Josh Gunter 🏳️🌈
@jmgunter.bsky.social
Less space for cars, more space for life. | mobility freedom & sustainability advocate | Interests: politics, pastry, parks, public works. |📍: Oakland, CA | hometown: Kansas City, MO | CBS Sunday Morning superfan |
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Lots of transit news from BART director Victor Flores - including that the BART board has voted to use standard gauge for the 2nd set of transbay tubes.
This will open up the option for Caltrain, High Speed Rail, and Amtrak to cross between downtown San Francisco and the East Bay in the future.
This will open up the option for Caltrain, High Speed Rail, and Amtrak to cross between downtown San Francisco and the East Bay in the future.
It's been a while since my last BART newsletter. Between my last job, BART, and studying for the LSAT, time has been limited, but that's no excuse!
Grab your cup of coffee or tea and catch up with me!
victorfloresforbart.com/p/all-aboard...
Grab your cup of coffee or tea and catch up with me!
victorfloresforbart.com/p/all-aboard...
All Aboard - Closing Out Transit Month 2025
What happened to the budget and our service disruptions
victorfloresforbart.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Lots of transit news from BART director Victor Flores - including that the BART board has voted to use standard gauge for the 2nd set of transbay tubes.
This will open up the option for Caltrain, High Speed Rail, and Amtrak to cross between downtown San Francisco and the East Bay in the future.
This will open up the option for Caltrain, High Speed Rail, and Amtrak to cross between downtown San Francisco and the East Bay in the future.
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-Initial data indicates the recall —despite getting some prog engagement—was driven by conservative voters who refuse to acknowledge we live in a city and deny our climate emergency.
-More D4 voters voted yes on prop K than yes on recall. This vote was not a referendum on the park.
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-More D4 voters voted yes on prop K than yes on recall. This vote was not a referendum on the park.
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September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
-Initial data indicates the recall —despite getting some prog engagement—was driven by conservative voters who refuse to acknowledge we live in a city and deny our climate emergency.
-More D4 voters voted yes on prop K than yes on recall. This vote was not a referendum on the park.
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-More D4 voters voted yes on prop K than yes on recall. This vote was not a referendum on the park.
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Four years ago, SSR was started to make the great highway permanently car-free. Now, sunset dunes is one of SF's most popular parks. Like the embarcadero and central freeway removals, there may be more fights ahead, but we're not going back.
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September 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Four years ago, SSR was started to make the great highway permanently car-free. Now, sunset dunes is one of SF's most popular parks. Like the embarcadero and central freeway removals, there may be more fights ahead, but we're not going back.
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I just called the governor's office and I'm holding a crying baby.
What's your excuse?
(916) 445-2841, press 1 for English and then 6 to leave a message.
What's your excuse?
(916) 445-2841, press 1 for English and then 6 to leave a message.
September 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I just called the governor's office and I'm holding a crying baby.
What's your excuse?
(916) 445-2841, press 1 for English and then 6 to leave a message.
What's your excuse?
(916) 445-2841, press 1 for English and then 6 to leave a message.
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The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY!
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
September 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The most impactful housing bill in California history is on the 1 yard line. It has passed the assembly and the senate vote is TODAY!
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Right now is your last chance to call your state senator and tell them to support building more housing near transit!
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
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California HSR guaranteed $20b in state funding over the next 20 years. There’s still a funding gap in getting to Gilroy and SF, but steady funding will make that much easier to close — amp.sacbee.com/news/politic...
Legislature, Gov. Gavin Newsom agree to fund high-speed rail through 2045
Under the terms of a still-unauthorized deal, high-speed rail would receive $1 billion per year.
amp.sacbee.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
California HSR guaranteed $20b in state funding over the next 20 years. There’s still a funding gap in getting to Gilroy and SF, but steady funding will make that much easier to close — amp.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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Ladies and gentlemen, SB 79 has passed both chambers! Off to the Senate for concurrence!
September 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, SB 79 has passed both chambers! Off to the Senate for concurrence!
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Oakland has developed a great Slow Streets network proposal, but they need your input to hone the segments & make sure they’re on the right track. Comments are due by this Friday 9/11. Check out the map at the link below then email slowstreets@oaklandca.gov.
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Oakland has developed a great Slow Streets network proposal, but they need your input to hone the segments & make sure they’re on the right track. Comments are due by this Friday 9/11. Check out the map at the link below then email slowstreets@oaklandca.gov.
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
www.oaklandca.gov/Government/O...
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Imagine results like this in the Bay Area.
We need congestion pricing here to make it easier and safer for everyone - including drivers - to get around and to help transit ridership grow.
