Adam G. Linder

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"

Instead of this ridiculous story quoting one person who doesn’t want a bathroom in Runyon Canyon because of “odors” (have you smelled the dog piss there?), please read my story about how we can and should have beautiful public bathrooms in ALL our parks

What are your plans for Thursday?
Data and Donuts, of course! 🍩

Join us at LACI from 8 - 10am with Jon Neill, Chief Systems Analyst at LA County who will lead an AI Context Simulator – Delivering More Accurate and Relevant Results.

Hosted by a crowd fav, @awalkerinla.bsky.social 🔥

datadonuts.la

Come join us tomorrow! 🍩☕️🚌

We’ll share a #TorchedLA morning with @awalkerinla.bsky.social as our host, and a data-driven presentation from @metrolosangeles.bsky.social about their new Bus Operator Enclosed Barriers. 📈📊

8am - 10am, LACI DTLA.

#DataFirst #Networking #DataAndDonuts #LosAngeles

Jobs with Compiler: Senior Software Engineer

I am super proud of the tiny little team we've built at Compiler. Just a handful of humans with laptops who love public transit.

Trying our best to Move Carefully and Fix Things.

Last year we only hired for one role, this will be our first hire of 2025: compiler.la/jobs/softwar...

Tomorrow is a new #DataAndDonuts!

Greg Fair, Digital Identity Chief at the California Department of Technology (CDT) will join us for a timely and important discussion on California’s Digital Identity Framework (D-ID).

🎟️: lnkd.in/gPg-aqwJ
📅: Tuesday, June 17
🕘: 8:00-10:00a
🍩☕️🗣️

Did Lyft cheat to win a $200 million LA bike share contract? LA transportation officials delayed a major contract decision amid explosive allegations surfaced about bid rigging and insider access.

More Metro bike-share coverage at @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/05/lyft...

The opening slide of today’s presentation showing a parking meter and the title of the presentation “Inside LA’s Data-Driven Parking Rates,” with photos of our speakers. Peter Ahlstrom, Graham Rossmore, and Nghia Trinh.

Today’s #DataAndDonuts is just 30 minutes away! We’re talking Demand-Based Parking with @ladotofficial.bsky.social.

Come get some donuts, or check in online for the live stream link. 🍩📊

www.eventbrite.com/e/data-donut...

I received quite a few messages from city employees after posting these earlier today. If you want to discuss how the evisceration of your department will affect your ability to deliver services, you can message me on Signal at awalkerinla.99 or call/text my Google Voice at 323 207 5607‬

Eric Plosky, our speaker, standing in front of the Data + Donuts logo with our host for the day, Alissa Walker

We are moments away from @awalkerinla.bsky.social taking the mic to introduce today’s speaker, Eric Plosky of #MobilityData. #Data #Networking #Transit #LosAngeles

YouTube video by Data and Donuts Public Transit Ecosystem with MobilityData

If you’re not here in person, check out our live stream!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxMH...

This is tomorrow! Data! Donuts! A lot of smart people who are working hard to make your buses and trains fast, frequent, and fabulous. Did I mention donuts?

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 32, mostly women and children Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu headed to meet President Trump.

Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu headed to meet President Trump.