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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 15h

Ultimately the crowd was a lot less hostile than they would have been in previous years because there's nothing they can do to stop the proposal

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 17h

What could have been

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 17h

In Alamo at application hearing for the first multifamily housing application in this CDP in 40 years.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 6d

@jwbee.bsky.social you can’t fool us Jeff. we know who you are.

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triumus.bsky.social @triumus.bsky.social · 7d

Unfassbar... in related news: In der Bay Area kam grad raus, dass dort die Wasserstoffflotte je nach Modell nur zu 43% oder 64% der Zeit einsatzbereit war. Wäre spannend mal Zahlen der SASA zu kriegen.

East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 14d

In 2024, AC Transit's hydrogen bus fleet achieved an availability rate of 43% (for the 2018 variety) and 64% (for the 2022 variety). Essentially you need twice as many hydrogen buses as service you want to run actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 8d

Front and rear car each make half the stops

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 8d

California is one of the only states to widely deploy sound barriers around highways and we’ve also largely stopped doing that www.nber.org/papers/w34298

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 8d

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 11d

We need to get real about where much needed transit operation funds is going to come from.

From @adinalevin.bsky.social:

State Task Force - Big gaps in funding and capital projects; improvement needed in coordination — Seamless Bay Area

On September 30, California’s State Transit Transformation Task Force has opportunities to advance policies for more coordinated transit and more timely and cost-effective capital projects. However, t...

www.seamlessbayarea.org

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 13d

Our comment to @cityofoakland.bsky.social Planning Commission on the General Plan update eastbayforeveryone.org/wp-content/u...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 13d

You can replace a diesel engine for $35,000 and then run the bus for six more years, about eleven years of revenue service for twelve years of useful life by AC Transit's estimates.

These hydrogen buses cost $1.6 million each and you get three years of useful service out of them.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 13d

A six year old bus is “near EOL”? At 43% reliability this means you are procuring a total of 2.5 years of revenue service when you buy a bus.

Why should transit agencies pursue this

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 14d

Right on cue bsky.app/profile/news...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 14d

This is in part due to state and federal rule making that treats hydrogen as "zero emission" despite the fact that most hydrogen is made from natural gas (which is partly why Chevron is supporting hydrogen so much)

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 14d

Those are abysmal numbers.

Despite this, at today's board meeting AC Transit is going to discuss a plan to purchase 47 more hydrogen buses actransit.legistar.com/LegislationD...

ALAMEDA-CONTRA COSTA TRANSIT DISTRICT - Report ID: 25-436

Title: Consider authorizing the General Manager, or his designee, to execute documents through the State of Washington Transit Bus Cooperative Contract, to purchase up to forty-seven (47) forty-foot h...

actransit.legistar.com

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 14d

In 2024, AC Transit's hydrogen bus fleet achieved an availability rate of 43% (for the 2018 variety) and 64% (for the 2022 variety). Essentially you need twice as many hydrogen buses as service you want to run actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 14d

Railfans know it as "across the street from the Key System HQ". Others call it the "that WeWork with the Highwire".

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 14d

Save the date: our next monthly meeting is in-person on Wednesday, October 8 from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. We are gathering in downtown Oakland at 1111 Broadway, 2nd floor.

We'll also be broadcasting on Zoom.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 15d

Sort of odd to frame lower home prices in Oakland - a city with more renters than homeowners - as an automatically bad thing.

This story also ignores how the boom in apartment construction in downtown Oakland might be impacting sale prices, and/or whether there are composition effects

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Walk Bike Berkeley @walkbikeberk.bsky.social · 20d

Our statement on the horrible traffic violence near Emerson Elementary

Walk Bike Berkeley is deeply upset that a motorist severely injured several people walking and biking and traumatized many more near Emerson Elementary School on September 16th.

This horrible incidence of intentional traffic violence underscores that cars are dangerous death machines, particularly when operated by intoxicated and careless or aggressive people on streets that encourage high speeds.

We hope the victims of these collisions heal quickly and that the City of Berkeley redoubles its efforts to protect the safety of people walking and biking.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 21d

AB 645, which allows Oakland to install speed cameras and fine speeding drivers, was signed by the Governor in October 2023.

It took until June 2025 for enabling legislation to pass the Oakland City Council. Speed cameras still not installed yet.

www.oaklandca.gov/Public-Safet...

Speed Safety Cameras Pilot Program

The City of Oakland is in the process of implementing up to 18 speed safety camera systems authorized under the passage Assembly Bill (AB) 645, which was passed in October 2023. Cameras are expected t...

www.oaklandca.gov

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 22d

Hello from some of America’s first public housing: the United States Housing Corporation’s development at the Mare Island shipyard in Vallejo, CA.

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 23d

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 25d

This year a developer is proposing to waive both of these standards - along with nine other development standards - because they make housing infeasible to build in Walnut Creek. This single project would double last year's housing output in the city. walnutcreek.granicus.com/GeneratedAge...

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East Bay for Everyone @eastbayforeveryone.bsky.social · 25d

Last year we sent a letter to Walnut Creek encouraging them to modify their Objective Design Standards to remove a "multiple materials" requirement for building façades and also to reduce required driveway widths, which are wider than the fire code.

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