Tristen
@hawkfalcon.bsky.social
I care a lot about transit and walkability | Strong Towns Santa Barbara | he/him
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The Pacific Surfliner is the 2nd busiest passenger rail line in the country. In recent years, it has suffered frequent closures due to erosion.
In August, @thecacoast.bsky.social delayed repairs because just 1 (!!) person complained. Now that permit isn't being considered again until November.
In August, @thecacoast.bsky.social delayed repairs because just 1 (!!) person complained. Now that permit isn't being considered again until November.
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The Pacific Surfliner is the 2nd busiest passenger rail line in the country. In recent years, it has suffered frequent closures due to erosion.
In August, @thecacoast.bsky.social delayed repairs because just 1 (!!) person complained. Now that permit isn't being considered again until November.
In August, @thecacoast.bsky.social delayed repairs because just 1 (!!) person complained. Now that permit isn't being considered again until November.
I’ve been reading this book and it’s probably the best straight-to-the-point guide on how to make a difference with transportation advocacy I’ve read. Nice job Carter!
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I’ve been reading this book and it’s probably the best straight-to-the-point guide on how to make a difference with transportation advocacy I’ve read. Nice job Carter!
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1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")
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The amount budgeted for *all* transit, not just regional rail - is far less than we need to complete the State Rail Plan on time. And starting soon, all of it will be awarded as competitive grants that cause years of delay. CA urgently needs to fix funding to meet climate goals.
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The amount budgeted for *all* transit, not just regional rail - is far less than we need to complete the State Rail Plan on time. And starting soon, all of it will be awarded as competitive grants that cause years of delay. CA urgently needs to fix funding to meet climate goals.
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California will spend $31 billion on transportation this year with about 3% of that budgeted for support for transit agencies. lao.ca.gov/Publications...
October 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
California will spend $31 billion on transportation this year with about 3% of that budgeted for support for transit agencies. lao.ca.gov/Publications...
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We can make great things happen. It takes a hell of a lot of organizing and fighting to win, but we can make this world a better place.
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If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight
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November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
We can make great things happen. It takes a hell of a lot of organizing and fighting to win, but we can make this world a better place.
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
islandpress.org/books/if-you...
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New Mineta Institute report on CA High-Speed Rail explains that CAHSR was given certain "superpowers", but lack of special powers on eminent domain or 3rd party permits slow the project. CAHSR needs to be empowered to finish faster - but imagine if Metrolink had even CAHSR's powers?
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 AM
New Mineta Institute report on CA High-Speed Rail explains that CAHSR was given certain "superpowers", but lack of special powers on eminent domain or 3rd party permits slow the project. CAHSR needs to be empowered to finish faster - but imagine if Metrolink had even CAHSR's powers?
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Sounds like Caltrans should've built this
COMPLETE: Avenue 17 Grade Separation
📍Madera County
The grade separation will:
🤝Serve as a new through roadway improving east-west mobility for the community
🚑Reduce emergency response times
🚅Take traffic & pedestrians over BNSF & future HSR tracks
bit.ly/4qBg4so
📍Madera County
The grade separation will:
🤝Serve as a new through roadway improving east-west mobility for the community
🚑Reduce emergency response times
🚅Take traffic & pedestrians over BNSF & future HSR tracks
bit.ly/4qBg4so
October 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Sounds like Caltrans should've built this
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California should pass a law to clean up #AB2097, which removed most minimum parking mandates near transit. UCLA's Amy Lee, A. Millard-Ball and M. Manville have given us a road map for how to do that. Basically, put the "expansive interpretations" in this table into law.
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
California should pass a law to clean up #AB2097, which removed most minimum parking mandates near transit. UCLA's Amy Lee, A. Millard-Ball and M. Manville have given us a road map for how to do that. Basically, put the "expansive interpretations" in this table into law.
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We got the revenues.
We got the reform.
Now it’s time for the vision of what an integrated, unified, truly-regional transit network could look like, and what it could deliver to all of Chicagoland.
It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel.
citythatworks.substack.com/p/build-the-...
We got the reform.
Now it’s time for the vision of what an integrated, unified, truly-regional transit network could look like, and what it could deliver to all of Chicagoland.
It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel.
citythatworks.substack.com/p/build-the-...
Build the tunnel
A transformative vision for regional rail
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October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We got the revenues.
We got the reform.
Now it’s time for the vision of what an integrated, unified, truly-regional transit network could look like, and what it could deliver to all of Chicagoland.
It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel.
citythatworks.substack.com/p/build-the-...
We got the reform.
Now it’s time for the vision of what an integrated, unified, truly-regional transit network could look like, and what it could deliver to all of Chicagoland.
It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel.
citythatworks.substack.com/p/build-the-...
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Level boarding can be done! Time to plan and fund for statewide level boarding for faster, more accessible trains #Electrolink
Here's a video of the impossible. The UP Express has high platforms and level boarding for passengers. That is supposed make it impossible for mainline North American freight trains to pass. And yet, as this shows, CN freight trains roll past the high platform at Weston multiple times per week.
