Andrew Alden
@andrewalden.bsky.social
Oakland flâneur, fonefoto pleasure sharer, sidewalk geek (oaklandunderfoot.com), transit rider, WELL member, occasional geowriter (deepoakland.com). He/him/houyhnhnm
Geology talk on my hardcore account geology.bsky.social
Geology talk on my hardcore account geology.bsky.social
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Salute to Toronto for this pivot:
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
'It's a win-win': How Toronto is planning 20km of new bike lanes without defying Ford
The City of Toronto is also planning $30-million worth of infrastructure upgrades, including bike lanes, cycle tracks, and trails.
toronto.citynews.ca
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Salute to Toronto for this pivot:
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
Ontario premier Doug Ford banned Toronto from building new bike infrastructure that replaces car lanes.
Toronto's response: Narrow but retain existing car lanes, freeing enough space to keep installing bike lanes. (Better yet, narrower traffic lanes are safer.)
Reposted by Andrew Alden
Starting next week, riding this bus and most other buses to BART will be FREE!
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Starting next week, riding this bus and most other buses to BART will be FREE!
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
Clipper 2 rolls out on December 10, including free and low cost transfers between all transit agencies.
Riders will automatically receive discounts up to $2.85 when transferring within a two hour window.
Celebrated a new crown at Miharu, as one does.
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Celebrated a new crown at Miharu, as one does.
for thanksgiving i want turkey pot pie
in that order
in that order
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
nice addition to the scene
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
nice addition to the scene
What we call "guardrails" and picture as those stout metal crosspieces on timber posts are really just portable orange-striped construction barriers.
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
What we call "guardrails" and picture as those stout metal crosspieces on timber posts are really just portable orange-striped construction barriers.
TIL the Black Pine Circle school in west Berkeley has no black pines or any pine whatever on its grounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
TIL the Black Pine Circle school in west Berkeley has no black pines or any pine whatever on its grounds.
Rudolph the Well Hung reindeer. Had a very girthy schlong
And if you ever saw it,
You would say it’s far too long
And if you ever saw it,
You would say it’s far too long
rudolph the red wait what reindeer
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
uncanny
They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
uncanny
Hell. Wish I'd gone to Roses' Taproom more than the one time.
'I'm reeling': Oakland's prettiest brewery is closing after 8 years
"I'm reeling with disorientation and disbelief."
www.sfgate.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hell. Wish I'd gone to Roses' Taproom more than the one time.
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My congress person is the real deal.
This Transgender Day of Remebrance, I am honoring those who lived in their full truth and inspired others to do the same. I will never stop working for a safer, more inclusive world. I am deeply committed to fighting for our transgender siblings in the memory and wisdom of those that came before.
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My congress person is the real deal.
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A cyclist on a sidewalk is usually a symptom of bad infrastructure.
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
my hot take as a full-time pedestrian and transit rider is that i want cities to do the absolute maximum amount to provide cyclists with safe and protected bike lanes everywhere so that i don't have to feel the least bit bad for kicking one off the sidewalk into the street
And before you say anything about Just Do More Public Transit, make your neighbors less fucking neurotic about funding and designing roads for public transit
Replace bike lane flex posts with bollards!
Replace bike lane flex posts with bollards!
November 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A cyclist on a sidewalk is usually a symptom of bad infrastructure.
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
As I often say, cyclist vs. pedestrian conflicts arise because both are fighting over the scraps of space not occupied by cars. But what if we took that space from cars to make biking, walking, and rolling safer?
The water was amazing yesterday
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The water was amazing yesterday
Just gave
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November 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Leona Canyon, East Oakland, 11/15/25
November 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Leona Canyon, East Oakland, 11/15/25
This alarming article is based heavily on Oakland schools. It's from 2019. It's taken six years to impose "science of reading" by state law, which should stop the damage.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
This alarming article is based heavily on Oakland schools. It's from 2019. It's taken six years to impose "science of reading" by state law, which should stop the damage.
This talk at Local Economy was memorable, and the book is very special.
Coyote Comes to Life in Oscar Nominee’s 'We Survived the Night'
Outside talks to Julian Brave NoiseCat about his new memoir which reckons with Indigenous endurance and the tribal trickster myth
www.outsideonline.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This talk at Local Economy was memorable, and the book is very special.
old and in the way
New blog post on one of Oakland's (actually Piedmont's) more dramatic rock quarries
Life and afterlife of the Dimond Canyon quarry
Park Boulevard sweeps through steep, rocky Dimond Canyon with just one isolated, incongruous building along the way: a big church in a space carved out of the cliff. That hole in the wall is a form…
oaklandgeology.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
old and in the way
EBRPD chief Sabrina Landreth resigned Thursday. Search turned up this from 2019. EBRPD today, in eerie parallel: "Landreth . . . modernized and strengthened the agency’s leadership infrastructure, assembling talent across all Divisions to ensure the agency is well positioned for a bright future."
City Administrator Sabrina Landreth to Resign
Oakland City Administrator Sabrina Landreth has announced that she is resigning after less than five years in her position. Her last day is March 11. The city will hire a consultant to handle the job ...
postnewsgroup.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
EBRPD chief Sabrina Landreth resigned Thursday. Search turned up this from 2019. EBRPD today, in eerie parallel: "Landreth . . . modernized and strengthened the agency’s leadership infrastructure, assembling talent across all Divisions to ensure the agency is well positioned for a bright future."
This defense attorney is a hero—on a roll in a real grinder of a case. The prosecutor’s argument is shockingly sub parm. I’d never be so patient. They’d have to banh mi from the courtroom.
Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Oakland taggers of (checks notes) 1887.
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Oakland taggers of (checks notes) 1887.
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Maxwell Park is now East Oakland's first neighborhood to become Moderate Resource. Oh, Longfellow & west Bushrod moved from Low to Moderate Resource, I think, meaning it's no longer exempt from SB 79.
November 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Maxwell Park is now East Oakland's first neighborhood to become Moderate Resource. Oh, Longfellow & west Bushrod moved from Low to Moderate Resource, I think, meaning it's no longer exempt from SB 79.
November 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In Lincoln's time there was probably a chamberpot here.
sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
In Lincoln's time there was probably a chamberpot here.