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The SFO wye is a drag on reliable rapid transit operation. With an infill station and a short Airtrain extension, we could fix the BART service pattern, improve access from the Peninsula to the airport, and establish cross-platform BART/Caltrain transfers.
There is a 20-minute delay on the SFO/Millbrae Line in the Antioch, Richmond, SFO Airport, and Millbrae directions due to an equipment problem on the track outside of San Francisco Int'l Airport station.
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For some reason they never seem to put this many speed bumps on the roads for cars
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@demianbulwa
@jparkerwrites
This is not how the law works and it's concerning that Cruise tried to tell you it is. You've got to wait for pedestrians to finish crossing when your light turns green; a green doesn't give you a license to kill.
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This photo is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard this bike lane with respect, or disgust?
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The Berkeley professor who says mass timber apartments replacing single family homes is apartheid also thinks bike lanes are recreational
The opposite of luxury ecologies is democratic ecologies. Guess what: housing movements that battle real estate in the trenches are actually a pretty important power players in fight for democratic density.
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BART operator reads a tribute message as the last legacy train run pulls into its final stop
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We could have a wider sidewalk, if only traffic engineers would ever say "Unfortunately, due to constrained right of way, a second lane of parking is not feasible on this street."
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Another former San Jose mayor is calling for an independent review of Silicon Valley BART.
"The other day NASA came out and their latest mission to Mars is going to cost $11 billion. I said to somebody, 'With another billion, they can get to Berryessa.'"
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Today I learned that SFO Terminal 3 has a box for a BART station that was built into it 1972, but it was deliberately blocked in the 80s to prevent its use. The current BART station was then built just outside the new International Terminal, farther away from the other terminals.
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confused about Caltrain's weekend service disruptions and alternate options? i have made a diagram explaining the situation because their own one sucks
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Multilane crosswalk works great, no warnings here
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"They initially planned for it to be a true European village, complete with retail and grocery stores. But ultimately the city’s zoning rules prohibited this, and the pair instead began opening up homes starting in 1926."
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Nobody's ever gone 50-70 miles per hour on this street, not with a medical emergency or intentional recklessness, not drunk or driving a stolen vehicle.
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With the shiny new renderings out for a $2.5-$13 billion rebuild of San Jose's Diridon Station (cost uncertain because of the early stage of design), you might be surprised to hear there's a less expensive option that was already environmentally cleared in 2021:
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@creativedasha
@wayneting
If flying meant everybody wheeled their plane out of their personal hanger, we'd have a lot more fatalities in the air. If most people relied on professional bus and train drivers, we'd have a lot fewer fatalities on the ground.
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Public comment on Berkeley's housing element is wild
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@wrtv
"Howard was driving anywhere from 50-70 miles per hour when she hit Stratton. The report says witnesses in the area saw her swerve into the bike lane and hit him. She was also driving on the sidewalk."
Yo, sounds more like they need to limit the hours cars are allowed!
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@BFryback
It's baffling how we've drifted even more car-centric in recent history. 15-20 years ago I was playing street hockey all summer on suburban streets. Some drivers would go through at a crawl after we moved, but most would see us and route around.
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New Zealand is showing us the right way to deal with rising gas prices
BREAKING: PM announces all public transport fares will be half price for the next three months.
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@bellachu10
Roads should be designed so it's not possible for a car to go fast enough to kill its occupants
Nobody's ever gone 50-70 miles per hour on this street, not with a medical emergency or intentional recklessness, not drunk or driving a stolen vehicle.
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Extremely disappointing that wealthy San Jose and Santa Clara County chose to kill the regional transit measure instead of coming to a compromise. We now have one last chance next year to put a measure on the 2026 ballot and avoid the fiscal cliff.
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@jamesrambin
"We're not NIMBYs, we're strongly in favor of building housing, but if the council doesn't vote our way we'll use every tactic we can to stop the project entirely." (they can't)
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@dahvnyc
I'm a bit disappointed he won't be doing operational reforms for an existing system, but it would be pretty cool if he actually managed to get us more HSR
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With one hour remaining in the Link21 online open house, I've just finished writing where I think BART's new tunnel should go:
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Bizarre to me that Amtrak's one San Francisco bus stop is not in the Transit Center - all of their buses get off and then right back on the freeway. Does the Transbay Joint Powers Authority charge exorbitant rent on bus bays or something?
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TW
As a former friend of Ethan's who met Ren through him, I can attest to much of this statement. I saw a pattern play out in which Ethan would wrong Ren, then deny or downplay as a joke what he'd done. (1/3)
TW: grooming and sexual coercion
Last year, I was groomed and sexually coerced by a prominent Bay Area and Toronto transportation and political advocate, Ethan Mizzi. I have attached my statement, a letter to my former self, below.
