Avocado Elite 🥑

Law student at the University of San Diego. small-time avocado grower and urbanist.

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I do not want to go to thousands of community meetings about how to improve transit and cycling.

I want transit and cycling to just get better thanks to the people I voted for.

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I'm back to law school and will once again be cutting back on twitter. Almost hope it's gone by the end of the semester. Hopefully the hurricane isn't too bad . . .

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@infrstrctreweek That's what I hoping for after the alstom new acela disaster

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CAHSR is releasing a Request for Qualification to find contractors capable of delivering high speed trains.

Target 2028 to begin testing, 2030 for service.

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@AnonymousLeftie I hope so but there's still a long time for more things to go wrong

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@SwannMarcus89 I miss the days when high culture was reactionary. Elite culture should support the elites and it drives everyone insane when it doesn't.

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Pretty rare to see someone who uses the "housing is a human right" slogan also support building more housing

[Catherine Stefani 司嘉怡 @Stefani4CA]

Housing is a human right.

In the State Assembly, I will fight for more housing opportunities for everyone, strive to combat exclusionary zoning repeal laws, and make it easier to build new homes.

Together, we can tackle the housing crisis once and for all.

#HousingCrisis

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Matt Yglesias is right about @GavinNewsom, who should work on fixing California instead of culture warring with Ron Desantis, another loser who will never be president

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@AnonymousLeftie wanted a 10% service cut and got two board members to go along with her. cursed governance model

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@numble Any idea when this thing is opening?

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@NevoMagnezi I don't think anything is guaranteed but it is certainly possible

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Tropical storm Kathleen is why we have the trolley. It damaged the freight lines so badly Southern Pacific sold it for use as light rail rather than repair it

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Kathleen (11 on the map) in Sept. 1976 didn't have as big of an impact on San Diego as Doreen in 1977, but it slammed much of So Cal. It hit the So Cal desert as a tropical storm. It had 57 mph sustained winds, dropped a foot of rain in spots, damaged 100s of homes & killed 12.

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The two most evil Californians of all time.

NEPA on the left and CEQA on the right.

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@mattmoves93 Depressing

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

This is your recurring reminder that a group of self-styled “left wing” activists are fighting tooth and nail to block the construction of student and homeless housing by UC Berkeley

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@AlecStapp @GavinNewsom you're correct but are you going to do anything about it?

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Gavin is right that we need to crush the NGOs and reform clean energy permitting but will he actually do anything?

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

It would be good if environmental groups stopped opposing reforms that would make it easier to build clean energy infrastructure...

[Mike Lydon (mikelydon.bsky.social) @MikeLydon]

“The market wants parking.”

The market:

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@Tony_Kranz @riley_gdr @SenBlakespear I'm sure she's as fine but making the surfliner a good train needs rail knowledge and initiative which board members whose main jobs are being local politicians don't have.

Funding is lacking because the board correctly assesses securing funding is not important to their voters

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@SenBlakespear is right. We need a state-level California Railway Commission to manage Surfliner, Capitol Cooridor, San Joaquins, et al.

Local control does not make sense for 351 mile intercity rail lines!

https://t.co/owORUlIIbh