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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Wow! Former LA city heat officer Marta Segura brings receipts after Karen Bass' statements in last week's environmental policy mayoral debate. Bass said Segura was removed due to her office's supposed failure to complete a climate action plan. Read here: martaspeaks.medium.com/the-real-cit...

What the record shows
Three facts, all in public documents linked at the end. 1. The ordinance that created my office never assigned the Climate Action
and Adaptation Plan to CEMO. 2. When the City funded that plan in 2024, the $1.5 million went to the City Administrative Officer to hire a consultant to get it done through our CAO's budget office, and a Climate Impact Team was created there. This
Mayor signed that budget. 3. The Mayor's own climate plan, published in April 2026, states that the CAO's budget office was instructed to develop the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. (A consultant also created this, with minimal
community input.) So the Mayor put the climate plan in another department, paid for it there, and wrote that decision into her own climate plan. Then, at the forum, she said my office failed to finish it, when it was never our assignment, and gave that as the reason to cut the office and remove the founding Chief Heat
Officer. Both accounts cannot be true.

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Kirsten Bladh @kerstanley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mayor Bass is pushing the state legislature to put into *state law* that cities with over 2 million people (only LA) cannot reduce the # of car lanes of a road that leads into a cemetery without mayoral approval. Just to kill this desperately needed bike lane project.

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it's just a coincidence that the 'community voices' Bass listens to are the same ones that have spent hundreds of thousands on lobbyists trying to kill this 1 mile road safety project www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Bass hit brakes on new bike lanes near Forest Lawn. Raman is now slamming her for it

Mayor Bass paused a traffic safety plan on Forest Lawn Drive after community pushback. Safety advocates and Councilmember Raman say a fatal crash shows that was a bad decision.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So when Bass, with an almost unimaginable tone-deafness, bragged tonight that Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn members have her cell number, I must point out that we have evidence direct from her mouth on how these calls influence her. In January, while public comment was ongoing in the metro board-

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're working on a handful of improvements but ridership.streetsforall.org now has D Line ridership data (starting from mid 2025)

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Ryan Fonseca @ryan-fonseca.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Los Angeles' public safety approach in a nutshell: $20 million settlement vs. $250K for crosswalk safety upgrades added too late to make the difference for this young boy and his family.

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Los Angeles to pay $20 million to teen who lost leg in Boyle Heights hit-and-run

Joshua Mora lost his leg at 13 years old after being hit by a motorcycle in a crosswalk. He sued the city, saying officials knew the intersection was dangerous.

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

the council charter reform votes have resulted in some very strange schisms

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A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So why can't we have people in charge of transit that really truly believe in it? Read my deep dive on what to consider when rethinking transit governance -- and the one change we could make right now to get true transit champions.

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How Do We Get Transit Champions on Transit Boards?

Sound Transit's board is dominated by elected officials who don't use the system they oversee. But it doesn't have to be that way.

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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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Fair Rep LA @fairrepla.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If you have time today, we advise also calling the offices of the members of City Council's Rules Committee to tell them which reforms you want on the November ballot (*especially* Council expansion, RCV, and LAPD accountability!) Phone numbers below & in alt text:

IF YOU ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE CALL, PLEASE CALL:
COUNCIL PRESIDENT MARQUEECE HARRIS-DAWSON’S OFFICE

Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Council President, Council District 8:
213-473-7008
Nithya Raman, Council District 4: 213-473-7004
Katy Yaroslavsky, Council District 5: 213–473-7005
John Lee, Council District 12: 213-473-7012
Hugo Soto-Martinez, Council District 13: 213-473-7013

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

fun fact, Metro can preserve all the outdoor seating on Broadway if they get rid of about 14 parking spaces

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

Metro is finally working on their Broadway "quick-build" BRT (5 years ago this was supposed to be a 2 year project). Overall it'll be a massive improvement for transit riders, but in DTLA Metro is proposing shrinking pedestrianized space which is a big issue

Google streetview photo showing pedestrianized space with tables and chairs

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

kinda astounding how close Seattle is getting to LA's total rail ridership (4.8m to 6.3m) that said by the time the next major rail project opens in Seattle we should be able to ride the D Line, Southeast Gateway Line, and NSFV light rail

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Los Angeles is failing people with disabilities. When the city neglects the basics, everyone suffers, but the people who need these services most are hit the hardest. (1/2)

A woman in a wheelchair sits in front of text highlighting LA's 30,000 sidewalk repair requests and the impact on wheelchair users, the blind, and seniors.

