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Adina Levin @adinalevin.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend I got around to reading Healy's history of the BART system. Now that SB63 passed and the regional funding measure is before us, it's motivating to read about the past critical moments when Bay Area transit *almost didn't happen*

cover page, Michael Healy History of BART, image of BART train

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: Calif's landmark enviro legislation, CEQA, was designed not to advance the environment, but protect status quo. Every project, incl critical projects for climate, can be delayed for years by single cranky person. We need regs that accelerate climate, equity, safety, ag and other solutions.

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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · 1d

Yay, SB63 signed into law, authorizing a regional transit funding measure for the SF Bay Area, essential to save and improve service for BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain! Bill allows a signature-gathering effort that would passage with 50%+1 of the vote. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Governor signed our legislation to authorize a Bay Area regional funding ballot measure for transit.

SB 63 is critical to avoid massive service cuts at Muni, BART, Caltrain & other systems. We need to stabilize & modernize these systems for the Bay Area’s future.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

In that, dreadful, terrible moment, every black bloc protestor in the world is useless, but a line of concerned senior citizens, office workers and house-spouses is actually a 'harder' target.

And 'the soldiers stood aside' is the sentence in the history book that goes before 'and the regime fell.'

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Drew @drewda.bsky.social · 2d

"This city is a complicated place, but I’ve found two truths: The Golden Age is a myth and San Francisco is never 'over.'

"The city’s future improves through hard work at street level, not through troops and the whims of President Trump."

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 3d

Another reason for Metrolink to electrify: their renewable diesel fleet isn't actually reducing emissions. #ElectrifyMetrolink

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 9d

California does not want to send our National Guard to Oregon. It’s illegal & authoritarian for Trump to try to force us to do so.

California won’t be party to Trump’s militarized police state.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 9d

When we electrified Caltrain & replaced the trains with modern vehicles, ridership shot up.

When BART adopted contactless payment — tapping your phone or credit card — ridership shot up.

When we invest in & improve transit, more people ride. Let’s keep making those investments & upgrades.

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Adina Levin @adinalevin.bsky.social · 23d

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · Sep 13

It’s a Friday night and I’m reading latest amends on SB 3438, which would create a Northern Illinois Transportation Authority to coordinate fares, schedules, service for Chicago-area transit.

It has some of the most ambitious transit project delivery reforms in the country afaict.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · Sep 11

What if mobility tech were designed to serve the public good, rather than private profit or the convenience of the privileged? Join me and some of my favorite thinkers on 9/16

Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · Sep 11

In building future and alternative worlds, the way people get around can be used to reveal and ask questions about societies, technologies, and politics.

Join us at 6pm on Tuesday, 9/16 learn how descriptions of public transit in fiction shape the worlds of our imagination.

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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thanks to so many transit riders who spoke up meeting after meeting and rallied to organize support, in all 5 counties and especially in the opt-in counties San Mateo and Santa Clara, that decided to join.

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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · Sep 13

And SB63 passed the Senate at 1:30am! Now on to the governor's desk! It took a lot of organizing and mobilizing and compromises to get to a bill that will save and improve Bay Area transit - now on to the governor, and to people power to help gather signatures and pass the measure!

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Seamless Bay Area @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social · Sep 13

The bills to renew the Cap & Trade program just passed, including:
* $200 million in continuous funding for transit service.
* $400 m in continuous funding for transit & rail capital
* $800 m for affordable housing near transit
* $125 m for transit passes
* ongoing funding for high speed rail

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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · Sep 13

This is shaping up to be one of the most productive legislative sessions for climate in years:

☑️ upzoning near major transit (#SB79)
☑️extending cap and trade through 2045 (#AB1207)
☑️major electricity affordability reforms (#SB254)
☑️expanding California’s grid operations across the west (#AB825)

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Adina Levin @adinalevin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just read based Roads Must Roll on these references, arrogance and rivalries among technocratic administrators, flaws of workplace psychological testing 1950s military culture and anti-labor politics...

Wade @wadewarrens.bsky.social · Sep 1

Robert Heinlein's The Roads Must Roll was an eye-opener to grade school me back in the 1960s. I need to re-read it.

archive.org/details/Asto...

Astounding v25n04 (1940 06) SLiV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Astounding v25n04 (1940 06) SLiV

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Sep 6

If Newsom goes back on his promise here it may end up being one of the defining moments of his time as governor. Just an unmitigated disaster. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers say

Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · Sep 7

But his memes

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · Sep 6

If Newsom goes back on his promise here it may end up being one of the defining moments of his time as governor. Just an unmitigated disaster. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers say

Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Bobak Esfandiari @bobakesfandiari.com · Sep 6

Then, set aside time to come to an emergency rally at Civic Center plaza on Monday 9/8 in the morning, 9am:
actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Emergency Rally to Save Bay Area Transit

Alert alert! The transit agencies the Bay Area depends on – BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain – face massive service cuts unless Governor Gavin Newsom follows through on his promise of a $750M emer...

actionnetwork.org

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Bobak Esfandiari @bobakesfandiari.com · Sep 6

For every time I get impressed with Governor Newsom’s leadership (CEQA reform, pushing Prop 50, etc)

There’s an equal number of instances where I am immensely frustrated with him…

Inadequate transit funding, silence on SB79, his dumb podcast with right wing personalities

😩😩😩😩😩

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Sep 6

We’ve been informed by the Governor’s Department of Finance that it won’t agree before our legislative session ends (on Friday) to finalize a $750M bridge loan to Bay Area transit.

This loan was agreed to in our June budget. Without it, BART, Muni, et al will cut service.🧵

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Adina Levin @adinalevin.bsky.social · Sep 6

also, 1950s gender roles. Subplot is the administrator’s wife had made dinner for him and work colleagues, the social dinner and then the substitute activity get bumped for work emergency, subordinate delegated to tell her about rescheduling.

Adina Levin @adinalevin.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just read based on these references, arrogance and rivalries among technocratic administrators, flaws of workplace psychological testing 1950s military culture and anti-labor politics...

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · Sep 2

Art of the Day - Ring the Bay 🚋🚈🚃
Happy Transit Month to all who celebrate!

Come to the Let's Glow BART Anime Festival on Saturday, Sept 6, 4:30-8pm at Warm Springs Station www.bart.gov/news/article...

Watercolor cartoon of the Bay Area showing caltrain and San Francisco on the left, BART and Capitol corridor on the right, with ace and smart trains in the background
There are cartoon buildings with smiley faces and rolling hills.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · Sep 1

Transit Month starts today in the Bay Area and Southern California! 🚃🚈🚌🛳️🚋

Bay Area events at luma.com/transitmonth..., SoCal events at www.socaltransitmonth.org

The ride contest starts today, and this week is the online Transit Month fashion photo contest luma.com/rh5jfwxt

Transit Month 2025 · Events Calendar

View and subscribe to events from Transit Month 2025 on Luma. This September, join SFTR and Seamless Bay Area in celebrating all the adventures that public transit can bring to you.

luma.com

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