Bryan Culbertson 🥄

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he/him Living the car-free life in Oakland, CA. Don't make me drive.

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Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 26d

This is the original thread posted at 7:30pm I read this as Kendra agreeing NYC should reduce car dependency, remove parking spots, and charge for parking Her main point was 45% of NYers park a car in NYC so politics are not simple. Per-capita number is misleading for understanding why people vote

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 26d

Citywide paid parking with discounts for residents is on SFMTA's list of ideas to implement eventually Citywide paid parking without discounts for residents though would cause riots media.api.sf.gov/documents/MF...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 26d

I agree that SF should charge more, but the current price is $224 according to the SFMTA website: www.sfmta.com/permits/resi...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 27d

75%+ of Democrats oppose both AI Datacenters and Israel's genocide in Gaza

80% of Democrats view Israel unfavorable

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 28d

There is even a perfect spot to fit bikes as though someone thought ahead and designed for bikes on Muni!

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 28d

Caltrain has boosted weekend ridership with their new service and fare structure that supports family trips Weekend ridership is double 2019 ridership! www.caltrain.com/about-caltra...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 28d

Good service + affordable fares is the key combo to Caltrain and SMART's ridership growth While BART did grow ridership at 9.8% last year, their fares are just too high to achieve Caltrain's 43.4% growth or SMART's 36.5% growth

SFMTA +3.1%
BART +9.8%
AC Transit -0.1%
VTA -5.5%
SamTrans +3.6%
Caltrain +43.4%
Marin Transit +5.9%
County Connection +2.3%
GGT +8.1%
SF Ferry +16.7%
Santa Rosa CityBus -1.1%
LAVTA Wheels -4.9%
Tri Delta Transit -3.2%
SolTrans +9.2%
SMART +36.5%
Sonoma County Transit +3.6%
WestCAT +4.3%
NVTA Vine -2.2%
Petaluma Transit +15.0%
FAST +1.3%

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· 28d

SMART is fare free for youth similar to Muni already Free transit for youth is huge because it means taking SMART is cheaper than driving for families sonomamarintrain.org/fares

Chart of fares for SMART:
- 1 zone: $1.50
- 2 zone: $3.00
- 3 zone: $4.50
- 4 zone: $6.00
- 5 zone: $7.50

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jul 13

Munis average daily ridership is 516,790 which is more than Waymo's monthly ridership in SF www.sfmta.com/reports/muni...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jul 13

I am on the way back from the Western Railroad Museum right now literally reading about this rail line! I wish it still existed!

Photo of a map from a book about the SF-Sacramento Railroad Company

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 14

We could have had 295 km/h trains, but instead we created trillionarie scammers

Photo of a phone with a train the train speed of 295 km/h

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 8

Yep, looks like timeline was: - 1992: Oyster smartcard pilot on 1 bus line - 1993: Translink magnetic pilot on BART + CC - 1994: Oyster expansion - 1995: Translink ends pilot - 1995: Upass systemwide smartcard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_...

Early electronic smartcard ticket technology was developed in the 1980s, and was first tested by London Transport on bus route 212 from Chingford to Walthamstow in 1992. The trial demonstrated that the technology was feasible and that it would reduce boarding times.[13][14] These results were then replicated on a larger scale in February 1994 when the "Smart Photocard" was launched and tested in Harrow on 200 buses running on 21 routes.[15] Advertised as "the new passport to Harrow's buses", the trial was the largest of its kind in the world, at a cost of £2 million, resulting in the issuance of nearly 18,000 photocards to the Harrow public. It lasted until December 1995 and was also a success, reducing boarding times, being easy to use, and being capable of recording entry and exit stops and calculating the corresponding fare fee, i.e., pay as you go.

However, the Upass smartcard of the South Korean capital Seoul was eventually the first to implement this technology on a wide scale, at the end of 1995, eight years before London did the same with the "Oyster card".[16] In the UK, the first smartcard publicly rolled out was the BusCard in the city of Nottingham in 2000.[17]

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 6

According to OPD CrimeWatch data 3,057 cars we stolen in the last 6 months of 2025 I used 6 months here because that was the timeframe for Flock's CSO erroneous claim that there were 210,000 cars stolen in Oakland in 6 months 🙄 oaklandcrimewatch.com/home-1

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 6

And Dickson is going to be reelected as District Attorney

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 6

It is probably safe to say Measure E is going to fail now

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 5

This is a map of where I would live in SF

Election map of SF with Yes in Green and No in Purple

Mission, Cole Valley, Western Addition, Tenderloin, Excelsior are all green

There is some green in Bay View, Dogpatch, Sunset, and Western side of Presidio

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 4

Friday, we will know more on Friday acvote.alamedacountyca.gov/election-inf...

