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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Magnificent! Where was this? I must go right now!!
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Nooo, why couldn’t the 46th and Regal post have been the April Fool 😭
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Watched a pickup roll coal on a Miata with the top down a couple days ago. Heartbreaking and infuriating.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Which alternative do you favor?
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I’d be interested in testing a new road rule. If a car is a convertible with the top down, has no engine noise, hood height no taller than 2ft, and no sound distraction from stereo or earbuds, then they can proceed through a red light at 5mph.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Was stoked to see this in the Maps app as I rode to the airport this afternoon.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Shoot, being off Meta platforms apparently left me unaware Emry is a savage too! Thank you for sharing this delightful dunkfest.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I tend to agree that making the argument traffic will improve with anything short of congestion pricing is unwise. Better to be clear that traffic is an unsolvable problem, and the only viable response is to give people more space-efficient options to get around it (bikes, transit).
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Andrew Bowen (he/him) @acbowen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
New Freeway Exit bonus episode just dropped. Me in conversation with @colinparent.bsky.social about his new report “Powerless Brokers: Why California can’t build transit.” Have a listen! www.kpbs.org/podcasts/fre...
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BONUS: Abundance in transportation
California needs better public transit. But building new bus and rail lines is difficult and expensive here. A new report says to make things easier, the state needs to get out of its own way.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I’m curious if there’s been any study of using the 163 for CHSR. Converting one side to rail tracks and the other to a park trail seems like a solid use of the land. Anything would be better than what’s there now…
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hell yeah! What neighborhood? Is it too late to make my impassioned pitch for Browne’s Addition??
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Re-upping suggestion for overlapping bus lines serving OB (enhanced 923) and Liberty Station/Rosecrans. Overlapping service on Harbor would provide excellent frequencies between downtown and the airport. Add expedited walking routes to terminal and you could replace the 992. @gilcabrera.bsky.social
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
+1 to this question. With 45k cars being removed, surely the next step is to reallocate the wasted space to add world-class bus and bike facilities. Right?? 🤨 @gilcabrera.bsky.social
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I feel you. I’m in a similar boat with the 923. Getting between Ocean Beach and the airport takes 3x as long on the weekend or weekday evenings when the 923 isn’t operating.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Gotcha. Looking forward to watching it progress. Now we need to get something going on the two lots kitty-corner from CdA Park and City Line stop!
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Good! Had me worried for a minute there. Interesting that Innovia bought and is developing the lot. Do you know if they plan for it to be low-income focused or something like that?
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
For the Browne’s project, does “four duplex units” mean four buildings with eight total units? Or four units in the form of two duplex structures?
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Thank you for putting this all together! The cost inflation on road projects is mind blowing 🤯
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Depressing that an Idaho Stop refers to something completely sensible that benefits everyone while a California Stop is a careless thing drivers do that endangers everyone.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Checking against my personal list and I don’t see @pedestrianman.bsky.social on there.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I’m in Spokane 🤗
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I really struggle with the NSC. Not a fan of building new freeways, and that’s a lot of money that could go elsewhere, but I just don’t see how Division could ever be transformed into the beautiful boulevard that it ought to be without the NSC…
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hell yeah! I need to follow the public engagement process more closely. Been making a point of aligning family visits to San Diego with opportunities to engage on the Del Mar bluffs realignment. I’d be super game to visit LA to add my voice to Alt 4.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Do you have a preferred version among those being considered for the Sepulveda Line?
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I’d love to see STA work on detailed road mapping with AV shuttles instead of the microtransit pilots. Neighborhoods like Minnehaha seem like a perfect case where AV shuttles could be more effective than traditional fixed-route buses.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Hadn’t heard about that one, but it looks pretty similar to the WeRide Robobus and Zoox vehicle. I think the Tesla Robovan concept is a bit bigger (20ish passengers), which could be ideal for some fixed-route contexts.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The key is that regulators and transit agencies need to be proactive about pushing toward more useful AV form-factors and applications.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
…and they could open the door to closing off places like Golden Gate Park to personal vehicles. I see them as a potential substitute for streetcars/cablecars/furniculars in many contexts.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Waymo in its current state, yes. But I do think there are exciting opportunities for small bus / shuttle sized AV’s to serve as feeders for high-capacity transit in lower density residential areas, office parks, etc…
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Bus operators in my city are unionized and the ones at the top of the experience scale will make around $80k before overtime* by the end of their contract. Uber would prefer they lose pay, healthcare, and retirement, and drive their own depreciating equipment and beg every passenger for 5 stars.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Seeing a wildly different perspective on P3’s elsewhere in my feed, including in Denver. What’s the Denver project you had in mind? bsky.app/profile/ndha...
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
What do you make of the proposed reconfiguration there? I think I lean toward Cathcart’s view — seems like an awful lot of construction and expense for very little benefit. I’d prefer to block that slip lane off w/ bollards and have cars take the 90 degree turn (might have to trim the island a bit).
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So it’s sticking into the sidewalk by just a couple of inches, or over two feet? I’m confused 🤨
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Do you know what’s planned for the spot with the statue? I heard it was being relocated, but wasn’t aware there were related traffic calming plans. Stoked!
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Yep!
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Not sure about CA, but in WA it is actually legal to turn left on red from a two-way onto a one-way. Completely batshit. Only consolation is that virtually no one actually does it because it’s so obviously unsafe.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Thank you so much for the advice on my bike purchase! 🤗☺️
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It’s hard to imagine squandering a great transit investment any worse than UTC does.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
…Then put dedicated bus lanes down Harbor Island Dr, with overlapping service from 1) OB on an upgraded 923, and 2) a new route to Old Town via Liberty Station.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Harbor Island Dr. seems like a major untapped opportunity for airport transit. If walking routes from the terminals were marginally improved (maybe a couple short moving walkways), I wonder if MTS could skip entering the terminals altogether…
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
The fact that a plan that involves substantially increasing the volume of car traffic over the Cabrillo Bridge isn’t dismissed out of hand shows how deeply unserious park and city leadership are. Climate, transit, and walkability shouldn’t have to be reasserted for every single project.
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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I know this sounds like an exaggeration, but roughly 100% of drivers are on their phone at every stoplight.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
That’s fair. Axing it just to preserve tax cuts for rich people and corps kinda defeats the point.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Funny coincidence: I’m reading Walkable City between peeks at this app right now, and this topic just got referenced. “The mortgage interest deduction, that most American of boondoggles, effectively transfers wealth from working-class renters to the landed gentry.”
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I’ve heard a lot of economists argue for its repeal, along with a lot of urbanists who oppose having so much personal wealth tied up in homes. Do you lean one direction or the other?
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Is this good or bad in your view?
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I’m really worried about further delays to completion of the new freeway. The timeline for Division BRT has been tied to the NSC (can’t take away lanes before the freeway is up), and Al French suggested during the latest STA board meeting that even 2032 was looking optimistic at this point.
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Ryan Jerman @ryjerman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
*2nd busiest route. The Route 4 has the highest ridership.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
It's not complicated.
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