Steve Boland
@steveboland.bsky.social
Bay Area, Cal. (Work in transpo planning, not tech.)
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Steve Boland
@steveboland.bsky.social
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Say what you will about Reddit, at least you can downvote
Finally. Nikki Fortunato Bas was useless on this oaklandside.org/2025/11/10/a...
An epic Lake Merritt hangout spot faces restrictions after gun violence
Councilmember Charlene Wang led the charge to make parking at a cul-de-sac on the lake illegal after 10 p.m., saying residents wanted relief from noise and violence.
oaklandside.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Finally. Nikki Fortunato Bas was useless on this oaklandside.org/2025/11/10/a...
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
Thread by @CSElmendorf on Thread Reader App
@CSElmendorf: I stumbled across the work of Arthur E. Stamps III this morning and, wow, my eyes have been opened! He's was (is?) an architect in San Francisco who wrote scores of academic papers on th...
threadreaderapp.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
We've got politicians in San Francisco rallying around a robocar hitting a cat, but AI is literally killing kids
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
We've got politicians in San Francisco rallying around a robocar hitting a cat, but AI is literally killing kids
God forbid we use a tiny fraction of the space in the station shed for pick-up/drop-off. It's really hard to take people seriously sometimes
exactly. the need for a kiss-and-ride easily be alleviated by constructing more parking in its place and ensuring each family owns at least two (ideally three for when the kid turns 16) cars
This is apparently something called a “Kiss and Ride” drop off. A maze for cars next to a train station. I have never heard of this term, but it echos what @volts.wtf has said that we waste transit projects that still serve suburban commuters and cars over moving people to places they want to be
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
God forbid we use a tiny fraction of the space in the station shed for pick-up/drop-off. It's really hard to take people seriously sometimes
In celebration (?) of the San Joaquins rebranding to Gold Runner and the upcoming Oakley station, I've updated my NorCal intercity rail map. Yes, there should still be cafe cars on Gold Runner calurbanist.com/bay-area-cen...
Bay Area/Central Valley Rail – Transit Maps by CalUrbanist
calurbanist.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
In celebration (?) of the San Joaquins rebranding to Gold Runner and the upcoming Oakley station, I've updated my NorCal intercity rail map. Yes, there should still be cafe cars on Gold Runner calurbanist.com/bay-area-cen...
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Affordability is *the* message every Democrat needs to focus on right now, and the populism + abundance framing is exactly how they should do it.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Affordability, affordability, affordability: Democrats’ new winning formula
From a democratic socialist in New York to moderates in Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats found success by focusing on the cost of living — not culture wars.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Affordability is *the* message every Democrat needs to focus on right now, and the populism + abundance framing is exactly how they should do it.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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People forget this, but the trend couldn't be clearer
Any election in the Trump era with Trump not on the ballot has been a thumper for the opposition.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
People forget this, but the trend couldn't be clearer
An interesting thing about Dick Cheney is that his one redeeming quality -- not completely hating queers, bc of his lesbian daughter -- isn't really that redeeming, if you think about it? I mean I guess we live in a world of parents who disown their children, but come on
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
An interesting thing about Dick Cheney is that his one redeeming quality -- not completely hating queers, bc of his lesbian daughter -- isn't really that redeeming, if you think about it? I mean I guess we live in a world of parents who disown their children, but come on
People love to complain about how slow the doors are on the Siemens, but they forget how often thr first-gen (LRV2) Bredas had to be taken out of service bc of broken doors. Or that they were so heavy they shook nearby houses. Like so many Italian vehicles, they were beautiful lemons
SF Muni saying goodbye to its iconic Breda trams
www.sfmta.com/blog/bye-bye...
www.sfmta.com/blog/bye-bye...
Bye Bye, Breda: Take a Last Ride on a Transit Superstar
www.sfmta.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
People love to complain about how slow the doors are on the Siemens, but they forget how often thr first-gen (LRV2) Bredas had to be taken out of service bc of broken doors. Or that they were so heavy they shook nearby houses. Like so many Italian vehicles, they were beautiful lemons
I see all these Dodger apologists this morning. Oh, they're fun! Oh, it's legal! So I will spell this out: The current system is anticompetitive. In no other sport do people have to think about rich and poor teams. Don't like the salary cap? How about a salary minimum? #FTD
November 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I see all these Dodger apologists this morning. Oh, they're fun! Oh, it's legal! So I will spell this out: The current system is anticompetitive. In no other sport do people have to think about rich and poor teams. Don't like the salary cap? How about a salary minimum? #FTD
No joy in Mudville
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
No joy in Mudville
Not sure how I missed this, but holeee cow, is this stupid. You know what's more polluting than a diesel train? Cars. That people drive when there's no train. Of course a guy from San Jose sponsored this, and of course Gavin signed it www.eenews.net/articles/cal...
