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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We’ll regulate everything except what’s actually killing kids. Cars and guns.

Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Apparently there's a downed power line that has interrupted Surfliner service for going on 3 days now. This is messing up my plans a ton. The endless unreliability is why people don't take the train.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Oh wow, that happened yesterday how does that take out the train for 3 days?

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Yea, it's very weird, makes me think that the trains aren't actually running or something

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

How is every Amtrak train tomorrow sold out between SD and LA?

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is good, but can they please let us pay for less than 1hr via credit card? La Mesa does it so San Diego could too

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Patrick Siegman @siegman.biz · 24/01/2025

If you’re thinking, “Where will my cash-strapped city get money without housing impact fees?”, may I suggest charging for curb parking?

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

So far behind that they’re back on time

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Here are some of the projects that could allow high speed Amtrak trains in San Diego (the article is missing electrification, which would help too). Many of these projects are already mostly planned, they just need funding. www.ridesd.org/posts/lossan...

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San Diego High Speed Rail? — RideSD

High speed rail through the Central Valley is cool, but even cooler would be not-quite -high speed rail on the tracks connecting California’s two biggest cities—San Diego and Los Angeles. In the (hop...

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Express Lanes for Express Trains San Diego should put tolled express lanes on the 5 freeway to fund speeding up the Amtrak and Coaster to 110MPH and to connect them to the airport with a rail connection.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

All of the options piloted in that program had either: 1) major privacy implications by giving the government GPS tracks of everywhere the car went, Or 2) could not distinguish between miles driven in jurisdiction and out of jurisdiction (a much bigger problem for a county level implementation)

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

None of those were designed to be reliable or tamper resistant enough to implement a major tax. Also SANDAG has no way of receiving the VMT from those systems. And even if they did, SANDAG would also need to figure out how to retrofit every car that didn’t already have tracking.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

SANDAG can’t even take credit card payments for bike lockers, 0% confidence they could develop novel tracking devices and deploy them at scale across millions of cars. (I doubt insurance companies would have enough incentive in making this work well for a single county either.)

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I think there’s many practical engineering problems building something like that (making it reliable, tamper resistant, what if it break, etc). And the government sucks at tech. I also think there’s practical political problems convincing people the devices only record distance and not location.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Government GPS trackers on every car seems so obviously outside the Overton window

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Yes, I personally do have some concern. But less concern for that than for a device I must maintain in my car that would give local government officials the ability to track my car anywhere in the world.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I would not like a device in my car tracking me, and that option would have good-faith privacy arguments against it. I think express lanes and freeway tolls make way more sense and most people already understand them.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Most of my mileage is driven outside of SANDAG jurisdiction, so why should I have to give SANDAG money for that mileage? I’m in support of a road usage charge, but it never made any sense to me on a county/SANDAG level.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What were the good options for implementation? How could they have tracked only miles we drove in San Diego county?

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Blatant theft, that must be common given how complicated it was to figure out through the online Verizon billing portals

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Got a new phone from a Verizon store and they charged me for a $40 charger that they didn’t give me, a $40 setup fee that wasn’t disclosed (and I setup myself), added a $6/month “cloud” plan to my account, and bumped me up to a $8/m higher plan while explicitly telling me it’d stay the same price 🤦‍♂️

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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 11/01/2025

I rest my case:

"And some drivers admitted they have been forced to change their tune.

On Tuesday, a social media user named Ali Lyles posted a video on TikTok in which he compared being charged a toll as he crossed a bridge to 'being robbed without a gun.'

Just a short time later, he posted another video, acknowledging that he had saved half an hour from his commute. 'There wasn’t no traffic, bruh,' he said. 'I might actually like congestion pricing!'"

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Anyone know what time the new trains will be scheduled for?

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Some good news, Amtrak will be able to add 3 more round trip trains a day between San Diego and LA after a $27M federal grant! Now we need some more funding to add more double track.