Colorful poster reads “Disabled Angelenos have long waits for accessible paratransit and limited accessible uber availability” with standing walker figure.

Yellow poster with “Even finding a place to live is a problem. The city’s affordable housing doesn’t meet accessibility requirements. A decade after promising to fix this, the city is still falling short.” Blind figure with seeing eye dog.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Let's hope the city comes up with more concrete ways to honor disabled athletes, like a commitment to fixing sidewalks and installing curb ramps — as megaevent czar Paul Krekorian said, an accessibility plan is coming. I'd also like to note the length of Olympic Boulevard vs. Paralympic Way

A map of the entire length of Olympic Boulevard in LA, the former 10th Street, which stretches pretty much across the center of the entire city

39th Street between Figueroa and Main shows up as a very very tiny section on the same map

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Metti Mart | Transit Art @mettimart.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Hey all, I’m Greg, and I’m an LA-based artist that’s passionate about transit, so I illustrate posters with the hope that it inspires others to give transit a try.

A digitally illustrated poster of the Wilshire/Western station in Koreatown.

A digitally illustrated poster of LA Union Station that shows the A, B, and D Metro lines, Metrolink, and Amtrak.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🚨 LA's park system has dropped to 93 out of 100 U.S. cities — our worst-ever rankings in the Trust for Public Lands' ParkScore index. Last year we were 90th. The year before that we were 88th. A decade ago, we were 65th. Go here for the disheartening data: www.tpl.org/city/los-ang...

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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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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

imo this is one of the cooler transit projects happening in LA right now that hasn’t gotten much attention. Metro should be doing far more low cost/high reward upgrades to the existing system

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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Airbnb is the biggest funder of a PAC spending $1,000,000 to keep Karen Bass in office. Right there in the fine print. Bass delivers the policy Airbnb wants. Airbnb spends millions to elect Bass. Angelenos pay higher rents. Pay-to-play. In the open. With receipts.

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Today’s jubilant D Line opening really showed the promise of positive urbanism. People are starving for community and human-scale cities. The lawns of LACMA across the street were packed with people picnicking and listening to the jazz band, the neighborhoods were popping, people seeing our D line

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Nazarian submitted a banger motion to tax country clubs in LA extra to make up for Prop 13 and spend the funds on street infrastructure + other stuff quick math this would raise about $300m for the City and triple property taxes for most private golf courses cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...

cityclerk.lacity.org

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Christopher Knight LAT @knightlat.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Ananda Coomaraswamy famously said museums are where we proudly display the artifacts of a way of life that has become impossible. A new mass transit subway stop nextdoor to a car museum makes a terrific A1 photo in today’s LA Times, by Carlin Stiehl.

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

LA has built 57 lane miles of protected bike lanes since 2020 Top five districts: CD4 - 15.1 lane miles CD11 - 7.2 lane miles CD14 - 5 lane miles CD5 - 4.7 lane miles CD9 - 4 lane miles

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

MacArthur park will soon be closer to UCLA than student housing in Palms. We’re going need a lot more housing along the D Line.

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Bringing back this map I first drafted a year or two ago to show how mindblowing fast the D Line Extension is going to be. Time to start adjusting your mental model of LA because she's shrinking Stations are spaced on a grid where each 'tick' represents one minute of travel

A map of the LA Metro transit system that shows the travel time between stations visually by distancing the stations on a grid by each minute traveled. The D Line extension in shown, and it is very small because the line will be very fast

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Wild how building any sort of rail infrastructure takes years if not decades of public outreach and environmental review and legal risk but cutting service, which literally puts people in cars, can happen in an instant with minimal oversight and no public input.

