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Metro Los Angeles @metrolosangeles.bsky.social · 14h

D LINE: From Friday, Oct 23 through Sunday, Nov 1, Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax, and Wilshire/La Cienega stations will be closed due to electrical infrastructure maintenance work. Trains will operate only between Union Station and Wilshire/Western Station.

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CAHSR's Strongest Soldier @emoscientist.bsky.social · 18h

My count is: Barger - GOP Spiegel - GOP Trembley - GOP McCallon - GOP Marquez - GOP Nguyen - GOP (?) Berkson - ? Solis - Dem Sandoval - Dem Chaffee - Dem So good question as to why a blue region lets Republicans run our regional transit system.

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The number of parameters that Portland TriMet's trip planner is willing to optimize is pretty amazing.

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Henry Fung @henryfung.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is so embarrassing for the Metrolink board that I couldn’t see a single member that wants to face the public in Los Angeles. Every single one of them that I could see is going to phone it in from their home or their local city hall.

METROLINK
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Chair Chaffee will participate via teleconference from County Administration North
Building, 400 W. Civic Center Drive, 6'h Floor, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Director Go and Director Tettemer will participate via teleconference from San Clemente
City Hall, Ist Floor Conference Room, 910 Calle Negocio, San Clemente, CA 92673
Vice-Chair Berkson will participate via teleconference from Jurupa Valley City Hall,
8930 Limonite Ave, Jurupa Valley, CA 92509
Director Spiegel will participate via teleconference from 1800 S. Main Street, Corona,
CA 92882
Director Vargas will participate via teleconference from Perris City Hall, Mayor's Office,
101 N. D St, Perris, CA 92570
Director Molina will participate via teleconference from 566 Ronda Ct., Calimesa, CA
92320
Second Vice-Chair Trembley and Director Engler will participate via teleconference from Camarillo City Hall, 601 Carmen Drive, Camarillo, CA 93010
Director Sandoval will participate via teleconference from 297 Lincoln Ave., Pomona,
CA 91767
Director Allen will participate via teleconference from Rio Hondo College, Administration of Justice Building, Room 208, 3600 Workman Mill Road, Whittier,
CA 90601
Director O'Connor will participate via teleconference from 2526 18th Street,
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Director Camacho will participate via teleconference from Pico Rivera City Hall,
6615 Passons Boulevard, Pico Rivera, CA 90660
Director McCallon will participate via teleconference from Highland City Hall
27215 Base Line, Highland, CA 92346
Director Marquez will participate via teleconference from Portola Hotel & Spa,
Two Portola Plaza, Monterey, CA 93940
Director Simonoff will participate via teleconference from 1474 Forestview Dr., Brea,
CA 92821
Director Novotny will participate via teleconference from Caltrans District 7,
100 S. Main Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

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crzwdjk.bsky.social @crzwdjk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody at all looks at the big picture. One of the pitfalls of government by lawsuit.

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YIMBYonese Liberation Army @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Steel bollards for terrorist attacks that almost never happen, plastic posts for bicyclists who get hit every day.

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Idothethinking @idothethinking.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Reframing my q. Im aware of the modernist revolt against towers etc. What id like to see more sources on is why Americans even in cities became (and remain) so hostile to medium and high density housing in a way over comparable nations didn't. Much of California revolted over 3 story apartments.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 16/09/2026

basically the size of a set of plans! Some of the urban blocks of Sanborn maps get really detailed. See this one from San Francisco for example library.sfgenealogy.org/sanborn/1899...

library.sfgenealogy.org

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 14/09/2026

Their next idea is going to be to have random celebrities act as sidewalk sheds and too-closely-spaced bollards

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I wasn't even watching this last night because I was so sure it would be going to the Governor's desk. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social call a special session to force a concurrence vote!

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olong @olong.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seattle drivers immediately stopped for me at an unmarked uncontrolled crossing... transportation mecca man, I didn't even remember this was a thing that can happen at first

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olong @olong.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

First ride on Sound transit and there's actually fare enforcement... a cruel attack on my LA Metro traditional folkways

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 21/08/2026

Despite being absolutely crawling with station ambassadors, fare evasion is still rampant. As I was exiting at Pershing Square, a guy was telling some tourists who had their credit cards out to tap, “no no no you don’t need to tap it,” then ushered them through the gate that opened for me.

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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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John Lansing @pipedreaming.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The sidewalks in Barcelona are so wide that utilities are usually buried under them rather than in the street. As a result, it’s incredibly rare for a street or sidewalk to be completely closed due to construction.

Photo of a construction vehicle straddling over a trench in the sidewalk with utilities underneath it

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I got interviewed for this story, and it's a great read. As Kavish Harjai clearly lays out, free fares on Metro are a dead end gimmick policy that Metro already thoroughly examined and discarded. We don't have to stand by and let Karen Bass rehash this whole thing for campaign purposes.

