Geoff 🇮🇪🇵🇸🌹

Remember! The budget crisis is literally because of the inherent instability of fares as a funding method the pandemic exposed. Free fare is the only long term solution to this. I’ll still try and pass the sales tax since it’s still better than trains disappearing. But tax the rich, fund the train.

What is this to? Who is this for???

How’s it goin?

I think this is just a similarity not elucidated by housing advocates. Buses/trains : transportation == social housing : housing. And many advocates that are pro-transit but anti-SB 79 are so along pro-tenants rights lines, at least particularly in LA and SF.

Society if average teacher pay were merely equal average cop pay… 😭

They’re saying lack of room lighting affects color and brightness in a way that makes people look sickly pale.

It wouldn’t be had they gone with the Gross Receipts Tax I suggested alongside SEIU. Progressive taxation for transit is very popular, just our representatives always choose less popular, regressive taxation.

The sidewalk width as a whole for starters. But the Copenhagen model was going after the guidelines for road design standards. Instead of begging for funding for particular projects, future updates just had to include their standards. I guess similar to ADA here. 30+ year timeline strat.

Pro-Palestine Stanford Students Await Trial Verdict “They are so brave. They are representing the future and are giving us hope.”

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Damn. Few things capture that same vibe as OG Gundam newtype scenes, but you did here. Great job!

New Social History ‘Palo Alto’ Tells a Story of Laborers and Exploiters Malcom Harris’ accessible but informative history takes on the forces of capitalism that have shaped Silicon Valley.

Yep. Since its origin.

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Wtf is that road width?…

Dream policy is we set up a Green New Deal WPA, build the actually necessary stuff (like BART over San Mateo-Hayward Bridge), and then keep building stuff just for employment like extension from Hillsdale to Half Moon Bay

Who is this for? Bike racks in front of nothing, barely tucked away yet exposed to the elements and possible theft. No walkway up to them. Greenery between them and the door.

And directly under the station, where you’d expect to be able to exit to either side, like one station down at Belmont, you’re met with a fence protecting a Michael’s parking lot.

Also, Caltrain’s NEWEST station, Hillsdale, is a mess of form over function. It lacks an exit from the platform to 31st Ave, a major street from the mall. How are people supposed to know to walk to the other side and through two blocks of parking lot? There aren’t even signs.

Sloped cement added to flat surface that could act as urban seating.

Non-functional sidewalk next to car wash on direct path to train station. No crosswalk to station at next intersection.

My walk to Caltrain from the San Mateo County hospital…

Broken Sidewalks & Hostile Design 🪡🧵

Electric interurban (streetcar / train hybrid) running near South San Francisco.

Kansas City: 508,090 pop / 319 sqmi = 1593 pop/sqmi

Redwood City: 84,292 pop / 35 sqmi = 2408 pop/sqmi

Yet KC has a FREE streetcar. But RWC has more billionaires.

SamTrans is even redesigning El Camino right now. They should be planning to reinstall the streetcar we had, this time to Palo Alto.

suburbs*

And people's biggest misconception is that subrbs can't justify public transit. 1. Historically, whether San Francisco or China, etc, transit went in before, and urban planning and density followed. 2. "Car hells" like the Inland Empire are still denser than places with good buses like Portland.

I live in an apartment and park my car outside. There's no way I can afford a new EV even with a $7,500 discount, and I wouldn't have anywhere to charge it if I did. The #1 thing that would reduce my emissions is better transit service. But no one in local or state gov seems interested.

What shift from Dems? They have only ever helped ratchet to the right on immigration in our life times.

Intentional, but to what end? The special evil isn’t new. If they’re seeing it now, it seems like an important time to explain the disease not the symptom.

Always has been. Obama used ICE more than Bush. And Trump came to power because Clinton refused to have a plan for the economy other than scolding “undesirables” for not learning to code themselves. A Green New Deal jobs program would’ve solved all of this.

@governor.ca.gov

You won’t believe who controls the state transportation budget!

Did you know, virtually all highway funds can be redirected to public transit? So all these highway widenings worsening our carbon footprint could be paying for trains.

SF Cheonggyecheon when? 😭

To add to your thread and expand my point, SFH were artificially pushed by the red scare government specifically to reduce leftist sympathy and create a reactionary minor landowning class. The designation of SFH as a code even comes from Berkeley, CA enforcing racial covenants. Book is Abolish Rent.