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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 1d

That's AASHTO guidance

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 1d

This is a real problem in San Francisco -- the delivery bikers

Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 1d

The maximal shoulders thing is really interesting to me. Like 4' and 10' should be fine even by highway engineer standards. That adds 16' to the whole ROW

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 2d

People joke about nightmare fuel, this is actual nightmare fuel

Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 2d

Uh...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests

They are two of the West Coast's most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone. What if they were capable of back-to-back disasters?

www.seattletimes.com

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 2d

The only thing that looks off to me about this is using the most expansive definition of Jefferson. The North Coast is its own thing.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

Illinois just joined the legal fight to keep Trump from sending red states National Guards into blue states. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Once you start looking for evidence that soft secession might happen you see it everywhere: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 4d

They also both filmed in West Texas around the same time. I had no idea

Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 4d

I'm conducting a film experiment: rewatching No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Both released in 2007--I'd forgotten. Which is better? The former won more Oscars, incl. Best Picture. But the latter seems to be better remembered.

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 4d

Put it in my veins

Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 4d

Or just take the Muni headsign route, and just call it "Transit Center"

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 4d

Just watched a YouTube video about Link21 that got most things right, but reminded me of one of my hangups: Can we stop calling it *Salesforce* Transit Center? We all know by now that Marc Benioff isn't some local boy made good, he's just another tech bro. Call it by its proper name: Transbay.

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 5d

There are lots of reasons I'm not a socialist, but one of them is the ideologue's belief that art should be subserviant to politics

Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing makes me happier than Liverpool fans being unhappy

Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 5d

I know Democrats have other issues to deal with at the moment, but someone needs to put a stop to this madness. This is climate arson that we're all paying for

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5d

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana, as big as 70 football fields, requiring more than twice as much electricity as the City of New Orleans.

Louisiana has had to greenlight $3 billion in new energy infrastructure to service Meta's facility.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

buff.ly

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine doing something about loud cars in Oakland. Imagine

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 6d

If your city isn't installing speed cameras and isn't installing monitors for excessively loud engines, you are letting criminals ruin your quality of life while leaving money on the table.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6d

The fact that SF cameras have already caught thousands of people going more than 15 miles over the speed limit is a perfect illustration of why these cameras were needed in the first place. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s...

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 6d

I too am developing a revolutionary transportation technology that does all four of these things, except more efficiently.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/please-let...

Venture capitalists, please get in touch.

can drop your kids off at soccer practice without you - making it way more viable to be a parent with multiple kids in different extracurriculars. They can allow people without a driver's license to fully participate in society in the many parts of our country where that requires a car. They can reduce the stress of a frustrating commute to actual meaningful time spent reading, talking with your family, or just getting work done.

can even help fix our built environment: No more fighting over parking spots, no more building giant, expensive concrete parking garages when so many can just drop people off and then be recalled

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 7d

There was an alternatives analysis around 2002/3 or so that correctly concluded that any sort of rail in this alignment would be setting money on fire. Unless you could somehow preempt every signal. We really need to get away from this idea that trains on streets are good

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 7d

Intercity rail in this country is in a race to the bottom when it comes to amenity and comfort. The only part of the onboard experience that is getting better is accessibility

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 7d

The Amtrak San Joaquins line no longer staffs the cafe, so they just have a ton of sodas and snacks sitting in the former cafe car like it's a little league game.

The kids on the train are positively gleeful.

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 8d

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

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(s po o ky) d ud e s ro c k @dudesrock.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 8d

When did SOMA Sunday Streets become a single block? sundaystreetssf.com/soma/

Sunday Streets SoMa 2025 – Sunday Streets SF

sundaystreetssf.com

Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 8d

Who in the hell chose that typeface?

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 8d

Ngl, not feeling great about this project's prospects

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 8d

The construction costs of Brightline West—the high speed rail line now under construction that will link Las Vegas with the outskirts of the LA region—are now expected to reach $21.5 billion, up from $16 billion.

California-to-Vegas High-Speed Rail Costs Jump $5.5 Billion

The price tag for building a private high-speed passenger railroad from Southern California to Las Vegas has swelled by nearly 35%.

www.bloomberg.com

Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 8d

This would be vintage Gavin. Himself above all else

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 9d

I think @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's calculus is that he thinks all those rich people blowing up his phone right now will open their checkbooks when he runs for president in 2027 and all the heat he'll take for the veto will have blown over by then.

He's wrong though, a veto will sink him for sure.

Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 9d

I'm baffled that the governor could be considering a veto. If it isn't signed then there's no chance we turn around the state's housing crisis. If we don't fix the crisis then higher office is out of the question. The only path to the White House requires doing the right thing and signing it.

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Steve Boland @steveboland.bsky.social · 11d

L-O-L. Fascists

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 11d

New e-bike ad dropped

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 11d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards