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Zach Lipton
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snowy does have infinitely more city hall experience than the last pick
Snowy giving public comment
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
Strategies for Achieving Success • Achieve a per capita VMT reduction of at least 25 percent below 2019 levels by 2030 and 30 percent below 2019 levels by 2045. 339 Reimagine new roadway projects that decrease VT in a way that meets community needs and reduces the need to drive. • Invest in making public transit a viable alternative to driving by increasing affordability, reliability, coverage, service frequency, and consumer experience. 340 • Implement equitable roadway pricing strategies based on local context and need, reallocating revenues to improve transit, bicycling, and other sustainable transportation choices. 341 • Expand and complete planned networks of high-quality active transportation infrastructure.342 • Channel the deployment of autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing services, and other new mobility options toward high passenger-occupancy and low VT-impact service models that complement transit and ensure equitable access for priority populations. • Streamline access to public transportation through programs such as the California Integrated Travel Project. • Ensure alignment of land use, housing, transportation, and conservation planning in adopted regional plans, such as regional transportation plans (RTP)/ sustainable communities strategies (SCS), regional housing needs assessments (RHNA), and local plans (e.g., general plans, zoning, and local transportation plans), and develop tools to support implementation of these plans. 2.1 Zero-emission vehicles are not enough to solve the climate crisis. Contrary to popular belief, zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) alone are not enough to solve the climate crisis. The 2022 Scoping Plan illustrates that despite cleaner vehicles and low-carbon fuels, the path to carbon neutrality by 2045 also depends on reducing per capita VMT (the total passenger vehicle miles driven by an average person in California on any given day). To meet the carbon neutrality goal, the Scoping Plan proposes reducing VMT from 24.6 miles per day in 2019 to 18.4 miles by 2030 (a 25 percent reduction) and to 17.2 miles per day by 2045 (a 30 percent reduction). Approximately 30 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road in 2045 will still burn fossil fuels even with all new car sales being ZEVs by 2035 through implementation of CARB's Advanced Clean Cars Il regulations.? Additionally, driving, regardless of vehicle technology, will also continue to produce particulate emissions from brake and tire wear. Figure W depicts the reduction in VT identified by the Scoping Plan as necessary to help achieve the State's GHG reduction goals (green solid line), accompanied by a ' For more information on progress made toward achieving climate goals under SB 375 see: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/tracking-progress 2 For more information on the Advanced Clean Cars Il regulations adopted by CARB's board on August 25, 2022, see: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/advanced-clean-cars-program/advanced-clean-cars- 4 California Air Resources Board 2022 Scoping Plan November 2022 trajectory whereby average per capita daily driving continues to increase at its historic average growth rate (red line with dashes and dots) The blue dotted line shows a trajectory where average per capita daily driving remains unchanged from 2019 levels. Substantial and immediate action is needed to reverse current trends in order to reduce VMT to support achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. Figure W. VMT tra…
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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wait. she bought a restaurant?!
Leanna Louie 雷千紅 Lower Nob Hill · 11 Aug · Hello! I recently bought My Canh Vietnamese Restaurant on 626 Broadway between Columbus & Stockton, right on the border of North Beach & Chinatown (415) 397-8888. We serve excellent Vietnamese Food at very affordable prices. We even offer 10% to SF Residents, with valid government issued ID/CDL. Please check out our website at www.MyCanhPho.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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just an internet of people doing this back and forth at each other forever for sport
the president can't just tear down the white house. yet you think there should be fewer housing regulations. I am very intelligent it should be legal to build apartment buildings. so you want to get rid of the law that says billionaires can't grind up poor people into paste. I am very intelligent
October 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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It’s @thewaroncars.bsky.social live at KALW
KALW/Litquake
October 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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heck, we already had electric busses with batteries in them that worked
a Muni trolleybus 5 Fulton
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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nice moon
Moonrise over Twin Peaks next to SutroTower
October 7, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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and as is tradition, closing it out with Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris playing a guitar on a stage
October 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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tfw The Onion releases its amazing movie on Yom Kippur
I Can't Stand It When Jews Talk During Movies
September 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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curved rail tracks seen through a window
September 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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the view down Market of the Ferry Building out the back of a Milan car. The faded words Muni are painted on the ground
September 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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streetcars at the cameron beach yard
September 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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so much foam
four people taking photos out of a moving streetcar
September 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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A bus displaying the headsign 1947 fageol twin coach with a furry next to it
September 21, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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some muni heritage weekending
A Muni operator captains the boat tram through the right of way with lush greenery on both sides
September 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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I, too, find it odd that a 90-year-old woman found the offerings at the dollar store so enticing that a bear swiping at her was not enough to deter her from her shopping
At this point — approximately 4 p.m. on Tuesday — the bear had already scratched or bitten a 90-year-old woman in the store, the Vernon Township police said. She was apparently unfazed: Christine Flohr, 55, a budtender at the cannabis store next door, walked into the Dollar General to witness the excitement, saw the woman in the aisles and urged her to leave. “I told her, ‘There’s a bear in the store.’ She said, ‘I know, he swiped at me,’” Ms. Flohr said. The woman kept shopping. “I found that odd,” said Ms. Flohr.
September 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I assume it's this but I don't even know
Corey Smith, the director of the Housing Action Coalition, said at a city hearing last year that “One of the challenges we face in San Francisco is we need the rent to go back up.”
September 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Mission Local's photo caption seems to be confirmation

from missionlocal.org/2025/09/sf-u...
Former Board President Aaron Peskin inside a skyscraper costume protesting the upzoning plan at City Hall on September 11, 2025. Photo by Io Yeh Gilman
September 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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It’s happening!
September 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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See you all tomorrow morning
EMERGENCY RALLY to save Bay Area transit 9 AM Monday, Sept. 8 @ San Francisco Civic Center Plaza
September 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Edinburgh really into holding itself at cannonpoint
A cannon pointed at Edinburgh’s New Town
August 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Sleeper train! Sleeper train!
A train with a yellow front by a buffer Inside of a sleeper compartment Caledonian sleeper
August 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Hopelessly behind on posting travel pics, so thread
August 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Hello from on board its twin in Milan!
Streetcars in Milan
August 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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got to scroll a little further for the chaser from the Party of Personal Responsibility
In February, Baran and his ex-wife sued BART after their 19-year-old son died “surfing” a train near the Balboa Park Station, alleging a lack of safety mechanisms.
August 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM