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[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

In 2 years, #Tesla will disrupt the car industry as Apple did to the mobile phone. http://t.co/quQoNSjFLz #ModelE, #EV.

[Washington State DOT @wsdot]

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@SoveyX What he did was stupid and ignorant. I'm sure he would take that back if he could but he shouldn't lose his job over this. We all make mistakes.

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

Contrast that with non-EV owners

[Zack @BLKMDL3]

Tesla Oasis is a great road trip stop.

164 stalls, mainly off grid solar powered with super clean pet area, vending machines, restrooms, trailer pull trough areas, tire inflation station and seating areas.

Well done @TeslaCharging!

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@TeslaBoomerMama @nerdalert @bradsferguson Thank you both. Back in the day, I would never see this level of attacks from Rob, Dave, Gali or Jason.

[Talia Goodman @TaliaGoodmanWBB]

NEWS: Kentucky transfer Kaelyn Carroll has committed to Washington.

The 6-3 freshman averaged 3.4 ppg this season.

TRACKER: https://t.co/wYv1Ze6704

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@SoundTransit how about we look at data from Bart and do what every transit system has done. Add fare gates.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

BART spent $90 million on new fare gates. They're recovering about $10 million a year in fares.

That's a 9-year payback on paper. The actual return hit in six months.

Embarcadero station went from 112 hours of corrective maintenance in the six months before installation to 2 hours after. Daly City saved 109. Balboa Park saved 75. Across the system, 961 hours of cleanup work disappeared. Corrective maintenance is the term BART uses for graffiti, heavy soiling, vandalism, the damage that needs a crew not a janitor. At several stations it dropped to zero.

Crime fell 41% year over year. Riders who reported seeing fare evasion on their trip dropped from 22% to 10%. Citations issued by BART police went from 2,200 in January to under 1,000 in July, because there was nothing to cite.

The gates were a filtering project disguised as a revenue project.

Old BART gates were waist-high orange fins designed in the 1970s. You could hop them in under a second. That made the station effectively a public space, and the rider mix reflected that. The new gates are 72 inches of polycarbonate with 3D sensors that detect tailgating. You either pay or you don't enter. Once you don't enter, you also don't smoke on the platform, sleep in the elevator, or harass other riders.

BART tried hiring more police for years. Blitz operations at high-traffic stations. Increased patrols. Dedicated transit cops. None of it moved the numbers the way six feet of polycarbonate did.

The $10 million in recovered fares is the smallest line in the return. Fare revenue used to cover 70% of BART operations. After the pandemic it collapsed to 22%. The gates won't fix that gap directly. They fix the precondition for fixing it: a system that office workers, families, and tourists are willing to use again. Ridership growth at stations with new gates outpaced ungated ones before the rollout finished.

A $400 million annual deficit is heading to voters in November as a sales tax measure. Voters don't approve sales taxes for transit agencies they don't feel safe in. The $90 million on gates is buying BART the right to ask the public for more money.

That's the real return on six feet of polycarbonate.

[Talia Goodman @TaliaGoodmanWBB]

NEWS: Colorado State transfer Brooke Carlson has committed to Washington.

The 5-8 sophomore averaged 11.7 ppg, 3.1 apg and 1.4 spg.

TRACKER: https://t.co/wYv1Ze6704

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

More of this please.

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@tmichaels191 @SawyerMerritt Point is the long development cycle and not being agile to adopt the latest state of chips near the end.

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

Gene therapy cures deafness.

https://t.co/6f6FbdWIjZ

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@UWonSBN That sucks. I like her defense and er aggressiveness on offense.

[Talia Goodman @TaliaGoodmanWBB]

NEWS: Washington’s Sienna Harvey plans to enter the transfer portal, her representative @chrispongrass of Lighthouse Sports told @On3.

The 5-10 freshman averaged 3.8 ppg this season.

TRACKER: https://t.co/wYv1Ze6EPC

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@TaliaGoodmanWBB @chrispongrass @On3 Damn it. I was afraid of this when she didn't get any playing time at the second half of the season. I wish her luck, she will be a great pick up.

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@UW_WBB I was hoping for this so good news for the program. The ability to recruit and keep talent is not easy these days.

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@nippon_en Please bring these back! I should have bought 5 pairs.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Breaking: The NBA's Board of Governors has approved a vote for the league to explore bids and applicants for expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle, sources tell ESPN. A bidding process is expected to generate offers in the $7-10 billion range for each team.

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@UW_WBB My daughter and I will always have great memories going to every home game since the 22-23 season. We got excited about freshmen class from California and have watched them grow the program back over the years. Thank you ladies and best wishes. Looking forward to next season!

[Taylor Wu @taylor_wu]

@SawyerMerritt What he described is the direct result of a vertically integrated company versus the legacy auto with their web suppliers.

[Washington Athletics @UWAthletics]

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