Becky Hartung
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producer | professor | transportation advocate
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In case anyone has been following my month long desire to bike to work—I finally did it. Pasadena to Burbank…each city kept me on my toes with the lack of biking infrastructure, but I did it.
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The car lobby in California is real y’all. I didn’t even catch all of them in opposition for
#SB961
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I’m nervous to put my bike a the front of a
@metrolosangeles
bus because I have crippling social anxiety and don’t want to waste anyone’s time. Can someone show me a step by step video of how to put it on the bus or reassure me that it is easy and I can do it and won’t feel bad?
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I told my coworker I biked to work last week and he stopped me yesterday to tell me that he decided to bike to work himself for the first time! He said it was really easy and is planning to do it more this summer. 🤘🏼
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how we should be using our cars less.
People are progressive until you get them talking about____
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Contrary to popular belief, there is no reason you need a car this large in West Hollywood (or anywhere really).
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Richard Kind referred to driving a car as driving a two ton weapon and then I found this picture of him.
Our transit king.
#EverybodysInLA
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My version of seasonal depression disorder is visiting a proper walkable, dense city with fast and efficient transit systems and then coming back to Los Angeles.
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Look I just think we don’t need this massive parking anywhere in downtown Los Angeles.
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We went to DTLA and there are so many beautiful buildings, big sidewalks, and train stations but still the city can’t prioritize density, affordable housing, and slow streets. I always get a little sad at the missed opportunity for a proper sustainable and dense city in LA.
interesting how this is trending on conservative twitter but every photo shows dense urban planning, high walkability, and a low number of cars. basically a 15 min city
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The NIMBYS are out tonight in Burbank to kill the BRT line. My god it is discouraging to hear such horrible things about bus riders, including one commenter who shared that most people who ride the bus don’t vote / aren’t engaged in local politics.
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One of my favorite things about
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trains compared to other cities is the amount of people chatting. I feel like transit whenever I have visited other cities is typically very quiet, but on LA Metro it seems to be a very social activity.
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Wow "fix that" was loud. Imani always saying it best.
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@JohnZeller3
Yes! Senator Weiner mentions that on the floor when they said that this should come from federal mandates not local ones. We have federal seatbelt laws because a few states started to impose laws first!
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We should convert more parking lots into parks. This is Playhouse Village Park in Pasadena—it once stored cars and now is a place for the community.
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Trying to prepare for Bike to Work Day in May and think this is the way to do it.
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Here is how much they have abandoned bus service in my district in Pasadena. This bus shelter doesn’t even serve a bus line.
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Okay do PCH next,
@CaltransDist7
? Karen Bass said that we can get big things done so what is stopping us from slowing down PCH with better street design?
When we align on all levels of government, we can get big things done together.
Proud to stand with Vice President
@KamalaHarris
today to announce that we have DELIVERED for the people of Los Angeles.
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Me, desperately, trying to make
@metrolosangeles
free trains route work for our schedule tonight, but this city is built around cars. 🫠🫠🫠
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One day I hope to participate fully in Bike to Work day, but until then I’ll live vicariously through everyone else.
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👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
No new car dealerships in our neighborhood.
Planning Commission Calls for North Lake “Transformation”; Votes Down Porsche Dealership Design
--->
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We need to collectively ensure this man never holds office again, but until then call his office to express how terrible this is for California.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed a $600 million dollar cut in bike/pedestrian funding, gutting the Active Trans.
This is more than the state provided in an *entire* two year cycle.
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This is why I feel like
@metrolosangeles
should have a special concert series on the trains / at select Metro stations sometimes. I feel like it could show people how public transit spaces can be community hubs too.
When you're in a car, other people in cars are traffic and competition for parking; the more cars there are, the worse driving is.
When you're on public transit, other people are community, and the more people there are, the more money and will there is to improve service.
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I drove onto Pepperdine’s campus to teach my class tonight to be greeted by an overturned car and dozens of emergency crews. I truly do not know what it will take for Malibu to give a shit about making their streets safe.
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Bike to Work Week: Day 2! I took
@timfremaux
’s advice and rode the Burbank Channel path from Burbank
@Metrolink
Downtown station and it was so nice. See ya at the Bike to Work event in Johnny Carson Park if anyone is going!
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I love that both
@CaltransDist7
and Malibu didn't do anything about PCH and here we are again. We should be able to immediately remove officials who continue to do nothing.
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@danielleweisber
Hi you don't know me but former retail worker who had the same issue forever. I got in under holiday hires (which should start kicking up soon). Hopefully that will open some doors, but I get it. It is demoralizing.
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This is unacceptable. Our local and state officials should be ashamed. We deserve better representation and better policies (housing, transit, economic) in California.
Almost a quarter of CA community college students say they've experienced homelessness in the past year.
This includes couch surfing, temporary motel stays and sleeping in cars. It's most common among students aged 26 to 30. More from
@julia_p_barajas
:
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WOW! Happy to hear this Burbank City Council and Mayor. This was a brave step in the face of a lot of opposition. This commuter is one happy future rider.
Morning! The NoHo-Pasadena BRT has made a major step forward this morning with Burbank approving a cooperative agreement with Metro without a “mixed flow” requirement, opening the opportunity for dedicated bus lanes along the majority of the corridor between the B and A lines!
