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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 18h

My kingdom for Simple Boxes with Ornament

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some advice from SF: 1) Don't let perfect be enemy of good 2) Start with quick-build 3) Focus on all aspects of delay and reliability, esp congestion, signal and dwell delay, plus headway management 4) Make continuous progress Links: www.sfmta.com/projects/mun... www.sfmta.com/reports/fast...

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Muni Forward

Muni Forward improvements make transit service more reliable and safer.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 03/10/2026

Bay Area, ballots arrive any day now! Vote Yes on RTM to save transit www.regionaltransitmeasure.com Volunteer to help pass the Regional Transit Measure at luma.com/connectbayarea

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RTM Home

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Election mail is so boring...but not this! Great concept and execution. Good messaging, too!

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Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.com · 02/10/2026

What if I need to pass a dangerous driver on my ebike to get out of danger? Or get to the hospital? If these sound ridiculous, it’s because people have normalized those excuses for cars. Speed limits for both.

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

The high-speed rail authority can't force PG&E to move it's stuff out of the way of the people's rail project.... But the governor and state lawmakers do have that power. They can pass laws and regulations that make PG&E play nice. The lack of movement is on the politicians, not the engineers

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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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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fulfilled my dream of tandem riding a stand-up e-scooter - the most romantic mode of transportation

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is an excellent post. These new systems in Asia are impressive. And, importantly, it's applying a lot of things that we figured out here in the 1960s and tried to build ourselves. This isn't foreign.

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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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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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Jeremy Cole @jeremycole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@tsch.uy's "Bikes on Amtrak" map is by far the best way to look at Amtrak routes, whether you care about bikes or not. It's so good. Absolutely filled a need for me while planning bike-based transit trekking and a huge help to visualize the mainline routes and connections. 😍 bikesonamtrak.com

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Bikes on Amtrak

Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Y'all should get on BART stat so you can see this sunset

Photo of a sunset taken from the BART viaduct between MacArthur and Ashby stations. It's got clouds with big rolls going right-to-left and long straight streaks going up and down. The clouds are yellow, orange, and grey on a light blue background.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're in the Bay Area, mark your calendars: December 9, I'll be holding an event at Clio's bar/bookstore to celebrate the publication of my book, with special guests Natalie Foster and Asm. Buffy Wicks. $33 gets you both a ticket and the book itself! www.eventbrite.com/e/build-or-d...

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Build or Die

Rebuilding Our Cities — And Our Democracy

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How about connecting it up as the terminal of a new-build, express-stop-spacing automated metro on the Midtown corridor, as @fernkhahn.com has proposed? fernkhahn.medium.com/r%C3%A9seau-...

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Réseau express Midtown

Line 10* is a proposal for a 22-station, 49-km light metro line serving Toronto’s Midtown corridor. Modelled after Montréal’s Réseau…

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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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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The European examples that Professor Chitti details include further shaping of car movement, such as preventing cars from crossing or turning left onto the bus route. These cities' networks evolved over time from starts like NYC is making on Tremont, rather than as one megaproject per street.

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The Transit Priority Atlas

The Transit Priority Atlas maps, illustrates, and makes broadly accessible to researchers, professionals, and decision-makers the strategies and tools cities worldwide have implemented to ensure faste...

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This circulation-focused design provides stronger bus priority than signal timing tweaks, without requiring a $100M street reconstruction or extra-wide right of way.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Tremont Ave design allows cars to turn left or right to enter the one-mile busway extent, but they must turn right to exit at the first opportunity. This provides full car access to the street, while shifting through traffic away to speed up buses.

Same image from above.

"Busway Turn Map" of Tremont Ave in the Bronx. The busway extent is a one-mile stretch of Tremont, across ~11 one-way cross streets. Cars are permitted to enter Tremont by turning right or left from the one-way cross streets approaching it, or to cross Tremont on the same streets. However, they must turn right to exit Tremont at the first opportunity along it.

