Kuan Butts
@kuanbutts.bsky.social
transportation + computers kuanbutts.com
"lol." is all I have the energy to say at this point.
Idothethinking@idothethinking.bsky.social · yesterdayThe East Bay Times editorial against Measure RTM is so bad I had to refute it. Bad argument after inaccurate statement and then completely ignoring AC Transit's existence because it disproves their core argument that cuts over service improves transit. darrellowens.substack.com/p/voting-aga...
It is prime rush hour and @rideact.bsky.social is providing 0 bus service in at Grand and Broadway in front of CalTrans & @bart.gov HQ. 😩 For those keeping track, service has indeed managed to get worse since Sept Board meeting during which staff acknowledged collapse & promised all hands on deck.
Anti Palantir/ ICE march in financial district, SF right now
Really glad to see this feature analytics from @kuanbutts.bsky.social and board advocacy from @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social Would love to see a ridership-weighted version of these horrible reliability figures - it's not just that they're bad, it's that they're bad on big lines like 1T and 51A.
The Oaklandside@oaklandside.org · 3w agoCanceled and delayed trips have become routine. A board member told the agency to “get a handle on this ASAP.”
In 2015, AC Transit chose Clever Devices’ proprietary BusTime AVL system. A decade+ of implementation problems have left predictions unreliable, while its separate interface makes realtime data feed incompatible with Google Maps, Transit, and other apps, leading to mass confusion b/t apps.
ren they/them 🏳️⚧️@renzaro.com · 3w agoJoel Young is at a rail transit conference in Europe tonight (AC Transit has 0 railroads) and I am in Oakland waiting for a bus that has been 0 minutes away for 10 minutes
This quote is nuts. How do you know if you're succeeding in "deliver[ing] bus service every day" unless you measure it, look at the measurements, and fix problems? Like, y'all check the fuel gauge on buses before they depart, right?
Kuan Butts@kuanbutts.bsky.social · 3w agoSpicy reporting from Oaklandside oaklandside.org/2026/09/24/a...
Canceled and delayed trips have become routine. A board member told the agency to “get a handle on this ASAP.”
AC Transit buses have become more unreliable this year, say riders and transit board
Canceled and delayed trips have become routine. A board member told the agency to “get a handle on this ASAP.”
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I know AC Transit reliability has been bad recently, but this is just unacceptable @therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social
Thats fucking crazy. Imagine waiting an hour for a fucking 6 bus!!
ren they/them 🏳️⚧️@renzaro.com · 4w agoAC Transit has bigger things to focus on than covering for a creepy man methinks!
>The audit doesn’t focus on the concentration of city spending on a handful of firms. But Houston’s report does note: “Less competition among a small group of contractors can result in higher costs for the city.”
The Oaklandside@oaklandside.org · last mo.The City Auditor also found that a small number of companies are capturing most of Oakland’s construction business.
Sharing my public comment re: staff report on collapsing service levels for the upcoming @rideact.bsky.social Board meeting Wed Sep 9: ac-transit.com/presentation... Links to make your own comment plus relevant reports and staff report documents, included.
Riders already paid for reliability
Public comment for AC Transit’s September 9 Board meeting on the need for weekly reliability reporting and rider-centered accountability.
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8,288 people are riding @rideact.bsky.social right now ac-transit.com/ridership/ Inspired by Riley Walz on Twitter.
Oakland Division (D4) operated only 89.9% trips this past month, a drop from 98.7% in July 2025 If you ride the bus to work every weekday this means that your bus will be canceled at least once every week kpi.actransit.org/serviceopera...
Jean Walsh@therealjeanwalsh.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis feedback really sucks to hear, but it helps us understand the extent of the problem. I will continue to push for reliability improvements at AC Transit.
Adopted bus bunching work by Sal Khan (sal-khan.com/bus-bunching...) shared to me by @ansonstewart.com See updated @rideact.bsky.social performance metrics: ac-transit.com/report-card/
some of the placemark code got re-adopted into geojson.io, making it a very full-circle open source story: dev.to/mapbox/rebui...
Summary stats on @rideact.bsky.social performance over summer + call-to-action for better metrics to reflect user experience over service compliance. Service delivery metric represents interests of union & planning staff - need to include riders, too. kuanbutts.com/actransit_pe...
A Bus That Runs Is Not Always a Bus You Can Rely On
A rider-centered analysis of AC Transit trip delivery, stop arrivals, punctuality, trip completion, and waits through summer 2026.
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An endorsement from @kuanbutts.bsky.social is enough for me! Support Adriana Valencia for AC transit in Ward 3! Tell your friends, and sign up for that mailing list 🚍
dereksagehorn.bsky.social@dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis fall, I will be supporting @valencia4actransit.bsky.social for AC Transit Ward 3. Adriana Valencia has a vision for making bus service in the East Bay coordinated, fast, frequent and reliable. adrianavalencia.com
1T, which is the East Bay's premier BRT, is supposed to have a median wait of 5 mins. But riders are actually waiting on average for 13 mins for a bus, and 5% of the time there is a 53 minute wait which means ZERO buses running on the entire line!
More noise needs to be made about the problem of dropped runs at AC Transit. Certain lines seem to be worse than others, and some days and times as well. Board policy is no back to back cancellations and no cancellations for runs more than 30 minutes apart (i think it’s 30) @kuanbutts.bsky.social
@politapotamus.bsky.social · 3mo agoThree for three this week for canceled line O runs (30 minute frequency line) Unsustainable for riders
if dead internet/enclosure of online is basically turning online into cable TV what's the equivalent of fighting for local public access channels
Most importantly - this is cool! Civic tech crashed and burned along with all the optimism of the '10s. There was some naivety, yes, but the cynicism that replaced it ha been immeasurably worse. Here's to hoping this world resuscitates.
Keith Kurson@keithlaugh.love · 3mo agoNEW YORKERS!! This is a great opportunity for anyone already in, or looking to get into public service. Working with a mayor who cares (and who can get things done) is really a once-in-a-career opportunity, and this is a mayor who wants to get things done.
Added a "report card" view to kuanbutts.com/actransit_pe... for @rideact.bsky.social with up-to-the-day score on trailing-month performance. Scores designed to reflect user experience / actual system utility over technical compliance metrics that operators usually report out.
Starting to process years of AC Transit data into useful dashboards. Weekly/daily OTP stats: kuanbutts.com/actransit_pe... - Much higher dropped service on weekends - Rush hour delays are widespread, consistent - Delays consistent across routes, impacting reliability as a bridge to BART
Noteworthy and alarmng from @rideact.bsky.social ridership report: key AC Transit routes show continually plummeting ridership (nearly 10% YoY in some cases) after Realign roll out. This occurring amidst broader regional uptick in transit use. actransit.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
Big fan of @geology.bsky.social / Deeper Oakland blogs; enjoyed today's post. Live Oak park is indeed really special - was one of the few upsides when I worked in N Berkeley for a few years in the 2010s.
