Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3
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Transportation & housing advocate. Quality of life in our cities is directly connected to quality of transit. Candidate for @rideact Ward 3.
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It’s insane and absolutely outrageous that game six of WNBA finals is going to be at 9:30amPT. Is there an actual adult in the room that can fix this?
SF ballot box be like “increase sales tax by 1% so we don’t cause a near total collapse in public transit throughout the Bay Area?”
It's not mysterious at all. But if every neighborhood is allowed to opt out of change, the result is a free-rider problem. Exclusionary neighborhoods can free ride off of the neighborhoods that actually allow new housing, businesses, walkable amenities, etc.
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Team AC-transit-themed costume! (Actually saw a couple of these cute lil buses between Piedmont Ave and Rockridge this weekend.)
Young AC Transit fans can be a BUS 🚍 for Halloween!
All you need are a few supplies. Download and print the bus costume PDF, then follow the instructions to create a fun costume for your little transit fan.
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Vote YES on RTM! It'll cost an East Bay family that spends $20k on taxable goods/year $100. That's far less than the cost of the time and additional gas it'd take to navigate the resulting congestion from far-reduced transit services
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Bay Area residents take 1M+ trips every weekday on our four largest transit systems — to get to work, school & everywhere in between.
We can’t let devastating cuts take that away. I’m voting YES on the Regional Transit Measure to keep our region moving.
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I texted my children that we got the puppy they’ve been begging me for and sent them a link with pictures. 🐶When they clicked on the link, it took them to a webpage that said YOU’RE GROUNDED. They’ll be spending the weekend retaking our family’s cybersecurity training course.
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At some point we have to talk about how Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for far less than what Donald Trump did and is still actively doing.
Turkmenbashi much?
BREAKING: President Trump is calling for New Mexico to be renamed New America, effective immediately.
Never put safety up for a Yes/No vote.
@hyphy_republic @NotAcquiescing Public agencies require public accountability
Man I've been making the YIMBY case against fossil fuels for 15 years and now Chevron just comes right out and ... writes a giant check to the NIMBY.
Folks it doesn't get more on the nose than this. NIMBYism benefits the oil industry.
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YOU'RE NOT PAYING TAXES FOR THE PROPERTY, YOU'RE PAYING YOUR TOWN FOR THE SERVICES IT PROVIDES. THE ROADS, POLICE, SCHOOLS, FIRE DEPARTMENT, LIBRARY, SNOW PLOWS, EMERGENCY SERVICES AND SO MUCH MORE.
san francisco once budgeted $1.7 million for a single public toilet. i’m sure the same kind of government will do great running a million apartments
minimum apartment size rules are a planner looking at a cheap 250 square foot studio and deciding you’d be better off with a roommate you hate or a two hour commute. the market offered you something and the state took it away for your own good
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the city requires two parking spaces per apartment, a garage space costs $50k to build, so fewer units pencil out, so rent goes up, so people move somewhere cheaper and farther, so they need a car. the parking requirement manufactures the demand for the parking requirement
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bear-for-marbles arbitrage in the works, perhaps?
Britain demanding its culture treasures back from foreign lands. Oh, the irony.
BART is very efficiently run and only has a funding gap because top 10% stopped commuting every day of the week
Meanwhile service workers must travel at all hours of the day and are dependent on a functioning and affordable transit system
Vote Yes!
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It's the car industry's continent. We're just living in it til we realize how much they hate us, and want us dead and broke.
Imagine working for Starlink in TX, CA & WA, going home to your own family at night knowing the product Musk sold to Ukraine for battlefield Wifi use is now being turned off so Putin can murder children in Kyiv. There must be some kinda ‘paper trail’ in your offices. Leak it now.
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The blowup within the left/Democratic coalition around building stuff -- houses, solar, really anything -- has the potential to crater the Party and destroy actual left priorities for a generation, or longer.
YIMBYs saw this coming a decade ago. It's now here.
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