Source:
https://newyorkyimby.com/2026/08/construction-begins-on-tremont-avenue-busway-in-tremont-the-bronx.html

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Circulation planning is what we need to do to make pedestrian crossings shorter and safer, add room for bikes, and speed up buses while accommodating car access. It works where you don't have an 60ft-wide street to put all of these things.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This looks like an early example of the international best practice, circulation planning-based bus priority measures that @chittimarco.bsky.social details in the Transit Priority Atlas. tpa.transitcosts.com

"Busway Turn Map" of Tremont Ave in the Bronx. The busway extent is a one-mile stretch of Tremont, across ~11 one-way cross streets. Cars are permitted to enter Tremont by turning right or left from the one-way cross streets approaching it, or to cross Tremont on the same streets. However, they must turn right to exit Tremont at the first opportunity along it.

Source:
https://newyorkyimby.com/2026/08/construction-begins-on-tremont-avenue-busway-in-tremont-the-bronx.html

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David Shere @davidshere.net · 23/09/2026

Completely false. I bought my house 40 years ago for $80,000, I could never afford this $600,000 condo, ergo it is luxury housing for people I don’t like. What is my house worth today? I don’t see how that is relevant and frankly it’s a pretty rude question for you to even ask.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We should reform our current planning paradigm to do a better job of surfacing projects like this that improve service with targeted investment, and our project delivery systems to require fewer grant applications and consultant bid cycles, so that improvements can be made in a timely manner.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Other solutions could be new rolling stock with faster acceleration, or skip-stop service at a couple of strategic stations. But those have obvious cost and service quality drawbacks, respectively.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

North Bay Transit Riders (especially @dereksagehorn.bsky.social) have been pushing SMART to prioritize a siding extension project that would enable 30-minute service, unlocking good transfers to buses up and down the line. SMART is studying it with Caltrans, but there's no commitment to build.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can see here (in my insane chicken scratch) that this mismatch between SMART's 32-minute and GGT's 30-minute headways causes the transfer time at San Rafael to grow by two minutes every cycle. They do their best to mitigate it, but some of the transfer windows are very bad.

Photo of a sticky note with messy pen writing laying out a table of the waiting time for transfers between SMART and the Golden Gate Transit 101, as of April this year.

In the southbound direction, SMART trains 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 have transfer wait times of 7, 8, 6, 19, and 17 minutes. Trains 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19 have wait times of 15, 13, 11, 7, and 33 minutes (that last one has a window of 3 minutes, but that's not enough time for everyone to make it). Trains 21, 23, 25, 27, and 29 have wait times of 29, 25, 6, 19, and 17 minutes.

Northbound, there is no 101 bus transfer for Train 2. Trains 4, 6, 8, and 10 have wait times of 14, 16, 18, and 5 minutes. Trains 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20 have wait times of 7, 9, 11, 5, and 9 minutes. Trains 22, 24, 26, 28, and 39 have wait times of 13, 17, 16, 18, and 20 minutes.

Continuation of the previous table, on a second sticky note.

Southbound, trains 31, 33, 35, 37, and 39 have wait times of 15, 13, 11, 9, and 7 minutes. Trains 41, 43, 45, and 47 have wait times of 33 (3), 29, and 25 minutes.

Northbound, trains 32, 34, 36, 38, and 40 have wait times of 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 minutes. Trains 42, 44, 46, and 48 have wait times of 32 (0), 9, 13, and 15 minutes.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yep. MASCOTS has been a great service improvement, but it would ideally have generated a list of capital projects to go even further. SMART is currently limited to a 32-minute headway by single-track segments (after the originally-planned 30-minute schedule did not pan out).

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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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Nilo @nilo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Code compliance is pretty cool in that one guy can massively increase the costs of the project via entirely subjective interpretations and there is often little pushback, no media coverage, and no real acknowledgement that X is a choice.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Noticing a correlation where social democratic big city mayoral candidates who embrace land use reform, single stair reform and transit priority for buses tend to be popular…

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The bougiefication of Rockridge, Oakland, fueled by single family zoning. These are the same three homes in 2019 and today. With different zoning, capital would go toward converting these 100-year old homes into multi-family housing, a 2-block walk from BART. Instead, people are just upgrading.

