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Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman
@azul415.bsky.social
Transportation/Features Reporter @ KQED
San José Mayor Matt Mahan told KQED on Tuesday that “the agency needs to do better” in farebox recovery and fare enforcement. www.kqed.org/news/1209197...
VTA’s Record-Breaking World Cup Ridership Nets Just Around $1 Per Trip | KQED
VTA has long relied on sales taxes, not fares, to fund its operations. San José’s Mayor says this should be a wake-up call for the agency to generate more money from fares.
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“My crewmember threw a throw ring at her, told her to hold on, and we pulled her onto the boat,” Anfinson said. “Meanwhile, the halibut fisherman was busy grabbing the rest of them and putting them on his boat,” Anfinson said www.kqed.org/news/1209112...
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The hard and fast rule for events is one bathroom per 65 people, per every 50 if there’s alcohol. As far as I can tell, the average for SF’s 4th of July was one bathroom for every 787 people. “ It’s almost like it wasn’t planned,” an event planner told me. More here www.kqed.org/news/1209051...
Too Much Traffic, Not Enough Toilets: SF City Officials Revisit Fourth of July Mishaps | KQED
Beyond problems with public transit and gridlock traffic, the city failed to provide enough restrooms for the flood of people that came to see the special fireworks show.
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Muni Music turns the transit agencies real time data into an online musical composition, it’s a fun listen: www.kqed.org/news/1208731...
Muni Music Turns Buses and Trains Into a Unique Musical Composition | KQED
The website assigns digital instruments to Muni’s real-time vehicle data, allowing listeners to experience San Francisco’s public transit system as a sonic whole.
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One Muni rider told me it took her 3 hours to get from aquatic park to the mission.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 4w agoOver half of Muni’s 32-foot buses are currently out of service after the transit agency identified a brake component safety issue in the vehicles responsible for traveling some of San Francisco‘s most narrow and hilly streets.
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“It is heartbreaking to witness the exploitation of women and underage girls outside my window. But SFMTA must take responsibility for the displacement that your infrastructure has created,” said Mission Resident Laurel Coco at an SFMTA board meeting Tuesday.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 2mo ago
We‘re swimming in data these days, so people are looking to translate it into ways that are fun, digestible or artistic, Bay Area composer Mason Bates said about this project. For Muni, it’s the latest example of the agency‘s organic fandom. Check out Muni Music! www.kqed.org/news/1208731...
Muni Music Turns Buses and Trains Into a Unique Musical Composition | KQED
The website assigns digital instruments to Muni’s real-time vehicle data, allowing listeners to experience San Francisco’s public transit system as a sonic whole.
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The U.S. DOT is no longer enforcing disparate impact protections under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The rule change happened over one day with no public comment. Local leaders and transit equity advocates are expressing alarm.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 2mo ago
There is a lot going on, but this story is nuts. The Clipper outage that messed up BART? It happened because the contractor failed to pay its AT&T bill. @azul415.bsky.social
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 2mo agoFrustration with Cubic bubbled over after the fare collection company revealed that a 27-hour outage that brought down BART’s ticket vending machines and fare gates last month was caused by the company failing to pay its AT&T bill. www.kqed.org/news/12085683
‘Zero Credibility’: Major Clipper Outage Caused by Cubic’s Failure to Pay AT&T Bill | KQED
A 27-hour Clipper outage last month brought down BART ticket vending machines and caused delays at fare gates.
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With finals around the corner… www.kqed.org/news/1208282...
Canvas Hacked: Bay Area Colleges Disrupted By Global Cyberattack on Learning Platform | KQED
A hacker group called ShinyHunters is claiming responsibility for the attack that brought down Canvas and is demanding a ransom to prevent the release of data.
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Second of three planned weekend closures hitting 19th Ave this weekend.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 3mo agoComplaints by residents are on the rise, mostly about riders parking the devices improperly. Despite this, transit leaders say companies operating scooter share are in good standing and greenlighted an extension of their permits this week.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 3mo agoAn inside look at what it’s like to be a bridge tender, the people that open and close Alameda’s drawbridges safely around the clock. For KQED’s podcast Bay Curious.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 3mo agoNearly every aspect of driving has gotten more expensive in recent years, from insurance rates to the price of a new or used car. In a place like the Bay Area, where people are heavily reliant on cars to get around, people are making sacrifices to keep driving or giving up the car altogether.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 3mo ago
At what part of the re-entry does Artemis II go through the manosphere? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...
Coming Home May Be the Most Dangerous Part of Artemis II
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Monday’s meeting revealed Cubic has recorded 10 major incidents accounting for over 33 hours of service outages since Clipper 2.0 launched. “ I want to support growing ridership, and I feel like I don’t have the tools to do my job,” a BART station agent told KQED.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 4mo ago“You are a 20-year-old exchange student from Shanghai, and this is your first time in the United States,” reads the opening lines of the prototype. “During high school, you spent hours and hours on your laptop, binging Gilmore Girls. Everything in your drowsy new town reminds you of the show.”
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 5mo agoThe cameras gave out over 140,000 warnings, or just over 3,600 a day, to speeding drivers in their first 38 days of operation. These accounted for just 1.5% of all drivers in Oakland. At one site the average speeder went 19 mph over the limit. Cameras start ticketing Sunday.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 5mo agoThe campaign paused signature gathering Monday, but said it would restart imminently.
KQED News@kqednews.kqed.org · 5mo ago