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Andrew Allio
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PhD Candidate in History at UC Santa Cruz. Studying infrastructure, transportation, cities. All around dilettante.
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Source: www.bart.gov/sites/defaul...
A figure titled: "Weekly Hours Lost to Congestion for Drivers: With and Without BART." Various BART trips are shown, for example Antioch to SFO or Fremont to Powell St. Some of the trips are as high as 19 hours of hours lost to traffic each week.
September 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Also RIP to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. A little bit of the city died when they stopped their presses. They might not have always been right, but you can't say they didn't love San Francisco.
A screen cap from the movie The Last Black Man in San Francisco that shows the lead character, Jimmie, riding MUNI and stating "You don't get to hate it unless you love it."
August 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Dispatches from the archive. #BART #Skystorians
Undated BART Brochure from the late 1960's advertising the system's benefits. A map of the travel time between stations is front and center The flipside of the BART brochure showing models and renderings of the (then) future system.
December 14, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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Timeline cleanse. Gili Air 2018.

Indonesia might be one of the most beautiful countries on Earth. So long as you're not in Jakarta.
Sunset on Gili Air, Indonesia. A boat is in the foreground. The peak of Mt. Agung on Bali is visible in the background.
December 12, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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One of my favorite visions of mid-century Autopian planning is the (fortunately unbuilt) 1947 Minnatoma Project in San Francisco. Planners proposed demolishing several city blocks to build a series of interconnected parking garages in the middle of a highway.
A sketched proposal of the 1947 Minnatoma project. The sketch shows what would have been a series of parking structures in the middle of a freeway spanning five city blocks just south of Market Street in San Francisco.
November 19, 2024 at 10:14 PM
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Timeline cleanse courtesy of UC Santa Cruz. I might [definitely] be biased, but this has to be one of the most scenic campuses in higher ed.
November 12, 2024 at 4:43 PM