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Work hard, be kind, dream big. @buildsd.org founder, @catenarymaps.org board, @calhstatransit.org staff, ever the eternal optimist. UCSD '29.

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Benji @spreffy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
happy 2026. you should ride more public transit. actually, on second thought, you *will* ride more public transit.
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BuildSD @buildsd.org · 24/08/2025
All aboard! The schedule for San Diego Transit Month, happening for the first time this September, is now available! Get event details and learn more about Transit Month at sdtransitmonth.org. More events will be added to the schedule as time goes on! (1/2)
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RideSD @ridesd.org · 24/08/2025
September is San Diego Transit Month. Join us and @buildsd.org for some amazing events. sdtransitmonth.org/events Some highlights: - Sep 5: Transit Trivia Night - Sep 9: Draw your vision for San Diego Transit - Sep 13: Thrift Shopping by bus - Sep 14: Trolley Speedrun
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Events
Find a Transit Month event near you!
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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Wouldn't it be crazy if my dad, Erica and I spent all day taping PA Senator Tracy Pennycuick's phone number onto every single SEPTA stop in her district? Yes, it would be. But when SEPTA is under attack, there is no overkill.🤜 Have fun checking that voicemail box!
The first stop, starting in the afternoon.No stop is too tiny! Not even this one in Trappe, PA, in front of the historic house of the first US House Speaker, Frederick Muhlenberg.I make an exception to my staunch, anti-car ideology when I need to put up flyers at a bajillion rural bus stops to save SEPTA.The last stop, in the very early morning.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 16/08/2025
Excited to head this up for BuildSD with so many awesome community partners. All aboard!
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Catenary @catenarymaps.org · 12/08/2025
Headed back to school? 🏫 Try transit! Many agencies offer "school-oriented routes" that are dedicated to students. Anyone can ride these buses, but they usually only run before and after school. Other agencies offer "trippers" that provide extra service. Whatever your commute is, good luck!
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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Pure gold.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 10/08/2025
Good luck to all the SDHS Cavers headed back to school next week! Hope to see some of you at UC San Diego in the years to come :D
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 09/08/2025
New pictures of Eamon Ore-Giron's "Infinite Landscape: Los Ángeles Para Siempre" - probably the D Line Extension (phase 1 at least) artwork I'm most excited for!
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BuildSD @buildsd.org · 09/08/2025
New on the BuildSD journal: a guest post from @ultracodez.bsky.social - It's a story of agency outreach, paper trains, and public records requests shenanigans that seemed too fun to ignore! buildsd.org/journal/tran...
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You should collect paper trains.
It's a niche so small that there's really no other place documenting them.
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 06/08/2025
"Good afternoon to all of my beautiful people on the train! On behalf of this wonderful train crew, welcome aboard!" Meet Rodney, a train conductor on the 6 line who's been with the MTA for 21 years! His goal? Make sure every subway rider, whether they're new or a daily commuter, feels comfortable.
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Ontario Traffic Man @ontariotrafficman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
This type of advocacy is why North American transit agencies predominently use the slower and more expensive Pay As You Enter model of fare collection. For Proof of Purchase to work, there need to be fare enforcement officers, but advocates freak out about any kind of enforcement.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 31/07/2025
The story I've always heard is SANDAG setting up a tax district for the developers building out the neighborhood, using that for building all the cool infrastructure, but then MTS picking up ops and realizing that it was mostly used as a fwy express and running fwy-express-ish headways
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Catenary @catenarymaps.org · 30/07/2025
Transit adventures? Transit adventures! 🚌 ✨ Take MTS route 84 to the Cabrillo National Monument stop, right inside the park gate, to explore the old Point Loma lighthouse and get beautiful views of the San Diego Bay and the ocean. And...of course...track your bus on Catenary!
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 31/07/2025
They are new CNG Xcelsiors to replace the 600/700 series of buses headed to LA Metro! Here's one at IAD a few weeks ago, just before they went into service.
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BuildSD @buildsd.org · 29/07/2025
Clairemont Drive is among the least used transit stations in the San Diego region. Here's how a new TOD project could change that for good: buildsd.org/projects/the...
