The city's crap response pisses me off - so you may have heard: I am in court fighting the city to force it to install its own planned walk/bike/bus/access improvements labikas.wordpress.com/2026/04/08/t...

Data + Donuts is back April 22nd! 🍩

Celebrating @awalkerinla.bsky.social’s 2nd Anniversary of torched.la! 🔥

8am - networking (and donuts)
9am - Presentation with Jillian Gallard & Nataly Rios of LA DOT on Universal Basic Mobility Equity. 🙌

For more info, and to RSVP, check out datadonuts.la 🏙️😍🌆

Metro Plans to Spend Nearly $900M Expanding Freeways Next Year, a 40 Percent Increase - Streetsblog Los Angeles Metro expects to spend $887.1 million on widening the 5, 57/60, 91, 105, and 405 Freeways, and planning for Metro widening of the 5, 14, 71, 605, and other freeways

Bass lays it on thickly about how past freeway expansion harmed communities of communities of color. Hey - honorable Mayor Bass: Metro still today widening freeways in communities of color! la.streetsblog.org/2026/03/20/m...

Big fan of this path of politics from Horvath. 👏👏👏

The MOST expensive tunnel study Metro has ever commissioned has proven that this project will not only have no negative impact on their homes, but will only INCREASE their value.

And yet we still debate prioritizing the comfort of the few over the needs of the many?

AND WHY DO THEY KEEP WINNING?

I struggle with LA these days as the disparity still grows.

Here we see representatives standing up to improve the lives of 70k potential daily riders of the K Line Extension, while others defend the fear-mongering of a hundred homeowners.

Thanks to those who still have the strength to resist.

Metro staff recommendation is “San Vicente-Fairfax” alignment - supported by West Hollywood [tho has a squiggle route typically not ideal]

Metro has enabled listening/commenting on today's meetings via call-in now:

The staff recommendation page from Metro Los Angeles’s presentation by the Planning and Programming committee recommending a route for the future K Line. The map shows the line extending north from its current twrminus at Expo/Crewnshaw, following the San Vicente-Fairfax alignment, which could serve stations at Mid-City Crossing, Miracle Mile, West Hollywood, and up to Hollywood/Highland and the Hollywood Bowl. The text reads: Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA): San Vicente Fairfax Alignment contingent upon the formation of an EIFD by the City of West Hollywood in coordination with Los Angeles County to provide additional local source(s) of funding at least 25% of capital cost per Early Project Delivery Strategy • Initial Operating Segment (IOS) to Wilshire/Fairfax at D Line • Crenshaw ROW in Mid-City to reduce tunnel easements below historic residential neighborhoods (Option 2 in Mid-City Additional Alignment Analysis) with commitment to work with property owner at Midtown Shopping Center to preserve neighborhood grocery store in advance of construction at Midtown Crossing • Terminus at Hollywood Bowl to connect people to regional cultural center and provide optimal TBM construction site

it’s gonna be slow. but it’s gonna exist.

AND the station at the Bowl.

LAX to the Hollywood Bowl, on a single MetroRail line. @whamrail.bsky.social @metrolosangelesbot.bsky.social

It may as well say “transit advocate and local celebrity Nick Andert…” 😝

Congratulations on your immortalization! Can’t wait to see the rest of the project’s engineering.

How to get people excited about transit "It will literally be your best selling t-shirt, it will get you so much PR, and if anyone interprets this inappropriately that's a them problem"

I wrote about the one actually great thing that happened this week

Now on Chair Dutra's remarks. Metro D Line extension opening date announced! Friday May 8 2026!

Is he gonna die tomorrow? You know who.

this is just wrong. Unless you’re just referring to public perception in your assessment? While the rest of the nation’s transit agencies are having to make cuts, LA Metro is continuing their expansion at a record rate. It’s BECAUSE we don’t rely on fares. Not having to cut service is SO GOOD.

Your graph contradicts your claim. In fact, it shows that fare revenue can be reclaimed by a myriad of other funding sources. LA Metro’s fare recovery is less than 5% of the budget.

Nobody should have to argue that public services belong to the public - not just those with social media accounts.

My favorite argument against fareless transit: vibes.

@samd.bsky.social I get that you may not like fare free transit - perhaps it’s a business thing, perhaps the idea of riding transit around poor people scares you, but the data doesn’t lie. “A marginal value” 🙄

The American Revolution started over less

I’m stuck in the loop now too. I had a friend login at 6:59, and she was able to register two profiles before 7:03 AM. I logged in at 7:06 AM, finished the bar at 7:36, when it redirected me back to the front page… Boo.

Listen for me on TV tonight - just did an interview with NBC News - for their 6pm broadcast. Subject was Sepulveda Transit Corridor - planned Metro rail connecting the Valley and West LA. Some day it will take 10 minutes to get from UCLA to Van Nuys!

A Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor will be considered by the Metro Board's Planning Committee on Wednesday at 11am.

Webstream: boardagendas.metro.net/event/planni...

Blog post: wp.me/pfeql1-BX5

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

“Billionaires are not above the law" I say as I slowly hand over my entire city to billionaires

WE WON BITCHES

Happy New Year from the Compiler team at Data+Donuts!

We’re back!

On 1/22/26, Edwin Rodarte & Andy Vuong of Los Angeles Public Library will join us to share LAPL’s data approach. 📚

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8AM: Networking ☕️ & 🍩
9AM: Presentation Begins
10AM: End of Event

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LACI
525 S Hewitt St,
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Mayor Bass Takes Action to Provide New Relief to Palisades Fire Survivors, Accelerate Community Recovery Calls on City Council to Provide Fire-Affected Properties with Time-Limited Exemption, Announces Mayoral Executive Directive LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass announced actions to provide new relief to Palisades Fire survivors and accelerate community recovery. She called on the City Council to adopt an ordinance that would assist in the establishment of a one-time exemption to Measure ULA for Palisade homeowners and announced that once the ordinance is adopted she would issue an executive directive to direct the Office of Finance to create the rule providing this exemption. The letter follows a meeting with Rick Caruso, founder of Steadfast LA, who proposed ideas to help address this issue. The Mayor’s plan to create a time limited exemption from the Measure ULA property transfer tax will help homeowners who need to or wish to move from the fire impacted area and speed up sales of these properties and spur rebuilding and rehabilitation of the Palisades.

Mayor Karen Bass is asking LA's city council to pass an ordinance that would exempt Pacific Palisades transactions from ULA, the city's transfer tax.

Of note: "The letter follows a meeting with Rick Caruso, founder of Steadfast LA, who proposed ideas to help address this issue"