and by condos I mean townhomes. I think maybe even the development in the screenshot up thread, but they all kinda look identical.

I've stayed at Airbnb condos and Airbnb SFHs in the area, and for condos they're universally shared and for SFHs I've only seen individual. This isn't a large-n sample size though :)

an itty bitty trash enclosure in front of a house on Tamarack Ln in Tahoe City

Tahoe SFHs will have itty bitty bear safe enclosures that trash collectors will have to manually open to retrieve the can.

she's been off my list for a while because of that, the discussion around her after those videos of her went viral made it clear that what was caught on camera was just the tip of the iceberg. I'm not a big fan of choosing my candidate through process of elimination but hey...

Not a solution to them decimating service span, but it's an underpublicized program especially now where people are looking for alternatives for both their regular commute and backup options.

Emergency Ride Home

Overtime you were unaware of at the beginning of your shift does qualify you for the Emergency Ride Home program: www.sfenvironment.org/emergency-ri...

This is why a Blue line regauge features prominently on all of my best crayoning!

For what it's worth the blue to orange transfer used to be one they timed for cross platform transfers. They didn't guarantee it like the downtown Oakland pulse, but Dublin -> San Jose was surprisingly ok.

With the awful transfer as designed in Dublin that'll radically reduce transferability.

if you're looking at Union City Blvd, they did at least repave with buffered bike lanes! a *massive* improvement over what was there before:

www.unioncityca.gov/861/Union-Ci...

I don't feel like I have to justify why gay people would feel more comfortable not having to deal with an outgroup driver on a night out but that's absolutely also a factor vs an uber.

My Castro friends use waymos all the time. Late nights with poor transit headways, or destinations that require a transfer...

The Winchester line connecting to a future BART+Caltrain station in a way that makes (more) sense at Diridon will be great for what's the only corridor that actually makes sense as local transit. Blue should be replaced by better Caltrain, Orange should be upgraded to a high speed regional link.

VTA's light rail needs to be upgraded to reflect the actual need for it to be regional transit. Straighten out the kinks on the orange line, implement the downtown realignment, add PSDs, preemption or grade separation at intersections...

If they gave the Orange full preemption on the corridor section, and undid the kinks through the western part of the route, it'd be a great third south bay E-W connector after a Dumbarton and DTSJ link.

We have very solid regional links for a region with such poor local transit. Imo a lot of the problems with VTA light rail come down to how they attempt to do both local and regional scale transit and wind up doing neither well, when at the massive scale of SJ they needed to lean into regional.

Completing a rail loop around the Bay is actually a fantastic project, and doing it through DTSJ is a huge win for the city. The correct Bay rail loop to build first was obviously the Dumbarton, but connecting BART to Diridon gets us a lot of regional scale connectivity

I grew up next to 205, maybe 500-750ft away. The sound of the freeway changed when they breached the sound wall to add a MAX parking lot entrance. The volume changes based on weather, overcast days are so much noisier!

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fwiw CAHSR is actually already constructing massive segments of continuous crash walls to prevent freight trains from intruding.

Obama Replaces Costly High-Speed Rail Plan With High-Speed Bus Plan YouTube video by The Onion

CAHSB would make the project as simple as 300 miles of road widening for a mere $150bil, 25% off of the cost of CAHSR!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNix...

Could we get rid of the entire road west of the freeway? it's only needed to access the parking lot, and we could just use the massive lot under the freeway as the park's new lot.

current sea levels at high tide, only some water

1.5ft, more water filling it

3.5ft, mostly water with some land left

6.5ft, just the walkway and raised bits on either end left

realign the main path of the creek to the western side of the lot, then make it fan out into wetlands with a sort of Alameda's De-Pave Park style terraced system of levels from the north to the south with upland, upland marsh, tidal, and lowland ecosystem areas.

the site has an interesting terrain profile, the parking and building is on a natural stone point (probably poor soil depth, so nothing large can grow?) while the track itself is only a meter or so above Codornices Creek. Could probably do something with that --

photo of Brooks Island shamelessly stolen from EBRPD with lowslung grassy and scrubby plants. a few trees.

a native forest there would wind up looking like Brooks Island - coastal grassland, scrub, only some taller plants like native buckeyes and willows and oaks.

in terms of park amenities, there's a lot of passive amenity in the area already. Habitat preservation is great, but for *parks*, we're missing things like kayak rentals, small food+bev stand. Lack of residential west of 80 would make good urban park things difficult

that kind of bluff would've originally been a grass+oak sort of hill, probably. I think Albany Hill, closer to the denser area around BART / Pac East and already a nonnative euc forest, would be a better place for an urban forest park -

I absolutely one someone who bought a townhome within walking distance to Judkins so their partner could have an easy commute east (while they work remote). Until this week their partner has had to take the 1 to Capitol Hill to catch the commuter bus across the lake!

That's just called Fremont!

It's quite new! My east coast trips of late mostly involve staying with a friend in Philadelphia as a homebase, and I think I was actually there for launch week in November or something and picked one up on a "quick" trip up to NYC? I hope they support whatever discounts she's eligible for!

I've spent plenty of time in Philly and in NYC, gone all over the SEPTA area, biked in pieces from DC to NYC roughly paralleling the NER through NJ and I have to admit the only time I've used an NJT bus was on a free fare day. Now that I've got a Farepay card it seems less scary. Apart from PABT...