Some. My gut would say a lot of service workers are still just riding mountain bikes they probably got second hand a while ago. Before the YIMBYish apartments, the flats were the cheap parts of town, the hills are mostly SFH and mansions. So they’re still good enough. But I do see some cheap ebikes
It's so frustrating going to city council meetings and hearing bicyclists almost exclusively talked about in terms of kids or hobbyists, which perpetuates the narrow demographics of riders. Just based on experience, I'd say the average El Camino rider is a restaurant worker.
They were mostly fine with it, though.
More Perfect Union actually just covered this, in case you didn’t see already
youtu.be/w7LPPTLDXu4
Whenever I see highlights of Korean baseball, the fans are simply having a better time. We’re doing something wrong.
“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social
Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”
Study: AVs Will Super-Charge VMT - usa.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/s...
Let’s go!!!
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.
Damn. Few things capture that same vibe as OG Gundam newtype scenes, but you did here. Great job!
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.
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