Samuel
@samuelsharp.com
Work hard, be kind, dream big. @buildsd.org founder, @catenarymaps.org board, @calhstatransit.org staff, ever the eternal optimist. UCSD '29.
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All aboard! The schedule for San Diego Transit Month, happening for the first time this September, is now available!
Get event details and learn more about Transit Month at sdtransitmonth.org. More events will be added to the schedule as time goes on! (1/2)
Get event details and learn more about Transit Month at sdtransitmonth.org. More events will be added to the schedule as time goes on! (1/2)
August 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
All aboard! The schedule for San Diego Transit Month, happening for the first time this September, is now available!
Get event details and learn more about Transit Month at sdtransitmonth.org. More events will be added to the schedule as time goes on! (1/2)
Get event details and learn more about Transit Month at sdtransitmonth.org. More events will be added to the schedule as time goes on! (1/2)
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September is San Diego Transit Month. Join us and @buildsd.org for some amazing events.
sdtransitmonth.org/events
Some highlights:
- Sep 5: Transit Trivia Night
- Sep 9: Draw your vision for San Diego Transit
- Sep 13: Thrift Shopping by bus
- Sep 14: Trolley Speedrun
sdtransitmonth.org/events
Some highlights:
- Sep 5: Transit Trivia Night
- Sep 9: Draw your vision for San Diego Transit
- Sep 13: Thrift Shopping by bus
- Sep 14: Trolley Speedrun
Events
Find a Transit Month event near you!
sdtransitmonth.org
August 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
September is San Diego Transit Month. Join us and @buildsd.org for some amazing events.
sdtransitmonth.org/events
Some highlights:
- Sep 5: Transit Trivia Night
- Sep 9: Draw your vision for San Diego Transit
- Sep 13: Thrift Shopping by bus
- Sep 14: Trolley Speedrun
sdtransitmonth.org/events
Some highlights:
- Sep 5: Transit Trivia Night
- Sep 9: Draw your vision for San Diego Transit
- Sep 13: Thrift Shopping by bus
- Sep 14: Trolley Speedrun
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Wouldn't it be crazy if my dad, Erica and I spent all day taping PA Senator Tracy Pennycuick's phone number onto every single SEPTA stop in her district?
Yes, it would be. But when SEPTA is under attack, there is no overkill.🤜
Have fun checking that voicemail box!
Yes, it would be. But when SEPTA is under attack, there is no overkill.🤜
Have fun checking that voicemail box!
August 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Wouldn't it be crazy if my dad, Erica and I spent all day taping PA Senator Tracy Pennycuick's phone number onto every single SEPTA stop in her district?
Yes, it would be. But when SEPTA is under attack, there is no overkill.🤜
Have fun checking that voicemail box!
Yes, it would be. But when SEPTA is under attack, there is no overkill.🤜
Have fun checking that voicemail box!
Excited to head this up for BuildSD with so many awesome community partners. All aboard!
BuildSD is hosting the first ever San Diego Transit Month with some of our friends this September! Interested in hosting an event? Head over to sdtransitmonth.org and let us know - or stay tuned for a draft agenda next week.
August 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Excited to head this up for BuildSD with so many awesome community partners. All aboard!
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Headed back to school? 🏫 Try transit! Many agencies offer "school-oriented routes" that are dedicated to students. Anyone can ride these buses, but they usually only run before and after school. Other agencies offer "trippers" that provide extra service. Whatever your commute is, good luck!
August 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Headed back to school? 🏫 Try transit! Many agencies offer "school-oriented routes" that are dedicated to students. Anyone can ride these buses, but they usually only run before and after school. Other agencies offer "trippers" that provide extra service. Whatever your commute is, good luck!
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Good luck to all the SDHS Cavers headed back to school next week! Hope to see some of you at UC San Diego in the years to come :D
August 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Good luck to all the SDHS Cavers headed back to school next week! Hope to see some of you at UC San Diego in the years to come :D
New pictures of Eamon Ore-Giron's "Infinite Landscape: Los Ángeles Para Siempre" - probably the D Line Extension (phase 1 at least) artwork I'm most excited for!
Lights are on at the soon-to-open Metro Wilshire La Brea D Line subway station - due to open late 2025, tho might be early 2026
August 9, 2025 at 5:23 AM
New pictures of Eamon Ore-Giron's "Infinite Landscape: Los Ángeles Para Siempre" - probably the D Line Extension (phase 1 at least) artwork I'm most excited for!
