Liza Lutzker

Theehuis Rhijnauwen?

BART has best Cost Efficiency (OE/VRM) in the nation both as a commuter rail and as subway 🎉

CA should be throwing every transportation dollar it's got at the spectacularly efficient and effective BART system to maximize ridership!

Opinion: Construction compromises safe access to Longfellow Middle School The safety of students and staff at Longfellow is at risk due to construction that will create hazards for those who walk and bike to school.

If I have to hear our City Traffic Engineer talk about stop sign warrants one more time I’m gonna scream.

Since Aug, 3 middle schoolers have been hit on a bike boulevard next to school but because people don’t always stop at stops signs, it’s better to leave things as the speed-inducing status quo.

Crystal clear.

Jennifer Doudna speaks on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley, surrounded by a crowd.

Feeling inspired and energized after today’s #StandUpForScience rally at Berkeley. Huge turnout. Fantastic speakers, including friends, colleagues, and Nobel prize winners (pictured here, Jennifer Doudna, inventor of CRISPR).

Same same

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at the House hearing on sanctuary cities:

"If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting Medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our cities safe."

Mic drop!

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Well said, re: tariffs and car prices. This is not a win in any way.

New survey supports a strong Berkeley Bike Plan: Op-ed The authors commissioned a professional poll from a nonpartisan research agency to learn more about what Berkeley wants in its bike infrastructure.

“These poll results…should end the debate over who is the narrow interest group. People who want safe streets for everyone…are the clear majority. Anti-safety, anti-bike-lane advocates are a small marginal group who want to protect their own self-interest at the expense of vulnerable street users.”

Came here to say this

Happening tonight!!! For BUSD families only!

This is a topic I have tried to push for years. Kids have a right to move around on our roads exactly the same as licensed drivers. You don't need a licenses to ride your bike in the street and yet cities do little to protect youth who need to use our roads.

Are We Starting to Treat Plane Crashes The Way We Treat Car Crashes? — Streetsblog USA As aviation disasters pile up, is America in the midst of a culture shift in transportation safety — and what would that mean for advocates on the ground?

My entire career, I've heard street safety advocates say they wish America took car crashes as seriously as plane crashes. Wrote about how that conversation needs to shift as deregulation and defunding comes for air travel, too, and why government trust is an overlooked component of "safe systems."

Yeah, I think you can argue that basing a speed limit on the 85th when so few vehicles were measured means you’re very unlikely to be getting the true 85th (huge margin of error). If true 85th were a few mph lower (27.4 instead of 31), you could lower to 20 based on AB43 given schools and park.

I guess I’d just say that, since the speed limit based on this E&TS wouldn’t stand up in court, I’d also just encourage setting at 20 or 25 and not enforce it. You can do that - just put up the speed limit you want and don’t bother enforcing it. You’ll still get some effect.

This E&TS would not stand up in court. The CA Manual on Speed Limit Setting states “In no case should the sample contain less than 50 vehicles.” I’d recommend city engineers request a change in functional classification of this road from collector to local, then set the speed limit as they choose.

Berkeley Bike Plan Focused Update - Public Input Map & Survey The City of Berkeley is updating its Bicycle Plan for everyone who wants to bike or roll in Berkeley – including skateboarding, scooting, or other personal wheeled mobility devices.

Hey Berkeleyans! Does your kid bike to school? Do you wish they could but don't feel it's safe enough?

There’s a BUSD-specific listening session on the Bike Plan update: Tue 2/25, 6:30-8:30pm at King! Would be great to get input from families on how Berkeley can make it safer to bike to school.

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

I know things are going downhill quick but I lack a sufficiently deep understanding of both US history & how other authoritarian governments operate to grasp what’s coming.

This article was a really helpful read in providing that context. Highly recommend.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Screenshot of chron.com article with a photo of a cybertruck, stating that the Tesla cybertruck has been found to have a fatality rate 17 times that of the infamously unsafe Ford Pinto

Screenshot of a NYT article with a photo of Elon musk standing in front of a cybertruck stating that the US State Dept plans to purchase armored cybertrucks for $400 million

Nothing to see here folks.

Just a whole lot of federal fraud and waste.

I also feel like this about accessing “free” data.

I ordered ours about 2 weeks ago figuring it’ll be done any day now.

So glad these wonderful scholars/colleagues are speaking up about the consequences of canceling equitable transportation research projects.

Failing to examine a problem doesn’t make it go away, but it does make us all worse off.

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

I am feeling this very acutely.

I remain super pissed that the taxes I've paid are funding harm instead of services, and then I need to do mutual aid to help people being harmed by the government I'm funding.

That's the inefficiency right there.

Alfred wearing a flowery hat and a red Chinese style jacket, in front of a freshly painted bus lane

A #7 AC Transit bus to Emeryville Amtrak stops at a bus stop with a green bus shelter People are crossing the street in front. In the back are highrise dorms

Red paint makes buses go faster!

New bus lane on Durant Ave in #Berkeley for @rideact.bsky.social buses! 🚌🚌🚌 @telegraphforpeople.bsky.social

Or get a cargo bike!

Wow. RIP Donald Shoup. What a big thinker who moved forward urbanism in an awesome way.

I was lucky to have crossed paths with him.

Indeed. Between Shattuck and Milvia.

A cybertruck obnoxiously parked in a green two-way protected bike lane in Berkeley.

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