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alex davis

@alexdavistransit.bsky.social

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Transit service planner working toward a transit-first America.🚏🇺🇸 Proudly car-free in LA 🚌🌴 Fare enforcement enjoyer 🎫✅ -Being wrong lets you discover new things. -Being naive lets you dare to try. -Being cringe lets you change the world.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 7d

🚨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. 🌴

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3h

While this news might break your heart, I've got some good news to soften the blow. Remember that video of the La Brea to Western speed test that got deleted off YouTube? Guess who downloaded a copy.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 8h

Got it. Yeah, I'm saying that this is stolen valor. Los Angeles WORKED to get one of the highest fare evasion rates in the world. Get in line, Germany. (For the fare card machine.)

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 8h

The German one or the LA one?

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 8h

17%? That's nothing. Here in Los Angeles, thanks to LA Metro's 5-Year suspension of fare enforcement, 46% of boardings are unpaid. And on some routes, evasion is over 60%.

While ridership has recovered, farebox recovery has plummeted into the single digits.

Read more here: bit.ly/enforcethefares

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 18h

The exhilarating thrill of being reminded that rain exists:

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this doesn't really serve a purpose for the local government because they can upzone anything anytime they want, transit or not. I worry SB79 might work the other way. Nimbys can't fight the buildings directly, so they pivot to fighting against all transit expansions.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 1d

I'm about 85% serious with this and that percentage is increasing every minute. This is light rail, is it not? Where in sb79 does it say that this type of service doesn't count?

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but isn't that area already all upzoned?

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 1d

Fine. But @mnolangray.bsky.social, surely the Grove trolley DOES qualify as a Tier 2 light rail service, right?. Unlike the Disneyland rides, anyone can walk up off the street and ride it. It's public transportation. Do we have a case here?

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CAHSR stan (single issue voter for HSR) @smosmz.bsky.social · 5d

According to someone on Reddit that spoke with LA Metro staff they will provide the opening date for the D Line phase 1 extension during the board meeting on the 23rd and it’s still on track to open in 2025

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 2d

"You don't really want to ban cars, right?"

"Uh oh. Too late."

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. The vision has finally appeared to you.

All of South Jersey must be served by one great holy microtransit zone.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

That's really smart. Because then we don't have to solve the murder problem because most of the murders happen at night, right? So if everyone's gone by 5:30p, no murder problem!

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

Nah. They got through a whole summer without a murder. We're in business!

youtu.be/GmnKs3N6P9k?...

Camden reaches significant crimefighting milestone in New Jersey, touting declining crime rates

YouTube video by 6abc Philadelphia

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

Woah. Camden's citywide microtransit has averaged 140 rides a day since it launched in June 2023. By comparison, this half hourly, stupid looking squiggly loop carries over 700 rides a day.

Worse yet, bus 452 has four vehicles. Camden loop has EIGHT! (Started with 5)

Via Inc. 💘 stupid politicians

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, you could say I'm familiar with it.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

Why don't we put the 567 units in Downtown Camden, a place that already is a somewhat walkable neighborhood, has lots of space and also has much better transit?

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

Open fare payment:
Good enough for Will Stancil.
Good enough for Los Angeles.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4d

why can I board the trains by tapping a card and never buying a ticket, it’s like black magic

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

The last chopper out of 'Nam. The last C-130 out of Afghanistan. The last Spirit Airlines flight out of Portland.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

Now if only we had a photorealistic rendering to illustrate the magnitude of this glorious future:

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, was just about to comment this. This is just the impacts of presidential priorities on TIGER, not a complete assessment of presidential transportation priorities.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

We are used to the nimbys always finding a loophole. But this time, after a decade of fighting, it appears the California yimbys really have finally achieved the holy grail: a law that forcibly upzones neighborhoods with no opportunity for the local government or neighborhood orgs to stop it.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

This entire street near Pierce College will be upzoned to 6 stories and crucially, there are no tools left to stop it.

-Parking minimums? Blocked by AB2097
-CEQA attack? Blocked by SB10
-Historic preservation? Retroactively time limited.
-Arbitrary denial? Blocked by Housing Accountability Act

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

Yimbys dragging Gavin Newsom to the White House:

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, why not