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@HomeDepot @cturnbull1968 Home Depot: You need to condemn the actions of ICE in your parking lots. You can’t turn a blind eye and then pretend everything is normal because you’re “following rules.”

@cturnbull1968 This is untrue – we aren't coordinating with ICE. We aren't involved in ICE activities, and we aren't notified when they are going to happen. We're required to follow all federal and local rules and regulations in every market where we operate.

Home Depot has been cooperative with ICE and allowed them to work out of their parking lots.

It was 85° at 11am when this crew of two was hard at work in Mettler, CA. They were loading 20-25 lb boxes filled with grapes onto a truck. These boxes will be exported all around the world to places like Canada, Japan, Australia, and more. #WeFeedYou #Calor

It was a huge mistake to delay the re-launch of e-bikes in the East Bay for 6 years, and it remains a huge mistake that the service area still hasn’t been expanded to include East Oakland.

If 45,000 people died per year in the US in airplane crashes, an average of 25 commercial flights per month @ 150 passengers per flight, would you still fly?

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. Politician claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Great, @citynewsTO. toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/10/…

Watch this cyclist illegally blow right through the pedestrian crossover as I wait to cross with my wife and toddler! They should be licensed just like drivers, then this wouldn't happen!

Metro staff report says Culver City has to return $435K for removing Metro-funded Move Culver City bike lanes (looks like ped and transit grant components remain intact)

65th St in Emeryville. New speed limits just dropped.

Governor Newsom Signs Complete Streets Bill, finally! State law will require Caltrans to plan and build a transportation system for everyone who uses California roads. cal.streetsblog.org/2024/09/27/gov…

The Governor vetoed our bill requiring new cars to alert drivers when they’re >10 MPH over speed limit. 4K people a year die on CA roads & speed is a big factor. This technology gets people to slow down & saves lives. This veto is disappointing but I’m committed to this work.

Wait… who paid for this little freeway to nowhere, again?

Metro posted new weekday daily ridership figures - and it's yet more month of year-over-year ridership growth - looks July and August 2024 were 21st & 22nd straight y-o-y growth: Aug 2024: 963K (2023 was 889K) July 2024: 903K (2023 was 847K)

It’s short but sweet! Sometimes riders need tiny bits of infrastructure to connect heavily used bike routes. The brand new block-long Michigan Ave connector is just that, linking a dead end on Michigan Ave and the Expo path.Thanks for the head’s up ⁦@StreetsblogLA⁩

Why am I teary over a train?? My 7yo asked what’s going to happen to the diesel @Caltrain now and I told him they were going to take the diesel trains to live on a farm where they could spend the rest of their days frolicking and driving kids around. 🥺

READ THIS: "The car wastes more time than it saves & creates more distance than it overcomes." We’ve known this for a long time. Share this remarkable, completely relevant 1973 essay on car-dependancy by André Gorz, thankfully shared by @UnevenEarth.  unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-so…

Bike lanes make the street safer for ALL road users, not just for people on bikes.

Tomorrow we begin a new chapter with electrification, but today we will say thank you. Thank you diesel trains for your service! 🫶🏼

Looks like Arvilla was about 30 feet wide - now it's about 80 feet wide. Because when LA City builds a walk/bike path, they have to make the intersections more dangerous for walk/bike folks getting across.

A couple of officials at today's bike path ribbon cutting mentioned "reconfiguring" the Arvilla Avenue railroad crossing. Turns out that's a euphemism for widening Arvilla (a 3-block long street) from 2 lanes to 4 lanes. Below are Google images of Arvilla in 2015, 2023 & 2024

@alevin Someone else was honored for being a superstar!