Rough thread, considering Swalwell is probably our best bet to block Katie Porter and not end up with a republican CA governor.

I'm currently trying to code a scraper to get the route by route ridership out of this LA Metro widget. If anyone has the data already scraped for calendar yr 2025, ping me! opa.metro.net/MetroRidersh...

Oh, NOW you're mad about [national unraveling on constitutional rights]? Well where were you when [white woman] was murdered last year by [random private citizen who's now in prison]??

#6 Yes Coaster, No Carrier

Zero days since I found out that my advocacy opponents are being bankrolled by my own taxes.

#5 Coooo d'etat

#4 This stop is HIISSSSSStoric Broadway.

Novice foamers, watch the master and take notes.

Celebrity sighting!

Yeah, they even gave us free passes to the vault which is normally $50. This is me next to Nikita Khrushchev's car.

Embedded with the enemy.

Over the last year, I have unfortunately discovered that most LA leftists basically draw no categorical distinction between transit cops making people pay their fares and ICE agents using the bill of rights as a checklist for new fascisms to try. Many just see it as one big omni-enemy to battle.

Opsec culture in activism legitimately needs to die

Transit's best friend:

Point to where the bike lanes hurt you.

Not to be that guy, but @thetransitbandit.bsky.social and I had a better bus disaster thread, tbh

ICE really slammed Pomona today. Pro tip: You can set a proximity alert on iceout.org/en/ so you get an alert when ICE is spotted nearby. If you aren't busy, it's a great opportunity to go there and start (peacefully) heckling and recording them. Speed is the key to victory!

Would be very cool if Zohran becomes the figurehead of American yimbyism and all the dumb shit about free buses was just a giant, horse-shaped box to deliver the payload in.

🚨See immigration agents in LA County? Help that info move fast! Step 1: Post your sighting to iceout.org/en/ Step 2: Call these hotlines in this order: 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒CHIRLA: 888-624-475✌️ 🗽Save America Movement: (213) 379-991🎱 🇲🇽Union del Barrio: (213) 444-656✌️

NJ Cop: Do you know how fast you were going? E-bike rider: Um, probably like 20 mph? NJ Cop: I'm going to need to see license and registration. E-bike rider: I don't have any of that. NJ Cop: DWL, I see. We'll have to take you in. E-Bike rider: This is insane. NJ Cop: You're not wrong.

One thing that's awesome about living in Los Angeles is that while intercity buses in the rest of the country are often barely hanging on, Mexican cross-border carriers like Tufesa provide a vast network across the Southwest US and are superior to Flix in every way besides not having live tracking.

I am so smrt. S-M-R-T.

What stopped consolidation conversations (and this article) often miss is that it only works on route segments with high dwell percentages. On segments where most stops have way fewer dwells than departures, closing a stop just moves the delay to the next block AND makes the person walk farther.

I'm seeing people ask who to call if you want to report ICE activity in different parts of New Jersey, and I hope this graphic is helpful. In Mercer County, it is Resistencia En Accion, but in other parts of the state you want to call one of the other numbers...

I support good dogs on LA Metro.

Golden rays. Water sprays. Sawtooth bays. Bus delays.

Ya know, usually when you see a thumbnail that crazy looking, it's AI. But no! That really happened! This video, which I helped with, explains the political cause of why. Also I sing a fun little ditty at the end, so this video is the 100% fan service content you've been wanting.

Metafoaming: a touching moment.

Normalize moving to a new city and attempting to shape local policy on day 1.

Hey, LA yimbys. Wouldn't it be like, so funny if we all showed up to the annual community meeting of the Miracle Mile Residential Association and spread the good word of SB79? That's what I'm doing! Come join me. It'll be fun!

Fear of self-actualization

Rode Metro Micro in Altadena today, one year after the whole place burned down. Some people are rebuilding, but from the dominance of dirt lots it's pretty clear that most of the specific families from the burned neighborhoods are never coming back.

Hundreds of people are quoting/commenting like "TRUMP'S GESTAPO" when this SWAT vehicle is literally just the Minneapolis Police. Every big city has these. Seeing one doesn't mean there's marshal law. This is the problem with ACAB. You can't distinguish between fascist DHS thugs and normie cops.

When LA Metro Transit Security started its unauthorized 5-year suspension of code-of-conduct enforcement, Metro also stopped writing citations for letting GOOD DOGS on outside of carriers. And I guess I just want to say, ya know, maybe we don't need to bring back *all* of the CoC enforcement. 🐕‍🦺♥️

Peaceful protest is a right. I urge Angelenos to exercise that right safely and not give this administration an excuse to escalate, as we know they are capable of doing. Los Angeles always stands together.

When considering whether to outsource or insource a transit service, there's something that matters far more than public vs. private: Economy of scale. Ask, does the contractor have the long term ability to spread fixed costs over to other clients? This is why Flix outsources to tour bus companies.

Based farebox recovery kingpin:

Fare free *looks inside* Can’t use it to commute to a full-time daytime job.

✨Delco mentioned!!!✨

In retrospect, this could very well be the worst nomination in the entire history of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Today, at 7th, the new high gates failed to open when I tapped and then since you can't re-tap, I had to use the emergency gate. That's the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social system: barriers for paying and a red carpet for evading. But it doesn't have to be this way! Take action at enforcethefares.org.

Stop complaining about bike safety when you could afford a car. Stop complaining about the school district when you could afford a private school. Stop complaining about crime when you could go live in a gated community. Stop wanting to improve America when you could move to the Netherlands.

I just found out Burbank Airport offers a "complimentary on-demand shuttle" to the AV Line Metrolink station! Though you should know, it is literally just a guy in a pickup truck who initially tried to drive us to the wrong train and, when we protested, said "They both go to Union Station." 🤦

@lintonjoe.bsky.social At Union Station, the Morlin contract staff appear to be fighting flooding with a hastily-assembled system of shop vacs, pumps and hoses. A bit of a strange system, but I can't help but root for them!! And amazingly, there's no interruption to service.

Social media isn't a great place for nuance or context, but despite that I want to take a moment today to talk about some of the things that made the MetroCard special in its day.

On my private stretch limo with my chauffeur

I keep hearing transit advocates claim that if you cut service, riders will "NEVER COME BACK". This is an exaggeration, similar to how some climate activists use dubious "POINT OF NO RETURN" rhetoric. In both cases, you absolutely can go back. It's just hard. Ridership can and does go up sometimes.