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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ha, I wish! Turns out they had intended to do this before the extension went live but had procurement issues that delayed everything. Someone's reply encouraged me to reach out to BH and see if anything was in the works.

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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 · 14/09/2026

Sure, driving is costly but not owning a car (when it's by constraint and not choice) probably costs people even more in earnings and quality of life. You can't only look at the cost side and not some of the benefit side given our current land use and (too often) low quality transit + other options

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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 · 14/08/2026

Thank you for writing this! After the many times I was forced to prove my humanity yesterday, I searched "article on the internet getting worse beceause of AI" and no one was making this argument and this enshitifcation is making me crazy (and slowing my work)

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have you been following the Chicago mayor situation???

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We have one in LA! It's called untamed spirits in Silverlake

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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

Read more for insights from program participants like Imani: "…before the program…I would wake up 30 minutes early so that I could take the train and then walked the last mile…. [Now] I supplemented that transit with Uber on days that I wanted to sleep a little extra or was running late."

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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

On the farebox, yes. I really hoped not to reload my TAP card, but begrudgingly did so since this isn't really working.

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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 · 03/06/2026

Late this afternoon, we'll have much more data to feel our feelings about. There will be an updated vote tally and an estimate of the number of outstanding ballots late this afternoon.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I would take the first night of results on the mayor's race with a grain of salt and be very cautious about interpreting. A lot of people overinterpreted the 2022 race early, and it turned out a lot different in the end.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The staff report does say that these maps will be updated annually so it's not a one time chance but it does seem worthwhile to push back on this definition because I think it's not the intent of the legislation to draw a CEQA passage line

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

QR codes in electronic messages! Just put a link!!

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It’s true, right before diving into the SB79 of it all, my computer shut itself down from excessive heat, although it may be a case of correlation not causation.

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

Shout out to my co-host Juan Matute for generating this "Paul Blart Map Cop" image that our discussion about is on the cutting room floor

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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 · 24/05/2026

It’s overcast and cool but it’s summer kick off weekend so I couldn’t help myself.

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Madeline Brozen @mbrozen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I wanted to use my TAP card for the very last time and was almost going to nail the final balance very close to $0 but I tapped and didn't get charged.

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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

great! Love to see this is the case. I asked people who were at the opening last week and this didn't seem to be the case then but so glad it's fine now.

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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

We looked at some data on this a few years back if you want the research argument here. www.metrans.org/assets/resea...

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

It's been 30 years since the consent decree was issued in LA where rail investments were prioritized over bus service and we're still seeing this same situation play out

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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 · 08/05/2026

My impression is that part of this story is the differences in weekend vs. weekday ridership returns. Is there an easy way to parse this out?

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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 · 24/04/2026

Last stop on Market Street Subway by Christoph Niemann

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

Bus commuting is pretty much out of the picture for me, not even because of daycare drop off, but because the travel time is so unreliable and variable that I cannot trust I can actually get a full day's work done and spend any time with my kid/family.

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

Spending nearly the last decade studying women's travel patterns and needs, and now seeing how it all plays out in ways that may be even worse than the research suggests, is illuminating.

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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 · 05/04/2026

It's such a racket that it doesn't exist! These are licensed businesses so their data is out there! But instead, many places don't do this so that third parties can rather make maps and sell the data they compile.

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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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