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

some days LA hits you on the head for imagining living anywhere else

a dirt road heading downhill towards santa monica and the ocean

people biking on a street closed to cars at ciclavia

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

not sure why the D Line Extension gtfs data is live today but look at that travel time 👀

screenshot of transit app showing the D Line extension travel time being 11 minutes compared to 33 by bus

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Karen Bass was only been present for 1/3 of Metro Board Votes last year

spreadsheet of each metro board meeting in 2025 and the number of votes K Bass was present for

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Metro and L.A. looked at the right of way on Vermont - some of it more than 160 feet wide (former rail corridor) and found that in 160+feet, they could not find one inch to dedicate to safe bicycling. Really.

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

for people who don't get hit with Seattle planning drama there was a battle between SDOT and the Port about a new bike lane design and somehow the compromise was to put a cycletrack on BOTH sides of the street. LA brain cannot comprehend

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Big #MeasureHLA news: I filed a 2nd HLA lawsuit today. I am challenging several dubious loopholes that LA city uses to avoid HLA compliance - avoiding legally required bus/bike/walk/access upgrades: #largeasphaltrepair, slurry seal, breaking up large projects into small, & more. More details soon.

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

its cool we banned plastic bags but all the grocery stores near me now have paper bags without handles and its a real buzzkill for picking up some groceries when walking past

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

opposed to LA where our multi billion dollar regional transportation agency fights bike lane projects and is considering winding down the small bike share system we have

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Ok. I have (through public records) confirmed that overlaying the midcity alignment study crenshaw ROW route onto a map using the broad stroke shown in that study, part JDW's property is under the alignment. If she truly believes her property value will go down because of that and is tanking the-

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 23/03/2026

Here's how: dedicate a portion of property taxes to HSR infrastructure with Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts (EIFDs) at HSR stations in LA County (Palmdale, Burbank, LAUS). Since HSR increases land values, this generates $16B for HSR w/o raising taxes AND more $ for the general fund.

Bar chart. Under no EIFD Baseline, the general fund is 303.3 Billion Under the High Confidence Scenario, there is an EIFD Capture of 30% of the general fund, which is $16 Billion for HSR. The remaining 70% of the general fund is $36.8 Billion, a net increase in revenue of $6.5B. All dollar amounts in Net Present Value (3% discount)

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So excited to release this research we've been cooking on for the last 6 months! And huge shout out to @joeyshoyer-yall.bsky.social who led much of the technical analysis. Going to share a couple interesting findings below

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

its really weird to watch Sound Transit freak out about cost escalation and start aggressively value engineering. In LA the Metro Board will add billions to a transit project because of a dozen loud voices and leave it up to some future sucker to find money from the feds or something

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

YOU GUYS THEY BROKE THE PEOPLE MOVER BY BUILDING THEIR DAMN LAX-PRESSWAY???

torched.la

Air traffic control

The LAX-pressway must be stopped

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

sounds wonky (because it is) but what the commission decides tomorrow will impact more than $1 billion in annual infrastructure spending. There is a real opportunity to sweep out 100 year old cobwebs in City of LA bureaucracy and set up a more accountable system. Please comment!!

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

At the height of the US postcard craze, “tall-tale” cards imagined a land of giant-sized plenty. In this 1909 series, Californian rail cars haul colossal fruit and veg — turning agricultural pride into something surreal and strangely beautiful: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

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josh vredevoogd @jawshv.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

more than 500 people have been killed in traffic crashes on LA streets since HLA was passed

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Maylin @maylin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Reporting on public works in LA is laughably hard. City departments refuse to provide even basic details about how the city operates and/or send a 3-line statement that says nothing.

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