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AC Transit just released an analysis of the travel time savings from installing Transit Signal Priority (TSP) at 32 intersections along Mission Blvd/Decoto in Hayward and Fremont.

Between 4-12% trip time savings and high end 4 minutes saved.

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Racist FL Politician Says Rep.Raja Is ‘Foreign Occupier,’ From The Planet ‘Tatooine’ - IndiaWest News Racist FL Politician Says Rep.Raja Is ‘Foreign Occupier,’ From The Planet ‘Tatooine’.

Indians, like all Asian Americans, are always framed by racists as the eternal foreigner

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Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing.

This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

BREAKING: Xie’s death is the 17th that has occurred in a detention center since January–the total number of deaths that have happened this year in relation to immigration enforcement is at least 20.

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Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of) Bookmark this post, it will be updated.

Sharing a very cool resource from @gbrockell.bsky.social tracking all the admin’s third country removal. hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

Overview board for BART Fremont TOD part 1

Overview board for BART Fremont TOD part 2

There was an open house for TOD plans for the Fremont BART station today

SB 79 HAS PASSED!

photo of Walnut Ave bikeway/sidewalk closure signs at construction site

Construction on Fremont’s Walnut Ave raised protected bikeway extension is now under construction, for another half mile between Fremont Blvd and Paseo Padre Pkwy!

A map of the Bay Area that looks like a transit map with lines and dots, about 40 different events are written on it. The map is titled Transit Month 2025, Celebrate Bay Area transit this September, visit transitmonth.org for details/RSVP List of events does not fit in the length of alt text, for the list of events visit https://lu.ma/transitmonth2025

September is #TransitMonth! Many events and opportunities to have fun and meet others organizing for better transit service in the Bay Area. sftransitriders.org/transitmonth/

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Know Your Rights了解你的權利 Simplified California flag that says AB291 AB299 California Immigrant Tenant Protection Act 加州移民租戶保護法 Landlords cannot ask about your immigration or citizenship status. 房東不能詢問你的移民或公民身分。 Drawing of a person and a house. Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner Alfred Twu

Know your rights: California law protects immigrant tenants. One of the protections is that landlords cannot ask about your immigration or citizenship status.

Learn more at rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul...

Sign for a future bike lane on Country Drive in Fremont

Good to see that we will be getting a two way bike lane on Country Drive in Fremont!

FIVE! Santa Clara County VTA board just voted unanimously to opt into the regional transportation ballot measure! Now all 5 counties in the core regional system are in! So much organizing, advocacy, education, negotiation to get this point.

The SamTrans board just voted to opt in to the regional transit funding measure with SB63! With a condition that it have some sort of accountability over the funding, not specifying the details. A couple of dozen transit riders spoke in favor; business and labor leaders spoke and write in favor.

photo of concrete islands construction as part of a protected intersection at 10th St and Jackson St in Oakland

photo of concrete islands construction as part of a curbside protected bikeway on 10th St in Oakland

10th Street protected bikeway and 10th/Jackson protected intersection construction in Oakland Chinatown is coming along fast! All part of a Safe Routes to Schools project we’ve been waiting on for a while.

The 20 mph speed limit signs are a nice touch!

The Dutch Intersection Is Coming to Save Your Life Inspired by road safety innovations widely used in the Netherlands, several US cities are installing street crossings that can better protect pedestrians and bicyclists.

This article highlights Fremont's record-setting protected intersection construction (18 built, 15 more on the way), & how they're critical to encouraging participants from
@bikeeastbay.bsky.social's free adult learn to ride classes & other new city cyclists.
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On the morning of June 18, 2025, Hernandez Viramontes was working at a car wash in Orange County, where he has worked for approximately ten (10) years, when immigration agents arrived. Id. $ 148. During this visit, the agents did not identify themselves. Id. 9 149. Agents asked Hernandez Viramontes whether he was a citizen, and he replied yes and explained that he was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico. Id. 9 151. They asked for an ID, which he provided. Id. Agents then explained that his ID was not enough and because he did not have his passport, they were taking him. Id. Agents placed Hernandez Viramontes in a vehicle and transported him away. Id. 4 152. During this time, Hernandez Viramontes did not know whether they were going to take him to a detention center. Id. Agents verified his citizenship and, about twenty minutes later, brought him back to the car wash. Id. $ 153. When agents brought Hernandez Viramontes back to the car wash, they did not apologize. Id. 4 154. Shortly after agents returned Hernandez Viramontes to the car wash, yet another group of agents raided the carwash again. Id. 9 155.

One of the plaintiffs is a U.S. citizen working at a car wash that has been raided by Border Patrol multiple times. He gave them his ID but they demanded a passport.

Because he didn’t have one, they detained him and drove him to a different location to check his status.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

A truly historic day in California: a clean CEQA exemption for environmentally friendly infill housing has just passed the California legislature via the budget bill!

No other way to put it: this is the most transformative positive shift in land use policy in this state of the last 50 years!

Photo of Chinese language newspaper with headline 自動成為公民？哪個州出生比父母簽證更重要 There is a photo of protestors in front of the Supreme Court. The full text of the article can be viewed at https://www.worldjournal.com/wj/story/124279/8838580

Court ruling putting birthright citizenship at risk in many states, even though being challenged, is already impacting families.

A headline in today's news was 自動成為公民？哪個州出生比父母簽證更重要 (Automatic citizenship? State of birth is more important than parents' documents) www.worldjournal.com/wj/story/124...

West Valley residents angry over hotel turning to homeless housing - San José Spotlight More than 100 people packed the Camden Community Center Wednesday to speak against a West Valley hotel converting to temporary homes for homeless women and children.

“We’re (not) against or opposed to provide the home to homeless people. We feel bad about that,” Tang told San José Spotlight. “What we oppose is this site, this location. It just makes no sense.”

Sound familiar Millbrae? sanjosespotlight.com/west-valley-...

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 IMPORTANT UPDATE 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Fuck ICE!!!

Last night ICE hit Chinatown. They pepper bombed civilians while the country was watching LAPD fire rubber bullets and tear gas downtown.

From the proclamation, it sounds like Trump intends to find National Guard troops from a different state with a friendly Republican governor and then federalize them and bring them to California @evanbernick.bsky.social

Fascinating to see the stark rural/urban and north/south divide on #SB79, the biggest housing bill of the year.

Let’s dive into the details, and see how your State Senator voted. 👇

Get in, folks, we’re actually going to start building dense multifamily housing around public transit stations in California!!!

Happy #BikeMonth to all except Hayward City Council, which this week rejected a 1.7 mile protected bikeway on Hayward Blvd while acknowledging traffic safety & speeding concerns but offering no solutions.
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