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@olong.bsky.social
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@olongnolo on Twitter. Transportation engineer, interested in transit and housing. Los Angeles (SGV/South Bay).
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Chris Elmendorf @cselmendorf.bsky.social · 16h
Relaying a message from the mayor.
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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 20h
It's a busy week on the #MeasureHLA front. In addition to filing & retooling appeals based on city rejections, I filed a motion as part of my lawsuit. Basically I asked the judge to invalidate city HLA ordinance, because it doesn't support what voters approved. labikas.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m...
Measure HLA Lawsuit Update – 22 October 2025
This week I, via my lawyers, filed a Motion for Summary Adjudication (see motion and statement of facts). Basically I am asking a judge to invalidate the city of L.A.’s Measure HLA ordinance.…
labikas.wordpress.com
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 1d
These ones are the best imo. The Tang-Song era chuanqi are total unenjoyable slop to the modern trope-exposed mind but the xiaoshuo type anecdotes are very fun
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Eric Goldwyn @egoldwyn.bsky.social · 1d
When @alonlevy.bsky.social and i started working together, we both thought that a wall of text with a picture and maybe a chart/table was advanced design. We know that’s wrong. We attempted to take our NEC work and add some good design. We are very happy with how this came out: nec.transitcosts.com
How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor
An interactive site presenting the North East Corridor proposal by Marron Institute's Transportation and Land Use Group, authored by Alon Levy.
nec.transitcosts.com
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 1d
Metro staff (and board lol no) getting microtargetted like DOD staff on WMATA
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 2d
"Best wishes" I think
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 6d
It's such a shame to waste such rare talent as one of 435 representatives trying to pass legislation in the world's worst deliberative body (the U.S. Congress.)

This guy should be staffing California state agencies and hammering the bully pulpit to get our state's shit together.
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DJ Crimson @djcrimson.bsky.social · 8d
I agree on a gut level, and also think it’s healthy for YIMBYs to hash out these arguments publicly. No need to uphold a fake consensus on a difficult issue.
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 11d
Eg bsky.app/profile/henr..., twitter.com/olongnolo/st...
olong @olong.bsky.social · 11d
There's been debate about what a "full-time dedicated bus lane" entails; based on your map is it reasonable to assume that this is a "stop-level" and not a "service-level" property? Ofc this will ultimately get decided via courts/cleanup leg, but the language of PRC21060.2 doesn't seem unambiguous
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 11d
By popular demand, @aceckhouse.bsky.social and I have put together a deep-in-the-weeds explainer on SB 79. Enjoy!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Everything You Need To Know About SB 79
…but were too afraid to read about in the actual bill.
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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 13d
[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 19d
Wait what's the Netanyahu bit, haven't seen that
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 21d
Bike viaducts are crazy, what are they thinking...
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 23d
Long Beach, CA, just passed a law requiring food and drug stores to assign one worker to every two self check-out kiosks. This sounds insane – the Brooklyn Navy Yard Wegman’s has over a dozen kiosks with one or two workers lbpost.com/news/self-ch...
Long Beach City Council votes to mandate more staffing at self-checkout lanes
The city will soon require grocery and drug stores to staff a minimum number of employees at self-checkout counters. They say the move will deter theft.
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 24d
Cool find! Yeah it's a gumboot chiton, they're the only species of that size www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Observations
Chitons from California, US
www.inaturalist.org
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
substantive questions around the assumptions here I've made in sister threads. Claiming affiliation with experts and voting reform orgs right now makes me think less of them not more of you. If the goal is just to debate sure whatever I get it.
olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
More generally: while it's an admission of defeat to acknowledge annoyance in internet debates, if you have policy goals around voting reform, you would probably like to convince people and talking this way does not much help. If you'd like to make an academic point, then respond to the
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
But clearly party id U policy statements signals to the voter more than just statements, and there exists a class of voters for whom the comparison is party id U vibes vs vibes. Again I think (can't tell, due to your preferred style of discourse!) you're assuming a voting sys we haven't endorsed
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
As I noted in my lengthyimagepost, an assumption you seem to be making which no one has stated is that we are advocating for a voting system in which there are strict party lists, you can vote for only one; and not just slapping D-SA, D-YIMBY, D-NIMBY, etc next to names ("slate" more loosely)
olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
(another assumption to make explicit is sth around issue-consistency in candidate party identification)
olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
Response (I will add alt text transcribing the image if this is something you need, but generally take the position that lack of automated labelling in 2025 is a failure on Bluesky's part)
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
Formal sub-D slates give an indication not currently available. It makes sense to call this "transparency", "legibility", etc.
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
Perhaps we can both cut out the "proof is trivial"s and the like since we aren't going to agree. My perspective: under the status quo in a D city an ~unengaged voter who cares about issues X1,... has no clear indication of candidates' views. ...
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olong @olong.bsky.social · 26d
And eg "the party still determines the list order" this doesn't even imply that parties are more opaque in the sense one might care about! ~ uncertainty * magnitude of policy change! The point is to make stuff more legible to the average voter, not to maximize max_pop info about candidates