David Schleef

Out for a bike ride near the bay area's other electric railway.

Sitting on a stalled Capitol Corridor train in the middle of the Suisun marshland. Apparently the locomotive lost power. Maybe the California Zephyr catching up can push us. 😉 At least it's pretty.

Finally off in Suisun instead of Davis. I'll just ride my route backwards. Annoyingly, the Garmin won't let me reverse the route because I imported it from ridewithgps. So I'm gonna wing it and look at my phone occasionally.

Sitting on a stalled Capitol Corridor train in the middle of the Suisun marshland. Apparently the locomotive lost power. Maybe the California Zephyr catching up can push us. 😉 At least it's pretty.

The Zephyr passed us and is apparently now backing up to pull us into Sacramento. We're supposed to transfer to the Zephyr cars at an upcoming stop. I'm here for a bike ride out of Davis, might just get off early.

Sitting on a stalled Capitol Corridor train in the middle of the Suisun marshland. Apparently the locomotive lost power. Maybe the California Zephyr catching up can push us. 😉 At least it's pretty.

People who fall on the "things happen to me" end of the control spectrum (as opposed to "my decisions affect my life") tend to get attracted to fairly inconsequential details of their environment in an attempt to control their world. When even that fails, they end up bitter and angry.

It's a quick survey, you should do it. My knee-jerk snarky response to another survey for an area with obvious safe infrastructure needs is "perhaps these well-worn informal paths going past no trespassing signs are a signal."

Also, for planners, please stop adding gratuitous chicanes.

Absolutely jam packed VTA 500 arrives at Berryessa BART as everyone spills out into 2 fare gates. I rode my bike to the other entrance near the escalator, got on a train that immediately departed. I'm the only person that made the connection. 😕

Reading up on what AC Transit has published about CO2 emissions from their zero emissions program. The board is about to vote on purchasing 13 more Hydrogen fuel-cell buses this week. This quote is from the 2025 Zero Emission Program Annual Progress report (June 2026).

I'm having a difficult time finding contracted rates for cryogenic Hydrogen at scale. Let me know if you have info.

Reading up on what AC Transit has published about CO2 emissions from their zero emissions program. The board is about to vote on purchasing 13 more Hydrogen fuel-cell buses this week. This quote is from the 2025 Zero Emission Program Annual Progress report (June 2026).

This being the internet, someone will surely want to comment you can make and buy (nearly) zero-emission Hydrogen. But it's vastly more expensive, there isn't generation capacity, and since ARCHES was canceled, that capacity will never be built. Because nobody wants to pay for it.

Reading up on what AC Transit has published about CO2 emissions from their zero emissions program. The board is about to vote on purchasing 13 more Hydrogen fuel-cell buses this week. This quote is from the 2025 Zero Emission Program Annual Progress report (June 2026).

I wrote about this a while back and stand by the numbers. As currently operated, AC Transit's Hydrogen fuel-cell buses contribute 2.19 kg/mile of CO2 emissions, whereas the diesel hybrid buses are 2.41 kg/mile. That's only a 10% decrease in CO2 emissions, for a much more expensive technology.

Reading up on what AC Transit has published about CO2 emissions from their zero emissions program. The board is about to vote on purchasing 13 more Hydrogen fuel-cell buses this week. This quote is from the 2025 Zero Emission Program Annual Progress report (June 2026).