Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 11/09/2025The LA firefighter union often makes completely baseless claims. I wish we could simply rely on data and experts, not under-informed union bosses to guide our policymaking. 030
Reposted by Jordan BeardWest Hollywood Bicycle Coalition @wehobyco.bsky.social · 16/07/2025This morning we gathered with friends, family, and neighbors to honor Blake. He was killed by a driver while riding on Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood. We will honor his memory by continuing to fight for safer streets for everyone. 0205
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 09/07/2025damn metro's really still doing freeway expansions in the year 2025? 🤔💸 embarrassing 0120
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 02/06/2025if only there were a movie theater complex nearby that has been vacant for decades... 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 15/05/2025Often find myself dreaming about the 4 with bus-only lanes 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 15/05/2025Makes sense. Your configuration would be so much safer. It’s always a bit of a clencher biking through there 😬 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 15/05/2025This would be such a massive improvement. I wonder if the right turn lanes not having to yield to traffic would encourage higher than desired vehicle speeds, especially at ped crossings. 100
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 03/05/2025Karen Bass plans to further abandon the city's responsibilities to its residents, scrapping all street and transportation projects except those directly related to upcoming megaevents. If the city can't provide the bare minimum to its residents, it should not be hosting the Olympics. 010
Reposted by Jordan BeardChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...nyc.streetsblog.orgPolicy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York CityQuietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications. 38074111739
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 30/04/2025At the very least it would be worth considering for San Vicente, which is comically wide. Looks like it would almost entirely fit under the center median. The WeHo and Fairfax alignments have some ~90º turns, not sure if that's difficult with cut-and-cover under the street grid vs TBM. 120
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 30/04/2025This could save billions and speed up the timeline, but I guarantee my neighbors would have a conniption if there were months-long closures of Fairfax and Santa Monica Blvd. I'm curious if some of the streets are wide enough to only have partial closures and lane reductions during construction. 120
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 30/04/2025Sprawl produces super commuters. We already have the answers to traffic: build denser housing closer to jobs, invest in public transit, design streets that are safe for all modes of transport. 0131
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 18/04/2025Those graphs really highlight LAPD’s department-wide quiet quitting. Reduced citations and arrests as roadway fatalities and serious injuries are increasing. I guess road design and automated enforcement are the only real tools we have left. 000
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 04/04/2025The city will be legally required to add protected bike lanes next time Vermont needs repaving (or any general road improvements). It would be much cheaper to do it now while the street is already being overhauled. Too bad the city and metro aren’t thinking about how to best use taxpayer dollars. 000
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 02/04/2025In LA we have our own Elon Musk, Ticketmasters's Fred Rosen, who is spending the few years that he has left on this planet doing all he can to block a much-need transit project that would better connect the valley to the rest of the city, with a station at one of the region's largest employers. 071
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 31/03/2025The mid-block riverside crossing is a lil sketch but I think worth it to get to the very chill ped bridge over the river 110
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 31/03/2025I'd go fountain to bronson up to the hollywood bike lanes, then vermont to franklin and squiggle over to the pedestrian bridge over the LA river 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 25/03/2025Every time a freeway is expanded I have to wonder what was defunded 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 24/03/2025Even when there’s no money, there’s always money for freeways 190
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025$34/yr for preferential permits and $15/yr for overnight permits. That’s very low for private use of public space— well below the market value for that resource. 040
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025Require LAPD officers to take personal liability insurance, tax private golf courses, overweight personal vehicle tax, automated red light / speed cameras, standardized multifamily housing plans, recategorize scientology lol 060
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025This is all in the context of a Los Angeles that cannot afford to provide an acceptable base level of services to residents. LADOT often cites lack of funding for simple things like street repaving, curb ramps, bollards, & speed bumps. 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025Worth noting that these comparisons are based on single-family zoned land. If we compared land values to nearby multi-unit zoned land these numbers would be even higher. 110
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025Los Angeles is missing out on several hundred million dollars in tax revenue every year due to these tax breaks that benefit the very richest Angelenos. 110
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025Bel-Air Country Club 87 Acres Assessed Value: $12.4M 218 Strada Corta Rd .73 Acres For Sale: $31.5M (Land-only Assessed at $2.9M, 2020) Given the assessed value of nearby land, Bel-Air CC's land (not counting buildings) should be assessed at over $340M 100
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025Los Angeles Country Club 308 Acres Assessed Value: $22.2M 722 N Camden Dr 0.36 Acres For Sale: $22.5M (Land-only Assessed at $9.2M, 2021) Given the assessed value of nearby land, LA CC's land (not counting buildings) should be assessed at over $8B. 110
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 19/03/2025Private golf courses are bankrupting Los Angeles. Props 6 & 13 give colossal tax breaks to golf clubs and our tax dollars are subsidizing the operations of these exclusive enclaves. Let's compare assessed values of prominent golf courses and nearby properties. (thx @bribribribribribri.bsky.social) 141
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 11/03/2025Nice maps. Can’t get over all that red in weho right next to Cedars where ~10,000 people commute to every day. 000
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 11/03/2025The Sepulveda Pass heavy rail extensión to LAX would connect the D and Expo lines nearby. K line extension to weho will also connect the two lines further east. 000
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 09/03/2025100% - I moved from NY to LA, and here it’s illegal to build anything but single family homes in 3/4 of the city 🫠 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 08/03/2025This photo explains so much of what it feels like to ride a bike in LA 030
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 06/03/2025Finally! Hopefully this passes so we can build some decent infill housing. 010
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 06/03/2025Being priced out of the city and forced to the exurbs is not fun. 221
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 28/02/2025I love discovering treasures in my @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social— my neighbors have left some great books, but this takes the cake 041
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 24/02/2025Not even wearing a traffic cone on your head? Just asking for it… 120
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 20/02/2025The first quoted resident is mad about losing space for restaurants... but is also upset that the development would increase space for restaurants. Nimbys never cease to amaze me. A few blocks from the new metro station, this is an obvious location for a large mixed-use building. 000
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 17/02/202590% of bike infrastructure in Los Angeles looks like this 🫣 040
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 15/02/2025honestly stunned by the lack of double parked cars in this video 000
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 14/02/2025Poor lighting leads to many crashes, but excessive vehicle size and weight makes significantly more of those crashes result in fatal outcomes for pedestrian victims. A grocery store parking lot full of 6000-pound F-150s might be good for your sales targets but it’s also a public health crisis. 1100
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 13/02/2025100%. Cities think they’ll solve their housing crisis by just allowing duplexes and triplexes in single family zoned areas… and then wonder why there’s not enough housing being built. 000
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 13/02/2025Yes! It’s ridiculous that a 1.9 sq mile city centered on a busy commercial corridor has exclusionary zoning. If you haven’t already, you can give input on the city’s Zoning Improvement Plan: engage.weho.org/ZIPengage.weho.orgZoning Improvement Program for HousingThe Zoning Improvement Program for Housing supports the implementation of West Hollywood’s 6th Cycle Housing Element. Help shape the outcomes of housing in the City. 110
Jordan Beard @jordibeard.com · 12/02/2025Mixed-use Tower 👍 7 levels of parking right next to the La Cienega Metro station 🤔 000
