Tomorrow's engineers aren't learning about induced demand.
"3 [of 7] textbooks omitted the idea entirely, whereas the others offered only partial coverage."
"The engineering textbooks reviewed here leave students unprepared to understand induced travel."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Source?
Everything reminds me of her:
i need a governor who will electrify metrolink
In LA today:
I took the kids to school by bike
I pick up some Cost Co with the cargo bike
I rode to work.
It's possible. Not as safe as I'd like, but damn it was a gorgeous day to ride.
Spending all that time outside doing light exercise that would've been in a car, sure improves my day!
Pro-housing leaders 🏙️,
It’s time to rally together and elect our endorsed candidate, Nithya Raman, as Los Angeles Mayor 🎉🗳️
Check out the amazing opportunities below, hosted by some of our awesome AHLA chapters 💪✨We’d love to see you there! 🙌
Let’s build a better LA together 🏡💙
Links in bio 🔗
Good tweet
In April 2021 I got vaccinated for Covid-19 in a Cal State LA parking lot by the friendliest member of the CA National Guard.
That swing in YOY ridership change from Feb 2021 vs Feb 2020 (-55%) to April 2021 vs April 2020 (+71%) is a medical scientific miracle called vaccines. I'll never forgot the transit operators and opps teams who kept working through the pandemic, and the essential workers who showed up for all of us.
It's been a while since I looked at LA Metro ridership. Here's monthly average weekday ridership from Mar-2019 to Mar-2026. And avg YOY change from Mar-2020 to Mar-2026. Metro was steadily adding riders until Trump began his unlawful and unconscionable immigration raids (reposting to fix a chart).
NRDC's Kathy Harris: "Decision‑makers could advance a clean transportation future by supporting policies that help more communities access clean, safe, and affordable transportation options" including EVs, expanded transit and more bikeable and walkable communities. www.nrdc.org/bio/kathy-ha...
One of The Militant's IG followers alerted him to some unearthed #PacificElectric Glendale-Burbank Line rail on Glendale Blvd in #EchoPark. But when he arrived there today, the tracks were already paved over. ☹️😭🤬👎🏼
I have done a lot of work to fast-track much-needed housing, and through that work I have seen another area in desperate need of streamlining: transportation projects to increase bicycle and pedestrian safety.
That’s 6 Hoover Dams worth of power output coming from batteries at peak hours.
Neighborhood scale upzonings increased housing production in many NYC neighborhoods
Upzoned block faces saw significant increases in housing unit permits in Philadelphia
How do upzonings impact housing supply?
In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms.
www.urban.org/research/pub...
Everyone dunks on BART for having delays during wet weather but like Caltrans lets the same sections of 880 and 580 flood every year, every rainy day and nobody calls to defund Caltrans.
Do they make enough money to tax? The low hanging fruit is working with them to collect data on broken/blocked sidewalks and missing curb ramps. They can and do do this.
Ugh him and Kopi in the same year. End of an era.
The value of the time saved by bus drivers and passengers not stuck in traffic is probably even greater than the $20M in net revenue.
Last year L.A. City gross revenue from automatic bus lane citations was nearly $20M. Never ever park in a bus lane. You will get a $293 ticket. la.streetsblog.org/2026/04/10/l...
Sometimes LA streets are just 🪄
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
I love this photo of astronaut Christina Koch looking back at Earth from Artemis II.
She's the first woman to see the full sphere of our beautiful planet.
Welcome home to the crew, and thank you for reminding us of all we can discover together.
Artemis II splashing down exactly when predicted, to the minute, after traveling like 700,000 miles is why we need dedicated bus lanes tbqh.
BBB hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking event today to celebrate Big Blue Bus’s $56 million zero‑emission fleet and charging infrastructure expansion
santamonicanext.org/2026/04/sant...
Love this. Busiest transit station in the region.
Is it 90?
Screen cap of blog reading: First, we can stop spending time and scarce transportation funding on planning, designing and permitting obsolete highway projects that will only perpetuate our paralysis. Traffic studies have long established that we can't just pave our way out of congestion. We've tried that approach for 50 years, and gridlock is where it's gotten us. Second, we need to promote rapid transit, congestion pricing, carpooling, bus-only lanes, transit-oriented development and other 21st century solutions. Our quality of life and our economic future — and those of our children — depend on it.
Check this from my colleague Joel Reynolds, a pillar of the environmental movement, on the problems with freeway expansion and the better way forward. From 2011! 15 years ago! www.nrdc.org/bio/joel-rey...