California’s Newsom signs bill to restrict the sale of old diesel trains
The measure emerged in direct response to Caltrain’s sale of retired diesel locomotives to Peru.
www.eenews.net
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Not sure how I missed this, but holeee cow, is this stupid. You know what's more polluting than a diesel train? Cars. That people drive when there's no train. Of course a guy from San Jose sponsored this, and of course Gavin signed it www.eenews.net/articles/cal...
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No, but seriously, the gondola has equivalent capacity to a light rail line if properly designed. They use them as full-on rapid transit in mountainous parts of Latin America.
Shaikin: What are the motives behind Frank McCourt's Dodger Stadium gondola plan?
Frank McCourt's Dodger Stadium gondola plan might help fans get to the stadium faster, but why would he potentially undermine his parking lot revenue?
www.yahoo.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
No, but seriously, the gondola has equivalent capacity to a light rail line if properly designed. They use them as full-on rapid transit in mountainous parts of Latin America.
Can someone tell me where California ranks in terms of State support for transit at this point?
It seems bad that only $668 million of California's $31 billion transportation budget is for public transit capital projects next year.
HSR gets another $798 million.
$1.45 billion out of $31 billion. It's a hidden form of climate arson.
HSR gets another $798 million.
$1.45 billion out of $31 billion. It's a hidden form of climate arson.
The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Transportation
In this post, we summarize some of the most notable components of transportation program budgets in the 2025-26 spending plan.
lao.ca.gov
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Can someone tell me where California ranks in terms of State support for transit at this point?
I am so pissed at this guy for swinging at ball four *twice* and depriving us of yet another classic Kershaw playoff moment
CHOTINER: you could've not swung at full count
NATHAN LUKES: ump's been calling the high fastball strikes all game, I had to swing
CHOTINER: and you felt you had to swing at the next, which was a slider low and away
LUKES: it was Kershaw, his slider will get him into Cooperstown
CHOTINER: sure
NATHAN LUKES: ump's been calling the high fastball strikes all game, I had to swing
CHOTINER: and you felt you had to swing at the next, which was a slider low and away
LUKES: it was Kershaw, his slider will get him into Cooperstown
CHOTINER: sure
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I am so pissed at this guy for swinging at ball four *twice* and depriving us of yet another classic Kershaw playoff moment
Stockton. Btw I do not consider San Jose a city
What is the smallest place you consider a city?
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Stockton. Btw I do not consider San Jose a city
Nativism sucks, whether it's America First or I Am a 5th Generation San Franciscan
Having moved from the Twin Cities to somewhere even more extra about you being from there (check out some old San Francisco voter information guides if you don’t believe me), this particular strain of being deeply concerned about where you were born (something you have no choice in) confounds me
When I moved to Minneapolis in the mid-aughts, it was really difficult to make friends. People from other states didn’t get it.
Now the bias is front and center in my city politics. If I’m a resident who “just got here,” do I matter less to Josh?
Now the bias is front and center in my city politics. If I’m a resident who “just got here,” do I matter less to Josh?
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Nativism sucks, whether it's America First or I Am a 5th Generation San Franciscan
Of all the things to get weird about ... undergrounding is the very definition of a first-world problem
America infrastructure has become so primitive that I would have guessed this was Bulgaria
Great moments in Halloween costumes, today in San Francisco.
October 27, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Of all the things to get weird about ... undergrounding is the very definition of a first-world problem
Your move Colorado www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Surprise Move, Virginia Dems Will Redistrict to Counter GOP Gerrymanders
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Your move Colorado www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Compared to US transit systems, the latest metros being constructed around the world look like they rolled straight out of science fiction.
Picture driverless trains arriving every 90 seconds, platform screen doors, and subways traveling over 100mph.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/why-automa...
Picture driverless trains arriving every 90 seconds, platform screen doors, and subways traveling over 100mph.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/why-automa...
Why automated metros are the future
High-tech transit can be cost-effective transit. Just look at Canada.
benjaminschneider.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Compared to US transit systems, the latest metros being constructed around the world look like they rolled straight out of science fiction.
Picture driverless trains arriving every 90 seconds, platform screen doors, and subways traveling over 100mph.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/why-automa...
Picture driverless trains arriving every 90 seconds, platform screen doors, and subways traveling over 100mph.
benjaminschneider.substack.com/p/why-automa...
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New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST