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more than 500 people have been killed in traffic crashes on LA streets since HLA was passed
$150M for Vermont Ave BRT too @lintonjoe.bsky.social
SCOOP: The Blue Hill Avenue center-running busway project, endorsed by @mbta.com and @mayorwu.boston.gov, is now fully funded for construction.
Congress Allocates $80 Million to Build Blue Hill Ave. Busway - mass.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/c...
Spot some sidewalk work done/underway on Mid-City Greenways project - on Formosa and on Rosewood
Thank you to the North Westwood Neighborhood Council for joining the chorus in demanding that Caltrans implement the missing Ohio-to-Ohio bike connector when repaving Santa Monica Bl.
Trump has thrown her to the dogs.
Would be a great time for states to have robust e-bike incentives and transit investment programs!
Electrification of transportation is a national security and economic resilience strategy, which would work well for this exact scenario we are in right now.
A chart that shows how long it took some of the most popular EVs in the US to reach 20,000 units sold. Tesla's model Y did it in about 4 months. Rivian is planning to do it with the R2 in about 6. The full list: Ford Mustang Mach-E 8 Ford F-150 Lightning 10 Chevy Equinox EV 8 Chevy Blazer EV 16 Tesla Model 3 11 Kia EV6 11 Hyundai Ioniq 5 10 VW ID 4 13 Rivian R2 (Projected) 6 Tesla Model Y 4 Kia EV9 10 Honda Prologue 6 Original Chevy Bolt 11
NEW from me: Rivian said it plans to deliver between 20,000 and 25,000 R2 SUVs this year.
With sales expected to start in June, it'd be the 2nd-fastest EV launch in US history, behind Tesla's uber-successful Model Y and matching the heavily incentivized Prologue.
techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/r...
States with the biggest rise in diesel prices vs a week ago
Iowa β¬οΈ51.0c/gal
Lousiana β¬οΈ48.6c/gal
Texas β¬οΈ47.7c/gal
Georgia β¬οΈ47.4c/gal
North Carolina β¬οΈ47.1c/gal
West Virginia β¬οΈ44.8c/gal
Arizona β¬οΈ42.6c/gal
Ohio β¬οΈ42.5c/gal
Oklahoma β¬οΈ42.0c/gal
South Carolina β¬οΈ42.0c/gal
I talked with the @latimes.com @hayleysmith.bsky.social about the Administration promising to lower electricity bills while also blocking new sources of clean energy supply. When demand is spiking because of AI and the government is blocking supplies, prices go up. www.latimes.com/environment/...
You might like this radio feed from LAβs KROQ that just plays 80s rock hits. www.audacy.com/roqofthe80s
New World Cup countdown clock at Union Station - 99 days until kick-off
san bernardino!
OAK?
I can (I think) immediately place this is California, but where?
LA, where you have to define if you want Lebanese-Oaxacan or Egyptian-Mexican as your Mexico<->Middle Eastern crossover food restaurant
Here in SF we may hate the Dodgers but we're all competing to get an LA Metro RIDE THE D teeshirt because we love transit
βGreetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!
Thatβs subtle
βNatural gasβ prices in the EU have shot up ~40% in a day on news that Qatar is ceasing liquid βnaturalβ gas production at the worldβs largest plant.
In related news, sunlight and wind remain free.οΏΌ
There is a guitar riff on the second song of Twisted Teensβ βBlame The Clownβ that is *exactly* the same as another song I like and (1) I canβt figure it out and (2) AI is totally unable to help. If Iβd just bought the dang CD of the earlier album, I would not be losing my mind right now.
Canβt place it, but thanks for turning me onto the album! reminds me of Magnetic Fields!
What time stamp?
If Metro can do this, BART should be able to too!
Station retail is one of the things I worked on for many years as a BART director but never accomplished. I think we would have made progress without the pandemic.
After the Connect Bay Area measure passes, I hope BART brings back station retail.
Nice work by CM Katy Yaroslavsky to get coffee kiosks in all the new Metro D Line stations opening in May! cdn.mc-weblink.sg-mktg.com/weblink/MTc3...
(Not arguing just excitedly geeking)
So thatβs roughly 15-20,000 seats per day moving back and forth between LA and SF.
@thetransitguy.com counted 130 from Bay Area to LA, non stop, both ways (no ONT), which seems right.