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||Data infrastructure alum || To stop the train in cases of emergency pull down the chain; penalty for improper use, five pounds (he/him)San Francisco, CAJoined July 2008
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I appreciate this new mandate to pause and reflect amidst our fast paced world. I might want to tweet now, but I can't. I have to stop and ask myself whether this is the tweet I really want to transmit into the world of the future.
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Transit enriches the places and lives around it. It is a public good, and should be funded as such.
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Our call to the state is not just a call to bridge the gap but also that we need more sustainable models of operating funds.
And this is not a BART-only or -induced issue. All Bay Area transit agencies face this crisis indiscriminately and totally.
bart.gov/financialcrisis
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ah, well nevertheless
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Elon Musk and Tesla have defeated the class action lawsuit spurred by the 2018 โFunding Securedโ tweets. The jury returned the verdict in barely two hours. Elon Musk was not in the courtroom for the reading.
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Today, we introduced AB 413 to institute daylighting to improve public safety. CAโs pedestrian fatality rate is more than 25% higher than the national average. Daylighting is an important measure that increases visibility of pedestrians & bicyclists at crosswalks & intersections
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Without additional relief funding for transit from the state, local transit agencies will need to pull together more money to stay afloat and avoid fiscal cliff cuts. Here's what San Francisco is looking at
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Grim outlook at upcoming @SFMTA_Muni meeting. The Bay Area's largest transit agency faces a fiscal cliff and stagnating ridership. Policy options:
- Expanded meter hours on evenings and Sundays
- More parking tickets
- Fare hikes and cracking down on fare evaders
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Our work suggests that *if we stay the course on a dense boosting frequency*, we may be able to build up nAbs to a more protective level. Dropping down to 1x/yr will pretty much guarantee that we run our nAb titers all the way down. (10/)
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The CARES Act shortened the wait from 1 year (in the ACA) down to within 15 business days of the US Preventive Services Task Force recommending a COVID-19 preventive services. But I know of no signs of USPSTF considering COVID tests as potential preventive services.
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S(ubstack)-Bahn is back for 2023!
I provide an update to the near-daily protests by disability rights activists inside Seoul Metro. Started in 2021, the protests entered its third year. There is no resolution in sight; in fact, I argue itโs gotten worse
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IMO (see article below), CA regulators bear much of the blame for San Francisco's robotaxi problems.
Cruise, Waymo, etc face enormous pressure to deploy faster โ even if itโs unsafe. Strong regulation is essential -- and CA isn't providing it.
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Many of these incidents involved โfrozenโ Cruise vehicles blocking street traffic, but there were other, critical problems too:
On 6/12/22 a Cruise vehicle ran over a fire hose in use at a fire
On 1/21/23 firefighters had to smash a Cruise car window to prevent a recurrence
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i am genuinely terrified of what might happen if transit agencies go under
i really really hope the feds or the state figure it out
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Interesting to see BART mention (new?) efforts to get operational funding from the feds in slides from tomorrow's board meeting. Is there new movement at the federal level? Everyone I've discussed bridge funding with has put the chance of more federal assistance at near zero.
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Nearly one in three traffic fatalities in SF in 2022 were hit and runs.
More likely than not, the drivers responsible for these collisions will never be held accountable, and survivors are largely left to advocate for themselves.
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Hereโs the number I carry in my head from 2-3% of the US population is immunocompromised. Thatโs a huge and under represented minority. Link below. They deserve our support and weโre neglecting them. No excuse.
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Police in S.F. are still using marijuana as a reason to stop people, and they are overwhelming using it to stop Black people.
Excellent reporting from and
sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pol
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Every time Asian folks die I get dozens of media requests and hundreds of new followers. I write/post about Asian America, race, ethnic studies, etc regularly but people seem to only care when thereโs mass death. I refuse to be an expert on my community dying ๐ What the hell
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There it is. Been wondering when the first of the iconic #KingTides bikes on the flooded Marin bike path would come in this weekend. Thank you photographer. Bikers, I hope you did a good job cleaning your bikes afterwards.
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"parking minimum" = 0 results
"building code" = 0 results
"land assembly" = 0 results
"discretionary approval" = 0 results
NYT wrote a whole article about 5/1s aesthetics and didn't bother to examine the underlying rules that produce them at all.
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Around the country, people are fed up with the state of contemporary building.
