Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁
@jeffreytumlin.bsky.social
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Transport nerd. Recovering city bureaucrat. Working to cut CO₂, eliminate traffic violence, advance equity, and strengthen local economies. Former SFMTA, OakDOT, Nelson/Nygaard. SF
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Canada for the PR win, offering SFans "vintage red-and-white planes... lovingly maintained since the 1960s" doing acrobatics to replace Blue Angels grounded by GOP. "Of all the places where the team has flown," team captain Brent Handy said, San Francisco is "absolutely in the top three.”
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
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Hello little backyard friend.

Anna's hummingbird, intrigued by my hat. Couldn't capture its shimmering iridescence
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There's a revolution brewing in the world of transportation.

The trains are already being tested, and some stations are open.

The Grand Paris Express is next-level stuff...

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Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
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Your top-secret guide to free fun in SF is weekly street closure permit file. Over 50 Halloween/Dia de los Muertos block parties all over, esp on Slow Streets. It's easy to throw your own block party if you plan in advance - see www.sfmta.com/block-party-...
www.sfmta.com/media/39844/...
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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
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[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/...
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[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/...
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FROGS TOGETHER STRONG
oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Exactly. But to succeed, transit needs new revenue to replace lost 5-day commute fare revenue. Otherwise service cuts lead to Death Spiral, due to lost convenience in all growth markets
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Exactly. Pizza or mortadella at Little Original Joe's? All answers correct
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Are you sure that wasn't a beer at the Philosopher's Club?
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New York City sees similar divergence, with big increases in neighborhood and weekend ridership compensating for continued lack of office commute ridership. As BART explains: "All our riders are back. They're just riding 3 days a week instead of 5."
www.osc.ny.gov/osdc/subway-...
Subway Recovery Tracker
The emergence of the virus in New York City in March and April 2020 corresponded with a steep drop in subway usage. Citywide, April ridership was just 8.3 percent of what it was in April 2019. Since t...
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SF's boom-bust economy means it likely has world's greatest transit ridership divergence. 15 lines exceed pre-COVID, in part thanks to speed/reliability improvements. Commuter and less-frequent lines show far worse recovery
www.sfmta.com/reports/muni...
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This month, Muni saw its biggest ridership bump in over a year, hitting 81% of pre-COVID, despite downtown still having one of the world's greatest work-from-home rates
www.sfmta.com/reports/aver...
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Despite Muni Metro design challenges, today's Muni maintenance, ops and TMC teams continue to eke the best performance from the subway in all my 34 years of weekly riding. Look at these numbers:
www.sfmta.com/subway-perfo...
Subway Performance Data
About the Subway Performance Dashboards
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Like many agencies today, Muni is rightly focused on ensuring its core system is fast, frequent, reliable, clean and safe. I am grateful that CalSTA State Rail Plan and, increasingly, state funding, is focused less on exurban expansion and more on cost-effective, rider-focused improvement
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On the M, crossing arms at key locations would help address speed, reliability and safety issues
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During COVID shutdowns, crews experimented with 3- and 4-car trains on surface lines, including addressing resonance harmony issues with overhead lines, and traffic impacts. Moving toward a 3-car N would result in major improvement for riders