Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1/4 Today, Sen. Mike McGuire & I are announcing an agreement on #SB50, #MoreHOMES Act. Sen. McGuire will become a co-author of SB 50. SB 4 (his own zoning reform bill) will not move forward. We now have a united front behind SB 50 to reform CA zoning & address our housing crisis.
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Sure, some people will choose not to ride. Some will look at the schedule. And some will just show up.
I'd be interested to see a graph of how those three populations change in response to headways.
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I also think the lines may get a lot longer when things are a bit delayed.
(Closing at the faregates I've only seen once or twice; that's when things are so delayed that the platform is full and not clearing. I just took the Muni J-Church instead...)
(a) I don't think BART's rush hour operations are that accurate and (b) at 15 minute headways, it's actually not unreasonable to wait; some folks don't want the stress of planning. (Also Pittsburg line runs 2 trains per 15 minutes, with one short-turning.)
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But it felt like they were solving an issue the wrong way and it should have been dealt with by teaching people appropriate norms about where on the platform to wait.
Yes, at least in 2016/2017. I stopped commuting through Embarcadero in December 2017.
And I wouldn't say loiter -- there's crowding (and lots of lining up) waiting for east bay lines on the platform (and that's where you're supposed to wait for trains!) during the pm rush.
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I think the problem is platform crowding by people waiting for east-bay-bound trains (where each line is running every 15 minutes)... due to people not moving away from the escalator, leading to the escalator dumping people into an area that can become dangerously overcrowded.
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Disabling one of the down escalators is (or was) a regular certain-times-of-the-day (pm rush) thing, but closing the faregates is more of an emergency thing.
(Disabling the down escalators seems because people don't walk away from the escalators when they get to the bottom.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
UPDATE per @SunnyvaleDPS Capt. Jim Choi on preliminary investigation: Driver deliberately drove into a group of 8 pedestrians. Driver in custody. Victims all transported to local hospitals. nbcbay.com/U515pat
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Is it fixable by lifting the bike up and sliding the lock over the top of the ∩ so that it's attached to the leftmost beam of the M shape?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
PLEASE HELP US GET TO 1000 CALLS!!!! Yesterday we hit 500, but we slowed down today. Help us give the Capitol one of the biggest call campaigns of the year!!! Get us over the hump to 1000! cayimby.org/call/
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People who write technical standards sometimes have (and complain about, cc: @fantasai) some of the same problems. Though in many cases standards are at least easier to fix than laws once the bugs are found.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
More great news! My legislation, SB 330, which seeks to relax local regulations and speed up the creation of new housing in California, won approval in the Senate Housing Committee on a 8-2 vote!
sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/2019…
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In this context it means one for cars -- the city doesn't allow driveways entrances for cars to be put on University Avenue.
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I think this is why we need the state to step in with laws like SB50 and limit the power of city governments to do this sort of thing.
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So one of the best locations for infill development on the peninsula, next to Stanford and to the second busiest station on Caltrain, is effectively limited to single-story development for the next year.
This, when infill is needed to reduce sprawl and greenhouse gas emissions.
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So the suspension of the in-lieu parking program for a year nearly bans infill development along University Avenue for that year.
While @adrianfine tried to amend this away (see youtube.com/xKgC0qRXX2s?t=10488)... it somehow ended up back in the ordinance (not sure how).
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... and that's only possible if the lot is physically large enough to provide underground parking without destroying the entire ground floor retail space (most aren't) *and* there's street access from the side or the rear (remember, no curb cuts allowed along University).
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During this suspension, it's effectively not possible to build *anything* taller than one story on most lots on University Avenue, since unless you can find a non-residential non-office use for the upper stories, you'd have to provide parking...
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