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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 02/10/2026

Incredible reporting from @streetsblogla.bsky.social. The City of LA has all but stopped repaving streets in large swaths of the city, especially lower income neighborhoods. la.streetsblog.org/2026/10/02/n...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 01/10/2026

Living the multimodal dream in LA. The downtown protected network is pretty great!

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 20/09/2026

The National Weather Service at noon on January 4, 2025. x.com/NWSLosAngele...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 20/09/2026

Fundamentally Mayor Bass doesn’t understand that *she* is the one who needs to bring officials together, host press conferences and inform the public. That’s the job. That she doesn’t get that, over and over, is why we need to elect someone who does: Nithya Raman. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 16/09/2026

I'd love to read more reporting in the local press on the sentiments of LA Millenials going into the November elections. 30-39 year olds are the cities largest cohort, followed by 20-29 year olds. I don't think we've seen enough coverage of their frustrations with how things are going.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 07/09/2026

On of my local favs. It was for sale a bit ago. I think they wanted $15K but no takers.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 04/09/2026

Standing room only at Culver City

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 04/09/2026

I honestly think LA has arrived as a transit / sports town: E Line eastbound filling up with Dodger fans and we’re still west of the 405.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 01/09/2026

ATTN New York friends: I'm really excited to be attending my first New York Climate week! On September 21, I'm hosting a panel at NRDC called "Taming Traffic: How Congestion Pricing Became a Breath of Fresh Air for New York." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 28/08/2026

How can you not love this place

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 19/08/2026

Definitely a period with a lot of gas price volatility, compared to fairly stable electricity prices. www.nrdc.org/bio/kathy-ha...

A graph comparing the price of gasoline to electricity adjusted for inflation

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 11/08/2026

Here are LA and SF at the same scale. We really just don't have a bike network to speak of across the densest part of Los Angeles outside of downtown.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 16/07/2026

closer to home, this is what the elevator up the St Louis Arch looks like.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 08/07/2026

Caltrans is still in the sprawl business, proposing a $40M diverging diamond interchange outside of Bay Area supercommuter suburb, Tracy, with a CEQA mitigated negative declaration. The region violates federal law on PM & ozone pollution. ACE commuter rail runs nearby. ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2026070243

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 01/07/2026

Today I got to work in my favorite building in the whole world.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 25/06/2026

In 1964 when my mom was 10 years old in the San Gabriel Valley, she would go weeks and months without seeing mile-high peaks just down the road. That year Los Angeles County violated the pollution standard for Carbon Monoxide, a common tailpipe emission, on 366 days - it was a leap year.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 19/06/2026

A 120’ wide boulevard where 1/3 of the space is for autos and 2/3 is for people. Double rows of trees on both sides.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 05/06/2026

TIL that LA Metro transit signal priority has been impacted by copper wire theft of LADOT loop detectors. See the Nov 2025 memo at the bottom of this report. The City ended its copper wire theft task force in July 2025. lacity.primegov.com/viewer/previ...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 05/06/2026

In today's vote tabulation, Nithya Raman picks up 33.5% of the votes compared to Pratt's 20.2%. bckohan.github.io/lavote_scrap...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 26/05/2026

It’s really wild the extent to which Spencer Pratt‘s campaign is being funding by out of city and out of state MAGA donors. Almost the complete inverse of Raman who’s +70% city resident funded. x.com/iamgabesanch...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 20/05/2026

Not surprising, yet deeply disturbing.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 19/05/2026

Credit/debit payments plus these throne bathrooms are a huge user experience boost

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 19/05/2026

Woohoo! @metrolosangeles.bsky.social credit/debit card payments are now live!!!