We need congestion pricing here to make it easier and safer for everyone - including drivers - to get around and to help transit ridership grow.
CONGESTION PRICING IN #NYC IS WORKING.
Since Jan 2025:
⚠️ 17.6 million fewer vehicles entered Manhattan
⚠️ Crashes are down 14%
⚠️ Traffic injuries down 15%
✅ Subway ridership up 9%
✅ Bus ridership up 13%
The $9 fee goes to funding mass transit capital improvements.
www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
Since Jan 2025:
⚠️ 17.6 million fewer vehicles entered Manhattan
⚠️ Crashes are down 14%
⚠️ Traffic injuries down 15%
✅ Subway ridership up 9%
✅ Bus ridership up 13%
The $9 fee goes to funding mass transit capital improvements.
www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
September 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Imagine results like this in the Bay Area.
We need congestion pricing here to make it easier and safer for everyone - including drivers - to get around and to help transit ridership grow.
We need congestion pricing here to make it easier and safer for everyone - including drivers - to get around and to help transit ridership grow.
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Organizing and/or going to a local community meeting and saying "things should be better, somewhat" has the policy impact power of sending a 100,000 posts.
1/x 🧵 🔌💡 #Greensky. Hey climate peeps! Here’s a local victory to celebrate, and some lessons from it. Last night, the Town of Poughkeepsie, NY, voted to overturn its 18-month moratorium (6 months, renewed twice) on grid-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS).
September 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Organizing and/or going to a local community meeting and saying "things should be better, somewhat" has the policy impact power of sending a 100,000 posts.
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Congestion pricing is one of the biggest policy successes of the past decade.
You remember the dire predictions about congestion pricing inducing more traffic and higher emissions in the South Bronx. Well none of them have come to pass, according to data analyzed by Charlie Komanoff.
KOMANOFF: Data Show South Bronx Isn’t Seeing Increased Traffic from Congestion Pricing - Streetsblog New York City
The central business district toll did not lead to a traffic influx in the South Bronx, our columnist reveals.
buff.ly
September 9, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Congestion pricing is one of the biggest policy successes of the past decade.
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Hey it's @cityofoakland.bsky.social
If your downtown still has many wide and fast one-way streets, then your priority is to move cars as fast as possible thru a weak downtown. It’s NOT to create a vibrant downtown, help downtown retailers, keep people safe, support walkability and accessibility, reduce pollution, etc. #TrafficSewers
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Hey it's @cityofoakland.bsky.social
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Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.
September 9, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.
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the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
September 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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As Mayor of Berkeley—and as someone who regularly relies on public transit—I urge Governor Newsom to approve the $750 million state loan to stabilize Bay Area transit agency budgets and prevent devastating service cuts.
Read the full statement: www.mayoradenaishii.com/from-the-may...
Read the full statement: www.mayoradenaishii.com/from-the-may...
September 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
As Mayor of Berkeley—and as someone who regularly relies on public transit—I urge Governor Newsom to approve the $750 million state loan to stabilize Bay Area transit agency budgets and prevent devastating service cuts.
Read the full statement: www.mayoradenaishii.com/from-the-may...
Read the full statement: www.mayoradenaishii.com/from-the-may...
TIL: the @oaklandballers.bsky.social use 1.7 million gallons of recycled EBMUD wastewater every year! #WaterWise
youtu.be/4fagG8hJGa4?...
youtu.be/4fagG8hJGa4?...
EBMUD Board Meeting August 26, 2025
YouTube video by EBMUD
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September 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
TIL: the @oaklandballers.bsky.social use 1.7 million gallons of recycled EBMUD wastewater every year! #WaterWise
youtu.be/4fagG8hJGa4?...
youtu.be/4fagG8hJGa4?...
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Yes Gov Newsom is an 🫏 for attempting to reneg on the $750M loan to keep Bay Area transit afloat.
But also remember that MTC postponed our regional transit ballot measure in 2024 to make way for an affordable housing measure, but then that didn’t happen either.
Leadership failure on all levels.
But also remember that MTC postponed our regional transit ballot measure in 2024 to make way for an affordable housing measure, but then that didn’t happen either.
Leadership failure on all levels.
🚨49 hours til the Emergency Rally to Save Bay Area Transit🚨 Join us at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco at 9am on Monday to urge Governor Newsom to follow through on his commitment for emergency funding to stop cuts to BART, Muni, Caltrain, and AC Transit
actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
Emergency Rally to Save Bay Area Transit
Alert alert! The transit agencies the Bay Area depends on – BART, Muni, AC Transit, and Caltrain – face massive service cuts unless Governor Gavin Newsom follows through on his promise of a $750M emer...
actionnetwork.org
September 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Yes Gov Newsom is an 🫏 for attempting to reneg on the $750M loan to keep Bay Area transit afloat.
