Raag Agrawal

Why so? I believe in consolidation for sure, but wouldn’t it be as one big city of LA and not ceding it all to the county?

I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".

Great appointment, but also disband it.

Kathryn Garcia Expected to Be Named New Head of the Port Authority Ms. Garcia, who ran for mayor of New York in 2021 after serving as the city’s sanitation commissioner, would succeed Rick Cotton, who is retiring.

Breaking News: Kathryn Garcia, a top aide to Gov. Kathy Hochul, is expected to be named the next executive director of the Port Authority.

It costs less money than in the UK! High sticker prices don’t reflect actual costs to students

No one wants to believe that there is real disagreement. It’s much easier to believe the other side is just dumb or uneducated.

One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.

Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.

Be a housing fan.

Report: 94% of World’s Subways Operated by One Person. Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two - Reinvent Albany NYU Marron Center Report Shows 94% of the World’s Subway Systems Use One Person – Or Are Automated   Gov. Hochul Must Veto Wasteful, Politically-Motivated Bill Requiring Two Train Operators   An…

Report: 94% of World’s Transit Lines Operated by One Person

Hochul Should Veto Bill Requiring Two

See our statement on the new, important report out from NYU Marron's Transit Costs Project

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Los Angeles is trying to avoid HLA by claiming that it is “restriping without making other improvements” when, in fact, it’s making many other changes across multiple projects.

This behavior must stop.

Read the letter we sent to the Mayor, LADOT, and the Board of Public Works

Jeffries is a really uninspiring leader.

Yeah absolutely agree there. I see Waymo trialing their new purpose built cars near me all the time. I think smaller personal taxis the size of golf carts will probably take over.

Robotaxis will be an enormous good if they get people to give up private car ownership and we can then get rid of free curbside parking.

Idt he’s proposing reassigning them. That would never work. Just buying them out or move them to other lines.

NYC housing is so bad that it makes me glad I live in LA. Will a 1 Br have to hit 8k a month for people to wake up?

The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.

As someone who will get an MD, PhD...only MDs should be called Dr in a clinical setting.

Group DMs on BlueSky would be like Viennese cafes, Louise-Philippe era banquets, or Spanish Civil War era charitable groups. They’d accelerate the invention of Woke 2 by like 15 months, minimum.

A lot of white parents don’t like the outcomes that fair systems eg SAT/ACT only create. So lots of mental gymnastics to justify anything else but that.

Also Blue-> Red state so they’re sacrificing safety and a safety net.

YouTube video by nandert Rounding Out LA's Holy Trinity of Future Rail

Nandert is genuinely such a critical part of LA's transit community. Great video on the vermont corridor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggTF...

Ehhh, consolidation is not going to solve the structural problem here. These hospitals are basically designed to lose tons of public money, and there's very little incentive from anyone to whip them into shape e.g. drop $$ losing services, layoffs, close beds.

They’re trying to close SUNY Downstate so not clear merging into the public system would help

So-called “inclusionary zoning” is a tax on new housing that reduces the amount of housing that gets built, worsening the housing shortage and driving up rent. It is bad, counterproductive policy and we should stop doing it.

Scott Wiener Defeated California’s NIMBYs. Can He Fix America’s Housing Crisis? By running for Nancy Pelosi's seat, he's putting the "Abundance" theory to the test.

1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.

Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.

TWU and most of the public sector unions in NYC seem very trump-y and idk why we need to bow down to them as if they’re a part of our coalition. Like the median member lives in LI and detests riders

Tbh governance reform is badly needed regardless of the quality of their decision making. We have a literal HRE of white flight cities in the county. We badly need regional governance

Lmao la city council rezoning the historic parking lots for high density mixed use?

You’re not going to make immigration restrictionists happy with a compromise because they fundamentally don’t believe it in. It’s like compromising with NIMBYs. Doesn’t work.

I know someone FOIAd this data for another transit agency. I wonder if anyone can do it for TAP card usage