Wild to go canvassing t and to have people tell you they don’t remember who they voted for.

point me in the direction of the latest film where charlotte rampling takes a long drag from a cigarette while staring wearily into the middle distance

A healthy number of people on the D and the A at 10 pm on a Friday. Go @metrolosangeles.bsky.social !

every day: xavier becerra has received a max donation from (insert evil company/organization/person)

It also lends some of legitimacy to their rhetoric.

Imagine if this was football night in America.

I was a hesitant Steyer voter before (can you trust another billionaire?) but his response here removes that hesitancy. Steyer for Gov!

Just realized I can get rid of a lot of political spam by filtering out the subject line "My decision"

Given the extended hullabaloo it should really break ground in Eagle Rock

If the A Line/Regional Connecter were faster and more reliable (we traveled at half speed today), the D Line would be such a true game changer. Decades of building slow LRT will handicap LA’s transit revolution.

I feel like a ghoul about it, but Metro really needs to find away to avoid the driver change at Union Station. Can easily add 5 minutes of delay.

TFW you submit your masters capstone project! 🎉

Man, as someone with a mild amount of social anxiety, "Widow's Bay" episode 4 might be the scariest episode yet.

Ended up being a door-to-door travel time of 80 mins, about the equivalent of the best-case scenario for the bike+A/E. I'm sad about this, but expect with more precise timing on my part I can reduce the transfer penalty.

Live by the transfer die by the transfer (+18 minutes to my total travel time)

Was excited to see if I could get my commute from northeast LA to UCLA to under an hour with the new D Line. Sadly, I am not on pace to beat my direct e-bike time (70 mins).

Some thoughts on the D Line stations. First off, while the original B and D line stations were highly customized, the new ones all follow a similar cavernous template. The massive art walls in the mezzanines are attractive and simple.

The scene: my couch, 12:50 pm. I take out my phone and see a screening at the Academy Museum at 2. 50 minutes late, thanks to the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social D Line, I’m sitting in the theater! Thanks Metro!

“Just” might be the most cursed modifier in the English language.

Between the NYC Second Avenue Subway's first phase in 2017 and the BART Silicon Valley extension into downtown San Jose by ~2036, these LA Metro D Line extensions will be the only heavy rail subway opening in the U.S. in a two-decade span. America has a crisis in building electrified mass transit.

With meetings from 1-4:30pm, I will miss the parties but I *will* Ride the D tonight.

No biscoff. no business

This is why gentrifying neighborhoods get less dense and likely use less transit.

This is the truth.

This is not the best GIF

This street was compete torn up when I bike through on the GAP/C&O trail in 2024. Looks really good. Would be curious to see if there will be a difference in retail vacancies between the car side and the people side of the street.

Cars, man.

In non-sarcastic Earth Day post, I’m on a nifty electric bus for a cross town work meeting.

Happy Earth Day!

Beautiful day and also love passing this lovely landmark in West Hollywood.

Three months after Ottawa removed its automatic safety cameras, the share of drivers following the speed limit plunged from 87% to 41%(!). "High-end speeding" is up 10x. Automatic enforcement saves lives. If you remove it, people will die.

California is posed to make cycling less accessible, please join me in signing this petition to stave off some bad bills. actionnetwork.org/letters/ebik...

Only 4 minutes away from glory. Heartbreaking for Xavi.

What one calls a “marketable cultural nomad” someone else may call “artistry.” Music stars are unique in popular arts that their image is an equal part of the package as the music itself.

To harp on this a little bc it’s worth harping on: the B/D Line from Wilshire/Vermont to 7th/Metro is 4 minutes. The A Line from Washington to 7th/Metro is 14 minutes- if everything goes well which it often doesn’t. Not often you can propose a transit project that would save your riders 10 minutes.

Looks we love

One podcast theory

My public policy hot take is we all need to pay higher taxes.

A little bit of green space for notoriously park-poor Koreatown https://la.urbanize.city/post/city-la-acquire-koreatown-site-355-s-kingsley-drive-new-park

It would be a final insult if he was part of our alphabet. I would say he’s a homophilic heterosexual for whom sex is just domination and attraction is to power.

Today more than ever.

“Safe streets” unless it’s people outside cars. Another up is down black is white special from our time warped regime.

TIL. this is an insane fact.

Listening to NPR this morning and they are just matter of fact reporting on Trump’s genocidal post as “repeating his warning.” I am going insane. The harshest thing was calling it “ominous”

Instead of being on vacation or whatever, Democrats should be on the steps of the Capitol calling for Trump's immediate impeachment. Doesn't matter that they need a handful of Republicans to join them. Just make a stink, for god's sake.

Ok fine I also saw the rocket launch.

Seems absolutely obvious but I just now learned that liquor and liquid come from the same root. What is something you learned that is obvious in retrospect?

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

The LA Charter Reform Commission's final report, summarizing its recommendations on ways to improve LA's constitution and government, is now out! Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1hHa0...