Darrell Owens
@idothethinking
Anti fascist urbanist. My "bluesky posts" represent myself and do not represent my employer or any affiliated groups and organizations.
New benches for East Oakland and Berkeley, courtesy of the dozens of volunteers at sfbabc.org
That weird Park Blvd block in Oakland that was clearly built by the same developer of the Sunset District and Daly City. I was very confused passing through here.
A pretty good encapsulation of what the 4th of July represents for the Black American.
Social media accounts love pushing conspiracy theories for clicks, even the local history train foamer youtube channel does it. THE GLOBALISTS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT OAKLAND'S OLD TROLLIES!
I'm going to see Supergirl next week and initial reviews have been pretty average but to see the God himself give this glowing take has re-hyped me.
Cancelled buses and 20+ min headways on a high frequency trunk route. Gotta love it.
Post-WWII Berkeley was very optimistic about the future and during the early discussion of what BART would look like some graduate students whipped up architectural drawings of stations. Back then BART (described as monorail) was assumed to basically stay on Shattuck vs its current westward curve.
You enjoying the show? Sit back and grab a cherry coke; Prop 13 was only the beginning.
This apartment has been vacant in my neighborhood for decades. Now they're fixing it up. I believe this is due to the Measure M vacancy tax!
Man these kids will never know what its like to sit in Soda Hall waiting 6 hours on a online waitlist for a GSI to debug your code problem for 3 minutes, shrug and say "good luck."
When i go abroad to vibrant commercial districts particularly in Asia the commercial stalls are very small. Unless you like Gucci or Apple you dont need all that space and if you are a high end retailer you dont typically lease old buildings.
Surprised Chronicle hasn't called measure B (term limits) yet. The 40k drop show it declined by like 1% and there's 40k left.
Was sad to discover that since my last trip to Drawbridge years ago that this watertower structure (with the tank itself long gone) had finally collapsed.
Spent Sunday with the homies doing two Fremont urban explorations: The Secret Sidewalk and Drawbridge, the Bay Area's only ghost town. What a day.
Locals in the Bay Area seldom have anything in common that unites them enough to be gatekeepers like this. Being from the East Bay flatlands vs the hills might as well be different counties. From the suburbs vs San Francisco might as well be different states.
Pro housing signs popping up in tony North Berkeley! Not only is the design pretty but its local art and not AI.
Another North Berkeley middle housing project has dropped. Being pitched as single family homes even though its more like rowhouses. On the old gas station
Based NEPA worker voted for Porter (unfortunately wasted her vote) over the gubernatorial housing forum.
City of Berkeley puts money into redesigning intersection and doesn't bother to extend the bus curb out to fit a bench. Frustrating
When people are sitting on the ground at a bus stop in street view, you got a problem. One that will be solved
Whoever made this fantastic poster was really horny cause Mark Hamill was not ripped and Carrie Fisher wasn't dressed like that
This is true. The urban left was quite anti-growth mostly because of the union of labor and capital pushing destructive redevelopment in the 1960s. @urbanlandrent.bsky.social nails this correctly. It needed someone like Zohran and not a liberal to make the case for urbanism in the 21st century,
I mean this is funny but its sad this is how we have to talk to appeal to low info voters
Signs that have to warn drivers that they cant drive off of muscle memory is everything wrong with US traffic engineering