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Level boarding can be done! Time to plan and fund for statewide level boarding for faster, more accessible trains #Electrolink
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Metro board approves item 10 - approves #LinkUS Union Station run-through-tracks project environmental clearance [!]
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Funding delay added *3 years* to the timeline of the SMART extension to Windsor. 3 extra years of extra driving and greenhouse gas emissions. We need to end patchwork funding and fully fund the State Rail Plan if we want a modern rail network on the timescales demanded by climate change.
October 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Funding delay added *3 years* to the timeline of the SMART extension to Windsor. 3 extra years of extra driving and greenhouse gas emissions. We need to end patchwork funding and fully fund the State Rail Plan if we want a modern rail network on the timescales demanded by climate change.
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SB 71 extends #AB2503, the CEQA exemption for rail electrification we won last year, along with other transit exemptions. Great job to the legislature and governor for making this happen. Let's get to work electrifying Metrolink, Capitol Corridor & the Surfliner without fear of frivolous lawsuits!
Gov signed SB 71, making permanent @scottwiener.bsky.social's CEQA exemptions. For much of our transit priority, protected bikeway, Slow Street, etc work, CEQA process would have taken longer and cost more than project itself, and done nothing for environment.🙏
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...
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Wiener Introduces Legislation to Continue CEQA Exemption for Sustainable Transportation - Streetsblog California
“We’re excited to see Senator Wiener continue his leadership on active transportation with SB 71, which makes permanent a bill he authored to exempt biking, walking, and public transit plans and proje...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
SB 71 extends #AB2503, the CEQA exemption for rail electrification we won last year, along with other transit exemptions. Great job to the legislature and governor for making this happen. Let's get to work electrifying Metrolink, Capitol Corridor & the Surfliner without fear of frivolous lawsuits!
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Gov signed SB 71, making permanent @scottwiener.bsky.social's CEQA exemptions. For much of our transit priority, protected bikeway, Slow Street, etc work, CEQA process would have taken longer and cost more than project itself, and done nothing for environment.🙏
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...
Wiener Introduces Legislation to Continue CEQA Exemption for Sustainable Transportation - Streetsblog California
“We’re excited to see Senator Wiener continue his leadership on active transportation with SB 71, which makes permanent a bill he authored to exempt biking, walking, and public transit plans and proje...
cal.streetsblog.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Gov signed SB 71, making permanent @scottwiener.bsky.social's CEQA exemptions. For much of our transit priority, protected bikeway, Slow Street, etc work, CEQA process would have taken longer and cost more than project itself, and done nothing for environment.🙏
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/01/24/w...
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Yay, SB63 signed into law, authorizing a regional transit funding measure for the SF Bay Area, essential to save and improve service for BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain! Bill allows a signature-gathering effort that would passage with 50%+1 of the vote. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Yay, SB63 signed into law, authorizing a regional transit funding measure for the SF Bay Area, essential to save and improve service for BART, Muni, AC Transit, Caltrain! Bill allows a signature-gathering effort that would passage with 50%+1 of the vote. www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
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It’s pronounced cyclist.
October 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
It’s pronounced cyclist.
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
Our bike racks enter the 21st century
Heads:
CicLAvia Turns 15 Today
Construction Costs for US Transit Projects Are Triple World Average
Santa Barbara Installing 250 Bike Racks
Brightline West, HSR from SoCal to Vegas, Sees Costs Rise
COW Car
Affordable Housing Planned in Sacramento
La Niña
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/10/10/f...
CicLAvia Turns 15 Today
Construction Costs for US Transit Projects Are Triple World Average
Santa Barbara Installing 250 Bike Racks
Brightline West, HSR from SoCal to Vegas, Sees Costs Rise
COW Car
Affordable Housing Planned in Sacramento
La Niña
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Friday's Headlines - Streetsblog California
Happy birthday, CicLAvia!
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October 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our bike racks enter the 21st century
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Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Electrifying the Coaster would make an Oceanside-San Diego trip 45 minutes, competitive with driving cutting 25% off the travel time. But LOSSAN and CalSTA want to run slow, unreliable hydrogen trains instead! calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...
October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Electrifying the Coaster would make an Oceanside-San Diego trip 45 minutes, competitive with driving cutting 25% off the travel time. But LOSSAN and CalSTA want to run slow, unreliable hydrogen trains instead! calelectricrail.org/electrolink-...
We should pass a law that highways can’t be widened wider than the golden gate
This one highway is projected to cost 85% of what CA has spent on high-speed rail over 15 years and hundreds of miles. If we can afford this, we can afford high-speed rail.
The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.
For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.
For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.
October 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
We should pass a law that highways can’t be widened wider than the golden gate
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Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.
i recently got a great deal on a barely used folding ebike and i have to say it has revolutionized my train travel. i can get from my front door to the amtrak station in a little less than 5 minutes!!!
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.
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Got rage and/or hope you want to translate into strategic action? Find the "perfect how-to guide" here islandpress.org/books/if-you...
Thanks Jeff for that glowing review!
Thanks Jeff for that glowing review!
October 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Got rage and/or hope you want to translate into strategic action? Find the "perfect how-to guide" here islandpress.org/books/if-you...
Thanks Jeff for that glowing review!
Thanks Jeff for that glowing review!