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@TheFederman
There's a more complete car network in Golden Gate Park than there is a bike network anywhere in the city
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@hannahcrileyy
This would be safer for pedestrians and bike riders, too, by ending pretextual stops (eg jaywalking) and by integrating infrastructure and enforcement efforts under a DOT that cares to provide safety rather than find crime.
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They're not running...the Central Subway? During the event at Moscone Station?
Moving SF - San Francisco is proud to host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in November, one of the largest gatherings of global leaders. This historic conference will draw huge attendance & could impact travel in the city. Details:
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@UrbanistOrg
If they just wanted The Embarcadero, someone should have told them that they didn't need the tunnel.
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I'm hopeful that once Caltrain electrification opens, people in the Bay Area will learn "good train" doesn't just mean "BART." Overhead catenary on existing ROW is great for regional trips, and automated light metro is great for local trips.
Imagine seeing this and thinking any other form of regional transportation is worth investing in
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@43Masonic
This is so, so bad. It's more concourse than the Market St stations next door, which have BART and the capacity for four+car Muni trains. It's maybe even more concourse than the BART SV Phase 1 stations!
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Bay Area transit government reform is on the table at Wednesday's 9:35am MTC meeting
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@TheTrustySteed
@SFMTA_Muni
@Proterra_Inc
Battery-only buses have some good use cases, but replacing existing trolley buses is certainly not one of them.
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@MatthewBarba4
@wtyppod
Aha:
so Ohio State decided to add a massive new radiation oncology center on top of an existing hospital, you know, huge lead lined building, and oops turns out it's too heavy
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@sanpabloavenue
"What do we want?!"
[simultaneous] "light metro!" "bus benches!" "free fares!" "high speed rail!" "grassy streetcars!" "old Penn Station!" "standard gauge!" "trolleybuses!" "streetcar suburbs!" "clock face schedules!" "ban cars!" "true BRT!" "cut and cover!"
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@jedwinmok
2/3 mile is the on-street deviation; the widened tunnel to avoid it only needs to be 520ft long.
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Hard to draw a better distinction between the two kinds of environmentalists than the argument "if we allow apartments where is everybody going to charge their electric cars"
Wengraf says she drives an electric car, has a very important question: where is everyone going to charge their cars? It's a big problem! Says it's antithetical to their climate action goals.
Reader, you know what's antithetical to Berkeley's climate goals? Low density zoning!
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Going to start trying this for transit projects
"we need new, beefier bus lanes"
"we need new, more shredded signal priority"
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@GovMurphy
continues to defend the Turnpike extension widening project even with the cost ballooning to $10 billion.
The cost has “a lot of sticker shock,” Murphy says, but “we need new, more muscular infrastructure.”
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Car restrictions improve access for emergency vehicles.
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@simonschre
If your line is frequent enough to need 100 trains, surely it makes sense to invest in overhead wire?
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Thank you to Councilmembers
@TaplinTerry
and Susan Wengraf for this referral to install "no turn on red" signs at Berkeley's 135 signalized intersections. This will help to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
Wow, I had no idea about this. Ending right turn on red would be a huge benefit to pedestrian (and bike) safety.
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@6thStViaduct
@kdeleon
This is heartbreakingly bad. Will the Councilmember commit to attend the vigils for people killed in this lane? To visit those injured in the hospital?
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Not even safe on a bike boulevard at a 4-way stop.
Concrete is the only way to prevent this: continuous sidewalks, and median and corner bulbouts to narrow the lanes.
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@KrampusSnail
@SheRidesABike
"Bike people can't be trusted"
@ChrisRozon
@KrampusSnail
@inminivanhell
@djzgurlz05
1. I already described what the crime requires: gross negligence or intent.
2. “I didn’t see the person” doesn’t require negligence per se
3. Speeding is not gross negligence per se.
4. Bike people can’t be trusted.
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Caltrain's new EMUs were ordered just as mixed single- and bi-level fleets were becoming a thing in Europe, and the space lost to power and vertical circulation in Caltrain's cars shows that purely double-level trains have disadvantages.
@AtkosKhan
Because your concept is inspiring thought: imo if we did this we would be best off with European-style FLIRT/KISS hybrids. Power systems above and below the single-level cars; bilevels as trailers. Faster boarding and deboarding, important for regional services.
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@IDoTheThinking
Among everything else in the video, I'm furious how LAPD continue to describe it as "conducted a search for additional suspects and discovered in the dressing room" etc.
Her mother's screams were immediate and could not be more clear. That was the moment of "discovery."
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Somebody's cutting onions on my train
We’ve got the details of the last scheduled legacy train!!!!
