Metro is finally working on their Broadway "quick-build" BRT (5 years ago this was supposed to be a 2 year project). Overall it'll be a massive improvement for transit riders, but in DTLA Metro is proposing shrinking pedestrianized space which is a big issue

kinda astounding how close Seattle is getting to LA's total rail ridership (4.8m to 6.3m) that said by the time the next major rail project opens in Seattle we should be able to ride the D Line, Southeast Gateway Line, and NSFV light rail

Los Angeles is failing people with disabilities. When the city neglects the basics, everyone suffers, but the people who need these services most are hit the hardest. (1/2)

Let's hope the city comes up with more concrete ways to honor disabled athletes, like a commitment to fixing sidewalks and installing curb ramps — as megaevent czar Paul Krekorian said, an accessibility plan is coming. I'd also like to note the length of Olympic Boulevard vs. Paralympic Way

Hey all, I’m Greg, and I’m an LA-based artist that’s passionate about transit, so I illustrate posters with the hope that it inspires others to give transit a try.

🚨 LA's park system has dropped to 93 out of 100 U.S. cities — our worst-ever rankings in the Trust for Public Lands' ParkScore index. Last year we were 90th. The year before that we were 88th. A decade ago, we were 65th. Go here for the disheartening data: www.tpl.org/city/los-ang...

Woohoo! @metrolosangeles.bsky.social credit/debit card payments are now live!!!

imo this is one of the cooler transit projects happening in LA right now that hasn’t gotten much attention. Metro should be doing far more low cost/high reward upgrades to the existing system

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Airbnb is the biggest funder of a PAC spending $1,000,000 to keep Karen Bass in office. Right there in the fine print.  Bass delivers the policy Airbnb wants. Airbnb spends millions to elect Bass. Angelenos pay higher rents. Pay-to-play. In the open. With receipts.

Today’s jubilant D Line opening really showed the promise of positive urbanism. People are starving for community and human-scale cities. The lawns of LACMA across the street were packed with people picnicking and listening to the jazz band, the neighborhoods were popping, people seeing our D line

Nazarian submitted a banger motion to tax country clubs in LA extra to make up for Prop 13 and spend the funds on street infrastructure + other stuff quick math this would raise about $300m for the City and triple property taxes for most private golf courses cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...

such a good day 💜

Ananda Coomaraswamy famously said museums are where we proudly display the artifacts of a way of life that has become impossible. A new mass transit subway stop nextdoor to a car museum makes a terrific A1 photo in today’s LA Times, by Carlin Stiehl.

LA has built 57 lane miles of protected bike lanes since 2020 Top five districts: CD4 - 15.1 lane miles CD11 - 7.2 lane miles CD14 - 5 lane miles CD5 - 4.7 lane miles CD9 - 4 lane miles

MacArthur park will soon be closer to UCLA than student housing in Palms. We’re going need a lot more housing along the D Line.

Bringing back this map I first drafted a year or two ago to show how mindblowing fast the D Line Extension is going to be. Time to start adjusting your mental model of LA because she's shrinking Stations are spaced on a grid where each 'tick' represents one minute of travel

Wild how building any sort of rail infrastructure takes years if not decades of public outreach and environmental review and legal risk but cutting service, which literally puts people in cars, can happen in an instant with minimal oversight and no public input.

some days LA hits you on the head for imagining living anywhere else

not sure why the D Line Extension gtfs data is live today but look at that travel time 👀

Karen Bass was only been present for 1/3 of Metro Board Votes last year

Metro and L.A. looked at the right of way on Vermont - some of it more than 160 feet wide (former rail corridor) and found that in 160+feet, they could not find one inch to dedicate to safe bicycling. Really.

for people who don't get hit with Seattle planning drama there was a battle between SDOT and the Port about a new bike lane design and somehow the compromise was to put a cycletrack on BOTH sides of the street. LA brain cannot comprehend

Big #MeasureHLA news: I filed a 2nd HLA lawsuit today. I am challenging several dubious loopholes that LA city uses to avoid HLA compliance - avoiding legally required bus/bike/walk/access upgrades: #largeasphaltrepair, slurry seal, breaking up large projects into small, & more. More details soon.

its cool we banned plastic bags but all the grocery stores near me now have paper bags without handles and its a real buzzkill for picking up some groceries when walking past

opposed to LA where our multi billion dollar regional transportation agency fights bike lane projects and is considering winding down the small bike share system we have

Research by @streetsforall.org shows that all of SoCal High-Speed Rail could be funded with EIFD's, with money leftover to support local transit. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/03/25/s...

Ok. I have (through public records) confirmed that overlaying the midcity alignment study crenshaw ROW route onto a map using the broad stroke shown in that study, part JDW's property is under the alignment. If she truly believes her property value will go down because of that and is tanking the-

Here's how: dedicate a portion of property taxes to HSR infrastructure with Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts (EIFDs) at HSR stations in LA County (Palmdale, Burbank, LAUS). Since HSR increases land values, this generates $16B for HSR w/o raising taxes AND more $ for the general fund.

So excited to release this research we've been cooking on for the last 6 months! And huge shout out to @joeyshoyer-yall.bsky.social who led much of the technical analysis. Going to share a couple interesting findings below

its really weird to watch Sound Transit freak out about cost escalation and start aggressively value engineering. In LA the Metro Board will add billions to a transit project because of a dozen loud voices and leave it up to some future sucker to find money from the feds or something

YOU GUYS THEY BROKE THE PEOPLE MOVER BY BUILDING THEIR DAMN LAX-PRESSWAY???

sounds wonky (because it is) but what the commission decides tomorrow will impact more than $1 billion in annual infrastructure spending. There is a real opportunity to sweep out 100 year old cobwebs in City of LA bureaucracy and set up a more accountable system. Please comment!!

At the height of the US postcard craze, “tall-tale” cards imagined a land of giant-sized plenty. In this 1909 series, Californian rail cars haul colossal fruit and veg — turning agricultural pride into something surreal and strangely beautiful: publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...

more than 500 people have been killed in traffic crashes on LA streets since HLA was passed

Reporting on public works in LA is laughably hard. City departments refuse to provide even basic details about how the city operates and/or send a 3-line statement that says nothing.

Melrose is in an alluvial plain and crosses multiple seasonal waterways. Water Always Wins (and Uplift Melrose depaving could have alleviated the severity of this event) bsky.app/profile/awal...

I love this map and it is a reminder of one of my problematic robert moses takes that we should turn west adams into a giant sepulveda basin sized reservoir/lake

Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project

hard to communicate how shattered many basic functions in the City of LA are. we've stopped repaving streets, streetslights are dark, sanitation pickups take weeks. departments bleeding staff bc of budget cuts are also being raided to staff the mayor's pet projects. we can't even spend FREE money

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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!