Don Gibson

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Community Economic Development and Planning at @ucdavis.bsky.social recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07899

"They made me build a freaking bridge for approval" - Apartment developer in Davis California

Transportation improvements in Sacramento take literally generations to complete. This new signalized section of a bike trail crossing took 10 years from the proposal started to being officially opened today.

There’s ICE enforcement taking place in my neighborhood today. At least every local politician is coming out very publicly against it and sharing whatever resources and information they can.

A brand new signalized bike trail crossing official opening today crossing Arena Blvd, in Natomas Sacramento

Councilmember Kaplan: Signals are a matter of life and death

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Omg www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

It should be noted that 82-year-old Matsui got her seat when her husband died in 2005 after holding the seat since 1979.

Spent 45 minutes looking for my two-year-old’s favorite stuffy. Gave up order replacement on Amazon only to find it behind the pantry door five minutes after we gave up

I just found out my 3 year old is learning yoga at daycare because he was insistent I try the poses now at bedtime

This informative chart was shared by staff at last week's Oakland bike/walk commission meeting. The next time someone tells you "protected bike lanes are too expensive", remind them it's probably not the bikeway driving up the project cost, but all of the other non-bike-specific project elements.

As a biologist, I'm strongly against Prop 38 here in California. It makes no sense for billions to go to one unnamed research institute. Vote no.

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I just can’t get over how bad this AI campaign ad is

This has to be the most pathetic political ad I have ever seen. AI slop for Fremont City Council candidate all to complain about missing yard signs. If you cant get 5 people together for a photoshoot you shouldn’t be running for office.

BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.

ICE truck hit a pedestrian in Woodland, CA today, a city I work in www.instagram.com/reel/DeufmNY...

Every city's Vision Zero plan: "Our most dangerous location citywide is the 6-lane intersection of School Street and Pedestrian Way."

Prop 38 is a boondoggle ... calmatters.org/politics/ele...

I've got a column in the @sfstandard.com today about how a lack of electoral competition leads to substandard outcomes here in California, plus what we can do to fix it.

Best quote I heard about how it a successful local city council member in California. I know quite a few electives that follow this advice. sfstandard.com/2026/10/18/c... @stano.bsky.social

Terraforming Mars to ensure an endless supply of fish

Can’t tell if I’m advocating for no right turn on red or if I’m telling on myself for saying something cancelable 

Sacramento light rail train, not moving because it’s stuck in traffic because we decided to make light rail not grade separated. Cars >>> Transit

In Sacramento County, pedestrian fatalities spike from October to November. You are more than twice as likely to be killed as a pedestrian in November compared to April

Doing some morning research with my toddler.

Hear me out. Bidenomics was working and we should go back to that.

Making sure kids have a healthy/free lunch and breakfast at schools started as an agricultural subsidy to deal with excess surplus in the food system nearly a century ago. Turns out its a winning public health policy that also helps farmers. www.sacbee.com/food-drink/a...

City workers usually move fast to dismantle a guerrilla crosswalk or bench, often arriving in a matter of hours. IMO that's part of the activists' power: They show that government *can* quickly change streets—even if it seldom does.

Playing with MS Co-Pilot for work and trying to adjust a facility, it randomly appears to change measurements used to build the figure

Sacramento is, by these metrics, the best value and some of the highest quality of life anywhere in the west. California incomes and sunshine with Portland’s prices and Denver’s access to nature is I guess a ranking-friendly combo?

My instagram ads feel like they could be in breaking bad

Facts I am still learning: It takes a minimum of 30 minutes to get two toddlers out of the houses for a weekend activity

In honor of #BannedBooksWeek, I'm happy to report that many state DOTs have refused to add my book to their own libraries (and happier to report that many of the same state DOTs have held secret book clubs with my book)

I got my first parking ticket in years but as an urbanist I am happy to pay the $75 for over extending my parking 🫡

Me sharing this post in the friends text thread makes me find out who is in what tax bracket

The local bus ads are so welcoming to their riders

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

Voted 🗳️

CA prop 38 is a scam - vote NO. For example see: This CA proposition will send $4 billion to a single nonprofit. Who’s behind it? calmatters.org/politics/ele...

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

Sideshow barrier becomes part of the show - CBS Sacramento youtu.be/2gY03If-UHo?...