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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 10h

Also, Alameda has a seal on the docks!

Seal on the Alameda docks with Oakland in the background

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 10h

People are being turned away from the Woodstock Oakland-Alameda ferry because it is too full 😮

@sfbayferry.com can you run Woodstock more often?

People waiting to board the ferry while people deboard with a seal on the docks

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12h

A big thing we need from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is the ability to finally and quickly move beyond temp materials to beautifully built-out streets. Procurement reform, better agency coordination, etc. No more paint and plastic, please.

Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the urbanism happening in New York City…is stunning.

Broadway between Union Square and the Flatiron.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 11h

I think the tradeoff that Switzerland chose is a good where most people pay via a monthly pass

They banned fare gates in the country, but employers purchase transit passes for employees, hotels to purchase transit passes for guests, and cities to include transit passes with low income benefits

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 11h

Caltrans removed the toll gates and went with open tolling because they considered free flowing traffic to be worth losing some revenue

I wish we were willing to make a similar tradeoff for transit as well

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 11h

Many of the people with license plate covers are cops themselves

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 11h

Caltrans is okay with a 10%+ toll evasion rate as long as traffic is flowing. CA funds Caltrans at $20B every year from our taxes so they don't need the toll money anyway.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like 75% of the cars and trucks on 101 in the mornings have their FasTrak Flex falsely set to 3

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

When is California going to threaten to defund Caltrans because they permit rampant toll evasion?

If CA is at all consistent with how they treated BART then no more highway funding until Caltrans adds slow and broken toll gates with only one gate wide enough for cars larger than a sedan

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 18h

I welcome you to delete and repost a productive question or else I will just block you. This is not Twitter.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 18h

CHP will occasionally do stings, but those don't have any lasting effect

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

When is California going to threaten to defund Caltrans because they permit rampant toll evasion?

If CA is at all consistent with how they treated BART then no more highway funding until Caltrans adds slow and broken toll gates with only one gate wide enough for cars larger than a sedan

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pretty confident Oakland’s Lakeshore cycletrack wouldn’t be under construction now if it wasn’t for the bike/walk commission. That group served as a space for Maia’s grieving family members to come share their stories & ask for help.

www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...

Lakeshore Avenue Separated Bike Lanes Project

OakDOT has completed 100% Designs for safety improvements to Lakeshore Avenue from MacArthur Blvd to E18th Street.

www.oaklandca.gov

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 1d

SF is considering disbanding their bike commission, which is pretty pathetic IMO. Even tiny Emeryville, population 13k, has a bike/walk committee that meets monthly & always has something to discuss.

If they can manage to make it work then nobody else has any excuse.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

What productive conversation would I be starting if I responded "boo hoo, be grateful" to one of your posts?

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 1d

Never in the history of ever has there been a cop on every corner of SF 😵‍💫

Funding for SFPD is at historic highs, and crime is low and decreasing

They have cooked their own brains on their AI slop that they don't even know what is reality anymore

“You’ll see. When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” he continued. “That’s how it used to be.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 2d

I'm happy to see Newsom signed SB 79. It's an imperfect step in the right direction, and we wait for perfect at our peril.

But it is frustrating that there is so little holistic vision at the state level. There was no delay and virtually no debate over AB 697 to spend half a billion on SR 37...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 2d

A state that is prioritizing building housing near transit stations should fund transit operations

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 2d

A state that is prioritizing building housing near transit stations should fund transit operations

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 2d

Before (2012) / After (2025) Rue le Vau, Paris 20. The change here is so radical that perceiving the photos as aligned is difficult (see the orange building and the trees on the left). In 2024, this section was converted into a school street with a bike lane running through the greenery.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3d

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 3d

Graph is emissions per year, not cumulative emissions. Compare the area under the line.

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 3d

Electrifying the Coaster would make an Oceanside-San Diego trip 45 minutes, competitive with driving cutting 25% off the travel time. But LOSSAN and CalSTA want to run slow, unreliable hydrogen trains instead! calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...

Bar chart showing Average Driving Time, Current Metrolink (Coaster) Time, and Electrolink time for the Coaster from Oceanside to Santa Fe Depot. Average driving time is 45 min, the Coaster is 61 minutes, and the time with Electrolink would be 45 minutes

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 3d

In the 70s, engineers warned that merging 5 unprotected streetcars into a single subway was a bad idea. So glad today's Muni team has plan to rationalize SF's main subway and prepare for ridership growth storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8c45...

Muni Metro Capacity Study

Draft recommendations

storymaps.arcgis.com

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 3d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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