Election Results Update Schedule

Friday, June 5, 2026
Monday, June 8, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· Jun 2

This could have been a hit piece if Oaklandside wanted it to be I found Justin's comment here to be particularly insightful to Jose's thesis that streets are not like housing

Justin Hu-Nguyen, a co-director of Bike East Bay, told us he had concerns about that provision of the bill because many road issues are fixed only after residents see a problem and bring it to the attention of Oakland’s transportation department or its Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission.

“Oftentimes it’s a lack of will to propose it in the first place,” he said, of transformative projects such as protected bike lanes. “Unlike housing, which has funding or developers backing it, it’s really up to city staff to find the funding or to take initiative.”

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 31

There are no good options for Governor, but I eventually had to choose docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Federal
12th Congressional Lateefah Simon Yay! Simon has universal support and is been an amazing representative for the East Bay
State
Govenor Tom Steyer Ug Steyer is the strategic vote to lock Republicans out of Governor's race in November
Lieutenant Govenor Michael Tubbs Yay! Tubbs is supported by leftiest, unions, and yimbies alike. Oliver Ma is DSA option, but Tubbs has the best chance
Secretary of State Shirley Weber Meh Weber is current Secretary of State and only viable candidate
Controller Malia Cohen Meh Cohen is current Controller and only viable candidate
Treasurer Eleni Kounalakis Meh Kounalakis is current Lieutenant Governor only viable candidate
Attorney General Rob Bonta Okay Bonta is current Attorney General and only viable candidate
Insurance Commissioner Jane Kim Yay! Kim is most progressive candidate with a focus on consumers’ interests. Ben Allen is okay moderate option
Board of Equalization, 2nd Sally Lieber Yay! Leiber is currently on the board, is a beloved progressive endorsed by DSA, and only viable candidate
State Assembly, 18th Mia Bonta Sigh Bonta is current Assembly member and only viable candidate
Judicial
Superior Court #13 Cabral Bonner Okay
Superior Court #19 Selia Warren Yay! Warren is endorsed by basically everyone
School
State Superindentenent Nichelle Henderson Yay!
County Superindentenent Alysse Castro Okay
County
Measure A ✅ Yay! Continue existing small parcel tax for community colleges
District Attorney Pamela Price Yay! Price was doing an amazing job as DA before the disingenious right-wing recall
Oakland
Measure C ✅ Fine Temporary 1 to 4 year tax holiday for small businesses. Worth a try, but probably not the best use of those funds.
Measure D ✅ Sure Minor change to retirement funds goverence. Sure, whateves.
Measure E ✅ Yay! Small parcel tax to stop cuts to city services. Replaces existing pension funding tax and exempts low-income.

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 31

Everything in Noah's article is pure fantasy SF is a Strong Mayor city whose board has little power and has been majority moderate for decades with a moderate Mayor Crime started dropping well before Lurie joined in 2025, with biggest drop in 2024 under "progressive" Breed and "progressive" Board

Graph of violent crime in SF from 2018 to 2025 with a crime spike in 2021 and 2022

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 29

CARB is proposing a massive handout to oil & gas industry via Cap-and-Invest 😡 And they are raiding transit and housing funding to do it 1. Transferring allocation from GGRF to Industry 2. Adding new category of MDI industry credits $1.1B yearly subsidy to Industry at loss of $900M to GGRF

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 27

Thank you! For reference this is what it was like before with the sharrows 😨

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 26

Oakland says fuck you Gavin 🖕 Keep Bart rolling!

