NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
Marcel Moran
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San Francisco 🌁 City Planning, Sustainable Transportation, Spatial Science. Union Member. Assistant Professor. Banner by Bellows.
Biked home a different way tonight and ran into the Folsom Street Fair. Extra spicy!
A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”
Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.
Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.
houstonchronicle.com
New Study! How many stairs does it take to get from the street to the platform of a New York City subway station? How long are the passageways? And what fare gates are present at different stations? We sought to find out at 85 different stations + 308 distinct entrances: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
Some more shots of @heartaerospace.bsky.social's new ES-36. The hybrid-electric plane will seat up to 36 passengers with a range of up to 745 miles.
One thing we should bring back from the 90s is a palpable public hatred of big tobacco. The industry remains a scourge on society, and we should destroy it root to limb.
Lovely view of the blanket of fog covering up SF but leaving Tiburon and Belvedere visible.
San Jose's airport is accessible by bike. Let's add a @lyftbikes.bsky.social station at the terminal, too! This got me close enough to transfer to the VTA 60 bus.
Intersections like these are why I started studying pedestrian crossing distance.
Katie Wilson announces a $1.4 million earmark in her proposed 2027 budget for 12 new public restrooms, including 10 additional modular facilities and 2 new restrooms in city parks.
This kicks so much ass. Also, it makes my life as a parent so much easier.
MPR News@mprnews.org · last wk.Schools across the state started offering free breakfasts and lunches to all students in the fall of 2023. The number of students eating school lunch went up 15 percent the first year. The number of kids eating breakfast at school went up 40 percent.
This capacity-filled Caltrain has now been sitting here for over an hour.
Marcel Moran@marcelmoran.com · last wk.We've been told Caltrain 510 (southbound) struck someone on the tracks. Sitting between 22nd St and Bayshore now for 30 minutes.
We've been told Caltrain 510 (southbound) struck someone on the tracks. Sitting between 22nd St and Bayshore now for 30 minutes.
Caltrain Alerts@caltrainalerts.bsky.social · last wk.Service disruption: Expect delays of 30+ minutes on all trains. More details at https://app.simplifytransit.com/alerts/caltrain/e8968165-5b22-4d7b-8722-54943f01db36
This is why I say people in San Francisco bike *despite* the infrastructure, not because of it. We're becoming a laggard globally in a category we used to lead on.
Marcel Moran@marcelmoran.com · last wk.Sanchez is a crucial link in San Francisco's bike network between 17th St (and the Mission) and the Wiggle. This is what cyclists are faced with:
Sanchez is a crucial link in San Francisco's bike network between 17th St (and the Mission) and the Wiggle. This is what cyclists are faced with:
This is why it's critical to see cities + states pursue legislation which adds speed-limiters to extreme recidivists. Crimes of this magnitude must also entail permanent loss of license (and more) - something California's DMV fails to do given the agency's negligence: calmatters.org/series/licen...
License to Kill
An ongoing CalMatters investigation examines how the state of California routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roads. Too often they go on to kill....
calmatters.org
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.Jesus Christ, this article will enrage you like nothing else
There was like a 2-yr period where a certain type of bro would post "tech is all about Miami now, SF is over" and it seems like we never heard from those guys again.
