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All parking is free if you park illegally all around Water Street, or in the Broadway surface lot, or on any bike lane.

Car ownership is a scam. Every element is a scam. Buying a car is legendarily scammy. Advertising: manipulative and gross. Gas prices: at the whim of a madman. Insurance: scam. Repairs: scam. The Jiffy Lube in Ballard: staffed by unsupervised criminals. (Sorry to get oddly specific at the end.)

But that's only like 10 people, and they know that they need the crazies in order for their mediocre ideas to ever gain traction.

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

I spoke at the ill fated Latham Square pedestrianization Oakland city council meeting from my parents' house in Italy.

Those closures didn't have a meaningful impact on the carbon trajectory, but I'd argue the opportunity cost of focusing on that and largely abandoning anti-car organizing is the real loss.

And where UC construction forces students to walk into traffic because they take over the sidewalks.

Lol sure, expense. Free parking costs the city, how are we still talking about re-appropriating privately used public space this way?

Bass promoting fare-free LA metro is a really funny example of a politician attempting to pander but instead landing on a proposal that, within the community of people who care a lot about the issue, is a specific shibboleth for not knowing what you're talking about: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

Why are we even still part of this union?

In the offchance that you're more familiar with my book -- If You Want To Win, You've Got To Fight: A Guide To Effective Transportation Advocacy -- than you are with California bike lane efforts: This is the one referenced on page 5!

When I worked there they told me we couldn't call for the end of coal because too many senators are from coal states. It's not a think tank, it's a wind vane

Guys, this is getting out of hand. They didn’t grow the lettuce

Jane Kim, the current front-runner for the state insurance commissioner, would make this already unsustainable problem even worse. She wants you to subsidize fire insurance for rich people who choose to live in the urban-wildland interface where wildfires do the most property damage.

This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!

For the last 4 (!) years, I've been chronicling the journey of a 40 unit 100% affordable housing project for senior farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, California. Despite being approved in May, the journey sadly isn't over: a measure has qualified for the ballot this November to stop the project. 🧵

I just love these socialist urbanist mayors.

like, I know people get mad when you say liberals prefer fascists to leftists but they keep saying it

Cars ruin cities

Finally someone with the essential sports betting background required for running a metropolis.