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

It’s official: I’m running for Congress to represent San Francisco!

I’ll fight for our city – against Trump’s takeover, for our values, & for real progress. I’ve delivered on housing, healthcare, clean energy, & civil rights – & I’ll do it again.

Let’s build the future our city & country deserve.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

In a piece of Good News, Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) has reprogrammed several traffic signals to better accommodate the bike bus!

During school commute hours, several key signals will provide a longer walk phase with a "long-press" of the call button.

bikeportland.org/2025/10/21/p...

PBOT gives bike bus leaders traffic signal superpowers

You could think of this as bike bus signal priority.

bikeportland.org

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Sam Gould @form67.bsky.social · 2d

Trader Joe's finally upgraded to actual bike racks in Emeryville.

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City of Emeryville @emeryville.org · 2d

Curious about what’s happening around Emeryville?

For more info, please visit www.emeryville.org/News/Active-...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

Drives me nuts that things like bike lanes get painted as luxury goods or harbingers of gentrification when making it easy and convenient to get around your city by bike could save low-income households thousands of dollars a year.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3d

One of the less discussed harms of car-centric planning is that it imposes a serious financial burden on working families. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments

www.nytimes.com

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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 6d

“I will build 200,000 units of affordable housing… and I’m going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing, because what we see today is it’s not labor, it’s not materials—it’s the wait that is actually costing so many so much to build the housing we need” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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BART @bart.gov · 9d

When will Caltrans start adding time via transit to their freeway signs? ⏳

BART @bart.gov · 9d

Take transit.

It’s safer, better for the environment and it will support our ability to fund service and make improvements.

Google Maps image showing a longer drive time (one hour and 14 minutes) from Walnut Creek to downtown SF compared to taking BART (39 minutes).

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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 9d

SB 720 - SIGNED INTO LAW
This bill by @senatorashby.bsky.social will institute a fairer and easier to administer red light camera program in the state that cities could choose to use.

(Streets For All) SB 720 Senator Angelique Ashby (SD 8) Signed into law | Improved the California Red Light Camera Program | [image of a sign] Red Light Photo Enforced

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 9d

Gov signed SB 71, making permanent @scottwiener.bsky.social's CEQA exemptions. For much of our transit priority, protected bikeway, Slow Street, etc work, CEQA process would have taken longer and cost more than project itself, and done nothing for environment.🙏
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...

Wiener Introduces Legislation to Continue CEQA Exemption for Sustainable Transportation - Streetsblog California

“We’re excited to see Senator Wiener continue his leadership on active transportation with SB 71, which makes permanent a bill he authored to exempt biking, walking, and public transit plans and proje...

cal.streetsblog.org

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10d

I believe The Mouse will find a way to stop this but it would be extremely funny if SB79, the bill allowing apartments to be built near transit stops throughout California, ends up allowing homes near Disneyland because the monorail is technically transit

Text that reads “in smaller cities, defined as cities with a population less than 35k residents, only the quarter mile area of the TOD zone is covered. And if a country becomes an urban transit county after January 1, 2026, only heavy rail, light rail, and eligible commuter rail will be covered—not BRT.

AHEM! While airport people movers are not covered, it remains unclear whether the Disneyland monorail is covered”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10d

What could make a community of white, affluent boomers so livid? In a shocking twist, the reason is exactly what you think it is. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

‘Not going to suck it up’: What turned this former hippie town into the angriest place in California?

The local rancor is focused on plans for a six-story, 243-unit apartment building near the town center. The School Street project is universally loathed. Almost everyone believes it to be out of place in a town where one-story and two-story buildings are the norm, and they worry about the impact on parking, traffic and fire safety.

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 13d

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

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a jordan peele movie @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 13d

the worst people in california are SO upset right now ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

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a jordan peele movie @jordandarkly.bsky.social · 13d

THAT'S WHAT'S UP, WE'RE GONNA BUILD SOME FKN HOUSING IN THIS STATE

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 13d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 13d

That feeling when the Governor signs your bill allowing more homes near public transit & you then walk from your 39-unit apartment building to get on the subway.