But also remember that MTC postponed our regional transit ballot measure in 2024 to make way for an affordable housing measure, but then that didn’t happen either.
Leadership failure on all levels.
But also remember that MTC postponed our regional transit ballot measure in 2024 to make way for an affordable housing measure, but then that didn’t happen either.
Leadership failure on all levels.
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For the record, this is not an abstract issue for me. I have a nine month old, I don’t own a car, and I haven’t even driven a car in about a decade. If BART and AC Transit are forced to cut service it’s going to have immediate negative repercussions for me and my family.
If Newsom goes back on his promise here it may end up being one of the defining moments of his time as governor. Just an unmitigated disaster. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers say
Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
For the record, this is not an abstract issue for me. I have a nine month old, I don’t own a car, and I haven’t even driven a car in about a decade. If BART and AC Transit are forced to cut service it’s going to have immediate negative repercussions for me and my family.
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This matters a lot more than his tweets.
Massive Bay Area transit cuts likely as Newsom backtracks on $750M loan, lawmakers warn
Bay Area lawmakers and transit advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reneging on a critical $750 million loan will have devastating consequences for BART, Muni and other agencies in the region.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This matters a lot more than his tweets.
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Who rides transit in the Bay Area? 2023-2024 data is available at public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Except for ferries, the typical transit rider makes less money than the average Bay Area resident - this is even true for Caltrain, which has the highest average rider income other than the ferries.
Except for ferries, the typical transit rider makes less money than the average Bay Area resident - this is even true for Caltrain, which has the highest average rider income other than the ferries.
September 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Who rides transit in the Bay Area? 2023-2024 data is available at public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Except for ferries, the typical transit rider makes less money than the average Bay Area resident - this is even true for Caltrain, which has the highest average rider income other than the ferries.
Except for ferries, the typical transit rider makes less money than the average Bay Area resident - this is even true for Caltrain, which has the highest average rider income other than the ferries.
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Stressful morning for BART commuters trying to find alternative ways to get between SF and the East Bay.
Biking across the Bay Bridge would be a fantastic option…..if the bike path didn’t stop halfway across 🥲
Sign our petition to get more folks moving!
Biking across the Bay Bridge would be a fantastic option…..if the bike path didn’t stop halfway across 🥲
Sign our petition to get more folks moving!
September 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Stressful morning for BART commuters trying to find alternative ways to get between SF and the East Bay.
Biking across the Bay Bridge would be a fantastic option…..if the bike path didn’t stop halfway across 🥲
Sign our petition to get more folks moving!
Biking across the Bay Bridge would be a fantastic option…..if the bike path didn’t stop halfway across 🥲
Sign our petition to get more folks moving!
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Absolute greenwashing.
This project greatly harms the environment by adding a highway lane and inducing many more vehicle miles and greenhouse gas emissions.
This will harm the marshlands and wildlife by furthering climate change.
Shame on everyone supporting this.
This project greatly harms the environment by adding a highway lane and inducing many more vehicle miles and greenhouse gas emissions.
This will harm the marshlands and wildlife by furthering climate change.
Shame on everyone supporting this.
Today’s passage of AB 697 marks a major advance for long-running efforts to start work on a suite of projects to enhance North Bay marshlands and wildlife habitats, reduce flooding, improve traffic flow along Highway 37, and introduce transit service between Vallejo and Novato.
Legislature passes bill paving way for Highway 37 improvements
Today’s passage by the California State Senate of Assembly Bill 697 — sponsored by the Solano Transportation Authority, authored by Assemblymember Lori Wilson of Solano County and passed by the Assemb...
mtc.one
September 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Absolute greenwashing.
This project greatly harms the environment by adding a highway lane and inducing many more vehicle miles and greenhouse gas emissions.
This will harm the marshlands and wildlife by furthering climate change.
Shame on everyone supporting this.
This project greatly harms the environment by adding a highway lane and inducing many more vehicle miles and greenhouse gas emissions.
This will harm the marshlands and wildlife by furthering climate change.
Shame on everyone supporting this.
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Gov Newsom still hasn't signed the $750m loan to Bay Area transit agencies that would get us to the Nov 2026 funding votes. He has eight days to act.
Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.
Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.
September 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Gov Newsom still hasn't signed the $750m loan to Bay Area transit agencies that would get us to the Nov 2026 funding votes. He has eight days to act.
Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.
Please take a moment to call his office at (916) 445-2841 and use the attached script, copied from a @transbaycoalition.bsky.social.