It will be the Red Line, Richmond bound train leaving Millbrae at 7:39pm on Sunday.
There will be an official retiring run ceremony in 2024, but this train will be the last legacy train as part of the base schedule.
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@AlexFischCC
That diagonal curb ramp also suggests that this is an unmarked crosswalk - though 99% of drivers don't know those exist
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Great transit news for students: the MTC Fare Integration Task Force voted to move forward an extension of the BayPass pilot program, which was set to expire this summer. This will give universities time to approve Bay-wide transit passes for all of their students by Summer 2025.
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protected bike lanes are low-key goated in situations where not dying is the vibe
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I'm listening to the Link21 webinar now. Presenters say the regional rail option provides less urban metro service, but I don't think that should be necessary if the new crossing can be unlinked from there East Bay's shared freight corridor.
Link21 (planning by BART and Capitol Corridor for a second transbay rail crossing between San Francisco and Oakland) is due to choose a technology (BART or standard gauge) this summer. There's a webinar starting now, and an online open house later this month. 🧵
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This bus is operated by YARTS - Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System. I booked my ticket on the blue line together with my Amtrak ticket; the total for train and bus was $28.50 one way. Taking the bus covers your entrance fee.
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Totally wicked highway median station screen. BART once explained on here that the environmental review they'd have to do for the noise a screen would reflect away from the highway would tank such a project, which is a real shame.
The Toronto Transit Commission would like a word with you: it shouldn't be this way.
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@nextdoorsv
With a full funding round, we should reach minimum viable 'domestic water booster pump' within three years, and we're working on a fire water concept, too. These fully-automated pumps will eliminate the need for residents to carry buckets of water up in the elevator each day.
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While Samtrans and Caltrain moderated their rhetoric last week, VTA changed its position to become the only transit agency with an "Oppose" position on SB 1031, the bill to save Bay Area transit:
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Yassss and slayyyyy
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The last question response says Link21 is assuming freight railroads may not allow wires, and talks positively about battery and hydrogen trains. I personally think it would be a travesty to build Link21 without the performance benefits of electrification.
A question was answered about this, saying both options assume Capitol Corridor will be zero-emissions per CARB mandate.
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I did not realize that Great Highway is still a car road from Golden Gate Park north, and there's a huge parking lot at Ocean Beach. How is there any argument that the
@GreatWalkway
restricts car access to the beach?
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Holy smokes, they're actually going for it. From the last Oversight Committee meeting, VTA has settled with the contractor on a price for the SVBART TBM launch pit, and intends to authorize it at the June 28th board meeting. We should find out the cost of the pit in two weeks.
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I can't believe Berkeley is building a slip lane in 2024
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@BFryback
What's all that above the train? Those are double-stacked containers, so I know it can't be clean efficient electric catenary power
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@contrerasforca
Where was she that she was unaware of housing discourse, and is it possible to go there?
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Timed transfers at MacArthur have felt a lot more reliable lately, good to see it confirmed with data!
I hope BART can keep this up in the rainy season.
We have promised we are working hard to win riders. We are now delivering on our commitment.
Per recent data for April-June 2023:
Our Customer-On-Time Performance: 91%, 📈12% from January-March 2023.
Timed transfer meets: 80%, 📈27% from January-March 2023
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@lance_the_pants
@banalplay
I recommend a used Miele C1/2/3 if you think it fits your situation. Could get one on Craigslist
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@JGrantGlover
At a minimum, every car crash should result in license suspension. Let them go retest, fine. The waiting and additional errand would be more incentive than they currently have.
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The die-in on Hopkins today was haunting and bittersweetly powerful. May this be the turning point where Berkeley fixes our streets, before more people are killed.
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Tonight at BART Basel,
@alfred_twu
presented a model train car painted in the many colors of the Bay Area's rail agencies. "Some people ask, 'Why does BART, the largest system, not simply eat the other systems?'"
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Source:
BART: the dramatic history of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system
Michael C. Healy
2016
[Alt text continued:]
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@sfmta_muni
Yikes. How about blocking entrances to Mason St to cars so the 30 Stockton can flow freely until traffic dissipates?
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@Bob_Wachter
@nytimes
Once again they use a public transit photo as a scary COVID article's header.
@SFBART
is one of the few places in the country requiring masks, has installed upgraded filters, and cycles air every 70 seconds. If all indoor spaces were like BART we wouldn't be in this crisis.
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I stopped speaking to Ethan when he continued to pry for information about Ren.
I've been disgusted by what Ethan did since I heard about it shortly afterward, and I'm glad that Ren has spoken out for their peace and to prevent this too from being swept under the rug. (3/3)
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Belief in good traffic engineering has changed the outcome of crashes into this transit stop.
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