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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 5h

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 8h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 7h

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

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 11h

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 · 13h

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 · 18h

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 · 16h

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

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

I found the transport cipher key
www.worldtransportjournal.org/journal

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 18h

Vancouver's secret for transit success: frequency + land use

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22h

Vancouver's TransLink is a rare success story in North American transit, with ridership almost matching pre-Covid levels. It might be the only big 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 agency that has *expanded* total bus service since 2019.

I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

This is gorgeous -- www.pentagram.com/work/a-data-...

‘A Data Love Letter to the Subway’

A data-driven animation for Fulton Center commissioned by MTA Arts & Design for its 40th anniversary.

www.pentagram.com

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

Meanwhile I've gotten all the parts of my 2025 Halloween costume. Now, how to assemble?

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

My immigrant husband loves SF Halloween. In any city, one of the best ways to meet neighbors and create lasting connections is to elevate local customs

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

In Calif, camera speeding is civil violation so no points. Penalty fees can only be used for camera program and safety projects on high injury network.

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

A small share of drivers commit the worst traffic violence. Instead of jailing them, what about installing speed limiters for the worst offenders?
visionzeronetwork.org/accelerating...

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