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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

Results from Brazil on fare free transit. While it did increase public transportation trips, the substitution was mostly changing walking to transit rather than car to transit.

Really cool research design as well.

Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 1d

A tarifa zero pode ser uma política eficaz para tirar as pessoas do automóvel privado e usarem o transporte público? A gente mostra que a resposta é não nesse estudo que saiu publicado hoje no @jeem-econ.bsky.social
Link para o estudo abaixo, segue o fio 🧵

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 1d

the issues isn’t so much whether it’s fair to treat e-bikes & mopeds as different things (sure, absolutely) as whether we can trust police to enforce the distinction without mass harassment of (non white) e-bike riders

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 1d

Then chaos reigns as everyone tries to accumulate speeding tickets before the bug is patched, culminating in a Cannonball Run across the country to cash the check at an LA bank and get across the border before the bank realizes it’s cancelled (please ignore that banks and checks don’t work that way)

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 1d

I’m very confused what actually happened here, but when they make a movie about this, it should be a signed int and getting too many speeding tickets would result in a large negative balance that causes the system to automatically send the driver a check for 2 billion dollars

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 1d

Guy out in DC doing QA testing on the speed camera system to find an integer overflow attack

From the washingtondc community on Reddit: If you go over 100K in speeding fines your total reverts to $0

Explore this post and more from the washingtondc community

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 2d

One of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission members who voted to close the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike path was zooming into the meeting from his Tesla Model Y.

Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 2d

I've been on two calls today with fire safety professionals where the topic was the safety of single-stair buildings. On both calls, somebody was driving while on the call – one a firefighter, the other a fire protection engineer.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 2d

Speaking of housing first, feds cutting supports for unhoused people in CA is a real telling illustration of their priorities.

California braces for ‘devastating’ expected cuts to federal homeless housing funds

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

calmatters.org

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

This study should be read by every policymaker and traffic engineer.

Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 3d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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ren they/them @renzaro.com · 2d

Wow dude you’re really sticking it to Trump aren’t ya

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Jason Wright @astrowright.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, this is amazing. Apparently the pictures Avi posted on Medium of 3I/ATLAS from Mars with his amateur image analysis and astrometry are

a) Wrong and

b) Not even of 3I/ATLAS!

Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 3d

No Avi, that Perseverance Navcam picture you posted isn't showing 3I/Atlas, it's just Phobos, the brighter one of Mars' moons.

If you were even half the expert you think you are, this possibility should have been quite obvious and worth mentioning.

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 3d

Got rage and/or hope you want to translate into strategic action? Find the "perfect how-to guide" here islandpress.org/books/if-you...

Thanks Jeff for that glowing review!

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 3d

nice moon

Moonrise over Twin Peaks next to SutroTower

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4d

For just 49.99 a month, we'll deliver a fresh French Prime Minister to your door every week.

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 4d

and as is tradition, closing it out with Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris playing a guitar on a stage

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 5d

Reached the posting through it stage already?

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 5d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Vallery Lancey @isthelaststop.bsky.social · 5d

Who makes it into the room filters out who the service is for.

tschuy 🏳️‍🌈 @tsch.uy · 5d

Yesterday I went to an East Bay Regional Parks board study session to encourage them to take a proactive leadership role in getting transit into their parks.

The nearest bus stop is over 1.5mi – the best way to get there was a 7mi bike ride from the nearest BART station.

Access includes meetings!

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 6d

the bucket woman!

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d

This is a recurring theme today. While I was grabbing beer(s) off the Western Blue Line stop (northern) around 5:30 today, I heard horns honking and whistles blowing. Looked up to see bikes and cars chasing what I assume were feds west, people shouting "La Migra!" as they passed.

Morgan Elise J @morganelisej.thetriibe.com · 6d

Just witnessed Chicagoans following this undercover ICE vehicle (Black pick-up truck) heading south on Ashland honking their horns incessantly and alerting everyone that ICE was coming.

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 6d

Looking for something to do this evening in SF? Come learn about municipal social housing!

Municipal Social Housing: Learning from Seattle's Win

Two DSA SF backed ballot props in 2020 were meant to enable and fund social housing, but mayoral opposition has blocked the funds being spent for that purpose. Seattle's victory offers a lesson in how...

actionnetwork.org

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Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social · 12d

So cool!! Friends & family are sending me screenshots of the notice they got today confirming that my book If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy is being shipped to folks who pre-ordered at @islandpress.bsky.social
islandpress.org/books/if-you...

A dropped Screenshot of an email that says
"Your order has shipped" with the order number and name of the recipient blotted out in red. It reads
"Dear [redacted], We have shipped the order you placed on September 25, 2025. The following item(s) have been shipped:
Title
If you want to win, you've got to fight

Isbn
978164283373
Quantity 1
The order was shipped via USPS BPM. Tracking number:

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

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Ben Vaught @benvaught.bsky.social · 6d

A concept: instead of negotiating bespoke Community Benefits Agreements for each individual new building in a way that’s ripe for corruption, we just get all the land owners to kick in some money every year and then we can all decide together how to use it to Benefit the Community

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 6d

“Mike Johnson just declared a week-long vacation to continue his coverup of the Epstein files instead of working to end the shutdown” seems like a slam dunk talking point for everyone to just repeat over and over again

Burgess Everett @burgessev.bsky.social · 6d

House just made next week a recess. So unless the Senate passes the House CR (or the House changes its mind and comes back), the shutdown could stretch to October 14 at this rate

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Zach Lipton @zachlipton.com · 6d

Aaron Peskin is bad at his job, part #47921

Also, making SFMTA board members removable by the Mayor at will, as the task force has proposed, would be a terrible idea

Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 6d

Prop. E was supposed to rein-in mayoral power, instead, it’s now recommending the opposite.

People who campaigned for Prop. E, which created the task force, now say that it has gone off the rails.

But that, most say, is perfectly legal.

missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-p...

Prop. E was supposed to rein-in mayoral power, instead, it’s recommending the opposite.

People who campaigned for Proposition E, which created the task force, now say that it has gone off the rails.

missionlocal.org

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