Carter Lavin

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Looking to build power for winning transit, bike and street safety changes in your community? if You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy will take you step-by-step through the process. Check it out at @islandpress.bsky.social islandpress.org/books/if-you...

Wishing you a full and speedy recovery! And happy reading while you rest up

As long as you're gathering signatures as part of that!

Help keep transit throughout the Bay alive, come gather signatures. We need 200,000 by June to get a funding measure on the ballot in time to stop the cuts. Details here
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This. Exactly.

2- and 3-wheeled vehicles have delivered more emissions reductions than #EVs, globally.

And you get fewer children & youth killed by cars. And better cities. Win-win-win.
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Everything the US moves around needs diesel fuel to power the trucks, trains, & boats: food, goods, crops, commodities, everything. Oil products powers ~90% of US transport. It's why we should electrify transport as a national security imperative: to reduce the risk of price shocks to the economy.

Keeping the Bay Area's transit going and growing is essential -- but at a time where gas prices are skyrocketing, transit service is on the verge of getting cut. Help save & improve transit throughout the region!
www.transbaycoalition.org/regional-tra...

Next work week we are gonna see record transit ridership, but because out transit agencies have been chronically underfunded the systems will struggle to keep up.

Drivers, hope you keep this in mind in November when you get to vote on increased transit funding.

Regional Measure Volunteer Meeting Your community is on the verge of losing transit service as BART, Caltrain, Muni, and AC Transit face HUGE cuts. For example, BART could drop from 4,200 trains/week to just 500. But we can save famil...

Hosting a training this week about how to have an easier time gathering signatures to keep the Bay's vital transit system going and growing! Join the fun!
actionnetwork.org/events/conne...

Signature Gathering at Unity Park in Richmond · Luma Join us to start gathering signatures for Connect Bay Area, the five-county regional transit funding measure! We will meet at Unity Park on the corner of Ohio…

Signature gathering in Richmond to help keep our bus & BART service alive, going and growing

Join the fun!
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With people taking a million transit trips happening in the Bay each day, it goes without saying that BART, VTA, Caltrain, AC Transit & others rock. Let's keep them going!

Working out regularly and getting back into organizing have been good for my spirit. Annoying but true, lol.

Please add your comments to the survey, especially about the dangers of painted bike lanes

Painted bike lanes on 2nd are dangerous door-zone lanes used more for double parking, and are not appropriate for a transit hub. OakDOT should follow the bike plan and install protected bike lanes on 3rd

Call & write to your reps to tell them to stop funding the war machine

And if you are a California and want to tell our senators to fund transit, write them a letter here actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

#urbanism #transitadvocacy #books | Raymond Berger If you’ve ever thought, “My city needs better transportation… but how do I actually make that happen?” 🚍 The book If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight by Carter Lavin is one of the most practical,...

"This is your playbook for turning your vision into reality" --- a very nice review of my book! Check out the review
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And check out the book at your local library or get it from @islandpress.bsky.social & @princetonupress.bsky.social

Signature Gathering at Alysa Liu Celebration at Oakland City Hall · Luma Join us to start gathering signatures for Connect Bay Area, the five-county regional transit funding measure! We will meet at 11:30 in Frank Ogawa Plaza near…

Noted BART rider, Muni enthusiast, and Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu will be celebrated next Thursday, March 12th at Oakland City Hall. It's only appropriate to celebrate someone who understands the joy that public transit brings by gathering signatures to save public transit! Come join!

This country can afford anything it wants. Single payer healthcare. Affordable housing. Modern transit systems. High speed rail. Everything is a choice.

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If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight

A pretty cool thing about having written a book is randomly getting texts & DMs from folks with pics of them and the book.

Always brightens my day

(Ends up you can get it at the Cal library)

Or get your own at
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
@islandpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight

Each and every one of us can make the world a better place.
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Imagine having robust transit options where geopolitics don’t affect the cost of your commute.

Mid-day @bart.gov train from 19th St to SF. Chatting a bit with fellow riders.

An elderly couple in from Connecticut visiting their child at Cal

A person in from Kentucky

Some friends talking about their career paths and a dozen others going about their day.

BART is a treasure worth protecting

No idea how all that works.

I recommend getting it from wherever you most like getting books.

You can order from @islandpress.bsky.social 's website and get 20% off with discount code FIGHT

If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight

And building the political power you need to win those improvements for your community can be pretty straightforward too--
Here's a book that'll help you in the process!
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It's also pretty easy (logistically) to significantly scale up a community's transit, walk-ability, and bike-ability.

Every improvement that makes your community more comfortable and convenient to get around outside of a car helps more people use less oil

Tell California Senators Padilla & Schiff to fund transit through the Moving Transit Forward Act Transit in California has never gotten the support it deserves from the Federal Government even though Californians send more in taxes to the Federal Government than we get back. This lack of Federal ...

Would be nice if the federal government helped fund transit though, so call your senators & congressional rep to demand transit operations funding!

Or write a letter here actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Bay Area transit agencies face massive budget shortfalls now and the funds from the Connect Bay Area regional measure (if it passes) won't start coming through til next year.

So the loan is needed to stop cuts til the regional measure money starts flowing.

They are unrelated.

The federal government pretty much does not fund transit operations (they do give some crumbs to transit capital projects).

So there is no delay in transit operations funding from the feds since they don't really fund it in the first place.

The loan is needed cuz...