As a regular bus rider, you can have thrilling, multi-year-long unspoken love affairs with strangers that share your route, and that's something you just don't get with a car commute

This neighborhood, man.

Gavin Newsom moved $2 billion from a carbon mitigation fund intended for climate investments like public transit and infill affordable housing and gave it to literal oil producers. I’m so proud of @streetsforall.org for this chutzpah. Get his ass.

Carter Lavin@carterlavin.bsky.social · 2d ago

South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Ben Gibbard I will always love you

Death Cab doesn't mean as much to me as they did as an eighth grader alone in my room with my sewing machine, my CD player and my journal to cry into, but I will always be very happy to see them live

NIMBY neighborhood group "Preserve Golden Hill" posted an Instagram reel about construction starting on the A Street apartment building and this white man, who owns a $1.7M historic home, literally starts the vid with "There goes the neighborhood"

Curious what the state of the bike network is here in San Diego? Join the mobility board meeting this Wednesday, 8/5 @ 4 PM (virtually: sandiego.zoomgov.com/j/1619281857 or in-person @ 1200 3rd Avenue, 4th Floor Conference Room) to learn about exactly that!

I just need all of San Diego to know and love Rolling Out bakery as much as I do

56% of violence against women happens in the home, therefore we must prevent the construction of new homes

Monica de la Cruz@monicadlc.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wow whoever posted this up in North Park must be sooooo edgy

Wow whoever posted this up in North Park must be sooooo edgy

Golden Hill has been mobbed every Friday afternoon by people longing to recreate the cool, carefree COVID-era park hang & vinyl dj popup, and now the one event that has permits is about to lose it because people can't be chill

From the YIMBY soiree: Two bike advocacy executive directors, a city planner, and me (amateur urbanist just here for the love of cities)

The bus driver and I actually bonded over this shitty incident and now we're buddies. He gives me special treatment like dropping me off right at my gym door a block before the stop

Monica de la Cruz@monicadlc.bsky.social · last mo.

First time being violently threatened on the bus, bad enough for the driver to stop the route to call security. That wasn't great.

being an urbanist today is life on easy mode. you just need common sense and some intellectual curiosity about the rest of the world, and the most unhinged illiterate people with obscenely bad vibes will declare themselves your enemies for life, thereby literally doing your job for you

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 6d ago

this guy (doomloop dispatch) literally killed a biker with his car… and he’s posting on twitter how it just made him even more anti-bike lane. The NIMBYs are not OK.

Oh my god they're almost finished with the darling retro style gateway sign in Tijuana and it's pink!!

husband is living that beautiful unemployed life but I can't join him for carne asada fries and an afternoon lounge in the park because I'm a professional woman sitting through a meeting about the CA Energy Commission's invoicing process 😔

I wrote about the history of downzoning in San Diego and how it shaped the city’s growth and development. www.kpbs.org/news/local/2...

How 'downzoning' shaped San Diego — and pushed growth into the suburbs

Throughout the 1960s, '70s and '80s, San Diego adopted stricter zoning laws that effectively banned apartments in many of the city's most walkable neighborhoods.

kpbs.org

So happy for my friend, the fabulous Mrs. Brittany Bailey McIntosh, who has been working on this project from the very early days of community outreach meetings at Joyce Beers and near daily calls with local business owners, and is finally seeing this beautiful queer rainbow vision come to life!

Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron@wrenispinkle.bsky.social · last wk.

San Diego is building the *gayest* public space in history and I can’t wait for it to open The lithomosaic came out beautiful. We will have the only rainbow bike lane in all of North America!

Oof got called ma'am by a teenager at the mall

Holy shit, first time seeing fare enforcement on the trolley in *years*

On the same day she posted this, the LA Metro board (including Bass) awarded $100 million to freeway widening projects.

Mayor Karen Bass@mayor.lacity.gov · 2w ago

As Chair, I’ll build a long-term financial plan to make Metro fare-free. I’ve fought for a world-class transit system my entire career because public transit should create opportunity for everyone.

Join the Nice n Easy group bike ride to MOPA in Balboa Park and @bikesd.bsky.social will valet your bike while you enjoy the film fest!

Andrew Bowen (he/him)@acbowen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Really wish I could make it to the Bicycle Film Festival tomorrow. If you’re in San Diego, check it out! www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...

Spouse's reporting from the sparse, sad looking activations at Comic Con this year show a pretty depressed TV & film industry

Fare Hikes Coming in San Diego Because of State/Fed. Funding Retreat cal.streetsblog.org/2026/07/23/f...

Fare Hikes Coming in San Diego Because of State/Fed. Funding Retreat - Streetsblog California

Last week, the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) voted to increase fares for San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) and North County Transit District (NCTD.) The two transit agencies ...

cal.streetsblog.org

More YIMBY advocacy groups could establish themselves as political clubs like YIMBY Dems of SD. Most of us had never thought about attending a Dem party meeting before but we developed strong connections outside of campaigns and elections now the community we've built has real political influence

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

Ugh Sean Duffy is doing PSAs now and I can't tell you how jarring it is to be listening to the friendly voices of StraightioLab and suddenly be assaulted by "I'm US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. We all get distracted when we drive..."

It's beginning to look a lot like comic con

This is the first time I’ve ever seen a CA publication speak plainly about both the stakes (and the basic distributional politics involved) The FAIR plan is a ticking time bomb and the primary problem is it promises to insure uninsurable property for rich people. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Californians are subsidizing mansion wildfire insurance as FAIR risk explodes

As commercial insurers have fled California in the wake of wildfires, FAIR has become the insurer of first resort for owners of multimillion-dollar properties in exclusive but fire-prone communities.

latimes.com

Get your tickets to this weekend’s Bicycle Film Festival at MOPA in Balboa Park! Bike valet by @bikesd.bsky.social Feeder ride w/ Nice n’ Easy from NP community park at 1p [https://btt.boldtypetickets.com/events/185430943/bicycle-film-festival-san-diego](btt.boldtypetickets.com/events/18543...)

Bicycle Film Festival San Diego Tickets | Museum of Photographic Arts at The San Diego Museum of Art | San Diego, CA | Sat, Jul 25 at 2:30pm | Bold Type Tickets

Saturday, July 25 BFF San Diego presents international short film programs that appeal to film connoisseurs, avid cyclists, and everyone in between. Curated narratives, animations, documentaries, awa...

btt.boldtypetickets.com

lmao that bi flag was immediately taken down and put back in storage. They said it's Monday, Pride is over!

Monica de la Cruz@monicadlc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Obsessed with my Golden Hill neighbor pulling the big bi flag out just for Pride weekend