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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 28/09/2026

Measure HLA is stuck. The ballot measure LA voters passed 2½ years ago said the city must install planned bike lanes when repaving. But the city stopped repaving, and new bike lane projects have slowed to a trickle. Exactly one HLA-compliant project has been installed. What comes next?

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How to break the HLA stalemate

We voted to link bike lanes to repaving. We got neither. Now what?

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 28/09/2026

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How to break the HLA stalemate

We voted to link bike lanes to repaving. We got neither. Now what?

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 11/09/2026

Could SB 79 help fix LA's parks shortage? I was amazed to learn that almost every one of the city's most park-poor neighborhoods was upzoned by SB 79. Even more surprising: the law itself could hold the key to building more parks there.

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How to build 145 new LA parks

SB 79 is here, and lots of new housing is coming. Is anything else?

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 11/09/2026

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How to build 145 new LA parks

SB 79 is here, and lots of new housing is coming. Is anything else?

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cityplanneractual.bsky.social @cityplanneractual.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

HAWKs exist to get around "signal warrants," but in every single case a Red-Yellow-Green traffic light would be better for the crosswalk. HAWKs' resting state is "blank" aka invisible. RYG's would project green so that drivers keep scanning them, looking to see whether they turn yellow and then red

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gregmartinsd.bsky.social @gregmartinsd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's a city street, not a highway. Cities need to hire traffic engineers that know the difference and design city streets for safety and movement of people, not fast movement of cars.

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Tactical Ruralist @jslashk.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Excellent essay. Key passage: “Like a person who keeps lending money to their deadbeat lover, the city is sacrificing its own needs (reducing traffic deaths) because it thinks the other party (drivers) can’t handle meeting those needs. The result is dysfunction - pedestrians keep getting killed”

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 17/08/2026

LA protects drivers' feelings at pedestrians' expense, and it's killing us. A crosswalk in my hood makes people wait up to 60 seconds so cars don't get annoyed. Pedestrians give up and just cross. Why have a signal at all? A 🧵 about the city’s codependent relationship with drivers.

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The crosswalk designed to appease angry drivers

Our codependent relationship with people in cars is preventing us from getting to Vision Zero

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Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

L.A. is repaving the wrong streets! (part 1) Recently the city stopped repaving all kinds of streets, and instead almost entirely focuses on streets without sidewalks - which are mostly in suburban, well-off, and hilly areas.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 14/08/2026

Nick Andert continuing to level up as LA's most important transit journalist/advocate.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 11/08/2026

👀 👀 👀 Zero SB 79 buildings proposed in LA in the first month. As of Aug. 1st, no projects had been filed under the 3-4 story Low Rise program, which the city created to avoid fully implementing SB 79 for now. The rules were in flux until June, so hopefully things pick up soon as developers adjust.

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Mayor Bass' top City Council ally removed me as Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee. The Mayor may be trying to punish me for challenging her, but Angelenos are the ones who pay the price for these political games.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 30/07/2026

Excited to have been chosen for the Roots of Progress Institute’s Blog-Building Intensive Fellowship! I’m part of a group of 43 amazing bloggers from around the world who write about progressive policy in all kinds of different fields. rootsofprogress.org/fellows/#ore...

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 31/07/2026

The Metro board won't have a MAGA member thanks to elected officials actually doing the right thing instead of just going through the motions. Congratulations to all the folks who advocated for some spine and the officials who found theirs.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 21/07/2026

This is starting to happen in coastal LA and the South Bay, caused by SpaceX instead of the AI companies. The number of millionaires minted by one IPO is going to have a big impact on our tight housing market, none of it good for middle class folks.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 17/07/2026

TIL everyone's favorite developer villain Geoff Palmer got the courts to declare inclusionary zoning illegal in California in 2009, and it stayed that way until the legislature fixed it in 2017.

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Riley Uslan | Studio Lead, Wayward Thoughts Interactive @rileyu.waywardthoughts.games · 16/07/2026

Los Angeles often feels less like one city than a collection of dozens of cities sharing a freeway system. So, yes. I love it here. But part of loving a place means wanting it to be the best it can be. And I think we do need a lot more civic camaraderie. We're Angelinos and we need to embrace it.

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Riley Uslan | Studio Lead, Wayward Thoughts Interactive @rileyu.waywardthoughts.games · 16/07/2026

This is a fantastic piece and as a native Angelino, I can absolutely appreciate it. I also agree strongly with the idea behind it. I do think LA needs more civic pride and I think the complacency at City Hall and the NIMBYs can be actually be partly attributed to the fact we *don't* have that.

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sloshadile.bsky.social @sloshadile.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’d add a map of hikes in the Angeles National Forest, and a one year bike share subscription.

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USC_alifornia @uscalifornia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’d include: -beach guide -LA County Bike Ways Map -CicLAvia calendar - @lataco.bsky.social neighborhood guide -free admission to the Natural History Museum -50% off coupon for Hollywood Bowl tickets -LA Times Festival of Books schedule

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 15/07/2026

What if every person who moved to LA got a welcome package - a box from the city that connected them to Los Angeles, to their community, and to each other? My proposal for fixing LA's broken civic culture: the Angeleno Box.🧵

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The Angeleno Box

What if every person who moved to LA got a welcome package?

