been fighting 8 years for this story. "West Oakland Station ... has seen an 11% increase in entries and exits during the first six months of this year". Next step: more ticketing by police officers for the holdouts, raise the rails and keep swing gates locked. BART riders will

Endless process — which empowers obstruction — is the enemy of climate action. Discretionary permitting, appeals & lawsuits around sustainable energy, transit & housing projects — including abuse of environmental laws to slow or stop these projects — is a form of climate denial.

The difference is I’m right.

Similar to traffic cameras & other forms of automated “enforcement,” effective fare gates help encourage good behavior while discouraging bad, & serve as passive enforcers of system rules & norms to the benefit of all users. Let’s get them down here in LA! CC: Metro Los Angeles

This is a large and consequential win for both California YIMBY and Senator Scott Wiener!

It takes exceptional architecture to look good without any plants, but any old crappy thing looks good with plants. Hence why "jungle brutalism" succeeds while brutalism broadly is reviled. Just plant some trees.

Governor Newsom just signed 5 California YIMBY bills: - Impact fee deferral to lower development costs - State duplex/lot split law cleanup - Small lot subidivison streamlining - More ADUs at apartment buildings - Student housing CEQA streamlining This is a huge YIMBY victory!

I took this photo while skateboarding down an open road at about 45mph.

American traffic engineering assumes the car is the base unit of transportation and optimizes roads for speed and throughput. It considers pedestrian injury and death an acceptable cost. This is in marked contrast to transportation planning and traffic engineering elsewhere.