olong
@olong.bsky.social
@olongnolo on Twitter. Transportation engineer, interested in transit and housing. Los Angeles (SGV/South Bay).
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Found this after a search bar typo. Shockingly long; notes of "recordkeeping" and "globalized maritime trade networks" wafting off
Found this after a search bar typo. Shockingly long; notes of "recordkeeping" and "globalized maritime trade networks" wafting off
List of shipwrecks in March 1857 - Wikipedia
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November 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Found this after a search bar typo. Shockingly long; notes of "recordkeeping" and "globalized maritime trade networks" wafting off
Found this after a search bar typo. Shockingly long; notes of "recordkeeping" and "globalized maritime trade networks" wafting off
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A clarification on this week's #MeasureHLA hearings. A few people were wondering why I appealed "good" projects: Hollywood Blvd protected bike lanes, Roscoe bus lanes, San Vicente & Mission Rd bike lanes, etc. Well... it's complicated...
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
A clarification on this week's #MeasureHLA hearings. A few people were wondering why I appealed "good" projects: Hollywood Blvd protected bike lanes, Roscoe bus lanes, San Vicente & Mission Rd bike lanes, etc. Well... it's complicated...
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For all the discourse over Bay Area inequality, LA is on a totally different level
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
For all the discourse over Bay Area inequality, LA is on a totally different level
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The problem is if you want to do transit advocacy in the USA you do really need to know what a shoefly is, and weird shit about fire safety, and a million other things.
I'm guessing 10% of the people in this room were looking for this level of detail. A phrase comes to mind (build the damn trains, I don't need to know what a shoofly is.)
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
The problem is if you want to do transit advocacy in the USA you do really need to know what a shoefly is, and weird shit about fire safety, and a million other things.
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Whew. Here’s a thread of the results of today’s first ever Board of Public Works #MeasureHLA hearing.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Whew. Here’s a thread of the results of today’s first ever Board of Public Works #MeasureHLA hearing.
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We don't enforce traffic laws by asking drivers to go drive to a different street after catching them. So when Metro enforces fares by telling an already tiny percentage of fare evaders to please step off the vehicle, we shouldn't be surprised that nearly half of riders respond by not paying.
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM
We don't enforce traffic laws by asking drivers to go drive to a different street after catching them. So when Metro enforces fares by telling an already tiny percentage of fare evaders to please step off the vehicle, we shouldn't be surprised that nearly half of riders respond by not paying.
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This is what a hater being a waiter at a table of success looks like
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is what a hater being a waiter at a table of success looks like
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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.
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Battery electric buses are not ready for primetime, and we need to reverse BEB mandates before they result in disastrous service cuts
“The new timetable assumes each bus will spend nearly 45% of its runtime idling at BART (or about 6.2 hours of a 14 hour shift).
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the timetable is being designed around the limitations of the aging [BEB] capacity.”
www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...
It is hard to escape the conclusion that the timetable is being designed around the limitations of the aging [BEB] capacity.”
www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Battery electric buses are not ready for primetime, and we need to reverse BEB mandates before they result in disastrous service cuts
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i really thought the Regents were taking advantage of the situation to build their own test and instantly own a billion-dollar market and it's still kind of weird to me that they didn't
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
i really thought the Regents were taking advantage of the situation to build their own test and instantly own a billion-dollar market and it's still kind of weird to me that they didn't
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Masterful video from @nickandert.bsky.social with a deep focus on future South Bay branches of the Vermont Line.
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Want to realize this vision? Sign our newest petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ve...
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Masterful video from @nickandert.bsky.social with a deep focus on future South Bay branches of the Vermont Line.
Want to realize this vision? Sign our newest petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ve...
Want to realize this vision? Sign our newest petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ve...
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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...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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California's main policy goal for the next decade should be to strip as much governing authority away from Los Angeles as possible.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
California's main policy goal for the next decade should be to strip as much governing authority away from Los Angeles as possible.
There's a JR East merch and Eastern Japan Travel Information distribution popup this weekend at the Tokyo Central near the Torrance Airport (transit accessible via haha lol, the 232 I guess). Featuring Shinkansen livery chopsticks. I didn't even know there was a Tokyo Central there tbh
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
There's a JR East merch and Eastern Japan Travel Information distribution popup this weekend at the Tokyo Central near the Torrance Airport (transit accessible via haha lol, the 232 I guess). Featuring Shinkansen livery chopsticks. I didn't even know there was a Tokyo Central there tbh
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What idiot in South Pasadena decided to blast the entire county with their test message? Disincorporate the city.
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
What idiot in South Pasadena decided to blast the entire county with their test message? Disincorporate the city.
A joint meeting for two projects along Garvey Ave in Monterey Park: one (city, funded by the 710 stub reallocation) to implement curb extensions and another (SGVCOG "SGV Forward") to improve transit service. This is the 2nd round of meeting for the MPK one and the first here for the SGVCOG one.
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A joint meeting for two projects along Garvey Ave in Monterey Park: one (city, funded by the 710 stub reallocation) to implement curb extensions and another (SGVCOG "SGV Forward") to improve transit service. This is the 2nd round of meeting for the MPK one and the first here for the SGVCOG one.
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Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
Thread by @CSElmendorf on Thread Reader App
@CSElmendorf: I stumbled across the work of Arthur E. Stamps III this morning and, wow, my eyes have been opened! He's was (is?) an architect in San Francisco who wrote scores of academic papers on th...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
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The degree to which every single major journalist seems to just hate math is palpable in almost everything
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The degree to which every single major journalist seems to just hate math is palpable in almost everything
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Starting to appreciate that most of our streets in Alameda are highest at the intersection(unusual!) so there is often no grade change required for corner curb ramps.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Starting to appreciate that most of our streets in Alameda are highest at the intersection(unusual!) so there is often no grade change required for corner curb ramps.
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Took my first scooter ride in a while today (been doing Metro bike) and it’s so depressing what a missed opportunity that was for cities. We did to scooters everything we should have done to cars:
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Took my first scooter ride in a while today (been doing Metro bike) and it’s so depressing what a missed opportunity that was for cities. We did to scooters everything we should have done to cars:
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
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anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?
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Los Angeles, CA -
LAPD once again calling unlawful assembly outside of the Douglas bar as fans are watching the dodger game via laptop and radio the bar turned the tv off. About 30 minutes ago, they called it for the first time and said 5 minutes. Now giving 20 minutes to disperse. Top of the 10th.
LAPD once again calling unlawful assembly outside of the Douglas bar as fans are watching the dodger game via laptop and radio the bar turned the tv off. About 30 minutes ago, they called it for the first time and said 5 minutes. Now giving 20 minutes to disperse. Top of the 10th.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Don’t set fire to buses please
CONGRATULATIONS LOS ANGELES DODGERS 🧢⚾️🏆!!!
What a ride in every sense of the word
What a ride in every sense of the word
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Don’t set fire to buses please