In the last few weeks, we've seen several stories come to light of hyper-local interests inflating the cost and timeline of CA High-Speed Rail. The legislature and next governor can intervene to fix this, but will they? Read more in our NEW BLOG: calelectricrail.org/blockers-and...

Like potholes? Last year LA stopped repaving streets. In new research the Data/Dev team finds by 2036 under the City's current approach a majority of LA streets will be failed and we will have more than $15 billion in outstanding street maintenance. https://data.streetsforall.org/blog/repaving/

We are proud to support #SB1411, which allows more spending on CA High-Speed Rail outside the Central Valley. The Draft Business Plan, along with @streetsforall.org's EIFD report, outline a path to bringing high-speed trains to SF and LA in the next decade. SB 1411 makes the groundwork possible.

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

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🚨 THURSDAY: Show up to save the K Line Northern Extension! 🚨 Mayor Bass and her allies on the board may once again try to delay it over NON issues. NIMBYism is putting the whole project at risk. SHOW UP, TAKE ACTION: mailchi.mp/streetsforal...

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!!

New research from the Data/Dev team! SB 79 will eventually zone nearly 1.5 million (1,456,150) new units of housing in the City of LA. Enough to double LA’s current housing stock of 1.37 million homes Read more: data.streetsforall.org/blog/sb79_impact/

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

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

New research from our data/dev team: Bus riders in LA are delayed more than 5 million minutes every weekday. That’s equivalent to more than *10 years* of lost time every day Read more: data.streetsforall.org/blog/bus_del... 1/6