"Of all the host countries over the last two decades, the Frankfurt resident said he is most fearful about the prospect of traveling to the U.S."
CNN interviewed a bunch of World Cup superfans who have tickets to matches in the U.S. but are now rethinking their travel plans
Feel like we should be shattering a bottle of champagne against the fresh asphalt of this baby.
L.A. City large asphalt repair project on Filmore Street, where the city repaved nearly all of the street, but left a 1-foot-wide old cracked asphalt strip along each curb
Thanks - if you get a chance, take photos showing the extent of the new asphalt and share with me? Often with LAR they leave a very small area unrepaved - so you have to stop and look for the untouched patch
Anyone out there know where that 1-mile of street repaving is? If you spot it, let me know.
Then this month I took it a step further and filed a #MeasureHLA lawsuit against the city - challenging the legality of several loopholes that the city has employed to avoid required bike/bus/accessibility/walk upgrades. labikas.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/t...
Starting in February several mobility advocates (including me) filed #MeasureHLA appeals challenging the city's #LargeAsphaltRepair crap. AFAIK the city has not responded to any of these appeals yet. labikas.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/s...
Where is that 1 mile of FY25-26 resurfacing? #StreetsLA website doesn't say. According to their online completed resurfacing spreadsheet (see at same link as previous tweet) the city's last completed resurfacing was Bakman Ave on June 30 2025.
And today, StreetsLA's dashboard reports one mile of resurfacing (which could be a typo for all I know), but earlier this fiscal year, the resurfacing total was zero. BSS #StreetsLA Dashboard webpage: streets.lacity.gov/resources/cu...
I published that response, and more #largeasphaltrepair news in this February SBLA post la.streetsblog.org/2026/02/17/u...
In February I asked where&when? StreetsLA: "So far this fiscal year, the Bureau has been focused on installing up to 300 curb ramps, a required step to prepare segments for eventual resurfacing in the later half of the fiscal year. The Bureau looks forward to its resurfacing projects in FY 25-26."
In January, StreetsLA told the L.A. Times that “Street resurfacing has always been expected to take place later this fiscal year" which means: by June 30 2026 www.latimes.com/california/s...
In July 2025, StreetsLA quietly stopped doing regular standard street repaving, instead opting to instead do just expensive partial patchwork LAR - Large Asphalt Repair futureis.la/p/la-has-sto...
If you're completely unfamiliar with #LargeAsphaltRepair maybe start with this short explainer video bsky.app/profile/stre...
Screenshot of Bureau of Street Services (StreetsLA) dashboard from today (21 April 2026) showing that "Resurfacing Lane Miles" is "1.06"
Hold the presses! I got a tip, and it appears that L.A. City Bureau of Street Services ( #StreetsLA ) repaved a street this fiscal year! It's not just #largeasphaltrepair any more. Today's StreetsLA dashboard shows 1 mile of "resurfacing"
Looks like a fairly short/easy 1-mile ride from several Metro E Line Stations. Anyone out there ( @bruins4transit.bsky.social ?) have a quiet-ish street route you recommend for biking from Westwood E Line Station?
Map of Sunday April 26 9am-4pm CicLAvia West L.A. event - includes Westwood Blvd and Santa Monica Blvd
Who's going to CicLAvia this Sunday!?!? 9am-4pm West L.A. - Westwood Blvd and Santa Monica Blvd!
In addition, there's this induced demand thing that means all that freeway widening (and those many $$ billions) will not solve your traffic congestion problems. Follow the 710-South process and re-think widening those other freeways too.
Hey Metro - there's this climate emergency that means you can't just widen the heck out of every freeway in L.A. County. Really.
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The @metrolosangeles.bsky.social K Line North extension will add connections to key destinations and to other transit lines. And as I told @knxnews.bsky.social — from my perch at the edge of academia — we should value peer-reviewed research that tunneling will have no effect on the homes above it:
The area south of Gage (3.5 miles of 12 mile project) is really really wide - mostly 160+feet. Most of Vermont is more constrained - north of Gage: 55-80 feet wide. But per Metro & L.A. City: all 12 miles would get zero bikeway improvements. (More on widths: la.streetsblog.org/2025/03/28/m... )
Metro and L.A. looked at the right of way on Vermont - some of it more than 160 feet wide (former rail corridor) and found that in 160+feet, they could not find one inch to dedicate to safe bicycling. Really.
The truth as I see it: the fiscal costs are minimal to add bike lanes - it's nowhere near Metro's "$400M" estimate. It's not zero, but I would be surprised if it's over $10M. The costs are political - you have to reallocate space currently given over to cars - parking, turn lanes, through lanes.
Nobody wants to tear down buildings on Vermont; nobody will. But there is a trade off: on-street parking vs. bikeways. I wrote about Metro's "facile binary" bikes vs. demolitions framing here la.streetsblog.org/2025/03/28/m...
Metro has made the (ridiculous) claim that Vermont Ave BRT project bike lanes would cost $400M because the project has to preserve on-street parking, so adding bike lanes would mean purchasing and tearing down miles of existing buildings.
The motion also directs City Attorney to report on L.A. might use the Metro-L.A. Master Cooperative Agreement "MCA" to
have Metro pay for the bikeway.
The motion - by Heather Hutt and Hugo Soto-Martinez - directs DOT to report back on the feasibility and cost of doing bike lanes as part of Vermont BRT - which would remove quite a bit of on-street parking cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...
Here's an overview of the 3 components of my lawsuit (the first of two HLA lawsuits I filed). The 12-mile Metro/LACity Vermont Avenue Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is the biggest issue - at the core of the lawsuit labikas.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/j...
There's a council motion directing city departments to report back on following #MeasureHLA for the Vermont Transit Corridor project - one of the main issues at the core of my lawsuit
