BART defender 🏳️‍🌈

yes i fear (it’s running until 9 pm)

www.sfmta.com/bye-bye-bred...

this diva is so loved @sfmta.bsky.social

subway builder brainrot so severe it got me planning bart track layouts for my new save on @bart.gov itself 🤷🏻‍♂️

YESSS twinninggg

i'm learning the hard way that retrofitting BART from MacArthur to Bay Fair to become quad tracks all the way is a routing and right-of-way nightmare esp with all the other ac transit light metro lines i've already made

(also pictured is the east bay portion of new caltrain)

YESSSSSSS

you dropped this legend 👑

a savings calculator, showing AC Transit to BART to Muni at $9.85 with a 50 cent transfer discount today, and $4.85 in the future with Clipper 2

Clipper 2.0 is going to revolutionize how we get around the Bay. Something as simple as taking the bus to the train will be rewarded, not punished.

From my house in Berkeley to my friends in the Castro could be literally half the price as today.

Check it out: clipper2.hikingbytransit.com

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Ride @bart.gov @sfmta.bsky.social @rideact.bsky.social or other Bay Area transit agencies ? You're about to save a bunch of money with Clipper 2.0! Our trip saving calculator built w/ @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social & @tsch.uy will show you how much. See for yourself > clipper2.hikingbytransit.com

after my goethe zertifikat i decided to treat the east bay with modernised (and somewhat rerouted) light metro revivals of six of its former streetcar routes

why i lowkey ate that mündliche prüfung… 🙂‍↕️💅🏽

a happy Goethe Zertifikat B1 to those who are taking it (me) (i wanna die /j)

16th St Oakland Station you are loved (coming soon) (I wish we could have separate blueprints so I can build this out in phases)

after several weeks on the Bay Area save, here is my progress so far. some features include:
- Key System resurrected <3
- wBART to Hercules, BART to Marin, and BART to Downtown Livermore
- Geary Blvd light metro my beloved
- VTA 5xx rapid to light metro conversion
- (Soon) Caltrain buildout

I came dressed as Squid Game’s Front Man (if he liked @bart.gov) 🙂‍↕️

YESSSSSSSS

also the way my officemate saw me featured on the bart insta oop--

me when my financial decisions finally come to fruition (also my first time inside the @bart.gov office!!)

real

someone save me from subway builder

@bart.gov is running extra long trains today!

we officially have a date recommended for clipper 2.0 roll-out: december 10. home stretch (fingers crossed)!

@seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social @adinalevin.bsky.social @tsch.uy @kaleomark.bsky.social @infrastructureweak.bsky.social @idothethinking.bsky.social

the meetings happening on the same day are dropping like flies (getting cancelled) i am

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK

it's upon us, hopefully!

Yay, SB63 signed into law, authorizing a regional transit funding measure for the SF Bay Area, essential to save and improve service for BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain! Bill allows a signature-gathering effort that would passage with 50%+1 of the vote. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

BREAKING: The Governor signed our legislation to authorize a Bay Area regional funding ballot measure for transit.

SB 63 is critical to avoid massive service cuts at Muni, BART, Caltrain & other systems. We need to stabilize & modernize these systems for the Bay Area’s future.

BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW.

Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.

to quote sabrina carpenter, tears are running down rn

Here are the Subway/Metro Station design guidelines that were compiled by UMTA/USDOT in the 1970s in an attempt to prevent WMATA-style cost overruns again.

It got shelved when everyone at UMTA got laid off and we forgot it. But it's prescient about cost drivers -- rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/11352