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 17/05/2026

The plaza activations along the new D Line stations are great. Huge kudos to @katyyaroslavsky.bsky.social

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 09/05/2026

The new D Line Wilshire Subway extension is a wormhole in spacetime. It feels like teleporting. LA will never be the same.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 30/04/2026

Caltrans is gearing up to drop 10s of millions of dollars into an interchange project for two highways that are immediately adjacent to America's 2nd busiest Amtrak line, as well as the Coaster and Sprinter commuter rail services. engage.dot.ca.gov/11-07890#tab...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 28/04/2026

On January 7, 1994, US EPA sent California notice that the Feds would withhold a billion $ in highway funding because California had not implemented a smog check program required to be in compliance with the Clean Air Act. Ten days later… Cc @dave.bzky.team

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 27/04/2026

🎢 "Trump Gas Prices looks too intense for me!" 🎡 "Just looking at Trump Gas Prices makes me feel sick." www.nrdc.org/bio/kathy-ha...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 27/04/2026

When you combine with this jobs map, you can see that DTLA developed as a jobs center and Bunker Hill to Westlake developed as the suburb like 140 years ago and that's still what we have today.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 27/04/2026

Here's a favorite map from @michaelrhodes.org showing LA/SF at similar scales. The D line goes from just off the map to the right to just off the map to the left.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 27/04/2026

It appears Google has turned off the new subway directions for now. But it shows that the Wilshire subway extension will save you 20 minutes over driving and 25 minutes over today’s transit.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 26/04/2026

LA at its best. Thank you Ciclavia.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 25/04/2026

Adjusting the pins to be on top of the stations to show it’s a 21 minute in-train travel time from Union Station to La Cienega.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 24/04/2026

If you want to see a great grid of transit corridors along the westside, please take this survey! @streetsforall.org @movela.bsky.social @alexfischca.bsky.social survey123.arcgis.com/share/8e85a3...

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 16/04/2026

In April 2021 I got vaccinated for Covid-19 in a Cal State LA parking lot by the friendliest member of the CA National Guard.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 16/04/2026

It's been a while since I looked at LA Metro ridership. Here's monthly average weekday ridership from Mar-2019 to Mar-2026. And avg YOY change from Mar-2020 to Mar-2026. Metro was steadily adding riders until Trump began his unlawful and unconscionable immigration raids (reposting to fix a chart).

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 09/04/2026

Check this from my colleague Joel Reynolds, a pillar of the environmental movement, on the problems with freeway expansion and the better way forward. From 2011! 15 years ago! www.nrdc.org/bio/joel-rey...

Screen cap of blog reading: First, we can stop spending time and scarce transportation funding on planning, designing and permitting obsolete highway projects that will only perpetuate our paralysis. Traffic studies have long established that we can't just pave our way out of congestion. We've tried that approach for 50 years, and gridlock is where it's gotten us.

Second, we need to promote rapid transit, congestion pricing, carpooling, bus-only lanes, transit-oriented development and other 21st century solutions. Our quality of life and our economic future — and those of our children — depend on it.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 08/04/2026

Fun LA transit fact: if you start the clock at its incorporation in 1850, LA has had an electric rail line to Long Beach for more years than not! 95 years with electric train. 81 without. And that includes 1850-1879 when electric passenger trains didn’t…y’know…exist. Anyway, LA is a train city!

1850 to 1902 -- no train (52 years)
1902 to 1961 -- train (59 years)
1961 to 1990 -- no train (29 years)
1990 to 2026 -- train (36 years)

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 06/04/2026

Today the 1939 Colorado Viaduct closed to vehicle traffic forever. The historic structure will be rebuilt in time for the LA28 Olympics. A temporary vehicle ramp is open. The viaduct will stay open to pedestrians until the temporary ped ramp goes up.

The iconic pier sign with barricades in front

commemorative plaque for the 1939 viaduct

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 01/04/2026

You’ve spotted some great ones. I’ll share this Lancia I saw in WeHo this weekend.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 31/03/2026

"Superusers" who are 90th percentile gasoline consumers (due to less efficient vehicles and/or long commutes) would save $490 a month in fuel and maintenance.

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Carter Rubin @carterrubin.com · 31/03/2026

Cool new tool from Coltura shows savings from switching to an EV vs gas car. The average Californian would save $175 in fuel and maintenance costs a month using an EV. I like looking at monthly savings because most cars are leased or financed. data.coltura.org/ev-savings-i...

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