chpederson.bsky.social
Enviro who loves cities. Transit fan. Former chief counsel at California Coastal Commission
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I love it!
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What on earth does the reporter mean when referring to "responsibly sourced meats"?
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This is why I don't like the common journalistic tic of referring to the current Republican appointees to the Court as "conservatives." They may be many things, but they aren't conservative-at least not in the Burkean sense. Call them reactionaries or Republican hacks, but they're not conservatives.
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FYI the Hermosa Beach city website indicates Jackson's still on the city council: www.hermosabeach.gov/our-governme...
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Huh? Opinion-mongers need to come clean about their abject failure to address the most pressing issues of the day (which most definitely do not involve rehashing stale gossip) if they are ever to regain trust.
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The battles about housing there go back at least 40 years. Then-Mayor Feinstein pushed for housing there back in 1983. After multiple ballot measures in 80s & early 90s, housing proposals fell to wayside for years. Fortunately, ultimate project is much larger than 200-unit proposals from the 80s.
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I hope this is correct, but I'm worried the statutory cross-reference defining "rail transit" might be interpreted to exclude commuter rail & intercity rail stations. (See Public Utilities Code sec. 99602(k).) If that's the case, Contra Costa & San Mateo Counties wouldn't have Tier 1 or 2 TOD stops.
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The article doesn’t mention the constitution once. What’s going on with the Times these days?
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Same at my old agency. We were also prohibited from accepting gifts worth as little as $10 from people doing business with the agency.
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How about creating more housing close to where people work and to public transit?
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They’re slow at Muni Metro stations, too
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I can't wait for the tyranny of the IPA to end. Too many places in this town offer many, many varieties of IPAs with very little of anything else.
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I wish there'd be a second run at establishing split roll, but this time with a sweetener such as a cut to the state's sales tax to help attract more voter support.
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Yes! And the constitution gives Congress many other powers related to foreign affairs. My personal favorite is its power to grant letters of marque & reprisal, but also power to provide for the common defense, declare war, define & punish felonies on high seas, make rules for army & navy, etc.
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The webpage for this project doesn’t include Balboa Park on list of stations that are still in line to get the new gates. Is that just a typo?
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And so they can continue trying to buy elections
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I never want to hear protestations about supporting the rule of law from anyone who’s a partner at one of these law firms that are trying to appease and collaborate with the Trump regime. These firms are a disgrace to the profession.
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So Waymo promises not to do what they did on Ocean Ave this morning when stalled Waymo blocked the K-Ingleside? And what are they offering to back up their promises?
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The failure of the biggest law firms to sign onto the brief is a disgrace. Big Law has revealed itself to be a conglomeration of appeasing Chamberlains and collaborationist Quislings.
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I think it was around 10:45-10:50 am yesterday (Thursday).
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Thanks. My experience was different than that edge case. A Richmond train arrived before an Antioch train. The platform signs gave an earlier "ETD" for the Richmond train, so I got on it. The Antioch train nonetheless departed first, before its ETD. I hope the fix will address my situation too.
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I guess I won't be going to Toronado again.
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A sliver of Alameda Point is actually within San Francisco
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The city attorney clarified later that the board’s final vote on service cuts will require the support of at least 4 of the directors. Only 3 voted in support of service cuts today. (1 director was absent, 1 seat is vacant.) It’s still possible that the board will not ultimately approve service cuts
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Any estimate of when new gates will be installed at Balboa Park?
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California chronically under funds transit operations compared to other states. This is particularly true of Bay Area operators. BART, SFMTA, AC Transit, and Caltrain see the least funding of all: 12% of operations, compared with 20% statewide.
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Declining general fund revenue, largely due to collapse of property taxes from downtown is another huge factor in Muni’s budget woes.
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What’s the process for fining Waymo when its vehicles break the law?
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This is Orwellian. Fundamentally this framework is about massive tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy partially paid for by massive cuts to Medicaid. Hiding that is a grave disservice to NPR's readers and listeners.
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And they're both Canadian (both were born in Calgary just a year apart)
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Thanks. In other words, it's enough to avoid need for service cuts this year and would help soften the blow in future years.
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It's very disturbing that staff isn't even providing the board & the public with basic data about how much revenue this would raise. The board made it clear that it wanted to consider all options for avoiding service cuts this summer, but staff is denying it crucial info for making informed decision
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For those who want proof of this, see 5 U.S. Code sec. 6103 and Cal. Gov. Code sec. 6700.
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Unfortunate first sentence. The most disruptive aspects of the project were for utility work, not traffic changes. The media's lesson from the project (& from the Van Ness BRT project), however, seems to be that traffic changes are disruptive rather than that utility work can be disruptive.