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 26

Gavin Newsom is raiding our public transit funds to hand out subsidies to oil companies 🤬 actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 24

Another day another BART gate fail I miss the old gates that actually worked

BART fare gates with only one gate open after taping

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 18

The proposed datacenter in Utah would be powered by a 9GW methane power plant 7x larger than any other in the nation 😱 You could power the entire state of Utah with this one plant but it will be used to power just one datacenter We are burning the planet to a crisp to produce slop no one wants

Utility Name Plant Name State County Technology Nameplate Capacity (MW)
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Belews Creek NC Stokes Natural Gas Steam Turbine 1,246
Ravenswood Operations LLC Ravenswood NY Queens Natural Gas Steam Turbine 1,027
Entergy Louisiana LLC Nine Mile Point LA Jefferson Natural Gas Steam Turbine 895
TalenEnergy Montour LLC TalenEnergy Montour PA Montour Natural Gas Steam Turbine 893
Florida Power & Light Co Manatee FL Manatee Natural Gas Steam Turbine 863
TalenEnergy Martins Creek LLC TalenEnergy Martins Creek PA Northampton Natural Gas Steam Turbine 851
Brunner Island LLC Brunner Island PA York Natural Gas Steam Turbine 848
DTE Electric Company Greenwood (MI) MI St Clair Natural Gas Steam Turbine 815
Ormond Beach Power, LLC Ormond Beach CA Ventura Natural Gas Steam Turbine 806
Entergy Mississippi LLC Gerald Andrus MS Washington Natural Gas Steam Turbine 781
NRG Texas Power LLC Cedar Bayou TX Chambers Natural Gas Steam Turbine 765
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC Marshall (NC) NC Catawba Natural Gas Steam Turbine 711
Consumers Energy Co - (MI) Dan E Karn MI Bay Natural Gas Steam Turbine 710
Guernsey Power Station LLC Guernsey Power Station OH Guernsey Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle 685
Hill Top Energy Center, LLC Hill Top Energy Center, LLC PA Greene Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle 665
Virginia Electric & Power Co Greensville County Power Station VA Greensville Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle 664
Chalk Point Power, LLC Chalk Point Power MD Prince Georges Natural Gas Steam Turbine 659
CPV Three Rivers, LLC CPV Three Rivers Energy Center IL Grundy Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle 650
Jackson Generation, LLC Jackson Generation, LLC IL Will Natural Gas Fired Combined Cycle 644
Louisiana Generating LLC Big Cajun 2 LA Pointe Coupee Natural Gas Steam Turbine 626
Bowline, LLC Bowline Point NY Rockland Natural Gas Steam Turbine 621
CCI Roseton LLC Roseton Generating Facility NY Orange Natural Gas Steam Turbine 621
Florida Power & Light Co Okeechobee Clean Energy C…

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 17

LIRR is the 5th most cost effective rail agency in the nation, and the union workers deserve the bulk of the credit for that

Cost per Passenger Mile (OE/PMT)
UTA FrontRunner $0.45
SDMTS Light Rail $0.49
NYC MTA Subway $0.83
Metra UP $0.87
NYC MTA LIRR $0.89
NJ Transit Rail $0.89
MBTA Commuter Rail $0.91
NYC MTA Metro-North Rail $0.96
"CTA ""L""" $1.08
Tri-Rail $1.12
NICTD South Shore $1.13
Phoenix Valley Metro Rail $1.13
Miami-Dade Metrorail $1.15
BART $1.15
SEPTA Regional $1.15
PATCO Speedline $1.19
MARTA Rail $1.25
SEPTA Metro $1.29
Caltrain $1.34
NJ Transit River LINE $1.35
RTD-Denver Commuter Rail $1.36
Sound Transit Link $1.42
MBTA Subway $1.42
DART Light Rail $1.66
UTA TRAX $1.66

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 14

Matt Mahan's housing platform is banning apartments in residential areas and fast tracking housing if bundled with a datacenter 😵‍💫

On housing, Mayor Matt was the first Councilmember to host a press conference opposing the proposal to eliminate single-family residential zoning in San José, or ‘Opportunity Housing,’ or the four-plex plan, a policy proposal that would allow developers to build four-plexes in all single-family neighborhoods in the city.

https://www.sjmayormatt.com/meet-matt

Data center, hundreds of homes coming to downtown San Jose

An 18-story apartment complex with 345 homes is planned at 323 Terraine St. in San Jose, with an 11-story data center and a 10-story parking garage incorporated into the design.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/data-center-hundreds-of-homes-coming-to-downtown-san-jose/

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 14

I am working off what you write in your profile. Thank you for the transparency. Why did you misrepresent what MPU wrote then?

Bryan Culbertson 🥄@bryanculbertson· May 10

74% of us want government regulation of AI 65% of us oppose building datacenters Oppostion to AI and datacenters is universal across all ages, incomes, education levels, and political backgrounds No constituency supports what tech is imposing on us against our will poll.qu.edu/poll-release...