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It's easy to kill and keep killing with a car in California.
"Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th."
"Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th."
15 DUIs, still driving: California's failure to take repeat drunk drivers off the road
As alcohol-related roadway deaths spike across the state, a CalMatters investigation finds California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country.
calmatters.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's easy to kill and keep killing with a car in California.
"Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th."
"Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th."
Person driving a Prius runs a red on Florida St makina a right turn right in front of the 215, two cars blocking the bus lane in front of The Lafayette, and a person in a car running a red at 30th to make a left in front of the 215. I’m so glad someone else is doing the driving. So much stupid.
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Person driving a Prius runs a red on Florida St makina a right turn right in front of the 215, two cars blocking the bus lane in front of The Lafayette, and a person in a car running a red at 30th to make a left in front of the 215. I’m so glad someone else is doing the driving. So much stupid.
The streetlights are finally working along Park for the full length from ECB to University. That’s rarely happened the past three years. It’s a huge improvement.
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The streetlights are finally working along Park for the full length from ECB to University. That’s rarely happened the past three years. It’s a huge improvement.
London wasn't a cycling city until it was. Leadership matters.
Proud to see London is fast becoming a cycling city ⤵️
📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips
📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019
This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.
📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips
📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019
This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
London wasn't a cycling city until it was. Leadership matters.
In San Diego, we just get narrow sidewalks, poor lighting, and the roar of compensation vehicles.
Rush hour traffic in Utrecht.
Sound on 🔊 if you want to experience that rush hour IS possible without the constant, deafening noise of cars overpowering people talking.
Sound on 🔊 if you want to experience that rush hour IS possible without the constant, deafening noise of cars overpowering people talking.
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In San Diego, we just get narrow sidewalks, poor lighting, and the roar of compensation vehicles.
San Diego too often does the bare minimum so as to avoid annoying people driving cars. What could happen if San Diego instead focused infrastructure improvements on those not in cars, especially in the urban core?
📣New data shows London cycling is soaring:
📈 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 daily journeys
📈 that's 43% up from 2019
🚲Cycleway Network grows to 431km (up from 90km in 2016)
😎 & 76% of London cyclists feel safe our routes
🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📈 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 daily journeys
📈 that's 43% up from 2019
🚲Cycleway Network grows to 431km (up from 90km in 2016)
😎 & 76% of London cyclists feel safe our routes
🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲
bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
San Diego too often does the bare minimum so as to avoid annoying people driving cars. What could happen if San Diego instead focused infrastructure improvements on those not in cars, especially in the urban core?
Running a red light and killing someone would result in a whole **one** year in prison if convicted as charged. It's way too easy to murder with a car with minimal consequence to the person driving the car.
Driver accused of fatally striking 12-year-old pedestrian in Encinitas pleads not guilty
The driver is accused of running a red light and hitting Emery Chalekian in an Encinitas intersection.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Running a red light and killing someone would result in a whole **one** year in prison if convicted as charged. It's way too easy to murder with a car with minimal consequence to the person driving the car.
Are there any plans for that with the Vons in San Diego? The North Park location and the one on Adams would both appear to be prime locations for such an approach.
Almost every Safeway in San Francisco is planning a total rebuild into "housing over grocery." At least three recent proposals. Meanwhile, zero proposals from Safeway in the East Bay. sfyimby.com/2025/11/prel... sfyimby.com/2025/11/perm... sfyimby.com/2025/11/bern...
Preliminary Plans Filed For Safeway in Outer Richmond, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY
Preliminary plans have been filed for an eight-story apartment complex at 850 La Playa Street in San Francisco’s Richmond District. The project will...
sfyimby.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Are there any plans for that with the Vons in San Diego? The North Park location and the one on Adams would both appear to be prime locations for such an approach.
Tram hours will be 8 am to 8 pm daily beginning January 5th.
San Diego expanding free Balboa Park Tram service
As part of the city’s $2.8 million contract extension with Ace Parking, the shuttle service will operate 12 hours a day and offer park staff and volunteers an on-demand option.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Tram hours will be 8 am to 8 pm daily beginning January 5th.
Bus 325 on Route 11 was one of the two worst smelling MTS buses I’ve ever ridden. This time the smell was vomit. I exited the bus at the next stop and am waiting for the next bus 30 minutes later.
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Bus 325 on Route 11 was one of the two worst smelling MTS buses I’ve ever ridden. This time the smell was vomit. I exited the bus at the next stop and am waiting for the next bus 30 minutes later.
It's not as if the ways to reduce traffic collisions resulting in deaths and serious injuries is a well-kept secret. It's just that San Diego continues to lack the political will to do enough of those things. #VisionZero
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's not as if the ways to reduce traffic collisions resulting in deaths and serious injuries is a well-kept secret. It's just that San Diego continues to lack the political will to do enough of those things. #VisionZero
So we shouldn't build higher-density housing in safer locations because of the people that built low-density housing in the riskiest locations?
Author is right about city’s neglect of College Area
Adding thousands of housing units to a high-risk fire area without addressing emergency response concerns is irresponsible.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So we shouldn't build higher-density housing in safer locations because of the people that built low-density housing in the riskiest locations?
Is that what Epstein would have wanted?
Trump Admin is planning to ask Congress to dramatically cut funding for transit as part of the 2026 infrastructure law.
The proposal would eliminate the transit account, which funds billions of dollars in capital expenses. It would also prevent states from “flexing” roads funds for transit.
The proposal would eliminate the transit account, which funds billions of dollars in capital expenses. It would also prevent states from “flexing” roads funds for transit.
