The man who never met a freeway he didn’t want to widen, and who is currently chair of the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social board, Fernando Dutra, lost re-election last night! Good riddance.

Sometimes LA streets are just 🪄

Wanna save $45 and skip traffic? 🚲 to @dodgers.com Stadium!

Listen to @michaelschneider.com speak with Congresswoman Laura Friedman yesterday on her bill to unlock federal dollars for technology to eliminate police changes. Not only could this lead to safer streets for all, but also to the end of police helicopters in LA! youtu.be/T-GWS8OLtzU?...

The more LA’s leaders and bureaucracy try to sidestep the will of the voters, the more taxpayer dollars will be wasted on lawyers. Enough games!

Cochran / Pico Rush hour

American fire departments: - demand wide (unsafe) roads - multiple car-length red zones for hydrants - huge fire trucks Somehow in Japan: - trucks half the size that still put out fires - tiny zones for hydrants (helped by no street parking) - narrow (safer) roads everywhere

Meanwhile in Japan… Having an amazing bullet train system with 4 minute headways since the 60s wasn’t good enough so they’re doing this. I’m so tired of the US spending nearly all its transportation money on car infrastructure. I want nice things in my country too.

Cities can change People can change too

Santa Monica Bl West Hollywood 830pm on a Thursday 🚲🚲💨💨

Only in LA is it somehow legal to create parking spaces that by definition you have to drive *on the sidewalk* to park in them. We’ll never get close to Vision Zero when pedestrians are such an afterthought.

From 10pm - 6am, we should lower the volume of sirens. There’s way less traffic, and so the need to be noisy is less. The few cars on the road would respond to flashing lights and perhaps a quiet siren, and there’d be way less noise pollution / people woken up at night.

After the death of a pregnant mom riding a bike with her family, Traci Park all of a sudden cares about bike lanes. But the bike lanes they’re proposing aren’t safe! They’re door zone bike lanes. Even after a tragic death, protected bike lanes aren’t being considered.

Traci Park came into office deriding Bonin’s road safety improvements. Now, all of a sudden, she cares about Pershing — a street that HAD a bike lane and lost it thanks to NIMBYs. LA deserves Councilmembers who care about road safety all the time, not just in response to tragedy.

Good morning from San Francisco’s green painted protected bike lanes. We can’t even afford to replace broken plastic bollards in LA right now 🫠

Why do Caltrans projects take so long and cost so much? A multi-year study in the 5th round of outreach to consider creating a project to build bus lanes for a few miles.

How is it legal for @nbcla.com to hover since 6am above my house like this and wake us all up earlier than we’d like? How many other households were woken up because they decided to do this? Why are they allowed to do this completely arbitrarily?

“You shrink the city,” Schneider said. “And all of a sudden people are like, ‘Oh my God, I know I voted for this thing back in 2016 but this is really cool. How do we get more of it?’” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I don’t understand how people have time to sit in traffic like this (Mulholland near Beverly Glen)

Less than 24 hours later and… 🔥🔥🔥 @cd4losangeles.bsky.social

Caltrans is *so close* to doing the right thing. We gotta push them all the way. So we can have transit AND bike connections on the Westside before today's kindergartners are in college. @michaelschneider.com santamonicanext.org/2026/02/sant...

Thank you Katy Yaroslavsky for your leadership. Enough is enough. michaelschneider.medium.com/las-darkest-...

Vista Del Mar 2017: City installs then removes safety improvements 2021-2025: More people die Pershing Dr 2017: City installs then removes bike lanes 2026: Pregnant mom killed Westwood Bl 2015: Koretz removes Westwood from Mobility Plan Today: 3 killed michaelschneider.medium.com/las-darkest-...

The most LA headline. We don’t have to live like this.

Rush hour, West Hollywood

Yesterday Mayor Bass said that the greatest test of LA is if people can actually afford to live here. Ironic that it’s her own policies (watering down ED1, opposing SB-79, preserving single family zoning at all costs) that keep LA unaffordable. Remarkable self unawareness.

Just listened to Mayor Bass say that “public safety is more than police…” and started to talk about other safety issues, such as streetlights being out. She didn’t say one word about the hundreds of pedestrians killed by traffic violence last year, or the thousands injured.

Thanks @kcrw.com for covering our effort @streetsforall.org to extend the Ballona Creek bike path! www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-r...

Fresh Kermit in West Hollywood

Insane that we choose to continue living like this. Wide roads Slip lanes Absolute driver priority in design We don’t have to live like this.

I will never understand why @ladotofficial.bsky.social does 3 years of planning and outreach for 1 year of construction. THIS is why things take so long and cost so much.

Perhaps the most broken sidewalk in Los Angeles (Melrose and June)

LA pavement vs Beverly Hills pavement (City border in the middle of the street)

Why @metrolosangeles.bsky.social has trouble doing things that help people outside of cars michaelschneider.medium.com/why-metro-ha...

Pretty sad state of affairs in LA: One city department lies to another city department to get environmental clearance on a project that’s awful for the environment and will make traffic worse.

He’s baaaack And big mad!!

How to get a curb ramp in a broke city. 1. Start with a curb with no ramp 2. Have it rain over many years 3. Have cars crash into the curb You’ll eventually have a curb ramp thanks to Mother Nature. (Crescent Heights and Waring)

Congestion pricing = policy miracle Would work great around DTLA too

I wrote something with @futureis about how LA has basically stopped maintaining its streets. At this rate, the city is going to be one big pothole in a few years, and we’re going to spend more on settling lawsuits than fixing streets. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Come hang with the Streets For All steering committee, Councilmembers, Assemblymembers, and celebrate a great year. This Saturday! Tickets: secure.actblue.com/donate/2025h...

I feel like I always stick out at birthday parties

Only 24x7 bike/bus lane in the valley Surprisingly comfortable

“$150 for delivery so I ordered the chair for pick up instead” Props to Crate and Barrel for having a bike pick up option Amazing what you can do with an electric cargo bike and a Burley utility trailer

Washington Bl, Culver City, 530pm

If I could show the world a single video to convince people to try an e-bike, it would be this one. Take your time back!

A pedestrian is injured every 5 hours in Los Angeles. When will people be sick enough of this status quo to demand that the city redesign our streets around people instead of cars?

Nothing makes me happier than biking with these three. Oh, and CV Link is awesome.

Everyone complains about driving in LA — the traffic, the parking challenges. For any trip under 5 miles (66% of trips each day), it’s the slowest, least efficient, least convenient, least joyful mode of transportation possible.

An illuminating, educational, and frequently hilarious evening at Dynasty Typewriter for @thewaroncars.bsky.social L.A. book tour event! Thank you @sgoodyear.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social @billwearsties.bsky.social @hugoforcd13.bsky.social and @michaelschneider.com!

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...