Carter Rubin
@carterrubin.com
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Urban planner in Southern California working to transform transportation. Posting my way to a better world to walk, bike and roll. Talk to me about DOTs, MPOs, RTPs and SCSs. Day job at NRDC.
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I was at Dodger Stadium for Limatime 😢
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ebwhamilton.bsky.social
If you want to really feel the housing crisis, browse the Census microdata for LA households with lots of people in them. About 16,000 houses in LA County have three bedrooms and 8+ people.
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The frequencies on the Big Blue Bus 7 are so good it’s like having a $1.25 uber from my house to downtown Santa Monica.
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hunterowens.net
I gotta be honest I have been historically skeptical of the idea of digital twins but recently I learned that Japan's MLIT built an entire 3D model of every building and road in the country with semantic and underlying use information, so uh... maybe less skeptical

www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/en/
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I personally like it when the falling water of Hetch Hetchy pushes my packed bus straight up a big f’ing SF hill.
jeffreytumlin.bsky.social
Trolleybuses pull power directly into efficient, hill-climbing engines without need for massive, pavement-crushing batteries. Next gen trolleys with in-motion charging offer significant off-wire travel, allowing incremental wire extension. SF and Seattle partnering:
www.sfmta.com/media/43118/...
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Thank you @governor.ca.gov for vetoing SB 34, which would have created more barriers to cleaning up our freight system, at the exact moment that the federal government is undermining our ability to regulate pollution. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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mtsw.bsky.social
You're living through one of the biggest technological transformations in world history and it has nothing to do with AI
janrosenow.bsky.social
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
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I remember buying Return to Cookie Mountain from Amoeba in the Haight when it came out. I felt very grown up.
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The D Line / Purple extension is going to totally transform Los Angeles.
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In three years this wI’ll be 15 minutes from Westwood Village.
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In three years this wI’ll be 15 minutes from Westwood Village.
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shastingssimon.bsky.social
The alternative to old bungalows being torn down and replaced by a number of condos or townhomes that costs roughly the same is the old bungalow being torn down and replaced by a large house that costs 3x as much.
This is literally what happened before rezoning

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Farkas gave an example from the Glamorgan neighbourhood, where he said $600,000 bungalows
are being torn down and replaced with $750,000 luxury condos.
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davidho.bsky.social
Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.
transportenvironment.org
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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I think about Jeromy Burnitz at least twice a year.
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calandscapebot.bsky.social
Blue Mountain Modoc 1, Modoc County, CA
🗺41.8301, -120.8636 🧭207° ⛰5741 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11019
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Thank you for your leadership, Senator!
senatorcabaldon.bsky.social
Stoked that @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social signed SB79. It barely passed--not a single vote to spare in 3 committees or on Senate floor twice. I voted yes all 5 times, after working w/Sen. @scottwiener.bsky.social to focus it on urban places w/strong or emergent transit networks. Giant step forward.
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Just got my $50 gift card in my inbox.
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scottwiener.bsky.social
MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!
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streetsforall.org
BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW.

Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.
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yonahfreemark.com
Caltrain’s new electric trains are designed to recuperate energy when breaking. The agency made a deal to sell that energy back to the local power supplier, which will net the agency millions of dollars in annual revenues.
Caltrain electrified trains return power to grid, offsetting energy costs
For decades, Caltrain has been known for what it takes off the roads. Now, it's being rewarded for what it puts back into the power grid.
www.cbsnews.com
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costasamaras.com
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
jael.bsky.social
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
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The trains go fast and the rails stand still. 🤔