Michael Schneider
@michaelschneider.com
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tali mika sofi’s dad, Kat’s husband, LA native. Urbanist. Founder
@streetsforall.org
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Michael Schneider
David Daniel
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An illuminating, educational, and frequently hilarious evening at Dynasty Typewriter for
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L.A. book tour event! Thank you
@sgoodyear.bsky.social
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
@billwearsties.bsky.social
@hugoforcd13.bsky.social
and
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I got inspired by my experience today picking up groceries at Whole Foods — and motivated to write this by the electric Hummer that pulled in next to me as I was leaving. Some thoughts on picking up groceries using a bicycle:
michaelschneider.medium.com/picking-up-g...
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Picking up groceries on a bicycle
When I started in the advocacy world, a common retort to putting in bike lanes and to biking in general was “but what about picking up…
https://michaelschneider.medium.com/picking-up-groceries-on-a-bicycle-52597abcda8a
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No, you don’t need a car to pick up groceries. You just think you do.
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Apparently Whole Foods has never heard of someone picking up groceries on a bicycle
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The city attorney
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is going to singlehandedly bankrupt the city
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Biked to Union Station for a
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sustainability council meeting. Despite the rain I’m nearly completely dry thanks to my
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You can get your
@streetsforall.org
branded Cleverhood here:
www.streetsforall.org/merch/rover
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Help I’m being chased by two crazy girls on Fairfax
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Councilwoman Traci Park held a Venice town hall yesterday; here’s her joking about putting “spike strips” to deter people riding bikes in Venice. She then said that she “wasn’t kidding”
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I wrote something about the current state of L.A. infrastructure, politics, budget, and how to give Angelenos the world class city they deserve:
michaelschneider.medium.com/los-angeles-...
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Los Angeles — a broke and broken city
Back in 2019, when I started Streets For All, the biggest barrier to getting things like bike and bus lanes in L.A. was a lack of…
https://michaelschneider.medium.com/los-angeles-a-broke-and-broken-city-d0bcd8df435e
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Last week I went to San Francisco and Sacramento for work. Thanks
@mobilityforwho.bsky.social
for putting together a fun video featuring my very multimodal trip: biking my
@bromptonbicycle.bsky.social
to the airport and putting it in the overhead bin, using BART
@sfbayferry.com
and
@amtrak.com
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Even by LA standards, this project is egregious, and undercuts the billions
@metrolosangeles.bsky.social
has spent on improving transit to the airport. We never learn; amazing that right now the city is moving full steam ahead on a project their own EIR says will make traffic worse!
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This inversion layer is getting old / gross
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What exactly am I supposed to do with this information?
about 1 month ago
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For the one on the left there is limitless funding and political support to expand and improve. The one on the right is running on 1920s technology, gasping for basic funding, with little political support. Our country’s transportation priorities are backwards.
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No Kings, Studio City
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Rare water side landing at LAX over the ghost town of Surfridge.
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“Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport”
www.economist.com/internationa...
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Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/10/09/forget-evs-cycling-is-revolutionising-transport
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The GDP per capita of Portugal is about 1/3 that of the US. Yet they have infrastructure like this — high speed rail — that costs 1/10th per mile compared to the US. The life expectancy is 4 years longer. And we’re supposed to be the wealthier country.
@thetransitguy.com
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City Dweller Podcast
about 1 month ago
I spoke with Michael Schneider from Streets for All (
@streetsforall.org
) about his journey from being forced to live-car free in Los Angeles, embracing that lifestyle, and ultimately become an activist fighting for safe streets for walking and cycling.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Michael Schneider: Advocating for Pedestrian and Bicycle-Friendly Streets in Los Angeles While Living Car-Free
Podcast Episode · City Dweller · 10/10/2025 · 28m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-schneider-advocating-for-pedestrian-and/id1573381444?i=1000731088601
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SB-79 is now law! Reading
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
’s signing letter, I have hope for the future. This is the beginning of making California affordable again, while achieving our climate goals and making our transit investments worth it. We did it
@scottwiener.bsky.social
@mateosfo.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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Why is LA so anti gondola?
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about 1 month ago
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LA is fundamentally broken from a road safety point of view. These incidents are so common that we just shrug and move on. In this case I know the victim and worked with her on my neighborhood council for years. She has broken bones. Her dog is dead.
www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...
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Hit-and-run driver injures Katy Yaroslavsky's staffer, kills her dog
The woman was walking her dog at the time of the crash, the LAPD told NBC4 Investigates.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/hit-and-run-miracle-mile-yaroslavsky-field-deputy/3788105/
about 1 month ago
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I feel so much more comfortable with a patient
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behind my 5 year old than an impatient distracted human driver.
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about 2 months ago
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L.A. is so broke that the best we can do is put a sign over a trip hazard. We now spend more on lawsuit settlements than we do fixing our infrastructure.
about 2 months ago
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Some of the most important work of my life has been working on SB-79, a bill that will build a lot more housing in California near transit stops. IT JUST PASSED THE SENATE (over LA's opposition) and heads to Governor Newsom for his signature!!
