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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 7h

I’m pretty confident Oakland’s Lakeshore cycletrack wouldn’t be under construction now if it wasn’t for the bike/walk commission. That group served as a space for Maia’s grieving family members to come share their stories & ask for help.

www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...

Lakeshore Avenue Separated Bike Lanes Project

OakDOT has completed 100% Designs for safety improvements to Lakeshore Avenue from MacArthur Blvd to E18th Street.

www.oaklandca.gov

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 7h

SF is considering disbanding their bike commission, which is pretty pathetic IMO. Even tiny Emeryville, population 13k, has a bike/walk committee that meets monthly & always has something to discuss.

If they can manage to make it work then nobody else has any excuse.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 13h

What productive conversation would I be starting if I responded "boo hoo, be grateful" to one of your posts?

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 14h

Never in the history of ever has there been a cop on every corner of SF 😵‍💫

Funding for SFPD is at historic highs, and crime is low and decreasing

They have cooked their own brains on their AI slop that they don't even know what is reality anymore

“You’ll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” he continued. “That’s how it used to be.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

I'm happy to see Newsom signed SB 79. It's an imperfect step in the right direction, and we wait for perfect at our peril.

But it is frustrating that there is so little holistic vision at the state level. There was no delay and virtually no debate over AB 697 to spend half a billion on SR 37...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

A state that is prioritizing building housing near transit stations should fund transit operations

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

A state that is prioritizing building housing near transit stations should fund transit operations

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 1d

Before (2012) / After (2025) Rue le Vau, Paris 20. The change here is so radical that perceiving the photos as aligned is difficult (see the orange building and the trees on the left). In 2024, this section was converted into a school street with a bike lane running through the greenery.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

Graph is emissions per year, not cumulative emissions. Compare the area under the line.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 2d

Electrifying the Coaster would make an Oceanside-San Diego trip 45 minutes, competitive with driving cutting 25% off the travel time. But LOSSAN and CalSTA want to run slow, unreliable hydrogen trains instead! calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

Bar chart showing Average Driving Time, Current Metrolink (Coaster) Time, and Electrolink time for the Coaster from Oceanside to Santa Fe Depot. Average driving time is 45 min, the Coaster is 61 minutes, and the time with Electrolink would be 45 minutes

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 2d

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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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 2d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 2d

How to design safer intersections:

1. Near-sided signals. Placed before the bike/ped crossing, they prevent drivers from creeping into the path.

2. Pavement differentiation. High-contrast, colored crossings (like this red asphalt) clearly establish priority and command driver attention.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 2d

In a just society he would have a permanent mark on his record that prevented him from ever being in a position of authority over others every again

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

Yeah, I should probably include my definitions in the graph

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

Probably some people, but a low percentage of riders since tap-and-pay overall is a low percentage of riders

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 3d

"The energy of people opposing immigration enforcement downtown stands in contrast to the relative inaction by city officials, including Mayor Daniel Lurie [who] has mostly remained quiet on Trump’s orders for mass deportation."

SF activists are doing great; electeds not so much, except Fielder.

SF activists level up the anti-ICE fight

The chaos in Chicago and Portland is inspiring strategy among local activists

sf.gazetteer.co

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

Bridge crossings by private vehicles have stayed roughly at 90% of pre-pandemic levels since 2021

So any increases in economic activity since 2021 have not been from increases in regional car travel, they have all been from transit, walking, cycling, or local driving trips

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

And some of these tap-and-ride riders probably had a Clipper Card but used their credit card, so it is double counting some riders

But even if you remove all tap-and-ride riders it is 107% of pre-pandemic riders

www.bart.gov/sites/defaul...

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

I am using it to measure percentage recovery of car travel in the bay area

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

Bridge crossings is one-way toll crossings for Bay, Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Dumbarton, Richmond-San Rafael and San Mateo-Hayward bridges combined from:
mtc.ca.gov/tools-resour...

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

Source:
1. mtc.ca.gov/tools-resour...
2. www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data-pro...

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

Bay Area transit riders have fully returned to the system since 2024 with more unique riders than in 2019 🎉

Each rider though is taking fewer trips/month than in 2019, so the next stage of the recovery requires retooling transit to better service more types of trips

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Graph of unique riders, bridge crossings, and transit trips showing increasing unique riders, stable bridge crossings, and slowly increasing transit trips

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