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Exactly. The commute is an obvious part of this, but living in a place where taking the kids to school, buying groceries, going for a run in the park, getting a coffee, or visiting your friend all require a drive adds up to a lot of miles.

Sehinne’s poem, titled “BART,” was the first to “break the nine barrier” at the 2025 Brave New Voices slam poetry festival, meaning every judge scored Sehinne’s piece a nine or above. Sehinne’s group, Team Youth Speaks Bay Area, took home first place.

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The sunset voted yes on Prop L in 2024. It's possible! But yes, let's get it done! 😌

Reading this, lol. The law firm that drafted this seems to have rather low standards of work. The findings section is separate for a reason.

Also, what is all this about "transit" in here? SFMTA ran zero buses on the Great Highway.

Preach, Uncle Watt.

I haven't seen much on this site about the Motor Vehicle Modernization Act

It sounds like a great idea - the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has shown itself to be unable or unwilling to keep pace with other regulators in vehicle standards or safety

But, the Act doesn't fix that /x

She's not just a BART girlie!

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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.

SoCal air quality officials rejected a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances after being overwhelmed by more than 20,000 public comments in opposition. Well, turns out many of those comments were powered by AI!

Crazy investigation by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

A signature petition packet for the Connect Bay Area transit funding measure with a red diamond 滿 (full) decoration placed on it, surrounded by models of Bay Area buses and trains

連接灣區，馬到成功，表格填滿!
Wishing the @connectbayarea.bsky.social campaign full petitions and success in the year of the horse! Together we can fund transit and keep our buses and trains running! 🚌🚃

The number of times @alfredtwu.com has quietly and with insufficient recognition saved 100s of people many hours of time by summarizing complex information is too numerous to count. Alfred, I see you, and thank you so much for your dedication to clarify the often messy/poor organization of politics.

A coalition of advocates worked hard to move this from a flat tax that wouldn't have generated enough money, to a more progressive variable rate tax that does. Better rates for multifamily, some tenet protections, and CPI indexing. It's not perfect, but it's far better than where it started!

Stronger Muni for All - Kickoff · Luma The Stronger Muni for All measure will prevent catastrophic Muni service cuts, reduce traffic congestion, and help secure the city’s economic recovery while…

San Francisco doesn't just need the regional transit funding measure to pass, it also needs a local funding measure to pass. Kickoff is March 3rd!

YouTube video by Benn Jordan Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

Turns out ultrasound you can't hear might be rather bad for you. Benn Jordan is one of the most inspirational "hobby scientists" out there right now.

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Ya know what's an excellent treatment for anxiety & despair about that state & future of the world?

Taking meaningful action to help fix things.

There's lots of things to fix & ways to fix things -- maybe you want to help save transit in the Bay Area? So come help do that! luma.com/connectbayar...

Bay Area home prices soar near BART. What happens if stations close? Faced with a budget deficit of up to $400 million, BART officials are weighing plans to close stations and eviscerate service. The cuts would wreak havoc on the Bay Area real estate market.

Sure, home property values would decline if BART shuts down. But let's also talk about downtown office buildings. The buildings that pay the majority of property taxes in the city. In a city with a budget that doesn't need another big hit.

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Dude, my social is not an open place for bad takes and lack of self reflection. If 99% of you experience is bad you either have a strong bias, or a penchant for exaggeration. Either way, bye.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

An important followup from the original author.

The Internet being generally cooked is sad; I spent the first half of my life trying to build useful Internet things. I believed it would be a generally useful tool for humanity. The facts are not presenting a strong case for that future.

That is not appreciated here. Please take it elsewhere.

They are already regulated. I'm replying to a thread about media conflating those devices with illegally advertised, not regulated e-motorcycles.

You have replied multiple times implying people are disabled or weak for not riding non-assist bikes.

Can you explain why you feel this is such an important point that you've persisted with it? Why does it matter if someone chooses to use an e-bike?

Weather and commute distance emerge as key factors in S.F.'s soaring office-return rates - San Francisco Business Times There’s a correlation between office attendance and ease of commutes, based on new research from Placer.ai.

"Reliable public transit, proximity to the office and seasonal weather conditions are having a large impact on the success of return-to-office efforts new research finds."

Bay Area return-to-office surge driven by public transit access - San Francisco Business Times share.google/Ulix9qZKHT9E...

Fair. But I also think editors are intentional about clickbait, and track what does good numbers very closely. In a real sense, good clickbait *is* competence.

I will say, this article got better after the first couple paragraphs, where I suspect an editor intentionally played up the confusion. But quoting people like Jackie Spear calling e-bikes a "public health crisis" without contextualizing the numbers is simply reprinting hysteria.

Instead we're likely to punish legal e-bike riders by imposing more and more regulations on use. Because the media is going to create a fear of e-cycling. I don't think many who are engaged in this push consciously understand that they are fighting for motonormativity, but that'll be the result.

E-moto devices are already illegal in California without a license. Yet I see advertisements for them every time I log into YouTube, mislabeling them as e-bikes, implying they don't need a license.

The state should sue Google and online retailers like Temu who are brazenly breaking the law.

‘Growing epidemic’: Bay Area teen’s 40-mph crash reveals overlooked dangers of e-bikes Crashes on e-bikes and illegal “e-motos” are causing alarm across the Bay Area. “They think they’re buying an e-bike when they’re not.”

I think the media understands the difference between e-bikes and illegal e-motos. They are intentionally conflating the difference between legal e-bikes and illegal e-motos to stoke fear and get clicks.

It's could destroy the e-bike revolution if we don't find a way to stop it.

Sadly, USPS is exempt from local parking regulations by federal law. The local USPS would need to make a local determination to work within local laws. It's a discussion we should have with the Teamsters (who represent a lot of USPS workers).

Only if they stop parking in daylight zones.

BART could close these 15 stations if new funding isn't secured BART officials warn that without a new revenue source, the agency may be forced to close 15 of its stations and reduce train frequency.

BART's plans would include service cuts, laying off 1,200 workers, and station closures if the @connectbayarea.bsky.social measure fails.

Gather signatures with us to make sure the measure gets on the ballot this November! luma.com/connectbayarea.

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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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