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 19/12/2024

American urban planning institutions regulate the wrong things, in the wrong ways, for the benefit of the wrong people. Urban planning should focus on accommodating population and economic growth in an orderly fashion and creating a pleasant public realm for everyone to enjoy.

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Andy Fenelon @andyfenelon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

North American bicycling conundrum Large cities in which a normal person could easily bike year round: San Diego Los Angeles San Jose San Francisco Oakland Honolulu Large cities with the best bike infrastructure: Montreal Minneapolis Portland Seattle Washington, DC

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SDMTS @sandiegomts.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🎉✨ Ring in the New Year with FREE rides from MTS! ✨🎉 This New Year’s Eve (Tues. 12/31), MTS Bus and Trolley routes are offering free rides starting at 6 p.m. Plus, enjoy extra Trolley service past midnight 🚍🚋 Skip parking fees, dodge rideshare surge prices, and take transit to the party!

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Do vendors not pay a fee to be there? And isn’t it paid parking. I had kinda assumed the city made money from it

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

San Diego is #4 in the nation in transit ridership increase this year!

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Goleta is getting a cool new train depot that looks like a modern take of the historic depot

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The Surfliner would be like this every day if it was reliable and faster. People don’t want to sit in LA/OC traffic! It wouldn’t even cost that much to upgrade the line to nearly high speed rail

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

They added extra cars too, the last car doesn’t even fit at some stations 😂

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

You taking the Amtrak? I’m about to hop on in old town

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Ari Pounaki @aripounaki.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My 2 ¢: have a City of San Diego TRANSIT tax measure. MAYBE coordinate with South Bay. Regionalism only works when your region works together. Anyone following SANDAG can see board Repubs vigorously fighting for their way or the highway (which in this case is actually a series of highways).

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

25 miles of subway tunnel through mostly lowish density suburbs, longer than any NYC tunnel. And doesn’t even connect to downtown

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Two takeaways: 1) It's crazy how poorly these agencies coordinate, something needs to be done to force them to work together 2) Double track or more sidings in San Clemente are badly needed

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

There's a 9 mile stretch of single track here with no sidings for trains to pass. So the Amtrak train has to wait for the Metrolink to clear this section, putting it behind schedule, which causes a southbound Amtrak to have to wait for the northbound Amtrak. Cascading delays.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The conductor on my Amtrak train last night was complaining about this over the PA system, and I thought there was no way they actually scheduled it that way. But sure enough... Northbound Amtrak 587 is scheduled in San Clemente when southbound Metrolink 624 is also scheduled to be there.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

SoCal's rail corridor (LOSSAN) is so poorly managed that recently Metrolink added a train that is scheduled to be in the same stretch of single track in San Clemente as an Amtrak train going in the opposite direction. This causes 30min-1hr cascading delays for multiple Amtrak trains.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

There’s so much pedestrian traffic at this intersection too, right near the beach. I see people cross here all the time, because the alternative is so time consuming

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A special interest group fought hard to keep 5 street parking spots, even though there’s a massive parking lot across the street

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Finally, the city and MTS should heavily promote taking transit, so less people try to drive. People are already used to taking the trolley to Petco or Snapdragon, this would be a similar experience. And there's opportunity for cute marketing as well

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

This year, the city should temporarily extend the bus lanes all the way to the trolley. Most of Park Blvd has bus lanes already, but it has a couple gaps and doesn't extend to downtown. Cones could be used to temporarily extend it for this event, allowing the shuttles to run smoothly.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Last year, MTS did run shuttles, but they (predictably) got snarled in traffic leaving people stranded out in the cold. Regular busses also had to be routed away from the park, so people couldn't take normal bus to the event.

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Connor Proctor @connorproctor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

December Nights is almost here! It's always a miserable mess of traffic, but there's a simple solution to let people skip the frustration: 1) Run shuttles from the trolley to Balboa Park 2) Temporarily extend the Park Blvd bus lanes 3) Heavily promote this great alternative

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