Yes, we desperately need new housing. But we also need to build that housing well, in ways that people can appreciate and will last for generations.
Whatโs going on here?
nytimes.com/2023/01/20/rea
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More New Yorkers have died of COVID in the past sixteen days than died of homicide all of last year. Of those two issues which are politicians and the press telling you is an emergency and which are they telling you is unimportant?
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NYC records 400 COVID deaths in 2 weeks as PCR testing drops -- newbie by me for @WNYC / @Gothamist
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it's baaaaaack! save the date and come out in August to find out what foodstuff a cargo bike will be filled with this time
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SAVE THE DATE!
PROM ON THE PROM IS AUGUST 19, 2023!
SEE YOU THERE!
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I am once again asking public transit agencies to please just not do this to themselves
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MetroMicro cost per trip has gone from $43 to $32 [from ridiculously excessively expensive to just really expensive]
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We understand the state is projecting a budget shortfall and that difficult choices must be made.
However, allowing the stateโs transit systems to unravel would have long-term, possibly irreversible, devastating impacts on Californiaโs transportation system and climate goals.
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Powerful reporting from .
35 people were killed on Oakland's roads last year.
Some of their family members Jose spoke to said they hope their loved ones' tragic stories can spur change to make the streets safer for everyone.
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Iโm not exactly sure why the Army Corps of Engineers released a calendar of giant cats attacking infrastructure but I do think this is the best possible use of my tax dollars usace.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec
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now (1/2023) there is scheduled to be 6tph for the K, 6tph for the M, and the S no longer runs, for a grand total of 12tph at any platform between church and west portal. 18tph =/= 12tph. what transpired between november and now was a 1/3rd service cut. not โno service reductionโ
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eSome interesting Shared Spaces numbers from the SFMTA Board meeting. There were 984 permit applications, of which 702 were parklets. 592 of those were renewals and 110 new applications.
They say this is a substantial portion but down from the ~1,500ish at the program's peak
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We have a new study out!
The short version is this: "Car Brain" - the cultural blind spot that makes people apply double standards when they think about driving - is real, measurable and pervasive.
Read on for more details... 1/14
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There is almost no money in next yearโs budget for Long Covid. That billion is almost all gone with, yet, a single Paxlovid trial starting *just recently.* Thatโs it. Despite occasional good media articles, the attention isnโt there. This isnโt good. Needs a huge, focused push.
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If you want a good example of how sanitized and sterilized we've made MLK's memory, here's the editorial the ran on the day of his "defining speech."
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Editorial: "As we mark the 94th birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we should take a step away from our divisive politics and recall his defining speech." bangordailynews.com/2023/01/15/opi
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*stares intently at the phrase "dry wx returns"*
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The next incoming storm is taking aim at the Central Coast with less rainfall for the North Bay. Steady rain redevelops this afternoon into tonight with lingering showers and t-storms through Monday evening. Dry Tuesday then one last weak system on Weds before dry wx returns.
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"My decision to turn my lens toward my own family and their recovery from the storms was not just about recording it for historic purposes. Itโs about the realization that no one, not my family nor yours, is safe from the effects of climate change."
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On NYE, my hometown of Sunol was hit hard by an atmospheric river. It was the worst storm the town had seen in 40 years.
My momโs house flooded and I documented as they picked up the pieces. My @sfchronicle writing debut, please spend time with this one bit.ly/3H4AJ3A
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But when I confronted Honeyman by DM, I got a surprise:
They claimed they worked for a troll farm in southern Africa and were paid by a #Covid19 influencer and small American YouTuber!
Then, they deleted the account.
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A dreamy view of San Francisco from Portola Drive.
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found that Tuesday's pedestrian fatality, at 16th and Valencia, wasn't the first time a pedestrian was struck at the intersection.
Since 2021, two other drivers have hit pedestrians while making a left turn at the intersection. Via
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With heavy hearts, we share that Wan Mei Tan was hit & killed crossing at Mission & Valencia yesterday.
We stand w/ to support loved ones of Wan Mei Tan & also call on city leaders to act with new urgency to protect all of us.
Our statement:
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Transit is bearing the brunt of Newsom's budget cuts. $2bn slashed from TIRCP a key infrastructure program that could impact BART to San Jose and Caltrain electrification. No new money proposed for agencies' looming fiscal cliffs
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