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Warren Wells, AICP

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Policy & Planning Dir. @marinbike.org • UCLA Urban Planning • AICP Planner • Baltimore ➡️ LA ➡️ East Bay • 🚫🚗Car-free commuting since 2015 • Missing middle renter. 📍Berkeley, CA

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 23d

Obviously I talk a lot about bike/ped safety.

But something that is really crazy is how much less safe you *in a car* since 2010.

In spite of all the additional safety technology, vehicle occupants are less safe today than they were 15 years ago.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 24m

A person was unconscious after being hit by a car in downtown Berkeley at the intersection of a bike boulevard and a new protected bike lane.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 36m

What is the short explanation for why this is? Is PGE paying for all the fires or something and passing that on to ratepayers?

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1h

It's apparently because she likes the band "Fuel"

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 17h

Cuddle season has officially begun.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 17h

Schoolhouse is a little harder to see, but I think this is it.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 17h

If you blur your eyes in google earth, you can usually see the creeks by following the lines of trees.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 20h

If you don't laugh at this stuff, you'll cry.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 20h

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21h

I actually just looked at this on Redfin and, with the passage of SB 79, this could have been the deal of a lifetime if the owner wants to build apartments here.

$1M for a 8,000(!) square foot lot a 4 minute walk from BART.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21h

It's really wild to hear all this talk about 10-year moratoriums on AI and Autonomous Vehicle regulation in the context of how we treated electric scooters.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 21h

Let The Hate Flow Through You Your Hate Has Made You Powerful GIF

ALT: Let The Hate Flow Through You Your Hate Has Made You Powerful GIF

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22h

Those are both very interesting questions!

Obviously this is just one grant program, which is not the whole amount of funding distributed under each administration. E.g. the $66B in funding for rail under the IIJA is not included here.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

This is so, so, so f'ing true.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 22h

rightist plutocrats are doing politics. liberal plutocrats are doing charity. it’s an entirely different mindset.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22h

Really interesting breakdown of the TIGER/BUILD/RAISE grant program awards under Obama, Trump 1, and Biden.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 22h

I have heard a rumor that the program will be ending and the remaining funds shifted over to the EV rebate program.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 23h

Would love to be able to see westside LA Nextdoor

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 23h

That's right. 😎

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, I was running out of optimism near the end there.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible work from you and the whole team. We are so lucky to have you in the legislature.

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Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom signed SB79.

calmatters.org/housing/2025...

Newsom signs massive California housing overhaul

After weeks of waiting, California’s governor signed a bill that will allow mid-rise apartment buildings near major transit stops in California’s biggest metro areas.

calmatters.org

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

It is done.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

There's always someone messing things up.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

Denver, CO (pop 730k) has given 10,000 ebike vouchers.

The state of California (pop 39M) has given out 2,000 ebike vouchers, and the program is likely ending due to mismanagement.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

denvergov.org

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps the best!