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Those Who Walk Away From SpeedingNonEnforcementLas about a society where utopia (being able to get places like 5% faster on average) is held together by the suffering of a child (actually, many children, who are hit by speeding cars)

I really hope UCLA is not left to fight this alone.

At a minimum, the entire UC system needs to close ranks around UCLA. Better still, the California state government should step up to defend this major institution.

We have to fight somewhere. Why not here? Why not now?

In the late ‘00s when I was with Courage Campaign, we worked with the Bay Area Council on a plan to call a state constitutional convention. It never came to fruition, sadly. But I wrote a draft CA constitution that abolished the Senate, tripled the size of the Assembly, and used proportional rep.

What parties do you think parliamentary CA would have? I'm thinking:
Livable California: Center-Right Pro-cop, anti-homeless homevoters (does better than current GOP)
Forward Party: Centrist chamber of commerce YIMBY/neolib
Labor Party: Centrist, CALFed-controlled
Progress Party: Left-NIMBY

Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding

UCLA might I suggest

“My offer is this: nothing”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

Every time an innocent person is killed by traffic violence in the US, a second injustice is perpetuated against the friends and family of the victim by cops, prosecutors, and judges who refuse to investigate, prosecute, or correctly sentence killers. I speak from firsthand experience.

The CA governor's race doesn't clearly align with factions online politics enjoyers can identify. There isn't an obvious DSA/WFP candidate either despite a crowded field.

CA politics favors insiders with constantly changing, unclear stances, which is ultimately a disservice to voters (and the Left)

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

In other mob boss fascist move, Trump is now trying to extort UCLA for $1B, force it to adopt his racist, transphobic, xenophobic policies & accept a “monitor” to control the university.

Hard no. UCLA is a California public university subject to CA law & built on CA values.

The answer is no.

Katie Porter abuses her staff and has incoherent ideas about housing. Both are disqualifying to be Governor of California.

Yeah this was getting a lot of flak on Twitter but parked cars > speeding cars (not by much, but still)

I love our peak hour headways... could've stayed in the mines for another half hour #headwayposting

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A Spanish developer is building a 4,032-unit high-rise development in Miami with rents for brand-new furnished units starting at $1,302

I can't tell if this is some sort of scam, of if they've figured out the impossible

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Let me know if you see something that needs to be corrected or have a suggestion.

My two reps are Alex “Dems shouldn’t Gerrymander!” Lee and Aisha “NIMBYest of NIMBYs” Wahab 😩

Woe is me. Gonna be a busy primary season if voting against all of them (+ Ro Khanna, I vote against all Dem incumbents apparently.)

The answer in Los Angeles at least is that we just don't, fare evasion is ~2x higher on rail (incl some gated stations) than on bus.

The fun thing about planning documents is they never envision a future where things can get worse. In these documents, to a rule, the good numbers go up and the bad numbers go down. I promise that things can always get worse, and we should plan for that.

Throughout the election period, Representative Jung maintained a hardline stance against the opposition. On this day, he also emphasized, 'Is it possible to achieve substantial cooperation with the forces that actually intended to kill President Lee Jae-myung and Jung Cheong-rae, Park Chan-dae, and Kim Min-seok?' and stated, 'Dealing with the internal rebellion should come first before cooperation.' He targeted the People Power Party, saying, 'The internal rebellion party must be dissolved and its roots must be cut off. We are currently in a war against rebellion,' and added, 'I will push forward with judicial, media, and legal reforms like a storm and tackle them with lightning speed.' He said, 'There is no victory without a fight, and there is no stability without victory,' and continued, 'I will handle the fighting, so the president should just focus on work. I will take on the dirty and dangerous work of fighting, and the flowers and fruits of cooperation, integration, and stability will be credited to President Lee Jae-myung.' He defined the People Power Party as an unconstitutional party and mentioned that it is subject to a constitutional court ruling for party dissolution. He also proposed the establishment of a special committee for the eradication of rebellious forces as a tenth innovative pledge. This indicates his intention to continue the offensive against the People Power Party.

the ruling liberal Democratic Party of Korea elected its new party leader last weekend and I don't think he's a fan of the opposition party whose leader and ex-president launched a failed coup biz.chosun.com/en/en-policy...

This is where running signals free helps. We're finding TSP is more effective if the signal is not trying to force coordination.

At several signals buses trigger a high level TSP call when the signal is green, but lower if the phase isnt timing.

Yeah in theory the Metro Expresslanes ones validate transponder setting against camera counts

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Off the top of my head there's one or two narrow ones along Figueroa in Wilmington. LADOT has a vision zero dashboard where you can filter by project type. In general though I think the interpretation is that 6' is the practical minimum for new islands

The NACTO minimum is 6', justified as "the length of a bicycle or a person pushing a stroller". PROWAG also has 6' min, don't know about prior ADA guidance. Per our local (LA) guidance smaller crossing islands are fine but shouldn't be treated as refuges

Personally I’m a fan of King County Metro’s signage design, though its purpose is slightly different. Still, the tile based design is flexible, easy to adjust, and easy to maintain. It also solves the “one bus stop with 8 different agency sign styles” problem.

Those post-dingbat buildings in LA from the 1970s and ’80s are so bleak. And to think, now planners are like “let’s do that again, but make them a few stories taller.” The perils of thinking about a city only from the street.

Before computers no one would have done a 1,000 page CEQA or NEPA report. Now with LLMs we’ll probably have 5,000 pages of AI-written comments and 5,000 pages of AI-written responses, with very little measurable effect on environmental quality.

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*Scaling Pedestrian Crossing Analysis to 100 Cities*

For better decisions about pedestrian infrastructure, we need data that is both accurate to the block level + scaled up to entire cities. Our new pre-print, pursues this with an advanced computer-vision model

arxiv.org/abs/2507.20497

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Easily among the most fascinating political stories in transportation in the USA. Indiana seems to have manufactured an enormous bipartisan support for road tolling

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