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The Bayview
A new mixed-use community could revitalize San Diego's least used Trolley station
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BuildSD @buildsd.org · 27/07/2025
Happy Trolley Anniversary to all who celebrate! The BuildSD Primary Sources archive has dozens of studies, documents, and even video footage of the first Trolley line, which opened from downtown to San Ysidro on this day in 1981: library.buildsd.org
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BuildSD @buildsd.org · 26/07/2025
Today, BuildSD is proud to honor 35 years of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Disability Pride Month. In our Journal today, @samuelsharp.com reflects on 35 years of setting the global standard for accessibility in transportation: buildsd.org/journal/tran...
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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
My childhood and history as a person are inseparable from SEPTA and the freedom and joy it offered me and my peers. If I grew up with the SEPTA that PA Senate Republicans are about to create, the best parts of my childhood never would have happened. I would have just gone home on the school bus.
Me at Norristown Transportation Center just after graduating high school.Me on the NHSL on a very snowy day.
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la transit gays 🌈 @latransitgays.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
HOLY BASED!!!!!
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Metro Los Angeles @metrolosangeles.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Opening date for A Line Extension has dropped! 🚊 Four new stations! 🚊 Connection to Metrolink at Pomona 🚊 Alternative to teeth-grinding 210 gridlock
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 23/07/2025
Words today in the @buildsd.org journal: who's riding San Diego Unified's school buses? The answer is a bit more complex than you might think. buildsd.org/journal/tran...
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Who rides the school bus?
The life and times of a small piece of Americana.
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jordan silver 🔵 @silverlyne.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
I’m hearing that these trains are currently running in evening hours (6pm-2am) and pre revenue service on the A line extension is planned to start July 20th.
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Fumo_And_Transit_San_Diego @fumoandtransitsd.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
@buildsd.org we are putting together a primary source library for San Diego's past, present, and future plans. @samuelsharp.com and Sam are hard at work on this project. We have around 30 documents on it already and 200 more to add. Find it at library.buildsd.org
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jordan silver 🔵 @silverlyne.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
New fare gates being installed at Firestone. #transitLA
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la transit gays 🌈 @latransitgays.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
chat today marks massive day, im going to be starting on my journey to ride every single bus line on LA Metro's list (including the busway lines and the 857). i will be recording this. this project will be a year long effort, and i hope yall ready for this probably tortuous unnecessary gauntlet :3
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 24/01/2025
Metro riders! Wondering if the new HR4000 trains are out there.. somewhere? Wonder no more! where-hr4k.samuelsharp.com
where-hr4k.samuelsharp.com
Is the HR4000 running now?
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 21/01/2025
Thinking about the MLK Jr. K Line station today: one of the first transit projects I got to explore on my own, and such a meaningful community space. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - MLK Jr.
Detail of Shinique Smith's "Only Light, Only Love" on view in the MLK Jr. station mezzanine.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 30/12/2024
All Samuel Transit light rail vehicles now come equipped with the original seating pattern from LA's 45' Compo and Articulated buses. You're welcome.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024
Here's the obligatory layover shots. Also finally started Jarrett Walker's Human Transit on the 888 - a long overdue read. TL;DR: Explore your area with transit! Go beyond your local routes and go the furthest you can go! You never know what you might find. (/end)
Route 888 on "layover" in Campo, CA, at Highway 94 & Buckman Springs Rd. I put "layover" in quotes here since it showed up on time but left late due to a broken PRONTO reader. Things you can do when a route runs twice a week, I guess.A humble low-floor urban bus parked at Highway 94 & Buckman Springs Rd in Campo, CA. The driver bought tamales from a street vendor while on layover, but I had a transfer to catch.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024
894 was full out of El Cajon, packed out of Rancho San Diego, and half the pax got off at the Jamul Casino. There were some 888 offs at Viejas Casino too. Lotta gamblers out there 😭
Inside view of a minibus as it rounds a tight curve along Willows Rd in Cleveland National Forest, just east of the Viejas Indian reservation.A view from the window of a low-floor urban bus as it passes by a sweeping brush-lined canyon along Highway 94 near Dulzura, CA.A marker sign in Steele Canyon, CA, in front of an old-fashioned wagon and a family restaurant. From this point, according to the sign, you are 17 miles from San Diego, 2.5 miles from Jamul, and 33 miles from Campo.A full low-floor urban bus with multiple standees running on a road viaduct along Highway 94, outside Rancho San Diego, CA.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024
The Rural routes are long, but there's so much to see along them. From the sprawling canyons along SR-94 to the small-town post offices and the tall trees of Cleveland National Forest, I don't think anything has given me more love for my region since my first time on NCTD's 101.
