Of the next decade
27.10.2025 01:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@streetfightsf.bsky.social
Bicycle geographer, interested in the history of transport & cities, the politics of mobility and narratives about the future.
Of the next decade
27.10.2025 01:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π½οΈ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's βshadow president,β is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
19.10.2025 03:00 β π 1740 π 845 π¬ 56 π 55"Mean" Mobility. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...
16.10.2025 22:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't know much about current affairs. This, however, is a very good take on the fubar situation in SF. www.currentaffairs.org/news/democra...
16.10.2025 04:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Marin Headlands Oct 2. Government shutdown. No cars. No motor vehicle noise, but jet planes loud and clear. Birds chirping. Ravens. Fog. Nah. We can't see what's coming.
03.10.2025 03:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJso... James Carville says he'd vote for Zohran Kwame Mamdani !!! Watch to the end.
19.09.2025 01:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 03 massive fossil fuel plants for this AI data center in Mississippi Delta is climate murder. Nationalize and limit Facebook now. www.kplctv.com/.../.
22.08.2025 03:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sickening but everyday in this sick country.
12.08.2025 19:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Americans need to know history. In France under NAZI occupation, Vichy was the cops. The city police. Vichy deported (thus killed) the Jews and also killed Socialists and Communists. Killed good people that cared for humanity. Will DC police union be Vichy?
11.08.2025 19:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You know, cut the 21 to GG Park, reduce capacity on the 6-7 lines. Gut your green trolley bus network and call it a success. Neoliberal mobility. Neoliberal Board of Sups and Mayor. What could go wrong?
09.08.2025 21:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Freedom to destroy the planet. So dimwitted and shortsighted.
17.07.2025 20:08 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More of this please, including in San Francisco
12.07.2025 20:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0While California neoliberals and YIMBY celebrate gutting CEQA, there is Texas, with weak environmental review. You know. God's will and all. grist.org/climate/the-...
08.07.2025 21:21 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0YIMBY environmental mitigation = thoughts and prayers.
08.07.2025 21:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0While California neoliberals and YIMBY celebrate gutting CEQA, there is Texas, with weak environmental review. You know. God's will and all. grist.org/climate/the-...
08.07.2025 21:21 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0In case you were wondering, the solution to all this is NOT more neoliberalism, abundance bros, mass incarceration, meeting Nazis in the middle, deporting people, coddling billionaires, or throwing trans people under the bus.
04.07.2025 04:13 β π 212 π 68 π¬ 3 π 1Mamdani professes to be car free. That is the future we need. Coumo drives a Dodge Charger. Planet destroying and all. See the difference? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/n...
30.06.2025 02:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There is now a thuggish secret police operating in the United States. We are all responsible for this.
23.06.2025 02:03 β π 611 π 213 π¬ 83 π 12Respectfully: Do you wonder why the dire situation, when the city is so full of wealthy tech & real estate? Why cut lines to parks when it was promised for car free space? Why cut electric trolley bus lines - the most green? Why cut transit that is required for future housing density?
21.06.2025 06:03 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 02) SFMTA is cutting bus service to GG Park (21 & 5) after the city promised to make the park more transit accessible during the JFK car free debate in 2022. Ah well, Neoliberal mobility Uber Alles.
19.06.2025 01:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 01) The approved high density housing at Market and Van Ness was approved assuming the 6, 21, 5 busses would provide the needed transit capacity.
19.06.2025 01:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you for saying what no one in city hall will say @deanpreston.bsky.social Everyone should read this. 2 other points below:
www.deanprestonsf.com/blog/muni-gu...
queue up Randy Newman's "I Love LA" ktla.com/news/local-n...
09.06.2025 04:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Private cars for tech bros and their computers on Market St? Then comes Uber & Lyft. Next apps exploiting gig workers for rich people's ice cream? Then SUV owners of connect SF? Meanwhile city policy is: cut Muni; no progress on safe cycling or walking. Shows a city taken over by AI tech bros
04.06.2025 07:16 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0San Francisco land use and transport politics has lost a lot of thoughtful, reflective, intelligent people to gentrification, displacement, exhaustion, and billionaire tech bro astro-turf scams, etc. And now we lost Alan. Damn. Our loss deepens. www.ebar.com/story/154795
26.05.2025 02:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βWeβre at this moment when thereβs a fusion of Silicon Valley technology and mobility β which at the moment is extremely profitable,β Henderson said. βItβs a very urban, upper-income subset.β www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
19.05.2025 19:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@streetsblogsf.bsky.social I've had similar thoughts lately as I've toggled between taking the M and cycling to SF State. We need to tap the symbiosis potential of cycling and public transit. sf.streetsblog.org/2025/05/01/c...
13.05.2025 19:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pathetic use of freshwater. Like, really pathetic.
30.04.2025 06:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nice work and thank you for raising these very important issues. AI, data centers, layered atop a transport system of privatized, individualistic EVs....What could possibly go wrong? Did someone say Greenland. Doh!
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