Alameda County: meet your candidates Join us in downtown Oakland on Thursday Aug 20th at 6pm for a mixer to meet candidates and elected officials running for office across Alameda County this fall. RSVP required. @seamlessbayareaca.bsky.social
Meet Your 2026 Alameda County Candidates!An informal mixer to meet candidates running across Alameda County this fall. Grab a drink, ask questions, and get a feel for who's on your ballot.events.humanitix.comWednesday July 8th at 7pm we're discussing our endorsement process for the Nov 26 election. Online, link available: eastbayforeveryone.org/event/eb4e-m...
EB4E Monthly Meeting | East Bay for Everyoneeastbayforeveryone.org(Lucilla at the end of Gladiator voice) there once was electric rail on this road. Make us believe it again
dereksagehornAlthough based on the experience of SP’s East Bay Electrics it’s unclear whether SP would have been able to get a rate increase from the California Railroad Commission subsequent to electrification of the Peninsula service.
Union City has shrunk the most of any >50k city in California since 2020 - I immediately checked on their Housing Element stats and it explains a lot! The city's own data dashboard doesn't even show completed projects, just permitted www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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East Bay for EveryoneJoin us for brews and transit organizing on Wednesday June 10th at 6pm. We're meeting at Two Pitchers in downtown Oakland to celebrate the Connect Bay Area signature campaign and to kick off the campaign to see it passed in November. Featuring BART director Robert Raburn.
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East Bay for EveryoneJoin us for brews and transit organizing on Wednesday June 10th at 6pm. We're meeting at Two Pitchers in downtown Oakland to celebrate the Connect Bay Area signature campaign and to kick off the campaign to see it passed in November. Featuring BART director Robert Raburn.
Probably worth doing a retrospective on the procurement and implementation process that ended up with MTC awarding a $500m contract in one swoop to the only company that bid on it (Cubic).
Azul Dahlstrom-EckmanFrustration with Cubic bubbled over after the fare collection company revealed that a 27-hour outage that brought down BART’s ticket vending machines and fare gates last month was caused by the company failing to pay its AT&T bill. www.kqed.org/news/12085683
New walk/bike advocacy group based in Walnut Creek: walkbikewc.com Join a monthly bike ride (tomorrow!) or sign up for the newsletter
Home | Walk Bike Walnut CreekWalk Bike Walnut Creek brings neighbors together to make walking and biking safer, easier, and more enjoyable for everyone.walkbikewc.comYard signs are very underrated mechanism for local elections and policy change
HyperlexicBerkeley peeps (fellow houseketeers) - help fund pro-housing signs for “the last zoning battle” (commercial district) donorbox.org/help-pay-for...
El Cerrito mini railroad must learn from the mistakes of the Fairyland jolly trolly - Electrified acceleration and deceleration - Level boarding - Clock face schedule - Grade separated crossings
Rebecca SaltzmanI just met with a group of El Cerrito elementary school students, who had lots of questions about the City Council and the City. Of course, many were about the library. At the end I asked them for ideas. My favorites: Build an El Cerrito zoo. Build a mini-railroad around an El Cerrito park. ❤️❤️❤️