alex davis
@alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Transit service planner 🚏
Fare enforcement enjoyer 🎫✅
Proudly car free in LA 🚌🌴
My statements =/= my employer's
-Being wrong lets you discover new things.
-Being naive lets you dare to try.
-Being cringe lets you change the world.
Fare enforcement enjoyer 🎫✅
Proudly car free in LA 🚌🌴
My statements =/= my employer's
-Being wrong lets you discover new things.
-Being naive lets you dare to try.
-Being cringe lets you change the world.
Pinned
🚨See federal agents in LA County? Call both of these numbers immediately to notify the rapid response networks.
🗽Save America Movement: (213) 379-991🎱
🇲🇽Union del Barrio: (213) 444-656✌️
Repost to help make California hell for ICE agents. 🌴
🗽Save America Movement: (213) 379-991🎱
🇲🇽Union del Barrio: (213) 444-656✌️
Repost to help make California hell for ICE agents. 🌴
We've reached the lowest point in our lives.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
We've reached the lowest point in our lives.
This creek (Salt Creek) in Death Valley is as salty as seawater, heats up to 110°F, is not connected to any other bodies of water and dries to a tiny trickle for half the year. There is absolutely no way fish should be able to survive here. AND YET!!!
November 29, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This creek (Salt Creek) in Death Valley is as salty as seawater, heats up to 110°F, is not connected to any other bodies of water and dries to a tiny trickle for half the year. There is absolutely no way fish should be able to survive here. AND YET!!!
Turns out you can actually pose for a picture with the Milky Way galaxy if you're willing to go somewhere with no human civilization, wait until the moon sets and then stand completely still for 4+ minutes. Totally worth it, IMO.
November 28, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Turns out you can actually pose for a picture with the Milky Way galaxy if you're willing to go somewhere with no human civilization, wait until the moon sets and then stand completely still for 4+ minutes. Totally worth it, IMO.
Thankful that I get to spend Thanksgiving in Death Valley with Erica.
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Thankful that I get to spend Thanksgiving in Death Valley with Erica.
Unlike The Atlantic, I support turkey trots and the detours required to make them happen.
But fellas, is it really necessary to prevent the entire east SF Valley bus network from accessing North Hollywood?? This is VASTLY disruptive in a way LA politicians would understand if they rode transit.
But fellas, is it really necessary to prevent the entire east SF Valley bus network from accessing North Hollywood?? This is VASTLY disruptive in a way LA politicians would understand if they rode transit.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Unlike The Atlantic, I support turkey trots and the detours required to make them happen.
But fellas, is it really necessary to prevent the entire east SF Valley bus network from accessing North Hollywood?? This is VASTLY disruptive in a way LA politicians would understand if they rode transit.
But fellas, is it really necessary to prevent the entire east SF Valley bus network from accessing North Hollywood?? This is VASTLY disruptive in a way LA politicians would understand if they rode transit.
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Me when the streetcars are bunching so I wait an extra minute to get on the second empty one right behind the sardine packed first one:
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Me when the streetcars are bunching so I wait an extra minute to get on the second empty one right behind the sardine packed first one:
Here's the now public clip of LA Metro CEO Wiggins and Chief Bill Scott at the 11/20 Ops, Safety and Customer Exp Meeting responding to our LA Daily News article [How LA Metro quietly stopped enforcing fares]. Let me respond to the key quote:
Source:
metro.granicus.com/player/clip/...
Source:
metro.granicus.com/player/clip/...
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Here's the now public clip of LA Metro CEO Wiggins and Chief Bill Scott at the 11/20 Ops, Safety and Customer Exp Meeting responding to our LA Daily News article [How LA Metro quietly stopped enforcing fares]. Let me respond to the key quote:
Source:
metro.granicus.com/player/clip/...
Source:
metro.granicus.com/player/clip/...
Today, at the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social Ops meeting, CEO Stephanie Wiggins mentioned the recent op-ed I co-authored documenting Metro's 5-year suspension of regular fare enforcement. While she dismissed the piece as "erroneous", she could not point to one factually incorrect thing in the op-ed.
CEO speaks about "erroneous" recent Daily News editorial that noted lack of fare enforcement (written by @alexdavistransit.bsky.social & others). CEO & Metro Police Chief speak about "many ways to engage" riders, kicking non-paying riders off the system without citations.
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Today, at the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social Ops meeting, CEO Stephanie Wiggins mentioned the recent op-ed I co-authored documenting Metro's 5-year suspension of regular fare enforcement. While she dismissed the piece as "erroneous", she could not point to one factually incorrect thing in the op-ed.
@whstancil.bsky.social is technically right that right now, a small majority of Americans say they want to live in the suburbs.
But in a country where only 16% walked somewhere for transportation in the last week, this is a strange, irrelevant point to push on. Walkable cities are vastly underbuilt.
But in a country where only 16% walked somewhere for transportation in the last week, this is a strange, irrelevant point to push on. Walkable cities are vastly underbuilt.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
@whstancil.bsky.social is technically right that right now, a small majority of Americans say they want to live in the suburbs.
But in a country where only 16% walked somewhere for transportation in the last week, this is a strange, irrelevant point to push on. Walkable cities are vastly underbuilt.
