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Nostalgia and progress are a tough balance. This Bay Area downtown gets it right With excellent Mexican food, huge parklets and even a full-time cobbler, San Mateo’s B Street has found the perfect blend of old and new.

Pupusas. Parklets. A working cobbler.

I took a bike & @caltrain.com to B Street in San Mateo for the first time in 35 years and found a little bit of my childhood.

(Plus a bounty of 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇭🇳 food.)

📸s: @thebiscuitdan.bsky.social

#RIPTalbotsToyLand

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Everyone Who Claims Congestion Pricing Is Elitist Or Bad For The Working Poor Is Lying To You - Jalopnik If low-income workers could live without a car, that would put a whole lot of money back in their pockets, and that's exactly what congestion pricing does

Monday's Most Read # 2 - Everyone Who Claims Congestion Pricing Is Elitist Or Bad For The Working Poor Is Lying To You bit.ly/41xKO1P @jalopnik.bsky.social

Dave Letterman YouTube video by jbelkin

first done by Letterman in 1996 on Filbert Street. First with Super Balls and then with watermelon! youtu.be/vj0uvl5kbhw?... (I got to go to the taping the night Elvis Costello was on.)

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

Under the slender gaze of the Bay Bridge, the Sacramento Northern "Meteor" swings into Track #6 of SF's Transbay Terminal, the final leg of its trip.

Having left Chico at 12:15 PM, the Meteor's 5:58 PM arrival in SF marks the end of a long 187-mile interurban journey.

c. 1940

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

“Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point”

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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

C then B

One person, dog dead in multicar crash in S.F.’s SoMa neighborhood A person and dog died in San Francisco after a collision involving several vehicles, including a Waymo, on Sunday evening.

Harrison and Bryant desperately need road diets. They both stood out like sore thumbs on the fatal crash map from last year, and here’s another fatality on Harrison.

How is it 10 years into Vision Zero a 4-lane one-way stroad is still considered acceptable?

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It’s not a weird turn, it’s a logical response to police failing over & over again to be effective & reliable partners on traffic safety initiatives. At some point advocates had to stop wasting time trying to shift the police culture & instead focus elsewhere.

New fire in Runyon canyon

fuck

I love the story about Herb Kamm!

Current infrared satellite image snapshot with locations of Palisades and Close fires annotated.

We now have two major, wind-driven SoCal fires: #PalisadesFire (burning all day in/near Pacific Palisades) and now #CloseFire (in/near Eaton Canyon near Altadena/Pasadena). Newer Close Fire is also in a very bad spot w/increasingly extreme winds. #CAwx #CAfire

two kids, one pushing a bike, on a woonerf in Haarlem. grown ups sitting at a bar.

We should redesign cities for autonomous kids, not autonomous cars.

Hello transit sickos!!!

We are now on Bluesky.

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And of course ... weirdo broad-gauge posting.
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Grey sky > Blue sky

Bomb cyclone stuns in new photos.

Bay Area cyclist show support to keep Richmond–San Rafael Bridge open to bikes 24/7 YouTube video by KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA

Shoutout to the cyclists who rallied today to keep the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge bike lane open!

Low numbers of people using it is because Marin deliberately failed to create safe connections on its side in order to create this story of low usage. I've biked it once, the approach is terrifying.

📰 #AngelCityFC will relocate training to a nine-acre site on the Cal Lutheran University campus. The new performance center is the largest dedicated solely to a NWSL club and is undergoing a multi-million dollar remodel which will be completed for the 2025 preseason.

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A block from my office and I still haven't been in, I'll have to change that.

This story made my entire day. Well, it's 945A but I'm sure it won't get better than this.

Retweet with a favorite book from your childhood.

Screenshot of a SF Chronicle column about naloxone and saving the life of someone overdosing

Doing a little intro of my work as a columnist at SF Chronicle! Here are some gift links to some of my fav pieces I’ve written (thread).

Last year responded to an overdose outside our newsroom. My #harmreduction training and #naloxone saved a woman’s life:
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crossing Elkhorn Slough Friday night.

nothing like a 3 AM arrival. 💤

i'm actually OK with the Dodgers losing today because it means I likely can go to the game on Sunday!

View of the San Francisco financial District skyline at night. Transamerica building is lit up at the top in blue and white.

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