A wide, sweeping view of Highway 94 from the window of a low-floor urban bus as it rounds a curve near Potero, CA.A panoramic view of the hills along Highway 94, seen from a low-floor urban bus, near Jamul, CA.Looking out the window of a minibus as it makes a tight curve onto an unpaved road in Morena Village, CA.Looking out at the green-covered hills of Cleveland National Forest, from I-8 in Buckman Springs, CA.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 29/12/2024
Earlier this week I went to the easternmost point that MTS serves on every weekday - Campo, California! Specifically, I tried the only way to day-trip a full Rural line from SD without doubling back: routes 894 & 888. (more pics in thread, 1/4)
Samuel at the Hwy 94 & Buckman Springs Rd bus stop in Campo, giving the camera a smile and thumbs up in front of the "THANKS FOR VISITING: CAMPO" sign
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Fumo_And_Transit_San_Diego @fumoandtransitsd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
First big project, the Del Mar Tunnel. Getting the Surfline off the Del Mar Bluffs, it should be done some time in the 2030s. Here are the 3 alts for this project. This would double track a significant single tracked segment, make it safe against erosion, and speed up service @samuelsharp.com 's pic
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Fumo_And_Transit_San_Diego @fumoandtransitsd.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
New state rail plan. As I always do here whats does that mean for San Diego transit? Ill go over it in a short thread
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 02/12/2024
route 101 just has such good vibes, y'all just don't understand
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la transit gays 🌈 @latransitgays.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
true metro acolytes have fact checked this as: TRUE ✅
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 02/12/2024
this is true!
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 24/11/2024
reminder: the Silver Line (Vintage Trolley) is running tomorrow with U-2 #1001 - the first-ever red Trolley delivered to MTS in 1980! more info: sdmts.com/transit-services/vintage-trolley
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Vintage Trolley
The Silver Line uses three meticulously restored vintage vehicles that make stops along the Downtown San Diego loop.
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Leif @leif.io · 23/11/2024
I got something to pluck. Play my fun San Diego based quiz. sdlocallegends.com
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Local Legends San Diego
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 23/11/2024
before I had foamer stuff on the wall, the Compton station artwork was my virtual background
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 22/11/2024
I think a ride on the Green Line at sunset would fix most people
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 21/11/2024
thanks - and that's awesome, SD350 has done some great stuff for transit (especially around the YOP launch)! if you ever want to reach out and work with us on something, my club email is samuel [at] cavermetro [dot] org
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 21/11/2024
thanks so much!!
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 21/11/2024
Honored to be featured in Mass Transit magazine for our work building @calhsta.bsky.social. Let's keep moving forward, together! www.masstransitmag.com/management/p...
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California youth launch California High School Transit Alliance to take on transit issues
CalHSTA will help bring public transit issues directly to students, with a focus on supportive in-school and out-of-school meetings and activities at individual campuses.
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 19/11/2024
you should do what I did once and pull out your laptop at the San Ysidro station at 9pm 💀 shipped several new Catenary features by Beyer Boulevard
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CalHSTA @calhstatransit.org · 15/11/2024
NEWS RELEASE: Students from across California are coming together to launch the California High School Transit Alliance (CalHSTA)!
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 15/11/2024
hiiiiiiii :333
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 14/11/2024
average local gillig moment (hi!)
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Samuel @samuelsharp.com · 14/11/2024
hell yeah!
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