Zach Lipton
@zachlipton.com
🌉🚌🚲 || San Francisco || Data infrastructure @COVID19Tracking alum || To stop the train in cases of emergency pull down the chain; penalty for improper use, five pounds (he/him)
and a story about the invisible harm done by dangerous streets
when we don't provide safe streets and viable public transit options, people end up exploited by the few stores they can reach and the poverty trap deepens
when we don't provide safe streets and viable public transit options, people end up exploited by the few stores they can reach and the poverty trap deepens
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
and a story about the invisible harm done by dangerous streets
when we don't provide safe streets and viable public transit options, people end up exploited by the few stores they can reach and the poverty trap deepens
when we don't provide safe streets and viable public transit options, people end up exploited by the few stores they can reach and the poverty trap deepens
high school students build big gingerbread house at Amtrak station
this kind of smart walkable mixed use urbanism is illegal to build...
this kind of smart walkable mixed use urbanism is illegal to build...
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
high school students build big gingerbread house at Amtrak station
this kind of smart walkable mixed use urbanism is illegal to build...
this kind of smart walkable mixed use urbanism is illegal to build...
The air district did a bunch of reports on this over the summer. Wood burning is around 1/3 of PM2.5 emissions in the winter
It really doesn't feel like the burn bans on Spare the Air Days have much effect on people's behavior
www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotg...
It really doesn't feel like the burn bans on Spare the Air Days have much effect on people's behavior
www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotg...
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The air district did a bunch of reports on this over the summer. Wood burning is around 1/3 of PM2.5 emissions in the winter
It really doesn't feel like the burn bans on Spare the Air Days have much effect on people's behavior
www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotg...
It really doesn't feel like the burn bans on Spare the Air Days have much effect on people's behavior
www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotg...
snowy does have infinitely more city hall experience than the last pick
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
snowy does have infinitely more city hall experience than the last pick
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
wait. she bought a restaurant?!
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
wait. she bought a restaurant?!
just an internet of people doing this back and forth at each other forever for sport
October 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
just an internet of people doing this back and forth at each other forever for sport
It’s @thewaroncars.bsky.social live at KALW
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It’s @thewaroncars.bsky.social live at KALW
heck, we already had electric busses with batteries in them that worked
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
heck, we already had electric busses with batteries in them that worked
and as is tradition, closing it out with Emmylou Harris
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
and as is tradition, closing it out with Emmylou Harris
tfw The Onion releases its amazing movie on Yom Kippur
September 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
tfw The Onion releases its amazing movie on Yom Kippur
some muni heritage weekending
September 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
some muni heritage weekending
I, too, find it odd that a 90-year-old woman found the offerings at the dollar store so enticing that a bear swiping at her was not enough to deter her from her shopping
September 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I, too, find it odd that a 90-year-old woman found the offerings at the dollar store so enticing that a bear swiping at her was not enough to deter her from her shopping
I assume it's this but I don't even know
September 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I assume it's this but I don't even know
September 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
See you all tomorrow morning
September 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
See you all tomorrow morning
Edinburgh really into holding itself at cannonpoint
August 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Edinburgh really into holding itself at cannonpoint
Sleeper train! Sleeper train!
August 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sleeper train! Sleeper train!