good morning la

LA's politicians need to stop listening to NIMBYs and start saving people's lives.

ICE raids have really harmed LA transit ridership this year but the D Line opening is gunna skyrocket us to clear 2nd in a few months and consecutive extensions the next 24 months will only extend the gap

if i haven't seen you out in these streets today i better see an open wallet !!! these are four LA vendor buyout funds i can personally vouch for and encourage you to support

We could have built thousands of units of athlete housing that became affordable housing the day after the games ended

Some recent #largeasphaltrepair photos. I am kind of astonished that the City Public Works Department #StreetsLA Bureau crews are OK with doing such faulty work like this.

LA desperately needs structure reform to Public Works. siloed departments, obfuscated leadership, and oscillating budgets are eroding our largest public assets this wont be fixed without a charter reform, CIP implementation, and probably a new dedicated infrastructure fund

When the city scraped off our crosswalks, they also removed our memorial to Nadir. Today we went to put it back and the cops made us stop. But no matter how hard they try, the city can’t erase the memory of Nadir or their own negligence that contributed to his death.

this got me digging into this project again and noticed LAWA has a new 'ATMP fact VS. fiction' page and I swear they think people are stupid www.lawa.org/sites/lawa/f... "Opponents of this project claim this project will induce 50,000 new VMT. In reality its a measly... 41,000"

LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!

Los Angeles is trying to avoid HLA by claiming that it is “restriping without making other improvements” when, in fact, it’s making many other changes across multiple projects. This behavior must stop. Read the letter we sent to the Mayor, LADOT, and the Board of Public Works

for somewhere local to donate Safe Place for Youth is matching donations today for unhoused youth in LA $1k Covers a security deposit on a first apartment $500 Covers a new bed $250 Covers the fees and background checks to secure an apartment fundraise.givesmart.com/form/VZBuSA?...

at LAX i was passed by 7 parking lot shuttles and 5 LAX-It shuttles in the 15+ minutes before a packed Metro connector showed up. the headsign was broken and it had a sheet of printer paper taped to the windshield: “Metro” - impossible to say why more people aren't taking transit to the airport

Joe undersells it, this is the first time HLA has been used to improve a street post repaving (fixing a bunch of sidewalks!) Notably it’s a project installed just months after the measure passed - lots more in the appeal pipeline

lord i see what you’ve done for nyc and seattle

lmao amazing that even LAWA's own fact sheet says their $2 billion roadway won't reduce travel time

now could a broke city do this

honestly shocked how quickly the G Line bridge is going up over Van Nuys

my favorite part of this project was realizing a short 24/7 bus lane though the Los Angeles Country Club qualifies and the 1/2 mile catchment will upzone a ton of mansions in Holmby Hills (falling just short of the Playboy Mansion)

"The 105 violated environmental laws, displaced more than 25,000 people and left behind a legacy of noise and pollution in some of Los Angeles County’s poorest neighborhoods." thesource.metro.net/the-green-li...

BREAKING NEWS: SB 79 HAS BEEN SIGNED INTO LAW. Thank you to @scottwiener.bsky.social @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and cosponsors CA Yimby, Greenbelt Alliance, Inner City Law Center, Bay Area Council, AHLA, and SPUR. for making this bill happen.

very excited for @lintonjoe.bsky.social's tiktok era

I've seen this headline a couple times and just realized it's *literally* his upstairs neighbor

why is WSDOT running ads for a new highway on king county metro buses

i think in the last couple years we’ve confidently turned a corner on LA’s multi decade ‘slow growth’ political juggernaut - maybe this started with measure R in 2008? but the wave of JJJ, Measure M, HLA, now SB 79 (among others) are eroding suburban power in a serious way

pushback from homeowners in Lafyette square about digging K Line tunnels under their homes is getting Metro to study some wild alternatives

Support Nadir Gavarrete’s family via GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/tragic-dea...

I can’t believe nothing has been done at 4th and New Hampshire *still*! What happened to the mini roundabout project?? Slow walked by bureaucracy? ladot.lacity.gov/4thstreet

Trees are essential, but LA streets need cooling now. A new initiative, ShadeLA, is launching today — racing to fill shade gaps ahead of looming megaevents with a neighborhood legacy mindset

14 miles of new roadway, half is expensive car bridges. A short bike surface trail that doesn't connect across the existing barriers. LAX has no bike access from the south through Sepulveda tunnel. New bike bridge is long detour to cross new car road. I hate it. This design must not be built.

There are very few people staying in MacArthur Park right now, so this does seem like it's just for show. But there's a summer camp at the rec center, one of the few affordable childcare options for LA families. Glad they could make their little propaganda video while traumatizing local kids

in 6 months when the people mover opens most rideshare and buses will stop going through the horseshoes which is a lot of current traffic - LAX travel is already down 10% since before the pandemic who is this for

If you’re in LA in a public space this month and someone tries to get you to sign a petition about wages and voting DO NOT SIGN IT. this is businesses trying to repeal an ordinance that increases wages for workers in hospitality spaces ahead of the Super Bowl, World Cup, & Olympics. Do not sign!

this week has been a month long

Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.

jesus christ

Blumenfield motion introduced yesterday calls for eliminating parking requirements

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

WORLD’S FIRST EVER DUAL BUS-TRAIN BANNER BREAK-THROUGH!!!!! LAX/Metro Transit Center opens 5pm!

stupidly flying into LAX friday morning 6 hours before the new Metro station opens

HUGE NEWS: SB 79 by @scottwiener.bsky.social PASSES THE SENATE FLOOR -- This bill upzones areas near major transit!

not my usual beat but spent the last few months slowly animating a music video for some pals m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Dl...

Beautiful new transit map scan from @lametrolibrary.bsky.social. No freeways! No Union Station! Chavez Ravine street grid! A neighborhood called Barnes City! Gilmore Oil Field! Two speedways! libraryarchives.metro.net/dpgtl/maps/1...

👏 seize 👏 the 👏 golf 👏 courses! 👏

I live in one of the most park poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles and they are spending $26 million to build a new half-acre park that also includes a 50 stall underground parking garage

looks like roughly 5 min frequency on the A and E lines right now which means the regional connector is hitting it's planned operational ceiling of a train each direction every 2.5 minutes

It's my least favorite time of year, when the Trust for Public Land's park rankings drop. And boy have we dropped. I regret to inform everyone that Los Angeles is now 90th out of 100 U.S. cities

fyi the real @metrolosangeles.bsky.social is posting on this site now

Metro building a bike path called 'rail to rail' that doesn't get you to either rail line is pretty rough

Some highlights from our new research: Single family zoning makes up 36% of residential land within 1/2 mi of high quality transit stops (Rail, BRT) in LA These are lines we've spent BILLIONS to build. Combined with R2 and Parking, 45% of land near these stops are zoned exclusively low density