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Bryan Culbertson 🥄 @bryanculbertson.com · 16h

We had this discussion a year ago: CA Forever was a classic real estate scam then, it is a classic real estate scam now

Their transportation plan is for California to spend tens of billions to expand highways to their suburb to handle the expected massive increase in VMT

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 17h

I don't see either waste treatment facilities, electrical facilities, or really, anything industrial. So I can only assume they don't know how to civil engineer.

Also, there are big power transmission corridors through here that have... opinions.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 21h

This is a really cool project that shows how a small SFH-only enclave city can push the limit of their new housing responsibilities and not drag their feet.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 1d

Colin Kaepernick was about 3000 news cycles ago.

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Cyrus Hall @cyrushall.bsky.social · 1d

BART asking the real questions.

BART @bart.gov · 1d

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

BART @bart.gov · 1d

Take transit.

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

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 1d

Well maybe ignore what I said about data quality, Geary isn't even completely tagged.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 1d

But it doesn't help that there are several competing ways of tagging bus lanes.

David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 1d

The data coverage for bus lanes is mostly ok in California, partly because I look after it. I don't know of any of the major renderers that display it, though.

One of the major problems I've had is that there's been a lot of new builds, and they're difficult to verify remotely.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

The most likely driver of anything resembling "gentrification" was the city turning some motels into low income housing instead of prostitution/murder motels. The rest turned into temp laborer housing.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

If the MacArthur area was really gentrifying, the retail space in MacArthur Commons would be leased and we'd have a grocery store.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

The 6 and 51B don't meet any 21060.2 sections a.2 to a.5, especially since AC Transit doesn't do all-door boarding anymore.

Sadly, Berkeley said no to BRT on Telegraph in 2013, which looks kind of silly now.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

When I was 8, I still believed adults knew all the answers instead of saying whatever shit to get me to shut up.

a terror since the public school era @saraht74.bsky.social · 2d

To me, it would be kind of embarrassing to admit that I still believed everything I believed as an eight-year-old, but I guess for some folks it's a point of pride.

When I was eight I was unclear on whether pro wrestling was real or the Red Book of Westmarch was an actual historical document.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, but I'm talking about this definition, which everything else depends on

David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

If you don't have an organization that appropriately counteracts those forces, well... maybe you need more state capacity.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

The second, because of the HIPPO fallacy. (highest paid person's opinion)

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

The former phrase casually dismisses potential options that might be the most cost effective. Hence, the casual dismissal of a tunnel for a new Carquinez rail crossing because "tunnels are expensive". (So are 500 ft clear span 3-track E-80 bridges, Brenda!)

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

Something I've learned in leading large software engineering projects is that the two phrases "that's difficult/expensive" and "we should do it this way" uttered by specific people at specific times, usually with minimal high-level insight, can massively increase the cost of a project.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

Some light rail may actually qualify as heavy rail transit, such as the MUNI subway out to West Portal and VTA Blossom Hill line from Virginia south.

David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

The selection of bus stops on qualifying bus routes might be overaggressive. There's an additional requirement of being a major bus stop, which means there are two intersecting bus lines <=20min headway at peak times. I assume interlining qualifies to some extent.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow Bayshore, 22nd, 4th&King, and Tamien Caltrain stations were missed.

The VTA East Side Light Rail extension is not included (it's under construction).

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

There it is, the DDG plugin was setting GPC for me.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

There are several SacRT stops that are outside Sacramento, Rancho Cordova, or Folsom.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 2d

Casto Valley BART is in unincorporated county, so isn't part of a city with population 35k.

There are several peninsula cities that are under 35k as well.

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 3d

Oops, that screenshot is from cppa.ca.gov/announcement...

California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA)

cppa.ca.gov

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David Schleef @trafficfurnitur.bsky.social · 3d

Separately, it looks like CCPA has a mechanism to allow companies to search their records for your identifier (i.e., email address) and delete personal info, and that's probably what the email submission is related to.