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Bike #1Bridgestone MB-3
Bike #2All City Mongoose
Bike #3Tern Link D-8
San Francisco Bay Area: Many transit agencies are starting new schedules at the same time this week, with more attention to connections between agencies. https://www.masstransitmag.com/management/press-release/55131688/bay-area-rapid-transit-bart-bay-area-transit-agencies-syncing-schedules-to-improve-transfers-between-systems-align-schedule-changes
Bay Area transit agencies syncing schedules to improve transfers between systems, align schedule changes

Most Bay Area transit agencies are rolling out new schedules during the week of Aug. 12 in coordination with each other and are working to align the timing of schedule changes...

Mass Transit

The source of humanity's fossil fuels problems in transportation boiled down in one slide.

https://theconversation.com/which-transport-is-the-fairest-of-them-all-24806

#transportation #fossilfuels #ClimateEmergency #BikeTooter

Which transport is the fairest of them all?

How did you get to where you need to be today? Car, bike, public transport, or perhaps walking? Transport is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, globally and in Australia. The latest…

The Conversation

Sometimes I play a game called "everything goes back to housing prices", where I take some trend or issue and connect it by a convoluted and ridiculous chain of reasoning to find that the ultimate cause is housing prices.

Half the time I convince myself that the ultimate cause is, in fact, housing prices.

Pyrecast

Open source wildfire forecasting tool to assess wildfire risk for electric grid safety.

🟠 3D view of the Park Fire🔥 and its burn scar, California, #USA🇺🇸 - August 1st, 2024 #Copernicus🇪🇺 #Sentinel-2🛰️ Full-size ▶️ https://flic.kr/p/2q7NLw1 #SciComm #OpenData Image is about 100 km wide #ParkFire #fire #wildfire @CopernicusEU @CopernicusECMWF @m_parrington @wildfirescience
3D view of the Park Fire and its burn scar, California, USA - August 1st, 2024

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#CAwx #ORwx #WAwx #COwx

Status of fires relayed by BakersRelay. Note: Info is several hours old.

#ParkFire ACRES: 401,508 CONTAINMENT: 31%
#BorelFire ACRES: 59,340 CONTAINMENT: 57%
#TroutFire ACRES: 23,438 CONTAIN.: 49%
#PedroFire ACRES: 3,815 CONTAINMENT: 70%
#PioneerFire ACRES 35,476 CONTAINMENT 12%
#AlexanderMountainFire ACRES: 9,668 CONT.: 54%

The following fires will no longer be relayed, but will be followed for information on community recovery.

#NixonFire ACRES: 5,222 CONTAINMENT: 82%
#DurkeeFire ACRES: 294,690 CONTAINMENT: 86%
#ThompsonFire ACRES 31,557 CONT.: 99%
#StoneMountainFire ACRES: 1,557 CONT.: 100%

How a #Tax Break for #Data Centers Snowballed Into One of #Washington State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways
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Companies have saved $474M since 2018, with most of the windfall going to tech giant #Microsoft.

Lawmakers repeatedly expanded who qualifies, and lowered the number of #jobs expected in return.

#News #PNW #Utilities #Electricity #Taxes #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-data-centers-tech-jobs-tax-break

How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways

Companies have saved $474 million since 2018, with most of the windfall going to Washington-based tech giant Microsoft. Lawmakers repeatedly expanded who qualifies, and they lowered the number of jobs expected in return.

ProPublica

Extreme rainfall is forecast with #Hurricane #Debby due to it being such a slow moving storm. Over the next five days, some areas along the Georgia and South Carolina coast may see in excess of 300 mm of rain.

#GAwx #SCwx #weather

@lkanies It costs the city more money to repair a planter than when a pedestrian/bicyclist dies. Maybe we should change that.

Portland is run by cowards with no vision.

Concrete planters for calming traffic removed after frequent collisions https://bikeportland.org/2024/07/30/concrete-planters-for-calming-traffic-removed-after-frequent-collisions-388923

Concrete planters for calming traffic removed after frequent collisions

Some might think they worked as intended.

BikePortland