if you want to see say, beautiful photos of biking through the alps you can follow me on insta but I know that bluesky couldn’t resist see the trans-alpine bike (and car) shuttle that runs between the gastein valley and mallnitz
Hunter Owens
@hunterowens.net
los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos.
Don’t think you could get a better a sprawl v infill contrast if you tried
Some long-lived housing updates: -The next phase of Newhall Ranch, which will add 3,617 homes in Santa Clarita, was approved by the LA County Planning Commission -5350 Wilshire Blvd, adding 419 units across from the La Brea D Line, has released its EIR after 4 years of silence
demographics projections are very good at the mid to near term but long term ones are almost always absolutely bunk
ended up being closer to 7 million (from the LA Times, 1997)
I’m a return guy but just for the Saul Bass RTD logo
Just some of the iconic corporate logos designed by the legendary SAUL BASS
a really interesting through line through the @nickandert.bsky.social's work and his new opus on the "X" line is the importance and incentives of swapping value capture for capital investments while have a more stable source (ie, taxes) for operations www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Ei...
absolutely insane statistic here from the LA Metro ZEB bus program team about European vs current New Flyer / RIDECo buses metro has in the fleet metro.legistar1.com/metro/attach...
the EV adoption curve in the US is going to be one of the weirdest looking charts in my lifetime www.thewirechina.com/2026/07/12/a...
America’s EV Reckoning - The Wire China
Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy sealed China off from the outside world for almost three years. Joshua Busby, a Biden-era climate advisor to the Pentagon and professor at the University of Texas at Aus...
thewirechina.com
garden tomato egg, garden Sichuan style long beans, black cod and tofu in a hunan style salted chili / black bean sauce
I feel like this has been a big year for me learning about the incredible accomplishments of diaspora Jews but I gotta say, I didn’t have Governor of Punjab on my bingo card en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._F._R...
J. F. R. Jacob - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
once again if you care about cities and transit and you aren't reading @jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social ... you're missing out on some of the best technical english language writing about transit jrurbanenetwork.substack.com/p/another-fl...
Another Flagship Metro Line for a Global Tech Hub
Shenzhen, the technology hardware capital of the world, completes another metro line.
jrurbanenetwork.substack.com
calling them a "random restaurant" is such a wild snub
The Chairman Restaurant; 3rd Floor, The Wellington, 198 Wellington St, Central, Hong Kong https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=22.2848237%2C114.1530091&query_place_id=ChIJhcOtY3wABDQR39uGw41EIYM
I maintain that the WSJ managed to produce even more hatereads than the NYT but the paywall keeps them out of the discourse anyways... www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
Nobody Can Agree How to Keep the Sharks Out of South Africa’s New Club Med
Scientists and local officials are in a standoff over the best tactics to ensure high-paying guests at the luxury resort don’t become chum.
wsj.com
smoked sausage, garden pistou, lentils with grilled leeks and tomatoes, grilled bread
good article about how culver city has become one of LA's flight to quality market in real estate but missing that Culver City really benefits from the expo (now E) line and expanding access to jobs since opening in 2013/2015 www.costar.com/article/1509...
costar.com
Woohoo! @metrolosangeles.bsky.social credit/debit card payments are now live!!!
chicken in a morel cream sauce, garden fava puree with first tomatoes of the season, sourdough