Eric Dasmalchi

@edasmalchi.bsky.social

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Public transit & data at Caltrans, Treasure Island Development Authority board member (and island dweller!). Opinions here and on treasuredtidings.net are mine alone.

Screenshot of streaming website for danish show "Vanvids Bilisterne"
Passengers walking from train to row of buses
Thumbs up and an orange water bottle on an Elkay filtered water dispenser
Small yellow two-door sedan on a two lane road with dry grass and a tree in background
Metal rack with bags of chips and other snacks, room temperature sodas and water
Line of people waiting to board a Capitol Corridor branded coach curbside in downtown San Francisco
Banana, packaged tuna sandwich, and hummus snack cup on a bench
Screenshot of article linked in post, pages 15-16. Here is the text in the screenshot: 3.3 HOW IT WORKS A rider wishing to pay for his or her bus fare with a commercial credit card may pass a VISA or MasterCard through the magnetic card reader on the bus. Customers are charged the full cash fare of $1.25 for local service and $1.75 for express service. No discount fares are available at this time. Receipts are not given out on the bus, but a customer may write to Phoenix Transit for one. The customer is billed during his or her regular billing cycle for rides taken during the billing period. Valley Metro downloads the credit card transactions from each bus on a daily basis. It compiles biweekly reports on commercial credit card usage, matching multiple uses for the same credit card number. All uses of the same card are batched before submission to the commercial credit card company, reducing the fee Valley Metro would have to pay if it submitted each transaction individually. 15 Since the electronic farebox on the bus stands alone, and is not part of an interactive network, it cannot check the validity of commercial credit card numbers in real time. An invalid card, thus, may be used in the system until it is updated to the hotlist. This generally takes only one or two days, since the credit card numbers are downloaded daily, and checked against lists supplied by the credit card companies. An updated hotlist is loaded into each farebox daily. The number of free trips that could be taken on an invalid card would be limited to those possible within a 24-hour period. Valley Metro estimates that during the first three months of the program, the rate of invalid commercial credit card use has been about 2 percent. Other controls prevent misuse of the commercial credit cards. For example, the system will not accept the same credit card within five minutes of its previous use, preventing passing an invalid credit card from one person to another for multiple rides.
dirt construction lot surrounding chapel building with concrete walkways being constructed. In background, Treasure Island Administration Building, Yerba Buena Island, and Bay Bridge
Asphalt road in foreground with a car and bulldozer parked on a wide curb among cones and no parking signs. In the background, a dirt construction site and the San Francisco Bay towards the Golden Gate Bridge
Screenshot of Apple Maps public transit trip planner and map for a trip from Treasure Island, San Francisco to the Bear Valley Visitor Center at the Point Reyes National Seashore. The trip takes 2 hours and 15 minutes using Muni 25, Golden Gate Transit 101, and Marin Transit 68
Today at 5:20:17 PM Attention: Outbound 25 blocked by a disabled truck on the off ramp to Treasure Island. ➡️ Outbound 25 will reroute via the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza.
Trays of Nespresso Commercial coffee capsules next to a machine. Price tag says $3.50
Right side protected bike lane approaching an intersection. Cars turning right are channelized over a speed bump before the mixing zone with bike traffic
Photo taken near sunset of orange-topped ferry boat at the Treasure Island terminal, with a a palm tree in the foreground and the Bay Bridge in the background.
Photo of gray wall with sign and pictogram reading “ in case of fire use stairway do not use elevators”. Below that is a display with an image of a stylized flame containing a person using stairs in a circle, and an elevator and person calling an elevator both in circles with a slash through them
Bikeway and sidewalk approaching a crosswalk. Fence netting obscures the view of people walking, biking, or rolling from the right. Park, blue sky, and high rise in background.
Screenshot of High Quality Transit Stops data on the California Open Data Portal showing attributes for a point at University Ave and San Pablo Ave in Berkeley with stop_id 55365 highlighted
Screenshot of Amtrak trip planner showing a 55 minute and $5 bus ride from Westwood/UCLA station code WES to Burbank Airport station code BUR at 8:35am on Saturday, September 13
Hand holding a bottle of Pocari Sweat with the San Francisco Ferry Building in the background
Small sandy beach with several sailing dinghies beached and a group of sailers. Buildings in background
