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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 8h

Hello little backyard friend.

Anna's hummingbird, intrigued by my hat. Couldn't capture its shimmering iridescence

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 15h

There's a revolution brewing in the world of transportation.

The trains are already being tested, and some stations are open.

The Grand Paris Express is next-level stuff...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 15h

Your top-secret guide to free fun in SF is weekly street closure permit file. Over 50 Halloween/Dia de los Muertos block parties all over, esp on Slow Streets. It's easy to throw your own block party if you plan in advance - see www.sfmta.com/block-party-...
www.sfmta.com/media/39844/...

www.sfmta.com

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 16h

This gives me hope. That Calif can get serious about climate. That young people and new immigrants to Calif might have same privileges I did. That we can make transit work. And that we transit advocates can learn from this phenomenal work by housing activists

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 16h

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 16h

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. But to succeed, transit needs new revenue to replace lost 5-day commute fare revenue. Otherwise service cuts lead to Death Spiral, due to lost convenience in all growth markets

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Pizza or mortadella at Little Original Joe's? All answers correct

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Are you sure that wasn't a beer at the Philosopher's Club?

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

New York City sees similar divergence, with big increases in neighborhood and weekend ridership compensating for continued lack of office commute ridership. As BART explains: "All our riders are back. They're just riding 3 days a week instead of 5."
www.osc.ny.gov/osdc/subway-...

Subway Recovery Tracker

The emergence of the virus in New York City in March and April 2020 corresponded with a steep drop in subway usage. Citywide, April ridership was just 8.3 percent of what it was in April 2019. Since t...

www.osc.ny.gov

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

SF's boom-bust economy means it likely has world's greatest transit ridership divergence. 15 lines exceed pre-COVID, in part thanks to speed/reliability improvements. Commuter and less-frequent lines show far worse recovery
www.sfmta.com/reports/muni...

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

This month, Muni saw its biggest ridership bump in over a year, hitting 81% of pre-COVID, despite downtown still having one of the world's greatest work-from-home rates
www.sfmta.com/reports/aver...

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Despite Muni Metro design challenges, today's Muni maintenance, ops and TMC teams continue to eke the best performance from the subway in all my 34 years of weekly riding. Look at these numbers:
www.sfmta.com/subway-perfo...

Subway Performance Data

About the Subway Performance Dashboards

www.sfmta.com

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Like many agencies today, Muni is rightly focused on ensuring its core system is fast, frequent, reliable, clean and safe. I am grateful that CalSTA State Rail Plan and, increasingly, state funding, is focused less on exurban expansion and more on cost-effective, rider-focused improvement

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

On the M, crossing arms at key locations would help address speed, reliability and safety issues

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

During COVID shutdowns, crews experimented with 3- and 4-car trains on surface lines, including addressing resonance harmony issues with overhead lines, and traffic impacts. Moving toward a 3-car N would result in major improvement for riders

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

SF's capital plan includes major update to train control system, plus surface improvements on Judah and M Line, building on success of L-Taraval improvements. Together, these projects will create significant capacity + speed/reliability improvements

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

The N-Judah and core Market Street subway are expected to face significant capacity problems as SF grows from the beginning of its current boom cycle

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

In the 70s, engineers warned that merging 5 unprotected streetcars into a single subway was a bad idea. So glad today's Muni team has plan to rationalize SF's main subway and prepare for ridership growth storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8c45...

Muni Metro Capacity Study

Draft recommendations

storymaps.arcgis.com

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Kurt Raschke @kurtraschke.com · 1d

I literally owe my career in transportation to TransportationCamp, and helping organize the revival of TransportationCamp DC is the least I can do. If you're interested too, please express your interest!

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Most policymakers focus on what @humantransit.bsky.social calls "lines on the map" rather than quality of service.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?

Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.

To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Universally inconsistent. Also Slow Street - Neighbo[u]rhood Greenway etc

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