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Infrastructure. Urbanism. Biking. Mobile apps & frameworks.
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Korbel would like a word
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The man is full of (disappointing) surprises
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Is this real??
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@dieworkwear.bsky.social aren’t these pants a dash too long?
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CA property tax rates are quite high compared to national rates because prop 13 starves locales of funds, so they make it up by taxing new buyers more.
Repealing prop 13 would yield much lower property tax rates on assessed value across the board.
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About five minutes from now
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This beauty. There are significantly cheaper front bucket bikes on the market, but since we bought this instead of a car we felt it was reasonable to get spendy. Zero regrets 😄
www.r-m.de/en-us/bikes/...
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Facebook didn’t exist three decades ago. Do you mean two decades?
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This is why when you reboot your phone Signal sends you a “you might have new messages”, because they literally don’t know.
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Is it at all likely that the state would grant such an exemption?
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That “dog says” meme in the background looking like a speech bubble for the X summary is excellent icing on this cake.
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Harder to work backwards from that number, but… it does seem likely
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If someone figured out how to turn on the iPhone mic without the hardware audio indicator turning on, that’d be news 😅
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As a guy who makes iPhone apps: it’s absolutely not possible to do this on iOS.
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Have you visited SF in the last ~5 years?
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Downtown is very well served by transit. BART, Caltrain, and Muni all service the downtown core, and are quite frequent
(Caltrain being an exception outside of commute hours, but they’re improving).
Downtown also has a ton of solid bike infra. Lots of options.
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“Zero-emissions single family homes” are a myth
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former!
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Close one! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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Year 2 is much better value on the second option
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Make no mistake: Kathy Hochul is also a spineless coward who is doing all she can to undermine congestion pricing. The Post is a real plague though, and having that be the only widely read local news outlet is a disaster for the city and transportation policy. It's pure tabloid garbage.
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Got it. I ran into something similar requesting more bike racks at Fort Funston. The interagency coordination is tougher than it should be.
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Is it really Rec&Park that would install the bike racks and not SFMTA?
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I think so? I remember reading about it when getting a temp permit for a visiting friend. Haven’t had to register a car of my own though so I’m not 100% sure.
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I think so? I remember reading about it when getting a temp permit for a visiting friend. Haven’t had to register a car of my own though so I’m not 100% sure.
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They’re already doing license plate scanning rather than checking stickers. Seems like a pretty easy change to implement?
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Huge news! We don’t go to Fort Funston enough because there was no safe way to get there via bike. Really excited to see that changing!
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Killer book too
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Oof. Jay’s cheesesteak hurts.
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Shoot
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Transit - particularly rail - has fixed costs. It's efficient if you make good use of the infrastructure, but the fixed costs don't reduce with reduced usage, leading to steep cuts. Thus, BART would need to cut 85% of service to save 30% of it's operational budget.
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Equity: 44% of public transit riders in the Bay Area have household incomes below $50k. That compares to 15% of the total population. Transit is far more affordable then car ownership, and that's vital for many in the Bay Area.