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New on the BuildSD journal: a guest post from @ultracodez.bsky.social - It's a story of agency outreach, paper trains, and public records requests shenanigans that seemed too fun to ignore!
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
You should collect paper trains.
It's a niche so small that there's really no other place documenting them.
buildsd.org
August 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
New on the BuildSD journal: a guest post from @ultracodez.bsky.social - It's a story of agency outreach, paper trains, and public records requests shenanigans that seemed too fun to ignore!
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
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"Good afternoon to all of my beautiful people on the train! On behalf of this wonderful train crew, welcome aboard!"
Meet Rodney, a train conductor on the 6 line who's been with the MTA for 21 years! His goal? Make sure every subway rider, whether they're new or a daily commuter, feels comfortable.
Meet Rodney, a train conductor on the 6 line who's been with the MTA for 21 years! His goal? Make sure every subway rider, whether they're new or a daily commuter, feels comfortable.
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"Good afternoon to all of my beautiful people on the train! On behalf of this wonderful train crew, welcome aboard!"
Meet Rodney, a train conductor on the 6 line who's been with the MTA for 21 years! His goal? Make sure every subway rider, whether they're new or a daily commuter, feels comfortable.
Meet Rodney, a train conductor on the 6 line who's been with the MTA for 21 years! His goal? Make sure every subway rider, whether they're new or a daily commuter, feels comfortable.
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This type of advocacy is why North American transit agencies predominently use the slower and more expensive Pay As You Enter model of fare collection.
For Proof of Purchase to work, there need to be fare enforcement officers, but advocates freak out about any kind of enforcement.
For Proof of Purchase to work, there need to be fare enforcement officers, but advocates freak out about any kind of enforcement.
Have you seen Provincial Offences Officers, or P.O.O., on the TTC? 💩 Funny name aside, there is cause for concern - the TTC has taken harsher approaches to fare enforcement in the past few years.
What riders really need is less P.O.O. and more reliable, frequent, and affordable transit!
What riders really need is less P.O.O. and more reliable, frequent, and affordable transit!
August 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This type of advocacy is why North American transit agencies predominently use the slower and more expensive Pay As You Enter model of fare collection.
For Proof of Purchase to work, there need to be fare enforcement officers, but advocates freak out about any kind of enforcement.
For Proof of Purchase to work, there need to be fare enforcement officers, but advocates freak out about any kind of enforcement.
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Transit adventures? Transit adventures! 🚌 ✨
Take MTS route 84 to the Cabrillo National Monument stop, right inside the park gate, to explore the old Point Loma lighthouse and get beautiful views of the San Diego Bay and the ocean. And...of course...track your bus on Catenary!
Take MTS route 84 to the Cabrillo National Monument stop, right inside the park gate, to explore the old Point Loma lighthouse and get beautiful views of the San Diego Bay and the ocean. And...of course...track your bus on Catenary!
July 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Transit adventures? Transit adventures! 🚌 ✨
Take MTS route 84 to the Cabrillo National Monument stop, right inside the park gate, to explore the old Point Loma lighthouse and get beautiful views of the San Diego Bay and the ocean. And...of course...track your bus on Catenary!
Take MTS route 84 to the Cabrillo National Monument stop, right inside the park gate, to explore the old Point Loma lighthouse and get beautiful views of the San Diego Bay and the ocean. And...of course...track your bus on Catenary!
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Clairemont Drive is among the least used transit stations in the San Diego region. Here's how a new TOD project could change that for good: buildsd.org/projects/the...
The Bayview
A new mixed-use community could revitalize San Diego's least used Trolley station
buildsd.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Clairemont Drive is among the least used transit stations in the San Diego region. Here's how a new TOD project could change that for good: buildsd.org/projects/the...
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Happy Trolley Anniversary to all who celebrate! The BuildSD Primary Sources archive has dozens of studies, documents, and even video footage of the first Trolley line, which opened from downtown to San Ysidro on this day in 1981: library.buildsd.org
July 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Happy Trolley Anniversary to all who celebrate! The BuildSD Primary Sources archive has dozens of studies, documents, and even video footage of the first Trolley line, which opened from downtown to San Ysidro on this day in 1981: library.buildsd.org
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Today, BuildSD is proud to honor 35 years of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Disability Pride Month.
In our Journal today, @samuelsharp.com reflects on 35 years of setting the global standard for accessibility in transportation: buildsd.org/journal/tran...
In our Journal today, @samuelsharp.com reflects on 35 years of setting the global standard for accessibility in transportation: buildsd.org/journal/tran...
