Reid Passmore
@reidpassmore.bsky.social
Bike and transit nerd in Davis, CA. Formerly in ATL, GA
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"Rutilo was a close friend of my family... a hard working man, responsible, always working 2 jobs. I’m guessing he was coming back from work. His funeral service will be this Sunday Nov 23. Rutilo's family will be sending him to Mexico." - a commenter just now
bikeportland.org/2025/11/18/v...
bikeportland.org/2025/11/18/v...
Video: Scary conditions on Highway 43 where man was killed while cycling
It's a death trap, and it's the only way for bicycle riders to connect between Sellwood and Lake Oswego.
bikeportland.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Rutilo was a close friend of my family... a hard working man, responsible, always working 2 jobs. I’m guessing he was coming back from work. His funeral service will be this Sunday Nov 23. Rutilo's family will be sending him to Mexico." - a commenter just now
bikeportland.org/2025/11/18/v...
bikeportland.org/2025/11/18/v...
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Happy Saturday, folks! As is tradition, I'm at a meeting of statewide NIMBY group Livable California.
Today's discussion will focus on freaking out about statewide upzoning legislation (SB79) and CEQA reform. Grab some🍿, 🧵 starts here!
Today's discussion will focus on freaking out about statewide upzoning legislation (SB79) and CEQA reform. Grab some🍿, 🧵 starts here!
July 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Happy Saturday, folks! As is tradition, I'm at a meeting of statewide NIMBY group Livable California.
Today's discussion will focus on freaking out about statewide upzoning legislation (SB79) and CEQA reform. Grab some🍿, 🧵 starts here!
Today's discussion will focus on freaking out about statewide upzoning legislation (SB79) and CEQA reform. Grab some🍿, 🧵 starts here!
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Montgomery County MD, the N suburbs of Washington DC, is now one of the largest US agencies with free bus fares. As I‘ve said many times, this only makes sense if the fares wouldn‘t even pay for the fare collection, which appears to have been the issue. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
July 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Montgomery County MD, the N suburbs of Washington DC, is now one of the largest US agencies with free bus fares. As I‘ve said many times, this only makes sense if the fares wouldn‘t even pay for the fare collection, which appears to have been the issue. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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I have a degree in Economics but I don’t fixate on GDP. In America, when we build a massive freeway, buy a car, fill it with gas, crash it, repair it, and treat the associated injury and cardiopulmonary disease…that all adds to GDP. But what did it buy us?
July 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I have a degree in Economics but I don’t fixate on GDP. In America, when we build a massive freeway, buy a car, fill it with gas, crash it, repair it, and treat the associated injury and cardiopulmonary disease…that all adds to GDP. But what did it buy us?
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Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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In transit fiscal crises, cutting service should be the last resort.
www.metro-magazine.com/10242863/why...
www.metro-magazine.com/10242863/why...
Why Bus Service Cuts Should Be the Last Resort for Transit Agencies
A closer look at ridership trends, demographic shifts, and the broader impacts of service reductions reveals why maintaining, and even improving, bus service levels should be a top priority in 2025.
www.metro-magazine.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In transit fiscal crises, cutting service should be the last resort.
www.metro-magazine.com/10242863/why...
www.metro-magazine.com/10242863/why...
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Concerning, but all too predictable:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
As NYPD's Criminal Crackdown on Cyclists Expands, It Grows More Absurd: Victims - Streetsblog New York City
The new policy has unleashed the worst instincts of individual cops — including one cop who allegedly entrapped a cyclist.
nyc.streetsblog.org
May 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Concerning, but all too predictable:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
The NYPD's bike crackdown has only just started, and overreaches are already piling up. Police are falsely writing criminal summonses for crossing with the walk sign, and are possibly even engaged in entrapment, according to @nyc.streetsblog.org:
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State housing laws are having their desired effect (producing more new homes) and, as a bonus, are making the worst people imaginable very mad. We love to see it!
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
State housing laws are having their desired effect (producing more new homes) and, as a bonus, are making the worst people imaginable very mad. We love to see it!
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"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Emissions from cycling can be more than 30x lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about 10x lower than driving an electric one."
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France, the country of true justice
April 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
France, the country of true justice
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I swear, so much gentrification discourse is from people like this dude who is wearing a $400 hat and is just mad he didn’t get the apartment he wanted
That NYC anti-YIMBY video has got to be like deniable black propaganda from a pro-YIMBY faction. Like no way is this shit real
March 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I swear, so much gentrification discourse is from people like this dude who is wearing a $400 hat and is just mad he didn’t get the apartment he wanted
In some good news, my regional passenger rail service (Capitol Corridor) is lowering the Davis to Sacramento fare from a ridiculous $9 to a still high but more reasonable $6 (it’s a 20 minute journey).
March 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
In some good news, my regional passenger rail service (Capitol Corridor) is lowering the Davis to Sacramento fare from a ridiculous $9 to a still high but more reasonable $6 (it’s a 20 minute journey).
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Atlanta area! This is the last week to comment on the proposed redesign of the MARTA bus network. Public comment closes March 16. Explore and comment here! If you live or travel in Fulton or DeKalb Counties, we need to hear from you. Please share!
www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com/draftnetwork
www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com/draftnetwork
Draft Network | MARTA NextGen Bus
The Draft NextGen Bus Network would reduce waiting time for most people and allow most residents of the region to reach more jobs more quickly.
www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Atlanta area! This is the last week to comment on the proposed redesign of the MARTA bus network. Public comment closes March 16. Explore and comment here! If you live or travel in Fulton or DeKalb Counties, we need to hear from you. Please share!
www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com/draftnetwork
www.martanextgenbusnetwork.com/draftnetwork
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This narrative that dense multifamily housing caused the LA fires is completely and utterly wrong. The culprit, in fact, is single-family homes in the wildland urban interface.