screenshot of BART to Muni transfer rules from Clipper website linked: https://www.clippercard.com/ClipperWeb/muni.html
San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz island. Water is a little choppy and Alcatraz is partially obscured by fog. A seagull is flying. Under-construction park in foreground with completed pathways, plantings, and lightpoles.
Road construction site with wooden temporary bus platform spanning a lane.
Water station with a red dispenser for hot water, a blue dispenser for cold water, and a green dispenser for ambient water. Airport terminal with displays and security checkpoint in background.
Several people holding a banner reading “we deserve better”, others with more protest signs in background
Gymnasium with audience seated in front rows and board members at a table up front with a projector
A boy and a girl on a wide beach on a sunny day. The boy is crouched down and playing in the sand, the girl is swinging a big piece of kelp.
Door with text reading “Transformer number 16”
Door with text reading: TRANSFORMER NO. # 1234567890 HIGH VOLTAGE MAINTAIN 8' CLEARANCE
Google maps satellite screenshot of Venice Blvd at Hughes Ave in Los Angeles, showing road configuration with a protected bike lane, bus lane, and several travel lanes with associated intersection treatments. Cars turning right cross the bus lane, and yield to bikes going straight.
Looking towards through transit bus interior, in front of the bus a gate is halfway open and a scooter rider is crossing on the sidewalk in front of the bus.
Battery electric transit bus with a colorful Black History Month 2025 wrap.
Another transit app screenshot showing SamTrans EPX leaving at 17:01, even though scheduled departure is 17:10 and it’s only 17:05.
Transit App screenshot showing SamTrans route EPX leaving from Salesforce Transit Center bus bay 37. The screenshot was taken at 5pm, but it shows no trips for another hour and 9 minutes.
White Xoox autonomous robotaxi test vehicle with various sensors mounted around the car. Its parked between two other cars on a two lane street with the bay and San Francisco skyline in background
About 10 people of various ages on a sidewalk next to a bus stop sign.
View of downtown San Francisco and the Bay Bridge from Treasure Island; significant haze from particulate pollution
concrete pier with white metal pillars and roof extending out into a body of water. between the pillars, fog meets the water with no visibility into the distance and a golden light towards the horizon
Park under construction on the west shore of Treasure Island in San Francisco. Concrete walkways along the shore extend halfway, with one transverse walkway. The rest of the area is dirt and construction equipment.
Screenshot of social media ad from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, advertising memberships for the Bay Wheels bikeshare system
Late 20s white guy wearing a worn out green puffy jacket smiling in an otherwise empty boat cabin.
Screenshot of transit app Go trip guidance. Banner on top announces underground positioning via motion sensor and map shows estimated location between Powell and Montgomery BART stations
Tube of synthetic grease held in hand next to cables and connectors. Friction drive ebike motor and rear wheel in background
Sidewalk with palm trees, dirt construction site with fresh concrete pathways along the bay shore with the Bay Bridge, downtown San Francisco, Golden Gate, and Marin in background
Bay bridge bike path leaving Yerba Buena Island. Stack of signs indicating no skating, no scooters, no fishing
Chartered bus with “Mark Farrell for Mayor” banner at 2nd and Geary in San Francisco
Boat railing and life raft canister in foreground, Bay Bridge west span at sunset in the background
Map of central Los Angeles and a portion of the San Fernando Valley, with colored lines of various widths. Red/orange lines are generally wider and travel from South LA to Burbank via North Hollywood, blue lines are narrower and travel via Union Station.
Google maps satellite screenshot of I10 and Fairfax Ave in Los Angeles
Me standing on a bike path with train tracks in the background. I’m looking at the sky with a piece of dark glass over my eyes
Laptop with a comic on top. Comic is the May 25, 1986 Calvin and Hobbes. Laptop is displaying California appellate court opinion in AIDS Healthcare Foundation v. Bonta (3/28/2024), page 10
Pictionary board game
Large parking lot and warehouse store in the distance
Museum display in Mangawhai: “The Big Dig of 1991”
Hiking trail facing east surrounded by bushes and overlooking the ocean. It’s party cloudy and the sun rose an hour ago.
Partially scratched-out “Koala Kare” logo on a plastic panel. Above the text there is an image of a larger bear holding a small bear.
Photo of a roadway, with a “BUS LANE” marking on a green background. There is a white van in the other lane
Smiling white guy in a gold fleece standing on a sandstone cliff. Water and a mountainous island are in the distance.