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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excited to share that a shelter is in the works here! You can learn more when it's presented at the Beverly Hills Traffic and Parking Commission meeting on 10/1 beverlyhills.granicus.com/GeneratedAge...

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Traffic and Parking Commission Regular Meeting

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello, police? I would like to report a heat crime. A transit agency and city built a brand new terminus rail station where tons of people will transfer without building a bus shelter.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This further pollution and health association is why I'm not OK with the housing compromise we are striking in Los Angeles where new housing is focused on corridors with more traffic-oriented pollution versus area-wide zoning.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Preparing for a talk from our LA mobility wallet research - this quote is so sad about the reality of a constrained life without transportation. "I would say I don't go to visit my mom as frequently now. That would probably be the main one, like going to visit family. I just don't do it as often."

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Congestion pricing continues to get the goods! "This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence that congestion pricing generates a novel and previously unquantified external benefit: faster emergency medical service response times"

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

LA was awash in mini-parties for the last month! Reading through Alissa Walker's Torched round-up, the big theme is HEAT and SHADE! While we were roasting without enough shade at LACMA last Friday, we gave LA a B+, pretty good but room for improvement. Read more in her list below!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fun fact: LA Metro did this 25 years ago and appointed a UCLA PhD student in urban planning to the board www.latimes.com/archives/la-... Less fun fact: two years later, she and the other rider representative were removed

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A Bus Traveler's MTA Board Seat

The diminutive graduate student may seem an unlikely choice as one of Mayor James K.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yay! Both open loop validators working on today’s @metrolosangeles.bsky.social bus!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The big study following LA wallet recipients before, during, and after the 1-year pilot is now out (and open access)! The wallets increased travel frequency and social connections, and made people feel more independent and autonomous.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today’s @metrolosangeles.bsky.social open loop bus report: front reader working! Back reader red screen

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Different reader screen, same story today. No open loop payment option on my @metrolosangeles.bsky.social 2 bus. Blank screen on the front and red screen on the back.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Big work news! @mc-lens.bsky.social is taking over the director reigns at the @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social starting next week! Join me in welcoming Dr. Lens into this new and exciting role!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Guess it’s a good thing that the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social loop payment is in the soft launch stage but each week, the bus validators are working less and less. Todays report is this message on the front and “out of service” red screen on the back

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New Road Scholars episode today! California is attaching new housing policy to areas near "major transit stops" but turns out, you can interpret this definition in different ways meaning more OR LESS housing may be developed as as result. Check out today's episode at lewis.ucla.edu/programs/hou...

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UCLA Housing Voice Podcast

A UCLA Lewis Center podcast making sense of housing research to make our cities more affordable, accessible and equitable.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One of many things I miss about widespread LA Al Fresco was being able to eat or drink outside more where I can actually hear the conversation I'm wanting to have with my friends. My dad is hard of hearing and there are so many restaurants that we can't go to because it's just too.damn.loud

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Oh yay! Looks like the bus stops have been moved back to the stations. From on-the-ground reporting I was hearing last week at the opening, this didn't seem to be the case. But very happy to see things are back in place!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I’ve taken the wheel from @shanedphillips.bsky.social on the Housing Voice podcast for the next four regular episodes to talk transportation! First up - how has cities responded to the state change in parking requirements around transit stops?

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Firing the city’s heat officer right as we’re about to stage a summer megaevent where tourists will be wandering LA’s shadeless streets what could go wrong

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Interrupting everyone's enthusiastic coverage of the D line extension opening to rage on the internet about how LA Metro didn't move the bus stops back to the station locations, and it's not going to happen for 2 months, apparently.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Exciting day for LA! In two weeks, you can join us at InterActionsLA to hear from Jessica Meaney and others on the next steps in reapproaching how LA (and Long Beach and San Diego) are finding new ways in **how** we do things! lewis.ucla.edu/news-events/...

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InterActions LA: Advancing Housing & Transportation Solutions

Los Angeles faces big housing and transportation challenges — but we can learn from other cities tackling similar issues.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Love to see the start of this program at LA Metro. Hoping it quickly expands to other stations that have fewer amenities nearby and especially into night time programming. Riders tend to feel the least safe at night and that's when these types of activations are probably most valuable!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Scenes from multi-modal mom life: Nearly left my breast pump in the basket of a Lime Bike because I was schlepping too much stuff for myself. Also, this trip was only possible because I traded daycare drop-off days with my partner.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

For those reading the news of another Tiger Woods roll over crash and thinking, didn’t this happen to him before? you would be correct. It’s obvious he’s a completely dangerous driver and its scary to think how likely he is to injure other people because of his behavior

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

hope everyone in the wide world of housing and transportation researchers applying for today’s @arnoldventures.bsky.social LOI deadline enjoy their celebratory cold beverages

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good luck and may the odds ever be in your favor !!

