take BART to high speed rail to Metrolink. It probably would only take an hour more, would be a much better experience, and I wouldn’t have to worry about my flights getting canceled. We need high speed rail yesterday.

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Ian @woolie.meowmeow.city · 18/09/2026

BART would cost over a quarter of a trillion dollars to build today. We should start acting like we have a quarter trillion dollar investment in this infrastructure. Instead we call BART a hassle and a burden and starve it for funds. This is a level of privilege that cannot even be described.

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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A big difference between the USA and the rest of the world is that for ever dollar of capital spending put into the railroad network $1.32 is paid out to shareholders.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 18/09/2026

In 2024 the US Department of Energy proposed these routes for electrification. No time like the present to get to work making it a reality.

Map of High-potential routes for catenary feasibility studies. Includes line-haul freight, intercity passenger, commuter, and other. Major freight routes include LA-Chicago, WA-Chicago, SLC-Chicago via both Wyoming and Colorado, LA-Houston, Houstin-Chicago via Oklahoma, Chicag-NYC via PA. Commuter routes include Metra, Metrolink, Frontrunner, and NY-area diesel routes

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Meanwhile several California agencies (Metrolink, ACE & others) are still trying to make hydrogen look good

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the six-lane car sewer where the crash took place. The State Senate just killed a bill that would crack down on drunk drivers and the Mayor of LA got a road diet like by calling in a favor with the legislature. California is a pro vehicular homicide state. We're like chud states with guns.

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Lettuce Cat @piero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Slides from today's board meeting about the Flirts

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16/09/2026

Municipal fragmentation creates significant collective action problems in housing as every jurisdiction seeks to maximize property tax revenue while minimize spending on services (read: schools for poor kids).

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are locomotives that perform better, more reliable, cheaper to buy & maintain. It just involves not sending hundreds of billions to shareholders and instead investing in electrification. India in less than a 15 years put 31k route miles under wire

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In addition to taking back the CalTrain name/brand the state should be running a lot more intercity buses under a name like CalBus. The intercity bus network is the easiest and cheapest part of the state rail plan to implement. We can also have buses run future rail routes to kickstart ridership

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great reminder that the ongoing and intensifying American affordability crisis cannot be solved without major land-use changes (ending sprawl, accelerating infill development at scale) that enable people to ditch their cars and access cheaper/more sustainable mobility modes

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Theory of Canadian transit cost escalation since 1990s. Canadian governments adopted opaque oversight/assurance model of FTA (think consultant PMOCs). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Caltrain letting each city run its own grade separations is working out terribly as expected. This should be Caltrain or Caltrans or CAHSR doing this work corridor wide with a standardized design and limited customization www.paloaltoonline.com/transportati...

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As costs rise, Palo Alto scales back rail redesign plans

After more than a decade of designing, debating and dreaming of grade separation at three local rail crossings, Palo Alto’s elected leaders are preparing to narrow their scope and focus their energy o...

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I do this with taking transit to work. Work pays for a pass and so it costs me nothing. Always fun to point out I got an extra 45 mins of sleeping on the bus and don’t worry when we hit traffic.

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mel, binface’s knight 🏳️‍⚧️🔰♨️ @astruckpersonn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“on one hand electrifying our main lines would save us millions of dollars on fuel costs each year. on the other hand it would require us to actually invest in our infrastructure. so it’s impossible to say if it’s good or not” —class i railroads

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Taylor Scheinuk @taylorscheinuk.com · 10/09/2026

This should've been done years ago. We need a statewide Dept of Rail with the power to act NOW

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2nd busiest passenger train corridor in the country btw LA and SD crickets from both Mayor Bass and Mayor Gloria but when a fire took out part of the 10 freeway, for which there are several alternate routes, they moved mountains to get it fixed in a few days

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California Transit Nerd @catransitnerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The state is going to need to twist utilities arms to get the tens of MW delivered to bus depots and the several MW needed at each layover yard in the next few years if we want agencies buying ZE battery buses Hydrogen has always been a grift and are more expensive to operate SacRT is asking as well

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