Eric Dasmalchi
@edasmalchi.bsky.social
Transportation data, island dweller, hiked far once, Roomba enthusiast. 湯の中で泳ぐべからず。Opinions here and on treasuredtidings.net are mine alone.
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Investments in public transit have failed to provide the right incentives for infrastructure projects to get completed in an affordable and timely manner.
Join this webinar to learn how reforms to the shape, type, and speed of investment can transform project delivery and service outcomes.
Join this webinar to learn how reforms to the shape, type, and speed of investment can transform project delivery and service outcomes.
Full Steam Ahead: Funding Transformational Transit
Transit and passenger rail investment in the United States struggles for adequate investment. Despite some improvements in top line figures for transit and passenger rail, federal and state transporta...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Investments in public transit have failed to provide the right incentives for infrastructure projects to get completed in an affordable and timely manner.
Join this webinar to learn how reforms to the shape, type, and speed of investment can transform project delivery and service outcomes.
Join this webinar to learn how reforms to the shape, type, and speed of investment can transform project delivery and service outcomes.
Blogged about the Treasure Island Ferry, including a couple service ideas. www.treasuredtidings.net/posts/ferry/
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Blogged about the Treasure Island Ferry, including a couple service ideas. www.treasuredtidings.net/posts/ferry/
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A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out.
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
A difference between robot cars vs. regular cars is that with regular cars, drivers walk to where they park, spreading traffic out.
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
With robot cars, every event turns city streets into an airport pickup line.
bsky.app/profile/thew...
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Bearistotle ass reasoning
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Bearistotle ass reasoning
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I am studying for the American Planning Association's professional certification exam and I am kind of blown away by the planning profession's lack of faith in itself and confidence in its own judgment.
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I am studying for the American Planning Association's professional certification exam and I am kind of blown away by the planning profession's lack of faith in itself and confidence in its own judgment.
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
Fire recall mode graphic for our fancy elevator call panels!
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Fire recall mode graphic for our fancy elevator call panels!
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Transit Signal Priority is an umbrella term for multiple strategies that reduce delays for transit vehicles at signalized intersections, potentially down to zero.
Here, I'm comparing the trade-offs between a "French-style" and an "in-phase" TSP strategy, more common in North America.
Here, I'm comparing the trade-offs between a "French-style" and an "in-phase" TSP strategy, more common in North America.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Transit Signal Priority is an umbrella term for multiple strategies that reduce delays for transit vehicles at signalized intersections, potentially down to zero.
Here, I'm comparing the trade-offs between a "French-style" and an "in-phase" TSP strategy, more common in North America.
Here, I'm comparing the trade-offs between a "French-style" and an "in-phase" TSP strategy, more common in North America.
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My bus operator, ending an emphatic explanation to a bus full of UC Berkeley students about moving to the back to make room: "I tell you what - the Stanford kids? They would have figured this out already."
November 14, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My bus operator, ending an emphatic explanation to a bus full of UC Berkeley students about moving to the back to make room: "I tell you what - the Stanford kids? They would have figured this out already."
Anybody have any favorite examples of world-class residential bike parking? Can be from anywhere...
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Anybody have any favorite examples of world-class residential bike parking? Can be from anywhere...
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this is awful. this man is so brave for testifying. Broadview is inhumane on every level
Pablo Moreno Gonzalez is testifying in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman about the conditions inside the ICE facility in west suburban Broadview.
Gonzalez says he is 56 and was born in Mexico but has lived in Chicago for 35 years.
Gonzalez says he is 56 and was born in Mexico but has lived in Chicago for 35 years.
Pablo Moreno Gonzalez is on the witness stand. Will start a new thread for his testimony.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
this is awful. this man is so brave for testifying. Broadview is inhumane on every level
Hoping I get to see these in the wild!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ovy... if i see one of these on the streets it's gonna cause the exact opposite reaction of seeing a cybertruck
The Weirdest "Car" I've Ever Driven
YouTube video by Auto Focus
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October 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Hoping I get to see these in the wild!
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October 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
Speaking of fast bike problems, did at least get TICD to fix this sightline with SFMTA's help.
October 23, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Speaking of fast bike problems, did at least get TICD to fix this sightline with SFMTA's help.
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It’s great to see misguided mandates on public transit emissions go from a policy wonk topic, to getting real attention.
$$$ goes further getting more people on transit than switching to costly and unreliable battery-only buses.
missionlocal.org/2025/10/sfmt...
$$$ goes further getting more people on transit than switching to costly and unreliable battery-only buses.
missionlocal.org/2025/10/sfmt...
Muni wants exemption from CA pollution rules. It's a no-brainer.
SFMTA plans to beg relief from the state's zero-emissions mandate. It’d be crazy not to ask. It’d be crazier for the state to say no.
missionlocal.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It’s great to see misguided mandates on public transit emissions go from a policy wonk topic, to getting real attention.
$$$ goes further getting more people on transit than switching to costly and unreliable battery-only buses.
missionlocal.org/2025/10/sfmt...
$$$ goes further getting more people on transit than switching to costly and unreliable battery-only buses.
missionlocal.org/2025/10/sfmt...
Caught it live, this was a great speech.
Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."
Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"
This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Caught it live, this was a great speech.
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
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Riding BART on Saturday?
We will have long trains.
Parking is free.
You can now pay for BART by tapping your contactless credit/debit card or using Apple Pay or Google Pay at the fare gates.
No set up and no need to use a machine. Just Tap and Ride.
We will have long trains.
Parking is free.
You can now pay for BART by tapping your contactless credit/debit card or using Apple Pay or Google Pay at the fare gates.
No set up and no need to use a machine. Just Tap and Ride.
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Riding BART on Saturday?
We will have long trains.
Parking is free.
You can now pay for BART by tapping your contactless credit/debit card or using Apple Pay or Google Pay at the fare gates.
No set up and no need to use a machine. Just Tap and Ride.
We will have long trains.
Parking is free.
You can now pay for BART by tapping your contactless credit/debit card or using Apple Pay or Google Pay at the fare gates.
No set up and no need to use a machine. Just Tap and Ride.
Always rewarding when we can enable analyses like this one, I'll pass it along to colleagues not on Bluesky.
We'll keep producing and expanding this dataset to include more transit service attributes relevant to SB79 as well as visualizations of our process: github.com/cal-itp/data...
We'll keep producing and expanding this dataset to include more transit service attributes relevant to SB79 as well as visualizations of our process: github.com/cal-itp/data...
also thank god for Cal-ITP's high quality transit stop dataset thank you @edasmalchi.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Always rewarding when we can enable analyses like this one, I'll pass it along to colleagues not on Bluesky.
We'll keep producing and expanding this dataset to include more transit service attributes relevant to SB79 as well as visualizations of our process: github.com/cal-itp/data...
We'll keep producing and expanding this dataset to include more transit service attributes relevant to SB79 as well as visualizations of our process: github.com/cal-itp/data...
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California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
October 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.
So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.
October 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
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Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
![Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreibpqdfpwwfineikxjjncxeutbyrddhcpswh2etjfk23tbff27ajw4@jpeg)
October 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!
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There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.
The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
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October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.
The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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