ALT: good luck and may the odds ever be in your favor !!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

HAPPY OPENING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Turns out the real champ of a 2-month data collection campaign for collecting travel survey data was the Gmail add-on Not Another Mail Merge, which helped me send out literally 5,000 emails in 60 days

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New work at the transportation-housing intersection! The more California ties it's housing policy to transportation service levels, the more precise we need to be for definition of a major transit stop. Tl;dr different definitions mean big differences in housing, but check the maps and graphs!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Today marks one year since Don Shoup died. I put on a jacket I didn’t realize I wore last at our memorial lunch, pockets stuffed with Kleenex. In Don’s memory today, think about how you commit yourself to change and leave a legacy of passion and love behind.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A family completely wrecked by our politicians' lack of a backbone to stand up for real safety and protect human lives. Transportation improvements are often matters of life and death. When the City of LA reversed these improvements, they collectively decided it was OK for people to die.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Cried so many times seeing the images of my hometown showing up for their community members today in sub-zero temperatures. Please do one more action than just liking posts or scrolling today. Maybe make a call to congress or help support mutual and legal aid by making a donation (DM for org recs)

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

On the train with a new passenger so little life update and rant. Had a baby in late August and spent the last 3 months exhausted by first person experience how the public and private world completely fails parents and families. there’s so much beyond crappy sidewalks and lack of curb cuts

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Big shout out to my fellow transit riders who kindly asked the bus to wait for the light to change so I could safely get to the bus and not sprint against the light! Saved me from waiting 15 more minutes to leave work

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"During debate over what would become the 15th Amendment, that the right to vote was “the most necessary and the most sacred of all rights, because it underlies all, and without which we are secure in the enjoyment of none.” @jamellebouie.net Full article here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

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Opinion | The Death of the Fourth American Republic

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Its understandable that transit can be slower than driving, but it was totally bonkers when my @metrolosangeles.bsky.social operator slowed the bus effectively going 9 mph even though there was light traffic because he was “running hot” the entire route. Why rob riders of their time in this way?

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Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Always thrilled to see bus improvements & bus riders get attention! (More trips on bus than L here in Chi) Great new @chicagocta.bsky.social high frequency bus network but more infrastructure changes needed for speedier service. And if legislators don't act to fund transit, such devastating impacts.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Seeking shade waiting for the bus at the start of this heat wave

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Kudos to LA Metro for implementing this improvement that enhances the way free transit fares are provided to individuals in the LIFE program Before, recipients had to go into the app and manually load their 20 free rides every month. Now, it's done automatically! thesource.metro.net/we-have-a-li...

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We have a LIFE update! | The Source

Attention, LIFE participants! We’ve made some UX enhancements to our LIFE program, a fare discount program designed to help qualifying riders save on

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Switching back from podcast host to podcast guest and sharing a great conversation about our mobility wallet work in LA and what we've learned so far

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our multi-campus research team shared preliminary results from our work about the evacuation experiences of transit riders with LA county transportation and emergency management professionals yesterday! Can’t wait to release these findings publicly later this summer

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Final episode in our Road Scholars mini-series on ride-hailing use among people with disabilities now available! We covered a lot of ground in these four parts from how housing cost increases affect transit, how parking affects car ownership, equity and micromobility and this! Take a listen today!

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Greg Pierce @gregspierce.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thoroughly unsurprised. Thoroughly unprepared.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I'm so glad that we have @awalkerinla.bsky.social's newsletter to contextualize local issues these days. Not only does she provide depth on things that matter to me, but it also provides good context on LA when we get picked up nationally

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Congrats to all the UCLA Urban Planning graduate students who are walking across the stage today in Royce Hall! It'll be a pleasure to work with you all professionally and as one of the previous student speakers shared years ago, remember "there are no height limits on your dreams."

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I was thinking how Friday's UCLA Luskin commencement will be the first in a very long time without Shoup on stage. Comforted to see that while his physical presence is no longer with us, the continued momentum from his work is helping elected officials push towards making our cities better

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

We found similar descriptive results when we looked at race and crash victims in Los Angeles for Black victims. Black victims are at higher risk in neighborhoods with higher Black population, but also just most places in the City of LA

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