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Los Angeles Train Festival 2025

Muni 100 throwback

someone bought david lynch's home and renovated it

LADWP is continuing to illegally force developers to redesign projects for new oversized-transformer requirements

Disappointing comments from Stern here. LinkUS will directly help Stern's district long before HSR arrives, by allowing run-through Metrolink service linking the Valley to Orange County's jobs and beaches - but apparently Stern didn't bother to learn anything about the projects he's cutting.

BTW, anyone seeking affordable auto rental should one that Green Motion is a criminal organization and that Expedia is complicit in brokering their scams

I’ve inadvertently irrigated the expedit

Mega Mobility Only

Know a thing or two about California railroad history? Want a nice state job in the sierra foothills? www.parks.ca.gov?page_id=31461

Upzoning at transit stations creates housing

Folks, I have spent *so* much time poring over storm sewer plans.

Lurie allowing Waymo/Uber onto Market while cutting Muni service for 240,000 daily riders is despicable, and keeps anyone without tons of wealth out of downtown. We will not let the Mayor and his corporate buddies create an SF for the wealthy only. Sign the petition. Direct action coming soon.

California legislature is back in session for one more month to finish voting on this year's bills. I've updated the summary of housing bills - more than half of the 250+ bills introduced this year are still active. #CALeg tinyurl.com/2025housingb...

The city of Los Angeles has America's BIGGEST transit expansion in the works, and @nickandert.bsky.social is a channel that will tell you all about it. Get a quick overview in this video now! youtu.be/OimL8T4b4hg?...

Just saw Freaky Tales on the plane. Why has this film not been on my radar? 924 Gilman, Giant Burger, Oakland Hip Hop, Warriors, and AC Transit in the late 80s? What’s not to like?

Rode the wee subway today

Evening, folks! I'm currently attending a meeting of Santa Monica NIMBY group Northeast Neighbors. I normally wouldn't tweet a small-ish meeting like this, but they have a special guest on to talk about housing: State Senator Aisha Wahab! Grab some 🍿, 🧵 starts here!

Caltrain Electrification Boosted Ridership 76 Percent in June - sf.streetsblog.org/2025/07/31/c...

Blocking SB 9 in the Palisades means that under-insured homeowners who could have sold half their plots and used the revenue to fund rebuilding their homes will instead be forced to sell their land to McMansion developers and move elsewhere. Shameful cowardice from Mayor Bass.

Some transit vehicles I’ve recently viewed

Figured out why my Chicago murder motel is so cheap

I am the Architecture Licensing Advisor for the California College of the Arts in SF & I just attended the 2025 NCARB Licensing Advisor Summit in Minneapolis. This conference presents updates to the licensing process & (hopes to) inspire us to guide more folks into becoming architects 1/x

Hello Mpls

28. Everyone who spends more time with train stuff than I do is an irredeemable foamer and everyone who spends less time than I do is a filthy casual. I'm the only person who gets it right.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

When I commuted from San Francisco to study at Stanford in the late 1980s, the San Francisco peninsula rail line @caltrain.com was a primary limiting factor on my education. It ran every two hours and stopped at 10 PM. Why? 🧵 1/

The locomotive on the right was originally painted red white and blue to celebrate 200 years since the Declaration of Independence. This year marks 249 years since 1776. Let’s hope we are all still free for the 250th

Need this.

Okay, maybe more folks would choose to ride the bus in so cal if it didn’t feel like you were being punished for making virtuous choices. BBB drivers should definitely stop when people are trying to flag them down at the bus stop

LA Transit Ridership Plummets Amidst ICE Raids - h/t Los Angeles Times

Rode some transit today. Probably will ride some more later.

In the Palisades this morning trying to help folks on the path to rebuilding a sustainable and resilient community

Last night the Berkeley council voted to allow up to 8 units on a typical 5,000 sf lot. This thread describes the meeting.

The SP seriously looked at electrifying several routes many years ago, including Donner Pass and the line on the peninsula which Caltrain finally electrified last year

The CTC is prioritizing freeway widenings over funding Link Union Station - a critical project for High Speed Rail that will also transform Metrolink by enabling more frequent service and single-seat rides across the region via through-running.

Funding is a major, underappreciated contributor to the high construction costs and long timelines that hold back electrification. In our new policy paper, Against Patchwork Funding, we propose a smarter way to fund rail: Multi-year Investment Frameworks. 🧵 calelectricrail.org/against-patc...

Obviously, uh, other things going on right now... but hey taking a second to comment on the Sepulveda Line might give us some sense of agency at least.

Slipped out of occupied Los Angeles to help review the earnest architecture students of cal poly slo

Slipped out of occupied Los Angeles to help review the earnest architecture students of cal poly slo

This is incredibly wholesome! @kennyuong.bsky.social is a wonderful human being!

Several of California’s biggest — and most expensive — cities are preparing to legalize single-stair buildings in advance of statewide reform. You love to see it.

Peak NIMBY brain is trying to keep a neighboring airport open, even though the planes that land there are literally spraying toxins over your home, because if the airport closes then they're going to build affordable housing there. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/sant...

Sepulveda EIR is live! I'll be going through this today and will post any interesting findings in this thread

Shut Your Bad Ai Up

Now was that really so difficult?

A disabled suv with license plate “A bot” blocking my bus on the bridge. Figures

Metrolink's SCORE program, aiming for 30 minute service everywhere by 2028, was a key part of the car-free Olympics promise. 2.5 years away, only 1/21 projects is complete, several are cancelled, and only a few even have funding. The current process isn't working. metrolinktrains.com/SCORE