Building densely in climate-safe urban and suburban areas is the solution to the problem, not the cause.
Building densely in climate-safe urban and suburban areas is the solution to the problem, not the cause.
High cost of rent is caused by greedy landlords & poor urban planning.
Rapid overbuilding of dense housing is not a solution. It will set in motion a repeat of the horrific L.A. Fires.
Rapid overbuilding of dense housing is not a solution. It will set in motion a repeat of the horrific L.A. Fires.
March 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This narrative that dense multifamily housing caused the LA fires is completely and utterly wrong. The culprit, in fact, is single-family homes in the wildland urban interface.
Building densely in climate-safe urban and suburban areas is the solution to the problem, not the cause.
Building densely in climate-safe urban and suburban areas is the solution to the problem, not the cause.
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Cost of living is a problem throughout the country, but it’s off the charts in California. Why? Because of our obscenely high housing costs, driven by a massive housing shortage.
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
March 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Cost of living is a problem throughout the country, but it’s off the charts in California. Why? Because of our obscenely high housing costs, driven by a massive housing shortage.
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
We make it way, way too hard to build new homes & that needs to change. 🧵
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I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
March 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I’m not going to the Joint Address. I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.
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lol odot is so cooked.
When will legislators or the governor hold this reckless agency accountable for wasting and misspending literal billions of taxpayer dollars?
#orleg
www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...
When will legislators or the governor hold this reckless agency accountable for wasting and misspending literal billions of taxpayer dollars?
#orleg
www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...
In Extraordinary Hearing, ODOT Explains Billion-Dollar Budget Blunder
www.wweek.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
lol odot is so cooked.
When will legislators or the governor hold this reckless agency accountable for wasting and misspending literal billions of taxpayer dollars?
#orleg
www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...
When will legislators or the governor hold this reckless agency accountable for wasting and misspending literal billions of taxpayer dollars?
#orleg
www.wweek.com/news/2025/02...
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Seriously, no neighborhood bends people’s minds into pretzels when it comes to history like West End.
( @archiveatlanta.bsky.social has heard this rant before 😂)
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( @archiveatlanta.bsky.social has heard this rant before 😂)
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“You got that photo for our post on historically black neighborhoods of Atlanta?”
“Sure thing boss, home of the white guy who wrote Uncle Remus, just like you asked”
“What”
“Sure thing boss, home of the white guy who wrote Uncle Remus, just like you asked”
“What”
February 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Seriously, no neighborhood bends people’s minds into pretzels when it comes to history like West End.
( @archiveatlanta.bsky.social has heard this rant before 😂)
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( @archiveatlanta.bsky.social has heard this rant before 😂)
🧵
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As a walkability advocate, Ella Colson practiced nonviolent civil disobedience.
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
As a walkability advocate, Ella Colson practiced nonviolent civil disobedience.
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The “SUV arms race” is over — if you want it. But automakers and policymakers seem intent on continuing to make America's super-sized vehicles even bigger anyway.
Study: You're Not That Much Safer In a 4,000+ Pound Car — Streetsblog USA
For decades, American car buyers believed that bigger = safer. A new study finds that rule appears to have hit a ceiling.
buff.ly
February 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The “SUV arms race” is over — if you want it. But automakers and policymakers seem intent on continuing to make America's super-sized vehicles even bigger anyway.
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The systematic attempt by the Trump admin to delete federal data right now is a disaster.
It is a small, but important, consolation that my colleagues @urbaninstitute.bsky.social have been working like mad to save as much data as we can from across agencies—we have to do what we can.
It is a small, but important, consolation that my colleagues @urbaninstitute.bsky.social have been working like mad to save as much data as we can from across agencies—we have to do what we can.
January 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The systematic attempt by the Trump admin to delete federal data right now is a disaster.
It is a small, but important, consolation that my colleagues @urbaninstitute.bsky.social have been working like mad to save as much data as we can from across agencies—we have to do what we can.
It is a small, but important, consolation that my colleagues @urbaninstitute.bsky.social have been working like mad to save as much data as we can from across agencies—we have to do what we can.
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Do you want to improve bicycle access to and from stations and onboard trains?
The BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force has vacancies for people who live or work in all five counties served by BART!
Attend the next meeting this Monday, February 3 and learn how to apply: www.bart.gov/about/bod/ad...
The BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force has vacancies for people who live or work in all five counties served by BART!
Attend the next meeting this Monday, February 3 and learn how to apply: www.bart.gov/about/bod/ad...
January 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Do you want to improve bicycle access to and from stations and onboard trains?
The BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force has vacancies for people who live or work in all five counties served by BART!
Attend the next meeting this Monday, February 3 and learn how to apply: www.bart.gov/about/bod/ad...
The BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force has vacancies for people who live or work in all five counties served by BART!
Attend the next meeting this Monday, February 3 and learn how to apply: www.bart.gov/about/bod/ad...
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The White House has rescinded an order freezing federal grants and loans following intense backlash
Trump Rescinds Federal Funding Freeze
www.huffpost.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The White House has rescinded an order freezing federal grants and loans following intense backlash
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Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”
January 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”