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marsargostan.bsky.social
from LA 🌈 forced to think about housing and transportation way too much
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You can be a senator or a gardener, some folks will always find a way to remind you that brown is brown.

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

It's pretty funny that while Melbourne has a level crossing removal program LA might as well have a level crossing creation program

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I spend an ungodly amount of time ‘on YouTube’ (read: something on YouTube is playing in my headphones) and yet videos with the yt reaction face on them are a complete mystery to me

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

good on Zohran for this, since zoning reform is an important and necessary piece of the puzzle for any affordable housing plan that doesn't involve Full Communism Now (which is hard to achieve on a municipal level) and i think it's been generally absent from most left-wing municipal campaigns

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

L.A. is a Mexican-American city. The majority of the population is made up of racial and ethnic minorities. We are all happy living together and really do not want to see our friends, neighbors and families being terrorized by federal robo-cops. This is bullshit.

submitted 5 days ago • 244 comments

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

submitted 7 days ago • 82 comments

I know America can build things quickly and efficiently because we do it for cars all the time. The slow, arduous permitting and construction processes we have for public transit, bike infrastructure, green energy, and housing are a policy choice that we are free to stop making whenever we want.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The lack of urgency around land use and vehicle miles traveled — a major contributor to emissions — continues to stun me. In California, the nominally progressive head of the Senate housing committee is opposed to denser housing construction because she's worried about parking!

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

It's not murder if you kill with a car, it's just an inconvenience. Now letting your kids play outside, that's murder.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is what happens when we don't have kink at pride

submitted 12 days ago • 270 comments

Again, murder is legal in America if you do it with a car

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to. This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented. So ICE took her into custody. The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck. "I can't breathe."

submitted 12 days ago • 676 comments

Yesterday’s critical mass ride protesting the NYPDs new criminal summons policy.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

you actually can’t price control your way out of a housing shortage, sorry. building is necessary

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Hey so what’s the magic number of police funding we need to hit so they’ll stop spending all day playing Pokemon Go and shooting people for sport causing hundreds of millions in settlement payouts by the city annually? Are we almost there so we can get back to funding these programs? No?

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Newsom needs to endorse actual legislation to enable people to move to safer areas. His silence on sb79 to do just that is deafening.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

We want to see a HLA-style ordinance for LA County! THIS TUESDAY, let the County Board of Supervisors know you support item #17: the acceleration for the implementation of the Los Angeles County Master Bicycle Plan. Details: mailchi.mp/streetsforal...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

its genuinely incredible that the government has been taken over by vandals, thieves, and bald-faced liars and the media is more or less reporting on them like they're normal heads of state

submitted 14 days ago • 76 comments

my takeaway from reading 150 years worth of historical transit and planning documents is that the solutions have been known the entire time and studies are just a way for people who don't want change to waste time

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

I am a street camera extremist. Put a robot on every single intersection; ticket every single driver who speeds or runs a red light, every single time.

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

yes

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Is this what should surround the stations on our transit systems? Call your state senator to voice your support for SB 79!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Chinatown has some of the most dangerous streets in the city because they're designed as high-speed cut throughs between DTLA and the freeways. CM Hernandez could order road diets, crosswalks and traffic calming measures, but for some reason hasn't bothered doing so.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

👏 seize 👏 the 👏 golf 👏 courses! 👏

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The Netherlands has ~19M people. This area in Southern California? ~23M. One has dense, connected, regional transport. The other is trapped in traffic. Remind me again why we can’t build better transit and healthier cities when we’ve got the population to support it?

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

Ms. Rachel has seized control of the military and begin jailing political opponents (DEVELOPING)

submitted 21 days ago • 47 comments

In case you were wondering how long we’ve known that mobility in cities is fundamentally a space problem, this was from Wichita Falls, Texas in 1927. The streetcar was electric. And they would need more cars today because of fewer average people in each car. HT Peter Norton

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

when i say we should have reliable public transportation and safe bike routes, i really mean "if you drive a car at any time for any reason you are a fundamentally evil and irredeemable person. you have failed society. we should turn every road into a bicycle"

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

People think that Marin has uniquely bad climate policy, but it's actually a California problem. Thanks to the genius model developed by the state, expanding your bikeway network to cover 100% of city streets with separated paths would result in a 0.5% (not a typo!) reduction in GHG from cars.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment