I’ll bet it’s a bad coordinate transformation

Unfortunately, that doesn’t sound crazy to me: it’s a couple of people working for a couple of months. Good argument for insourcing and moving to a regional level rather than tiny Marin towns

A family completely wrecked by our politicians' lack of a backbone to stand up for real safety and protect human lives.

Transportation improvements are often matters of life and death. When the City of LA reversed these improvements, they collectively decided it was OK for people to die.

1990s Southern California has a lot to answer for

Thanks for the reference!

I’m a little self interested here, but the CalFire LA map is pretty wacky: basically no moderate risk areas, going from very high to negligible over a block. And it extends pretty far into the basin in Silver Lake and Echo Park. I have methodological questions comparing with the Bay Area map

to be fair, it is a good shrub

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@jawshv.bsky.social Nice work on the Metro ridership dash! I understand from the blog post that you’re still using manual extracts in lieu of a proper API.

A few years ago I wrote a little scraper for Metro’s ridership page, maybe you would find it useful? github.com/ian-r-rose/l...

Pico Robertson is not the best connected neighborhood. I might take the 28 to Union Station and transfer to Ventura Metrolink, which has a Burbank Airport stop

I’ve also always felt like “slab window” is a pretty poor name, you don’t necessarily need a literal hole in the Farallon, it’s likely enough for it to just “finish” subducting, leaving some space to be filled by hotter mantle

I think that’s correct, but Neenach may also be due to the same mechanism, it was just immediately (in geologically adjusted terms) split by the San Andreas

The most compelling explanation for Clear Lake I’m aware of is that it’s due to aesthenospheric upwelling filling the gap left by the sinking Juan de Fuca plate as the Mendocino triple junction heads north. Similar (but older) Cenozoic volcanism is in the Berkeley/Oakland hills and Pinnacles NP

The “LADOT can’t do concrete” thing is so strange to me, LA politicians treat it like it’s a law of thermodynamics. I don’t understand why a budget line item for a small team of civil engineers and an executive order saying “you do concrete now” wouldn’t solve it

LADOT needs to be building thousands of these annually as part of regular operations, not as special projects. Just a tremendous failure all around

CA tossing off 11k ft ranges that people haven’t even heard of

Funnily enough, it’s a relatively easy airport to do that with

I hope you’re right, though it wouldn’t be the first sidewalk repair in the neighborhood in recent years without a curb cut, it happened at Lucile and Hoover a while back

I tried to open a 311 request about this, and it was immediately closed with no explanation

This is great! A couple of suggestions:

In East Hollywood, Lexington is a nice way to cross Virgil and Vermont and get to the Heliotrope/Edgemont route.

In Glassell Park, Fletcher (N of San Fernando) to Estara to Ave 33 to Verdugo is a nice way to survive crossing the 2 and Eagle Rock Blvd.

probably the pleiades

I’ve been workshopping the same analogy at work but with pre-1950 carbon dating

It’s genuinely a great option for getting around DTLA, really expands the lunch option radius. Sadly, I think the maintenance of the bikes has fallen off while they are in contract limbo

Hell yeah

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