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing to transit hubs
After months of debate, California lawmakers on Friday passed SB 79, a housing bill that overrides local zoning laws to bring high-density housing up to nine stories tall to transit hubs.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-12/california-lawmakers-pass-sb-79-housing-bill-that-brings-dense-housing-to-transit-hubs
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Plane to street by 🚲
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3 months ago
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I left my house in LA yesterday, biked to
@laxairport.bsky.social
, folded up my
@bromptonbicycle.bsky.social
, put it in the overhead bin, and biked to my hotel on the other end in Washington DC. 🎥 by Caro Vilain
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3 months ago
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In DC at the Abundance conference with two of the best mayors
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Great
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presentation at TED on how we need to let our kids roam and do more things on their own to make them (and us) less anxious.
www.ted.com/talks/lenore...
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Why you should spend less time with your kids
Whether it’s micromanaging playtime, constantly hovering or incessantly texting, the adult takeover of childhood has created a crisis of anxiety in both children and parents, says Lenore Skenazy, cofo...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lenore_skenazy_why_you_should_spend_less_time_with_your_kids
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It’s so funny to me that locally people scream “socialism!” about common sense bills like SB-79, when those same people are silent when the Federal Government is actually doing socialism:
www.axios.com/2025/08/25/t...
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Government will take stakes in more companies, top Trump adviser says
It's a new paradigm for the U.S. government's relationship with the private sector.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/25/trump-sovereign-wealth-fund-intel-private-sector
3 months ago
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Only in LA is it acceptable for a sidewalk to double as a driveway and loading zone for parking. This city prioritizes cars over people to an insane degree.
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Was quite disappointed to hear several allies in Council today rally against SB-79, without offering any real solutions to our housing crisis. Do we want a city where only the rich can live? I don’t. We need real solutions. SB-79 is a huge step in the right direction.
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The crash that killed nine year old Nadir Gavarrete two weeks ago in Koreatown was entirely preventable. The city has a plan and has been working to implement it for *14 years* My latest in the
@latimes.com
:
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Contributor: How many kids must die before L.A. makes streets safer?
After 14 years of meetings and plans, the city failed to upgrade a dangerous Koreatown intersection with enhanced crosswalks and other improvements. Now a 9-year-old boy is dead.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-08-14/los-angeles-koreatown-street-safety
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A fundamentally broken system where sidewalks get worse and we pay out more in liability claims than fixing them. “In roughly the past five years, the city has paid out more than $86 million because of lawsuits relating to sidewalks.”
abc7.com/post/la-side...
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85-year-old LA woman still waiting for sidewalk repairs eight years after notifying city
An 85-year-old woman who lives in the Fairfax District says she's been waiting eight years for the city to fix the sidewalk in front of her home.
https://abc7.com/post/la-sidewalk-repairs-woman-85-waiting-8-years-city-fix/17444541/
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I’ve been biking to LAX for years. Hardly anyone in LA owns a Riese and Muller Load 75. My bike on left, theirs on right. Who is this!?
3 months ago
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Rush hour in Manhattan
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This is a boring ADA compliant curb ramp in NYC. The city’s full of them. In LA, the city claims they can’t build these for less than $50,000 per ramp. Under ADA, every change we make to our streets requires them. Want faster progress? Figure out how to build these cheaper.
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Gridlock to my right Joy to my left Build it and they’ll come. Every damn time.
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At $8.50 per person, a family of 5 needs to spend $42.50 just on the
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AirTrain alone. Add subway fare of $2.90 pp, and you’re at $57. The AirTrain should be free. It’s driverless. Charging this much encourages people to drive, not take transit.
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This is a 24/7 bus lane in nyc. They are perpetually blocked by deliveries. It doesn’t serve transit riders like this, and yet deliveries need to be made. We should have commercial loading zones on all side streets closest to major arterials to solve this.
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I have many friends in NYC fighting to make biking safer and better. And I know the grass is always greener. But I have to say after taking my family around for the last few days, NYC is miles ahead of LA - protected bike lane network - wide lanes - green carpet 👏👏
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Anyone wanna ask him for a favor? Or a scone/muffin?
4 months ago
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Someone’s having a bad Saturday
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Love this town
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Anyone know who originally created this? I want to speak with him/her.
4 months ago
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Good morning. I hope you woke up in as good a mood as the founder of Ticketmaster did.
4 months ago
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Landed at LAX but Kat didn’t have her bike with her so I’m her Uber driver
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LAX’s “roadway modernization plan” is 18+ miles of new roadway, encouraging more people to drive to LAX, despite billions of dollars of investment in a people mover and rail connectivity. It will also make getting into the central terminal area hostile to pedestrians & cyclists.
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reposted by
Michael Schneider
Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez
4 months ago
Streets For All is committed to making Los Angeles’ streets safer for everyone - no matter how you get around. As our Organization of the Month for July, we met up with
@michaelschneider.com
from
@streetsforall.org
to talk about these projects and more!
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