Housing + transit = perfect combo

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 13d

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 13d

This gives me hope. That Calif can get serious about climate. That young people and new immigrants to Calif might have same privileges I did. That we can make transit work. And that we transit advocates can learn from this phenomenal work by housing activists

California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 13d

[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...

cayimby.org

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 19d

What can mid-rise housing look like on side streets where lots are redeveloped one at a time? This example is a good one.
- All homes have windows in at least two directions.
- Elevator building.
- Entry door from a balcony for fresh air.
50x122 is a common lot size in much of western North America.

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 20d

The New Vancouver Special - 50' lot edition.

Accessible single stair flats on a 50x122 lot.
12 family size homes (or) 24 small units.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 19d

Lmaooooo

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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 19d

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social on #SB79 just now in his Twitch conversation with @connoreatspants.bsky.social: "It’s on my desk & I will be reviewing it on its merits. It’s really important housing legislation, and I recognize how important it is."

Folks: keep calling + urging him to sign! (916) 445-2841

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Robert Prinz @prinzrob.bsky.social · 20d

The people posting those flyers either don’t know of the Berkeley Elmwood neighborhood’s repulsive history of weaponizing downzoning in support of racial exclusion, or they embrace it.

belonging.berkeley.edu/sites/defaul...

“A postcard from ca. 1915 depicts a residence in the Elmwood district of Berkeley. Elmwood Park was the first Berkeley subdivision to be assigned the exclusive single-family residential zoning designation. Duncan McDuffie of the Mason McDuffie Company, which created the neighboring Claremont subdivision, advocated for exclusive single-family zoning in Elmwood out of concern that a lack of public zoning could lead to Glaremont becoming surrounded by "incompatible" uses that would affect his subdivision's property values. Gourtesy of Berkeley Public Library.
The real estate industry's advocacy for zoning was driven by tightly intertwined interests in generating profit and maintaining racially exclusive areas. Real estate developers, who had often developed large tracts of dozens or hundreds of homes, feared that the allowance of people of color would lower the sale prices of the homes, a concern that white homeowners also voiced. Historian David Freund illuminates the racial underpinnings of zoning:
Zoning's original intent must be understood in the context of early twentieth-century racial politics, when enthusiasm for the new science of land-use economics converged with assumptions about racial, specifically eugenic, science. Most early zoning advocates believed in racial hierarchy, openly embraced racial exclusion, and saw zoning as a way to achieve it. But they formulated strategies and sketched out a language for justifying segregation that focused on practical, supposedly nonideologi-cal considerations. 129”

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27d

This rules so hard. It's been a longstanding conviction of mine that the best way to convince people to replace car trips with ebike trips is by letting them try out an ebike for free.

Love the Oakland Public Library. oaklandside.org/2025/09/25/o...

Oakland launches an e-bike lending library

There are now 50 electric bikes available for rent at the Fruitvale BART. It just takes a deposit and a modest fee.

oaklandside.org

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Sam Gould @form67.bsky.social · 29d

These no bike signs on Macalla Rd on Yerba Buena Island are kinda confusing being above explicitly marked bike routes.

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Sep 23

Ok let’s talk about this:

He cites no legal authority because there is none.

“Antifa” isn’t an organization.

Being anti-fascist means fighting fascism.

They’ll label anyone they want to go after as “antifa” or providing “material support” & prosecute them.

(For the record, that’s fascism.)

Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization

Section 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States

www.whitehouse.gov

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George Spies @georgespies.bsky.social · Sep 22

Come to Temescal, and see how the traffic calming done in 2020-21 created the most vibrant dining and bar scene in the inner East Bay.

Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · Sep 22

George is right. Previously: oaklandside.org/2023/12/27/b...

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