alex davis

Awesome! I'll write it later tonight.

By the way, the deviated scheduled service I'm proposing would also use the same mini bus.

to the email and have it be from all of us to give it more oomph?

By the way, I've already been able to get a couple small changes to Bus Revolution using this exact method.

Lmk, and I can show you all the email before I send it.

This will be such a catastrophic elimination of ridership on this corridor that I think I want to write an email to Dan Nemiroff politely suggesting a last minute pivot to a deviated, scheduled service. @bensh3.bsky.social @milesintransit.com @awildschild.bsky.social, want to sign on

If I had stayed at West Chester University, this is definitely something I would have worked on. Because WCU already runs a timed shuttle to Exton. They could have given that money to SEPTA, added some more hours to the schedule and had a really good service for the whole town.

Yeah, that's a great idea. It could be like the CDTA connector service that is timed for Amtrak departures to NYC.

Yeah, it's currently 2. The current schedule works okay as a RR feeder. Once it's microtransited, that goes out the window. You have no way of knowing if that one van will reach the train in time on the way inbound, and outbound, you could be waiting an hour for it to mosey back over from Telford.

Yeah, except it's useless because there's no schedule. So there's no way to know whether it will be on your end of the tube or the other end before you request it.

This is why I'm proposing SEPTA launch a deviated fixed route service called "Go... Up to 1/2 mile"

I predict this microtransit zone will GO badly.

Do mess with Texas.

That's really funny.

Guys, the people stupid enough to take a sentence like that at face value are mostly not going on these government websites.

Banner on USDA website: Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, this government website will not be updated during the funding lapse. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.

We're so mad at ourselves for losing the 2024 election, we haven't noticed how badly Republicans are fumbling the shutdown messaging.

For instance, instead of just letting someone write a marginally convincing sounding website banner, they appear to have connected the API directly to Truth Social.

At my previous job, a coworker said "I grew up in LA, so I know not to ride Metro."

The FTA caps *mandated* paratransit fares at no more than twice the agency's standard base fare. (Only near existing non-commuter routes, dial-a-ride, etc).

But Access-on-demand is a service that exceeds the federal mandate standards, so they're exempt from the cap. Aka, it's a premium service.

Excuse me. I said a park-and-ride, not a park-and-walk-and-ride! Across the street will not do.

Hmmm. I definitely don't want to blow their cover, but I haven't revealed anything here about their activities that isn't already public.

Other than maybe the animosity with SAM, but that ship is already sailed. Once inside SAM, I'm going to see if I can help them to mend relations with CSDC.

Welp, so I guess I'm joining SAM now. But it's upsetting to see two groups with the same goal (disrupt ICE operations to the maximum extent legal) not work together because one's all 🇺🇸🦅🗽🎆🫡 and the other is all 🌹✊🍉🔥🇲🇽. We're dividing ourselves over what's basically aesthetics. We can't win like this.

The most depressing part is that there's another group doing this same work called the Save America Movement. But instead of coordinating, I heard CSDC leaders refer to SAM as a "co-optation" who's "not committed to anti-capitalist decolonial struggle"🤦 and "in bed with the Democratic party". *gasp*

So last week, I went to another Community Self-Defense Coalition meeting. This lady who runs one of the rapid response groups in KTown said to meet her group at a street corner at 8:00 am the next morning. I stood there for like half an hour.

She never frickin showed up!

I went to a meeting months ago and talked to an organizer afterward who added me on Signal and said he would onboard me later. I sent a lot of follow-up messages, but he never responded.

For months, I've tried to join LA's Community Self-Defense Coalition, a group of activists who drive around looking for and verifying reports of ICE activity, and then call on the community to non-violently yell at them until they go away.

Unfortunately, what I've seen is agonizingly disorganized.

I'm sure you've gotten this question before, but have you considered packaging this into a graphic novel?

Parts of Los Angeles with more than 7.5k jobs per square mile. Now you see the REAL reason we need BRT to Burbank and Glendale.

Parts of Los Angeles with more than 100 transit commuters per square mile.

THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

Democrat kitties can win the attention war against fascism with pro-democracy brainrot.

To everyone who thinks this is "a pathetic and ineffective response to authoritarianism", AOC/Mamdani speeches don't work on most non-political people. We need more formats.

So it WASN'T a park-and-ride after all! Oops.

Will they get away with it? Hell no!

Because if SEPTA keeps putting their bus stop fonts on ozempic, I will simply start a charity organization whose mission is to buy stickers and put them on the bus stops to re-chonkify the font.

I predict we will be RAKING in the donations.

Your move, SEPTA.

This is a great example. You can pretty clearly see that the top one is the 26. But route 41 (formerly J) below is so hard to see, most people can't even see it from across the street. Yes, SEPTA is spending money specifically to force you to have to cross the street just to read your bus stop sign.

Now that SEPTA's execution has been Temporarily Suspended™, we need to talk about how SEPTA is intentionally restickering their bus stops to make the numbers visible from less than half the distance. While the current letters are visible from 200 ft, the tiny new ones you can't see past 80 ft.

Honestly, kind of underwhelmed by Boyle Heights and East LA. It's interesting how little this map correlates with wealth.