Raze the almond farms

Hopefully it's just lack of attention in the rendering but if there aren't splitter/refuge islands this should really be stop controlled (much as I'm not a fan of stop controlled circular intersections)

Critical support for the Irvine Company corpo mercenaries against the dens of feudalism in coastal and south OC 🫡

The URCI naming is so good, never seen that for any of the UCs

Whew. Here’s a thread of the results of today’s first ever Board of Public Works #MeasureHLA hearing.

Howso?

You're right that it's not a valid argument from a logical perspective, and I don't usually like to say it for this reason; but in practice it's brought up against pro-morelane public messaging claiming travel time reductions (plus the hoi polloi really aren't thinking abt regional economic impacts)

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.

This is what a hater being a waiter at a table of success looks like

Yes lol like their best single argument is just pure gutter nimbyism. Very impressive bsky.app/profile/olon...

It's all of these and we should still let it get built!

The two lines of argument are the NIMBY one from the homeowners opposed + California Endowment and friends, which I disagree with but is perfectly consistent, and the benefit/cost one which just does not matter when the cost is $0

Right, I worked on the modelling at UCLA where you're taking the 600 cars figure from I assume. But none of what you said results in the claim that approving it to be built is worse than not doing so, since the realistic options are that it is either free to the taxpayer or just never gets built

If they don't have funding (yes, high probability!) then they've approved a project and it doesn't get built, no reason to be mad. If there's public money put towards it, sure I'll oppose. But as long as the plan is private financing you need to make the case that a $0 gondola is somehow bad

It's free. If it costs anything to the city or Metro, then it's a dumb idea not suited to a location with very peaky demand. But McCourt is offering to pay for a gondola, not a subway extension.

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