Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

@UCBerkeley, formerly @votesolar, views expressed are my own. @hampshirecolg alumn, O's/A's fan, dreams of comprehensive mass transit in the US 🚉 she/her Oakland, CA Joined January 2019

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Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth

2 years ago

How is it that we still spend more time arguing about how to deal with climate change than we do actually replacing coal, oil and gas with clean energy? It’s 2024. We need to start seeing the world through climate-colored goggles. My @latimes column: latimes.com/environment/ne…

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Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth

3 years ago

“Newsom & his appointees should keep an eye on this alarming decline in solar jobs and installations and, if it continues, intervene. You can’t be a leader in the fight against climate change by crashing the solar market,” @latimes editorial board writes: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

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Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

3 years ago

Anyway, if you're wondering where I get my passion about housing issues from...

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Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

3 years ago

My dad was published in the @frednewspost today talking about affordable housing funding and why developer fees are often better than forcing developers to include affordable housing in their plans. fredericknewspost.com/opinion/column…

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Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

3 years ago

I just wish more folks had access to this privilege. We've built our society on so much sprawl. We underfund mass transit while destroying communities to widen highways. Our priorities are so backwards when it comes to transportation and it's only making climate change worse.

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Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

3 years ago

I feel so much more free living in a walkable place where I can walk and take transit to get to where I'm going. Yes, AC Transit and BART are far, far from perfect, but not having to deal with parking, reckless drivers, breakins, gas prices, is a freedom I never want to give up.

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Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

3 years ago

I've been car free since 2010, and while the initial circumstances that got me there were not necessarily by choice, to remain that way has been a choice, and I've never regretted it once.

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Casey Pratt @CaseyAPratt

3 years ago

As he’s done time and time again, Tim Keown absolutely nails the details of the current #Athletics Stadium Saga. Must-read stuff here. espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…

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NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon

3 years ago

I can’t top this

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Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor

3 years ago

This curve of US Pedestrian Fatalities is shocking. 22 people being killed per day! But why call them Pedestrian Fatalities? Walking isn't what killed them. In line with other violence, we should call them Car Fatalities. And address the source instead of the victim.

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Jamie Henn @jamieclimate

3 years ago

WOW! The young people suing Montana over the right to a livable climate just won their case!!!!! This is absolutely HUGE and will open up the floodgates for more climate lawsuits. The law has become a powerful tool in our fight against fossil fuels. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

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Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth

3 years ago

"No crop is more wasteful or more useless than turf that’s never harvested and never feeds, clothes or fuels anyone or anything, while producing no revenue." @latimes editorial board calls for California to ban nonfunctional grass lawns: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

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David Zipper @DavidZipper

3 years ago

Carnegie Mellon prof Phil Koopman: “The regulators have been letting these guys do whatever they want thus far. This yes vote means that if you create chaos on San Francisco’s streets, then there are no real consequences.” washingtonpost.com/technology/202…?

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Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

3 years ago

Some #nightheron content

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David Zipper @DavidZipper

3 years ago

One of those three votes came from Cruise’s ex-general counsel

Andrew J. Hawkins 🚇🚌🚲🛴 @andyjayhawk

3 years ago

BREAKING: CPUC votes 3-1 in favor of Waymo and Cruise expanding to 24/7 robotaxi service in SF theverge.com/2023/8/10/2382…

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Meghan_Long 🦀 @MegL513

3 years ago

The CPUC's decision today was shameful.

David Zipper @DavidZipper

3 years ago

In @TheAtlantic, I explained why I welcome the robotaxi uproar in San Francisco. Even if self-driving cars work flawlessly (unlike now), they could be catastrophic for cities and the planet. We should think long and hard before letting them scale. 🧵 theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Safe Street Rebel @SafeStreetRebel

3 years ago

Robot car companies win a ruling with a captured regulator. But as we know, more cars just means more problems. And of course, more cones 🍦🦄😈

The Frisc @TheFrisc

3 years ago

@californiapuc VOTING: On the Waymo and Cruise items, @californiapuc votes 3-1 to support the resolutions, with Commissioner Shiroma in the dissent. (One commissioner has been absent.)

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Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat

3 years ago

Jean is everything. I am just Jorts

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Jean Quan @jeanquan

3 years ago

#NoCoalInOakland Community Rally: Support the long fight against #coal interests to ship coal through #Oakland tomorrow Sat, July 22, Noon-1:30pm, 732 Willow St. (between 7th & 8th Sts) within walking distance of the West Oakland BART Station. bit.ly/44BPyUq Developer Phil Tagami & a hedge fund managed by Vikas Tandon are suing the city trying to overturn our #coalban. hedge fund managed by Vikas Tandon.