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Italy is expected to have 80% of its railway electrified by 2026, but California is far behind. What can CA learn from Italy's rail modernization program? Join us and @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social on May 21st at 6 pm to hear from @chittimarco.bsky.social about how! actionnetwork.org/events/what-...

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Mark your calendars: The 2025 edition of Inclusive Design 24 ( #id24 ) will take place on the 25 September 2025! We've just opened our call for presentations (closing date 31 May 2025) - looking forward to your exciting submissions! inclusivedesign24.org/2025/ #a11y #accessibility

You can’t overstate the historic importance of today’s speech to both American and Canadian citizens by Canada’s Prime Minister. Please watch it and share it wherever you live, but especially if you’re in the United States. You need to know what Trump is doing, and why. youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

I wrote Part 1 of a piece called "How the 2026 World Cup Will Embarrass the United States," as I believe both domestic and international visitors will find our infrastructure inadequate for the 6+ million people planning to attend. thetransitguy.substack.com/p/how-the-20...

Arrowhead Stadium and Berlin's Olympiastadion share similar capacities as World Cup venues. Yet Arrowhead has 19,000 parking spaces served by one local bus, while Olympiastadion has 660 spaces and three rapid train stations. We are truly not ready for the World Cup.

Trump exploded in fury at Bishop Marian Budde on Truth Social a little after midnight, calling her a "hater." As we argue on today's pod, there is nothing MAGA despises more than appeals to common decency and humanity. newrepublic.com/article/1905...

Jamey Gump of LightHouse SF talks about using Waymo. youtube.com/watch?v=Qtr_...

🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊 It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally. ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags. Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.

It is entirely logical to be furious at the fossil fuel industry, whose decades-long campaign of corrupting politicians, crafting fake science, sowing false doubt, and lying at an industrial scale has brought us to this moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Thrilling news! A company making the internet worse for disabled people was fined $1 million by the FTC for breaking the law. Remind web developers to avoid AccessiBe and similar companies claiming their AI tools make websites accessible. @lflegal.bsky.social www.lflegal.com/2025/01/ftc-...

Electricity Capitol Corridor Now! Stop futzing with hydrogen @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and use a proven, reliable technology.

Drivers being bad to blind pedestrians. We’re watching you.

A reminder that obnoxious, blocking cookie consent banners are not required by law but are there because tech companies had a massive tantrum at being prevented from tracking the bejesus out of you by default.. They don't need to be annoying or intrusive, companies can absolutely choose not to […]

Chapel Hill knows what's up.

🧵Three weeks ago, 31-year-old Andrea Vallebueno, a Mexico City-born data scientist at Stanford University was killed by a car while riding her bike on the dangerously designed Holly St freeway overpass in San Carlos California, a sprawled suburb south of San Francisco www.kron4.com/news/bay-are...

Absolutely disgusting that a bicyclist was killed at location where a bike/ped bridge was *funded for construction* but put on hold in order indefinitely to widen the freeway. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th8Z...

At the Metropolitan Transportation Commission where they are about to discuss recommendations to the legislature for regional transit funding...

The Transbay Tube turned 50 earlier this year 💙 To celebrate we thought we’d take you through the Bay Area’s premier engineering marvel from the POV of a train operator! Check it out

Despite opposition from over 350 civil liberties and other organizations, H.R. 9495 passed the House. Tell the Senate this is an existential threat to nonprofits of all stripes, and they must vote no on this dangerous expansion of executive power:

As California considers backfilling federal EV incentives if Trump cuts them, let’s also remember Trump wants to end federal support for public transportation. California needs to prioritize shoring up our transit systems. Transit service cuts would spike costs for so many.

Comparing the size of the two best selling vehicles in Europe (VW Golf/Peugeot 208) and Canada/USA (Ford F150/Dodge Ram). What is the difference in the North American lifestyle that requires such large vehicles?

Approximately 480 commuters in this photo. 200 cars = 240 commuters 4 buses = 240 commuters

Expanding highways may relieve traffic congestion for a little while but, sooner than you expect, the new lanes fill up with additional drivers, causing even more traffic, enabling even more suburban #sprawl, increasing emissions & encroaching on the landscape. Induced demand is real:

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Hello Less Hateful World

We have theoretical ideas about a better world (e.g., less car dependency, 15-minute cities, fossil free future, climate and environmental justice, etc), but no visualization of what that world looks like. That’s where stories and films depicting this world can help.