July 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today, BuildSD is proud to honor 35 years of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Disability Pride Month.
In our Journal today, @samuelsharp.com reflects on 35 years of setting the global standard for accessibility in transportation: buildsd.org/journal/tran...
In our Journal today, @samuelsharp.com reflects on 35 years of setting the global standard for accessibility in transportation: buildsd.org/journal/tran...
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My childhood and history as a person are inseparable from SEPTA and the freedom and joy it offered me and my peers. If I grew up with the SEPTA that PA Senate Republicans are about to create, the best parts of my childhood never would have happened. I would have just gone home on the school bus.
July 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
My childhood and history as a person are inseparable from SEPTA and the freedom and joy it offered me and my peers. If I grew up with the SEPTA that PA Senate Republicans are about to create, the best parts of my childhood never would have happened. I would have just gone home on the school bus.
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HOLY BASED!!!!!
Opening date for A Line Extension has dropped!
🚊 Four new stations!
🚊 Connection to Metrolink at Pomona
🚊 Alternative to teeth-grinding 210 gridlock
🚊 Four new stations!
🚊 Connection to Metrolink at Pomona
🚊 Alternative to teeth-grinding 210 gridlock
July 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
HOLY BASED!!!!!
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Opening date for A Line Extension has dropped!
🚊 Four new stations!
🚊 Connection to Metrolink at Pomona
🚊 Alternative to teeth-grinding 210 gridlock
🚊 Four new stations!
🚊 Connection to Metrolink at Pomona
🚊 Alternative to teeth-grinding 210 gridlock
July 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Opening date for A Line Extension has dropped!
🚊 Four new stations!
🚊 Connection to Metrolink at Pomona
🚊 Alternative to teeth-grinding 210 gridlock
🚊 Four new stations!
🚊 Connection to Metrolink at Pomona
🚊 Alternative to teeth-grinding 210 gridlock
Words today in the @buildsd.org journal: who's riding San Diego Unified's school buses? The answer is a bit more complex than you might think.
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
Who rides the school bus?
The life and times of a small piece of Americana.
buildsd.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Words today in the @buildsd.org journal: who's riding San Diego Unified's school buses? The answer is a bit more complex than you might think.
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
buildsd.org/journal/tran...
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I’m hearing that these trains are currently running in evening hours (6pm-2am) and pre revenue service on the A line extension is planned to start July 20th.
Well, this is something. A P3010 has a Pomona North headsign.
July 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I’m hearing that these trains are currently running in evening hours (6pm-2am) and pre revenue service on the A line extension is planned to start July 20th.
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@buildsd.org we are putting together a primary source library for San Diego's past, present, and future plans. @samuelsharp.com and Sam are hard at work on this project. We have around 30 documents on it already and 200 more to add. Find it at library.buildsd.org
June 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
@buildsd.org we are putting together a primary source library for San Diego's past, present, and future plans. @samuelsharp.com and Sam are hard at work on this project. We have around 30 documents on it already and 200 more to add. Find it at library.buildsd.org
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New fare gates being installed at Firestone. #transitLA
March 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
New fare gates being installed at Firestone. #transitLA
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chat today marks massive day, im going to be starting on my journey to ride every single bus line on LA Metro's list (including the busway lines and the 857).
i will be recording this.
this project will be a year long effort, and i hope yall ready for this probably tortuous unnecessary gauntlet :3
i will be recording this.
this project will be a year long effort, and i hope yall ready for this probably tortuous unnecessary gauntlet :3
January 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
chat today marks massive day, im going to be starting on my journey to ride every single bus line on LA Metro's list (including the busway lines and the 857).
i will be recording this.
this project will be a year long effort, and i hope yall ready for this probably tortuous unnecessary gauntlet :3
i will be recording this.
this project will be a year long effort, and i hope yall ready for this probably tortuous unnecessary gauntlet :3
Metro riders! Wondering if the new HR4000 trains are out there.. somewhere? Wonder no more! https://where-hr4k.samuelsharp.com
Is the HR4000 running now?
where-hr4k.samuelsharp.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Metro riders! Wondering if the new HR4000 trains are out there.. somewhere? Wonder no more! https://where-hr4k.samuelsharp.com
Thinking about the MLK Jr. K Line station today: one of the first transit projects I got to explore on my own, and such a meaningful community space.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - MLK Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - MLK Jr.
January 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Thinking about the MLK Jr. K Line station today: one of the first transit projects I got to explore on my own, and such a meaningful community space.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - MLK Jr.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - MLK Jr.