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is excellent. Well done.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 08/07/2026

The standards Joe is talking about were written for the city by ARG, a *historic preservation* consultant. ARG doesn't design new buildings. Why hire them to come up with the standards new buildings have to follow?

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Architectural Portfolio & Services: Architectural Resources Group

ARG engages in architectural design, preservation, conservation, and sustainability to create places with historic meaning adapted to modern needs.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 06/07/2026

The most hypocritical part of trying to ban duplexes in Altadena is that ADUs will still be allowed (two if AB 956 passes). The homeowner quoted in the article has an ADU and plans on RENTING IT OUT once his home is rebuilt. But don't call him a "predatory developer" - he's a sainted homeowner.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 01/07/2026

Happy SB 79 day! Anyone know of any fun project filings unveiled in California today?

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 29/06/2026

One simple trick to make your city family-friendly: housing affordability. Median Houston home price - $360k LA - $1M

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

great write up on E line delays - signal preemption advocacy is one of my favorite projects to emerge organically out of the SFA slack

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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Helpful deep dive here on what it takes to speed up at-grade rail transit stuck at red lights on the streets in LA, plus the citizen activists trying to push leaders for reforms.

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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

There are so many things in this city where you find out the last update was done in the Reagan era and like do the Democrats who’ve become the establishment want to do anything? Like remember when @awalkerinla.bsky.social found out the last Dodger Stadium traffic study was from 1991 lol?

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 26/06/2026

There are plenty more creative ways to speed up the E Line! What if Exposition Blvd. in front of USC was pedestrianized? What if Flower St. was only for buses and trains? What if we built a ton of curb extensions? And remember, freight trains in the 80's got higher priority than the E Line today!

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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 26/06/2026

This is great stuff! Lots to glean, but I particularly appreciate this: many unpreempted grade crossings not only slows light rail, but makes travel time far more unreliable. Riders have to plan around the worst average trip time, not the best.

All those red lights make the E Line unpredictable. It averages 47 minutes from the beach to downtown but can take up to 57. Check out the long tail stretching to the right in the graph below, which shows the actual time it took various trains to get from Santa Monica to DTLA. Riders have to plan for the worst to make sure they are on time, which means they need to set aside nearly an hour to go east during morning rush.

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Springtime for Hegseth @schroedinger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

That huge delay at 5th St in Santa Monica is especially painful given you're RIGHT outside the station. Then when you finally get moving for that last 100 ft you fucking lurch into the station.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 26/06/2026

The E Line takes 47 minutes to go from DTLA to Santa Monica - often slower than driving. Ten years ago, it took 46. This is not an accident - it's a policy failure. A group of volunteers, including me, decided to do something about it. 🧵

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The train slower than a cyclist

A grassroots group of volunteers - including me - is working to speed up LA's transit.

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Henry Fung @henryfung.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

On Monday HCD told SCAG they were wrong and the map will be changed to add Eastside E Phase 2 to Whittier, K North, and Sepulveda.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And more to come! Nice work @futureis.la.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Also a good case study in why the peanut gallery should refrain from pronouncing that any given YIMBY reform has failed—in the real world, it takes two or three years for projects to move forward, even in the best of cases.

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

One of the first ED 1 projects was recently sold to the LA Housing Authority at a cost of $378,000 per unit, much cheaper than subsidized new construction housing. The authority will lease the property at a mix of low and moderate income levels. therealdeal.com/la/2026/06/0...

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HACLA buys one of ED1’s first completed properties in Sawtelle for $17M

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles is now the owner of an affordable housing project in Sawtelle that broke ground under ED1.

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Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Very helpful level-set on LA's much talked about ED 1 policy. It's not as effective as it could have been, but it's still having a major impact. With 8,500 units under construction, the policy is helping LA produce a lot more affordable housing than it could before.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 11/06/2026

All the controversies over Mayor Bass' ED 1 obscure the big headline: it's a hugely successful program that has already led to thousands of affordable apartments built at zero taxpayer expense, and it's just getting started. A 🧵:

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Everybody is wrong about ED 1

Ignore the haters. Mayor Bass' signature housing policy is a big success.

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Everybody is wrong about ED 1

Ignore the haters. Mayor Bass' signature housing policy is a big success.

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Aaron 🏗️🚲🌲🏀 @aceckhouse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

this one is a pretty flagrant disregard of the law if the legislature had meant "planned transit is eligible when it completes environmental review," they would have written the law to say that instead of "completed an LPA"!

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 01/06/2026

SCAG's draft map of where SB 79 applies is out, and it leaves out the stations on two train lines - Sepulveda Line and K Line northern extension. Lots of stops on the Westside and WeHo. SCAG contends those lines haven't finished CEQA so they don't count. SCAG is wrong.

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Oren Hadar @futureis.la · 28/05/2026

This would reduce the ULA tax multifamily projects pay but would not exempt new construction, which is what many advocates have been fighting for.

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