POLITICO Pro: Trump administration proposals seek to eliminate transit funding
DOT recently sent two proposals to the White House budget office seeking to pare back transit money.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Is that what Epstein would have wanted?
I would have thought revenue from automated traffic enforcement would have been an easier lift politically and would have the added safety benefit. The latest proposal for parking fees in Balboa Park is more complicated and raises far less revenue than originally envisioned.
Facing public outrage, San Diego scales back plan to charge for parking in Balboa Park
New paid parking passes will be cheaper than planned, after groups representing frequent users objected to their price tag.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I would have thought revenue from automated traffic enforcement would have been an easier lift politically and would have the added safety benefit. The latest proposal for parking fees in Balboa Park is more complicated and raises far less revenue than originally envisioned.
San Diego refuses to do automated enforcement for anything - red light violations, speeding, or blocking of bus lanes and bus stops. Is that more of an apparent third rail than charging for parking? Why?
Genuine question I was thinking about yesterday as I watched someone run a red light 2-3 seconds after the walk signal turned on - if there are cameras on every stop light in San Diego, and the city of San Diego is broke, and people are getting mowed down by cars, why not ticket red light runners?
November 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
San Diego refuses to do automated enforcement for anything - red light violations, speeding, or blocking of bus lanes and bus stops. Is that more of an apparent third rail than charging for parking? Why?
"Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th."
Investigation finds California isn't strongly punishing DUIs as alcohol-related road deaths increase
Masako Saenz didn’t just lose her 5-year-old son to a repeat drunk driver. Two decades later, the Sacramento mother lost her own life after being hit by a driver with a blood alcohol level twice the l...
apnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Drunk and drugged driving is now so common in car-centric California that drivers routinely rack up four, five, six DUIs. One woman in Fresno just got her 16th."
And just like that, San Diego streets were decongested.
Drivers that don’t yield to pedestrians at crosswalks and endanger them should lose their license tbh
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
And just like that, San Diego streets were decongested.
I see those things every day. Today it was a broken flex post between the trolley tracks at the north entrance to the City College Transit Center. Did someone going east on C Street try to veer right following the tracks through the transit center?
When you move around primarily or exclusively by car, you may not see the evidence of car crashes around you:
bent sign posts
broken car pieces
broken windshield glass
tire marks, etc.
For those who travel by 🚶🏻, 🚲, 🦽 & 🚌 these reminders are everywhere on sidewalks & streets.
bent sign posts
broken car pieces
broken windshield glass
tire marks, etc.
For those who travel by 🚶🏻, 🚲, 🦽 & 🚌 these reminders are everywhere on sidewalks & streets.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I see those things every day. Today it was a broken flex post between the trolley tracks at the north entrance to the City College Transit Center. Did someone going east on C Street try to veer right following the tracks through the transit center?
That street had a 25 mph speed limit and only two lanes, one in each direction. It was well-designed for safety. We often limit speeds of scooters and e-bikes, supposedly for reasons of safety. But far more lethal cars continue to get a pass.
4 dead, 13 injured after street racer slams into crowd at Tampa bar
A Florida man has been arrested after he lost control of his speeding car, which slammed into the patio of a bar in Tampa early on Saturday.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
That street had a 25 mph speed limit and only two lanes, one in each direction. It was well-designed for safety. We often limit speeds of scooters and e-bikes, supposedly for reasons of safety. But far more lethal cars continue to get a pass.
And as long as House Republicans remain on vacation, nothing changes except for weakening the effort to reverse the health care cuts. The shutdown continues indefinitely with no changes to the healthcare cuts.
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
And as long as House Republicans remain on vacation, nothing changes except for weakening the effort to reverse the health care cuts. The shutdown continues indefinitely with no changes to the healthcare cuts.
"Current Mayor Bruce Ehlers said redoing the project could ultimately save money if the new design prevents “multi-million dollar lawsuits potentially.”"
So changing to a less safe design will reduce lawsuits?
So changing to a less safe design will reduce lawsuits?
Encinitas to scrap, rebuild Santa Fe Drive upgrades in $3M overhaul | The Coast News Group
The Encinitas City Council voted to remove controversial features along a stretch of Santa Fe Drive, redoing a recently completed overhaul.
thecoastnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Current Mayor Bruce Ehlers said redoing the project could ultimately save money if the new design prevents “multi-million dollar lawsuits potentially.”"
So changing to a less safe design will reduce lawsuits?
So changing to a less safe design will reduce lawsuits?
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Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Sidewalks shouldn’t stop for side streets, pass it on
"The station said the pair were in the median when a vehicle in the lane nearest to the median stopped to allow them to cross, but that after Lucas passed the stopped truck, he was struck by a vehicle in the next lane."
Investigation continues in San Diego hit-and-run that killed 6-year-old
Lucas Chery Louis was struck Oct. 25 on University Avenue just east of 54th Street.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"The station said the pair were in the median when a vehicle in the lane nearest to the median stopped to allow them to cross, but that after Lucas passed the stopped truck, he was struck by a vehicle in the next lane."
Why am I paying federal taxes for yet one more overt violation of the Hatch Act?
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November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Why am I paying federal taxes for yet one more overt violation of the Hatch Act?
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Meanwhile, in the far-left progressive bastion of ... entire State of Utah:
"The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations."
www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...
"The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations."
www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...
Utah rolls forward on statewide freeway system for bikes. Here’s where the trails would go.
Utah plans to build a statewide network of paved trails that will act like an interstate system for bikes.
www.sltrib.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Meanwhile, in the far-left progressive bastion of ... entire State of Utah:
"The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations."
www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...
"The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations."
www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...