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Javier Panzar

@jpanzar.bsky.social
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Doing web, social, comms, this, and that @bart.gov. Erstwhile LAT journalist on the Climate + California teams. Oakland grown. Fiat Lux. Getting around by train, bike and bus! 🌲 🐻 ✨ 🚆🚲 Go Bears!

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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I started out as a @dailycal.bsky.social higher education reporter so shooting editing this video with Chancellor Lyons on his way from UCOP back to campus on BART was a real Time Is a Flat Circle moment for me!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sending you good vibes from the Bay Kenny! Your posts from LA METRO meant so much to me as a new Angeleno all those years ago. DM me a good address for you and I’ll send a cool BART cap your way
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Funny what difference a day makes in the Bay. Taken from Capitol Corridor approaching the Berkeley station
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Is this dude ripping a lung dart??
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This one has extremely cool and rare footage of riders as well as two and three-car trains from the very early days of BART bsky.app/profile/bart...
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I unearthed this the other day and started posting it around. People were so into it I decided to find some more archival BART magic to share …
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The California Zephyr got us from The Bay to Truckee exactly on time today. Plus we made a bunch of kiddo friends along the scenic journey and had a delicious meal. Trains are a treasure
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The California Zephyr got us from The Bay to Truckee exactly on time today. Plus we made a bunch of kiddo friends along the scenic journey and had a delicious meal. Trains are a treasure
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What a day that was
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I made a cameo in the latest BART Connects feature!
Screenshot from a BART social video taken from a phone that fell off a suction cup tripod thing showing the recording of the very video you are watching And the  BART employee making the content
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The only thing better than sifting through the BART media archives is getting to share with the rest of you lot
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Shout out to Tommy for taking me fishing for the first time!!! For the real transit heads: The latest BART Connects features a sick Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit appearance
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
For the latest BART Connects we followed Sehinne, the BART Poet! Her poem about BART is honestly the best distillation of what the system means to those of us who grew up riding it. Really brought me back to my teen days in the mid 2000s rising BART!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
BART Connects Episode II! Filming this one was super fun and involved me having to track down a pair of appropriate golf pants in order to be let onto the course! Thankfully some guy let me use his rain pants.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I got to hang out with Oakland legend Fantastic Negrito for a night while he played and shared his amazing BART story! One of the more fun things I’ve ever gotten to make 👇
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Amazing quotes in this story about robot company employees going around the Bay Area secretly and trashing the homes while prototype testing robots to do household chores. By @skbaer.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/s...
“The dishonesty is really what upsets me the most,” he said. “If they had come straight up, ‘Hey, we would like to rent your house for testing of our robot,’ then we could have come to an agreement. But it’s the lying and the misrepresentation that makes me feel violated.”

It appears that he’s not the only Bay Area resident who has been duped.

Three of the guests connected to the April 12-25 booking for Donovan’s home have received negative reviews from at least 12 other Airbnb hosts alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings, failed to clean up, exceeded the limit on the number of guests, or violated other house rules during their stays.“I just kind of assumed they might have had a party,” said the owner, who requested anonymity for privacy.
But then a neighbor told him they had seen people bringing big black boxes into the house, so the owner thought maybe they had filmed a movie.
“The robot thing kind of makes sense now,” the host said.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Behind the scenes of the hard hat BART content
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The feedback has been awesome. The comments are full of sweet stories about people's connection to BART and more across all our social platforms.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I surprised him with the card, the video and a microphone and he was so genuine and sweet. Maybe a little confused at first but once he realized what I was showing him, it all clicked. I was thrilled with it had all finally come together.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I went down there, hung out with this supervisor and waited for Rohman to check in for the day. As he came up the stairs I got a little nervous! I was finally meeting this dude I’d heard so much about.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
With @aliciatrost.bsky.social ‘s help I figured out how to find Rohman and where to surprise him: The next Monday at Berryessa Station, 30 minutes before he went out on his first train of the day.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We met up and I recorded her reading her amazing card along the Ohlone Greenway with a train passing by in the background. I also gifted the little kiddo a BART stuffy to thank them for their time.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The TO was Casey’s pal Rohman:  "I've know Rohman since the start of my career. He's a good dude that you WANT to get on camera. Rohman has hella charisma and LOVES to talk."  I reached out to the mom and told her we found the mystery train operator! Time to start writing that thank you card.
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So I turned to my man Casey in Transportation (who showed me around the BART Test Track for a video last year) and armed him with a couple of screenshots, train numbers and timestamps.  Casey got back to me in 9 minutes!! bsky.app/profile/bart...
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I watched and reshared as they kept coming in. The kiddo went from crawling to sitting and soon enough they started getting the BART Beep from a Train Operator, again and again!  One day we got a DM asking if we could get a Thank You card to this mystery operator. So how do we find them?? Well …
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
So this is probably my favorite social vid I've made since starting at BART in 2024.  Here is how it came to be: When I came back to work from paternity leave last year I saw we had been tagged in a few posts featuring this baby rail fan. I asked the mom if BART could repost them and she said sure
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Congrats to local coffee shop patron Ryan Coogler
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Made it to the George Miller trail so far
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
E assist off
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Nap trapped on the cargo bike How far can we make it before she awakes Starting point: Martinez shoreline
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
So strange we have Giovanni Ribisi to thank for these 70 mm VistaVision images
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A Last of the Mohicans throwback in many ways
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The other electric moment obviously
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
My personal fav moment “Billy goat is in the wind, implement plan snap crackle pop” features this great shot of Avanti’s Charger racing by a freight train
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
One Battle After Another under discussed great train movie
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🚊 🥇
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Congrats to fellow Ain’t Normal Coffee patron Ryan Coogler on 16 Oscar noms for SINNERS
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BART @bart.gov · 15/01/2026
Ever wonder how BART tunneled under the streets of San Francisco? Watch this film from our archives. Find the full version on our YouTube page! Two Calweld oscillating tunnel-boring machines were used to bore twin mile-long tunnels between the Mission Street lines and the Market Street lines.
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BART @bart.gov · 08/01/2026
Cycling down the Transbay Tube?! It happened. Watch the full archival film “A Vision to Reality” on BART’s YouTube page. It’s groovy youtu.be/EPreZNCZr7I
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Going hard
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Lake Merritt at 7 am is a magical place
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Quite the trip around the sun!
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
All hail @bsquiklehausen.com
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Maybe I’ll make reading comically enormous books on BART my new bit for 2026
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
For context
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
For context
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It’s the cooler resting on a log that does it for me
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New dad mode unlocked
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Javier Panzar @jpanzar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A Thanksgiving salute to these two hanging out in the Carquinez Strait this morning
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