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Shane Phillips @shanedphillips.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Having lived in Ktown for a few years, it's a real problem. The most mind-boggling thing for me is that if my gf stayed overnight, she had to find street parking because *no one rents parking off-street overnight*! It seems like some private garages in the area could make a killing, but nah.

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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Legislature recognizes that ADUs are broadly a Good Thing and loves to promote them, even at the expense of city cash grabs. We need to inculcate that mindset in them for all housing

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jordan silver 🔵 @silverlyne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

that’s a lot of ads

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Michael 🚲🚲 @ballstonbakfiets.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The thing about the "road design > enforcement" argument is that we have a few million miles of shitty roads in existence. It'll take generations to change that.

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The LIRR Today @thelirrtoday.com · 30/07/2026

@stephenjacobsmith.com When they redid the Greely Square pedestrian plaza on Broadway, they actually built the pavers up level with the sidewalk. Looks good.

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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Color me skeptical about Mayor Karen Bass' Metro priorities - a sort of promise-almost-nothing version of Mamdani's fast&free buses. Bass has not made Metro, especially Metro transit riders, a priority for 3.5 years. Yesterday's speech mostly signals continuation of that inaction.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ciclavia's loneliest booth

The Karen Bass booth at Hollywood and Vine

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olong @olong.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

San Francisco and apparently the Access Board do consider this (and general loading zones) exempt from PROWAG requirements, so next up is to see whether LA has a different take on the wording or just haven't considered it

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Today, LA Metro DPS released their security update and it turns out, like people have been observing, there are some fare checks happening. It went from ~4k in March to ~19k in April. Here's that on the graph. It's basically invisible because before 2018, LA Metro used to do ~350k a month.

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olong @olong.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today in no cost can happen, only benefit can happen: we often talk about designating more loading zones to reduce double parking, blocking bike lanes, pursue the Shoupean ethic, etc. Under PROWAG, cities are now* unable to designate passenger loading zones without reconstructing the whole sidewalk.

picture from prowag r311: permanent passenger loading zone in plan view

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's OK if it's dark in the morning because that's your boss' time and it's going to be crappy by default. You want sunlight after work, when it's your time.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Two young Chinese tourists just asked me for directions on LA Metro and when they showed me their google maps, it had little markers for destinations all over the city that they were visiting on transit. Their LA is a transit city. That's so cool.

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

California Office of Emergency Services: “Guys the grid is under a lot of stress right now. Can we conserve energy amidst this heat wave to lower demand?” Californians: “SIR YES SIR, ETERNAL GLORY TO THE GOLDEN STATE” www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

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California consumers respond to appeals for electricity conservation during heat wave - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Slight updates/downgrades made to westside COG bus lanes. They’re also prepping criteria for evaluation on measure m’s decennial review, noting that revenues are lower than anticipated, which will certainly mean no new projects added, not that that was ever expected.

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's like how Seattle and Portland are the only two US cities to defy MUTCD guidance and install half signals. Apparently no one cares and it makes the streets safer, but God forbid we do that elsewhere!

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olong @olong.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Absolute must watch case study for Angeleno project procurement care-abouters. Will post some unstructured thoughts below, but the overwhelmingly obvious point is the need for the usual recommendation of bulking up public planning, engineering, contract admin capacity

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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

All the animations are done, so will *probably* upload my LAX people mover fiasco video tomorrow

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

sorry, we're deciding this one by goals per capita

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Jacob Wasserman @jacoblwasserman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The LAX people mover delays are emblematic—though unfortunately not an exceptional case—of the lack of public sector organizational capacity and the skewed incentives that impede American public works. But also, not opening for the World Cup is a huge miss. www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-r...

kcrw.com

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just want to preemptively say that while I was interviewed for this and stand by my quotes, I don't endorse their claimed link between the fare enforcement collapse and the single digit number of annual murders on LA Metro. (In 2025, there were 3.) www.city-journal.org/article/la-m...

city-journal.org

L.A. Metro Is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape

The transit system’s refusal to enforce fares has turned the trains over to criminals.

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Sam Alcorn @samalcorn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

SB 79 is now effective! It’s been a LONG time coming.

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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's why I'm opposing “my own” measure. The emergency that led to its creation is over. Now, voters have the final say. I'm asking them to vote NO on ACA 22.

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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

But here's the important part: Just because ACA 22 got the more dangerous measure off the ballot *doesn't* mean ACA 22 should pass on the ballot. You should vote No on ACA 22.

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Buffy Wicks @buffywicks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Then, the deal collapsed. The people negotiating it ultimately couldn't deliver. The person who actually controlled the initiative refused to pull it. We were back to square one.

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