I made a thing that calculates hypothetical railway timetables in QGIS cartoview.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

that’s a lot of ads

The thing about the "road design > enforcement" argument is that we have a few million miles of shitty roads in existence. It'll take generations to change that.

@stephenjacobsmith.com When they redid the Greely Square pedestrian plaza on Broadway, they actually built the pavers up level with the sidewalk. Looks good.

We finally got covered by the LA Times!!! Go watch Brian and Nimesh make the case for fare enforcement on LA Metro. And thanks to reporter Tom Carroll for reaching out in the first place. www.instagram.com/reel/DbMemTe...

404 [by L.A. Times] on Instagram: "A volunteer coalition of metro riders called Enforce the Fares says the biggest safety problem on L.A.’s buses and trains isn’t a shortage of security officers, it’s...

636 likes, 110 comments - latimes.404 on July 24, 2026: "A volunteer coalition of metro riders called Enforce the Fares says the biggest safety problem on L.A.’s buses and trains isn’t a shortage of s...

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Color me skeptical about Mayor Karen Bass' Metro priorities - a sort of promise-almost-nothing version of Mamdani's fast&free buses. Bass has not made Metro, especially Metro transit riders, a priority for 3.5 years. Yesterday's speech mostly signals continuation of that inaction.

Streetsblog L.A.@streetsblogla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Mayor Karen Bass pledges some transit (and even bike) improvements are her priorities as Metro board chair. The ideas sound somewhat like Mamdani, but the details don't look very promising. la.streetsblog.org/2026/07/23/m...

From @erikyesayan.bsky.social on yet another law:

Covered by the K Line North planned stop. But yes, private transit and (pre-SB 79) zoning laws are at the very edge of readable into the law: escholarship.org/uc/item/7g41...

"Stop” and Think about It: How the Different Interpretations of What Counts as a “Major Transit Stop" in California Make a Difference

Author(s): Wasserman, Jacob L.; Barrall, Aaron; Millard-Ball, Adam; Lee, Amy | Abstract: “Major transit stop”: how these three words are defined determines what can be built where, throughout much of ...

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Ciclavia's loneliest booth

San Francisco and apparently the Access Board do consider this (and general loading zones) exempt from PROWAG requirements, so next up is to see whether LA has a different take on the wording or just haven't considered it

Today, LA Metro DPS released their security update and it turns out, like people have been observing, there are some fare checks happening. It went from ~4k in March to ~19k in April. Here's that on the graph. It's basically invisible because before 2018, LA Metro used to do ~350k a month.

Today in no cost can happen, only benefit can happen: we often talk about designating more loading zones to reduce double parking, blocking bike lanes, pursue the Shoupean ethic, etc. Under PROWAG, cities are now* unable to designate passenger loading zones without reconstructing the whole sidewalk.

It's OK if it's dark in the morning because that's your boss' time and it's going to be crappy by default. You want sunlight after work, when it's your time.

Holland Oates@phinsphan.bsky.social · 3w ago

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

Two young Chinese tourists just asked me for directions on LA Metro and when they showed me their google maps, it had little markers for destinations all over the city that they were visiting on transit. Their LA is a transit city. That's so cool.

California Office of Emergency Services: “Guys the grid is under a lot of stress right now. Can we conserve energy amidst this heat wave to lower demand?” Californians: “SIR YES SIR, ETERNAL GLORY TO THE GOLDEN STATE” www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Slight updates/downgrades made to westside COG bus lanes. They’re also prepping criteria for evaluation on measure m’s decennial review, noting that revenues are lower than anticipated, which will certainly mean no new projects added, not that that was ever expected.

It's like how Seattle and Portland are the only two US cities to defy MUTCD guidance and install half signals. Apparently no one cares and it makes the streets safer, but God forbid we do that elsewhere!

Absolute must watch case study for Angeleno project procurement care-abouters. Will post some unstructured thoughts below, but the overwhelmingly obvious point is the need for the usual recommendation of bulking up public planning, engineering, contract admin capacity

Nick Andert@nickandert.bsky.social · last mo.

All the animations are done, so will *probably* upload my LAX people mover fiasco video tomorrow

sorry, we're deciding this one by goals per capita

CABO VERDEEEEEEE

The LAX people mover delays are emblematic—though unfortunately not an exceptional case—of the lack of public sector organizational capacity and the skewed incentives that impede American public works. But also, not opening for the World Cup is a huge miss. www.kcrw.com/shows/kcrw-r...

Just want to preemptively say that while I was interviewed for this and stand by my quotes, I don't endorse their claimed link between the fare enforcement collapse and the single digit number of annual murders on LA Metro. (In 2025, there were 3.) www.city-journal.org/article/la-m...

L.A. Metro Is a Crime-Ridden Hellscape

The transit system’s refusal to enforce fares has turned the trains over to criminals.

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SB 79 is now effective! It’s been a LONG time coming.

That's why I'm opposing “my own” measure. The emergency that led to its creation is over. Now, voters have the final say. I'm asking them to vote NO on ACA 22.

But here's the important part: Just because ACA 22 got the more dangerous measure off the ballot *doesn't* mean ACA 22 should pass on the ballot. You should vote No on ACA 22.

Then, the deal collapsed. The people negotiating it ultimately couldn't deliver. The person who actually controlled the initiative refused to pull it. We were back to square one.

Then we saw the polling. The TPA had a very real chance of passing. We couldn't just hope voters would reject it. We had to find another path.