But in a country where only 16% walked somewhere for transportation in the last week, this is a strange, irrelevant point to push on. Walkable cities are vastly underbuilt.
Huge thanks to @damientypes.bsky.social and @lintonjoe.bsky.social for putting our op-ed in the Monday headlines of Streetsblog Cal and LA. Whether you agree or disagree with our thesis, it's good to get us all on the same page about what's really been happening at Metro Transit Security since 2020.
Angelenos, have you ever felt like LA Metro literally doesn't care about collecting fares? Well, it's not your imagination! In the LA Daily, we break down LA Metro's quiet 5-year suspension of fare and code of conduct enforcement, and how Metro can reverse course.
www.dailynews.com/2025/11/16/h...
www.dailynews.com/2025/11/16/h...
How LA Metro quietly stopped enforcing fares
For the last five years, LA Metro has inadvertently become America’s largest free transit experiment.
www.dailynews.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Huge thanks to @damientypes.bsky.social and @lintonjoe.bsky.social for putting our op-ed in the Monday headlines of Streetsblog Cal and LA. Whether you agree or disagree with our thesis, it's good to get us all on the same page about what's really been happening at Metro Transit Security since 2020.
Angelenos, have you ever felt like LA Metro literally doesn't care about collecting fares? Well, it's not your imagination! In the LA Daily, we break down LA Metro's quiet 5-year suspension of fare and code of conduct enforcement, and how Metro can reverse course.
www.dailynews.com/2025/11/16/h...
www.dailynews.com/2025/11/16/h...
How LA Metro quietly stopped enforcing fares
For the last five years, LA Metro has inadvertently become America’s largest free transit experiment.
www.dailynews.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Angelenos, have you ever felt like LA Metro literally doesn't care about collecting fares? Well, it's not your imagination! In the LA Daily, we break down LA Metro's quiet 5-year suspension of fare and code of conduct enforcement, and how Metro can reverse course.
www.dailynews.com/2025/11/16/h...
www.dailynews.com/2025/11/16/h...
This website lets you monitor California's reservoir levels and see how close we are to running out.
Thanks to all this rain, we are like Scrooge McDuck with the money pool, except with water instead, so actually just a normal pool. This analogy is breaking down.
cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/Resco...
Thanks to all this rain, we are like Scrooge McDuck with the money pool, except with water instead, so actually just a normal pool. This analogy is breaking down.
cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/Resco...
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This website lets you monitor California's reservoir levels and see how close we are to running out.
Thanks to all this rain, we are like Scrooge McDuck with the money pool, except with water instead, so actually just a normal pool. This analogy is breaking down.
cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/Resco...
Thanks to all this rain, we are like Scrooge McDuck with the money pool, except with water instead, so actually just a normal pool. This analogy is breaking down.
cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/Resco...
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
😳
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
😳
Now to figure out whether the tanks will arrive in Miracle Mile Los Angeles or Magnificent Mile Chicago. Somebody get a Kalshi pool going.
(1/2) The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST,
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Now to figure out whether the tanks will arrive in Miracle Mile Los Angeles or Magnificent Mile Chicago. Somebody get a Kalshi pool going.
How to spot a transplant from the East Coast:
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
How to spot a transplant from the East Coast:
TOD opportunity site? Definitely not. But don't be so quick to judge this questionable use of dwell time. Caleb and I head out to Link Belt to get some clues about what's going on here.
youtu.be/hSFEXFgOH0k?...
youtu.be/hSFEXFgOH0k?...
Link Belt: The Least-Used Station on SEPTA Regional Rail (feat. Alex Davis)
YouTube video by Classy Whale
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
TOD opportunity site? Definitely not. But don't be so quick to judge this questionable use of dwell time. Caleb and I head out to Link Belt to get some clues about what's going on here.
youtu.be/hSFEXFgOH0k?...
youtu.be/hSFEXFgOH0k?...
Apparently in post-Trump v. CASA America, you can still get nationwide injunctions. You just have to get plaintiffs from lots of different states to make plaintiff-specific relief impractical.
A federal judge in Rhode Island has said the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. https://cnn.it/47KumOX
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Apparently in post-Trump v. CASA America, you can still get nationwide injunctions. You just have to get plaintiffs from lots of different states to make plaintiff-specific relief impractical.
I can't believe it. Inyo County, a red-leaning county in Kevin Kiley's district, voted for Prop 50. They must REALLY hate that guy.
with 50 percent of the vote in, 2/3rds of California has voted to send Kevin Kiley to the shadow dimension
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I can't believe it. Inyo County, a red-leaning county in Kevin Kiley's district, voted for Prop 50. They must REALLY hate that guy.
Guys, I think I found VIA Rail's employee handbook.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 1944:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 1944:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Guys, I think I found VIA Rail's employee handbook.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 1944:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
Simple Sabotage Field Manual 1944:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
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Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.
Real grim stuff from a nonprofit staff attorney and former UCSD urban studies lecturer
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.
Do you support bringing fare enforcement back to Los Angeles?
I need your help with something in DTLA on Nov 14th. DM me if you want to help!
I need your help with something in DTLA on Nov 14th. DM me if you want to help!
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Do you support bringing fare enforcement back to Los Angeles?
I need your help with something in DTLA on Nov 14th. DM me if you want to help!
I need your help with something in DTLA on Nov 14th. DM me if you want to help!