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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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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
+27
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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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

East Bay for Everyone has published our endorsements of local candidates in Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville, Alameda, San Leandro, BART, AC Transit and of course YES on the Regional Transit Measure! eastbayforeveryone.org/2026/09/21/e...

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EB4E 2026 General Election Endorsements | East Bay for Everyone

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A satellite view makes the advantage of the Vine Street site clear. This isn't a 5- vs 7-minute walk as the Mayor claims; it's a 10-minute walk vs basically no walk.

Satellite view of Healdsburg, with two SMART station location alternatives marked in red. The one on the right, at the historic depot on Hudson, is flanked by a self-storage facility, train right of way, and single-family homes, without much parking. It is a ten minute walk to Healdsburg Plaza in the center of downtown. The one on the left, at the Vine Street parking lot, is two blocks from Healdsburg Plaza, within the more urban part of the city.

Excerpt from the article.

Healdsburg Mayor Chris Herrod said that although preferences for the depot site had a tinge of nostalgia, it was also rooted in the belief that downtown Healdsburg is broader than the area immediately around the plaza. Pedestrians leaving a Hudson Street station could pass ample tasting rooms, restaurants, antique shops, music venues while walking toward the city’s core, he said.

“To have them come up now and ask to rethink at this fairly late time in the game is flabbergasting,” Herrod said. “I’m going to be open minded, but honestly I doubt there’s anything there that’s going to shift us.”

Herrod said he once timed the walk to the plaza from both potential station sites and the difference was minimal: five minutes from the Vine Street site and seven minutes from the Hudson Street location.

The city council last reaffirmed Hudson Street as its preferred site in 2024. A city report produced that year estimated that a downtown station could require reducing parking spaces in a nearby lot from about 350 to 300 and could potentially require removing trees and realigning a portion of a trail.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

To the candidates who said they support bus lanes but not a bikeway on San Pablo, note that right side bus lanes w/o dedicated bike infrastructure are legally bikeable, so people WILL bike there if no other facility is provided. If we don't want bikes in our bus lanes we have to ALSO build bikeways.

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here's a question on San Pablo Ave protected bikeways at the Berkeley District 1 council candidate forum yesterday. Unfortunately all the candidates indicated they support "parallel" bikeways on side streets but not protected facilities on SPA. Lots of work to do, it seems. youtu.be/MQViCqABWTg?...

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Berkeley District 1 & 8 Candidate Forum - September 17, 2026

YouTube video by Berkeley Neighbors for Housing & Climate Action

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Scary Tea Lady @sassytealady.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a very important op-ed. I cannot ride a standard bike because of physical limitations. I have a real concern over the fearmongering around ebikes, that my only mode of personally powered transportation can be restricted, or taken away from me entirely. We have to stop this NOW.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And, it is why that faction sought to censure Director Syed for emailing AC Transit staff questions, an attempt which only failed after the swing vote, Director McCalley, declined to go along.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

That's why Young's answer to 'how would you improve things' is, essentially, 'not my job.' drive.google.com/file/d/1EbcW...

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The minority faction, Directors Syed and Walsh, seek to oversee and improve the agency's performance and rider experience. The majority faction, which Joel Young is a member of, seeks to limit board members' and the public's opportunity to investigate these matters.

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Infrastructure Weak @infrastructureweak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great thread presenting the political state of the AC Transit board

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The day after the below, some smaller but telling points about the official reaction to the coverup of this scandal finally collapsing. Primarily: what the hell is the below letter? www.actransit.org/press-releas...

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MEMBERS OF AC TRANSIT'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS ADDRESS FINDINGS OF INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION

My fellow Board Directors and I are keenly aware of published reports alleging inappropriate conduct between two of our elected colleagues. We take our responsibility for transparency seriou

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