@jeffreytumlin.bsky.social
Transport nerd. Recovering city bureaucrat. Working to cut COβ, eliminate traffic violence, advance equity, and strengthen local economies. Former SFMTA, OakDOT, Nelson/Nygaard. SF
The CDCβs new logo:
25.11.2025 18:07 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0"Sometimes as writers we have to say, 'Enough.'"
Congratulations to @rabihalameddine.bsky.social on your National Book Award for Fiction
groveatlantic.com/book/the-tru...
Postcard from SF.
25.11.2025 01:24 β π 15 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0
For reasons nothing to do with current affairs, we're queuing up the 1966 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
23.11.2025 01:13 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Now more than ever, we need technologists ready to use their skills to uphold the public good. Please join me in supporting @publicgood.tech
23.11.2025 00:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This is a large poster at the train stop. It reads: Delve.co ... Today, SOC 2 is done before your AI girlfriend beaks up with you ... It's done in Delve.
This is a large poster at a train stop. It has a picture of a white woman with long dark hair. Over top of her face, it reads "STOP HIRING HUMANS*" Then, in smaller font: "*To Do Manual Outbound. Hire Ava, the AI BDR. Artisan.co"
Two perfectly normal ads in the perfectly normal city of San Francisco.
22.11.2025 23:42 β π 301 π 79 π¬ 23 π 10
Corsican hellebore
Cymbidium orchids, which grow like weeds in SF
Daphne, which blooms late January
Aloe
... And the first of the winter bloomers
22.11.2025 22:49 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Princess flower
Rose "Lyda"
Forget-me-nots
Reblooming bearded iris, "Frequent flyer"
Saturday means reading in the backyard, checking out the last of the fall flowers...
22.11.2025 22:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I am looking respectfully at the lady cyclist who is noted for her athletic power
22.11.2025 22:09 β π 79 π 18 π¬ 2 π 0Letβs talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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Like Uber, AVs have the upside of reducing parking demand. Downside: big increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled and traffic -- including lots of miles driving empty
19.11.2025 19:27 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Trump Administration is to propose a massive cut in federal transit funding as part of 2026 transport legislation.
This proposal would decimate the nation's transit systems, while not actually solving the revenue problem federal transportation funding faces.
Evidence @urbaninstitute.bsky.social β¬
In SF region:
Mary Ellen Pleasant + Charlotte Brown: equal access to transit in 1860s
Muni itself born in a riot
Curtis Green integrating transit in 1970s + reinventing public image
Independent Living moment in Berkeley - efforts to ensure universal accessibility
Oscar Grant and Fruitvale Station
Recording of AV panel here
youtu.be/AVSXqFYmBnU
Soon the expanded South Station Bus Terminal will have a direct passenger connection to MBTA commuter rail and Amtrak - like one integrated system
18.11.2025 17:57 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Greetings from the MBTA Green Line, one stop away from the oldest subway in North America
18.11.2025 15:10 β π 22 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I hesitated to take it. But it speaks to so much about what is broken in American cities and why.
18.11.2025 02:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system"
18.11.2025 01:32 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1So many things to love about Boston. Among them: spicy social media comments
17.11.2025 19:15 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Join me today at noon at Boston Public Library to talk about the role of AVs in cities, with all-star cast. Livestream on WGBH
www.wgbh.org/forum-networ...
Game-changing for US transit, allowing for the 2-minute, all day headways we see in other countries
17.11.2025 14:51 β π 55 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0"There are about a thousand of us."
Yes, because the thing about girls is that they don't stay girls for very long. Which makes them disposable. And which means that men like Epstein need a huge supply.
Barely made the last train back to Boston, and already regretting my punctuality
16.11.2025 05:06 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They are singing SEA SHANTIES on the train in perfect harmony at 11:29 pm
16.11.2025 04:29 β π 14 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0All the weirdos with me on the last MBTA train to Boston agree Providence is the most fun city in New England
16.11.2025 04:25 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 2My inner Goth girl and Viking ancestors love Providence Waterfire so much. How is it that I've never been here before?
waterfire.org/schedule/202...
Sure the Brown campus is beautiful. But favorite part is this Hitchcock-level screeching murder of crows on the so-called "Quiet Green"
15.11.2025 21:54 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
TIL the 1914 Providence East Side Trolley Tunnel has been a dedicated busway since 1948, with claims on being oldest BRT in North America
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Si...
βοΈ Map Center pilgrimage
Also, what's the deal with everyone thanking the bus operator and stopping for pedestrians. Is RI so different from Mass?