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I desperately want to take
@metrolosangeles
in Pasadena to get to work that I just walk around for like an hour trying to find a bus stop because
@PasadenaGov
and Metro don’t give any frequent services that routinely and easily connect the city to the main bus or transit lines.
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I see this tweet has angered the small dick energy crowd.
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I cannot get over how bad Emily in Paris is, but I also can’t stop watching. Was this written by a high school girl who just read about Paris on Pinterest? That high school was probably me.
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I once told the city of Burbank that this area wasn’t very multimodal due to the wide lanes, poor crosswalks, long beg buttons, no bike lanes, and lots of right on red. It is by a hospital and Disney lot and multiple bus stops. They said the area was fine…
🤦🏼♀️
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After the Pepperdine crash, I asked the city to put up cones at the crash site because students & faculty were visiting the site with flowers. The planning department said they couldn’t do anything, but forwarded the request to
@CaltransDist7
who, then, also didn’t do anything.
It is with heavy hearts that City of Malibu marks another fatal traffic collision on PCH in Malibu May 14. Our condolences go to all those impacted. Every life lost is one too many. Improving PCH Safety remains a top priority for the City. PCH safety info:
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We need a direct/express bus in Pasadena to Glendale
@Metrolink
station (especially a route that doesn’t take an hour). Any takers
@metrolosangeles
or
@PasadenaDOT
?
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@kennethmejiaLA
Next resource idea: A grid that shows unit vacancies across Los Angeles. (Don’t live in LA city, but encouraging all my LA friends to vote Mejia!)
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There are a lot of bad things in this document, but I also want to point out their vow to remove “Vision Zero” and “anti-car” policies, restrict transit and bike lanes, and lack of support for HSR.
The Republican Party of Texas just released its proposed platform, and its a monument to Christian Nationalism.
Here are the worst parts.
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I forgot until looking at an old album that we did our engagement photos (8 years ago) at the Denver Union Station before we even became big train people.
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So give us more protected lanes in Pasadena, Glendale, and Burbank so he and I can ride safer!
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@HeavenBentPod
There is literally a tweet from 2012 where someone said they were seeing Rhonda speak at IHOP KC. That wasn’t “20 years ago”.
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@boyonabike62
I’m just listening in because I couldn’t make it after work, but did write in a comment for support because this is my route for work! Will continue trying to support where I can for this one because PAS - BUR needs better connections!
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Look, Roy Kent is incredible this season, but Higgins has dropped so many charming nuggets and I want to make sure we as a group can acknowledge him too.
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California State Assembly Chair Wilson votes no on Allen’s SB
#1297
which would add speed cameras to PCH as a response to the Pepperdine crash.
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@Metrolink
I will say those Hollywood Way bike paths are great! Extra wide sidewalk one half for people and the other half for bikes. More of those please!
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Another day, another Malibu death that didn’t need to happen if we just had basic street safety improvements.
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Newsom could have stopped some of these accidents by allowing bikes to ride on a sidewalk when there isn’t any available bike infrastructure, but he didn’t.
Suspect still at large after man riding bike killed in Rialto hit-and-run; 15th SoCal bike rider killed by hit-and-run drivers this year, 3rd since Wednesday (click on photo for link):
#bikeIE
#HitAndRunIsMurder
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Snooping on Mayor Pete at the Federal Transportation Office.
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I’d like some crowd feedback from my transportation and urbanist community. I am looking for ways I can help my workplace embrace more climate-friendly/less car centered transportation policies as we return to office. Any ideas?
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We have fostered so many dogs that have been hit my cars and need extensive surgeries to fix their legs. Our dogs need safe streets too!
More and more dogs join our coalition every day in support of Measure HLA. Tobey says he likes that we put a dog on the sign and hopes voters will make sure him and his owner can enjoy safe streets while taking walks. 🐶
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@Metrolink
So my husband is coming to bail me out. Will try again tomorrow sans Metrolink because the route on Olive to get there was scary.
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@bikinginla
My first day teaching at Pepperdine was Tuesday. The week leading up to the class, I told my husband I was so scared to driving through the canyon or on PCH but there were no other options for me to get to campus. I passed through the crash site 15 minutes before it happened.
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The confederate flag was reintroduced in 1956 to protest the act of desegregation in schools, so yeah it's about race.
#TakeItDown
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I hope that we continue to regulate Airbnbs in our cities, but we shouldn’t neglect building more housing units too. Our best hope to reducing rents is more units on the market—new builds or former Airbnbs.
NEW: Airbnb broke our housing system. In some towns up to 40% of available apartments are Airbnbs.
But people are fighting back. When Irvine, California banned short-term rentals, rents dropped.
Now a movement to regulate Airbnb is sweeping the nation.
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“Palaces for the People” talks about how the rich used to invest in building and funding libraries. Now they just shut down public transit projects in their neighborhoods.
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I think about this a lot. Activists have long shared how joy is a form of resistance and I think this example really demonstrates this power.
I watched Matt Walsh's unhinged rant about Dylan Mulvaney from yesterday. All I could think was:
There is no love in Matt Walsh
There is no joy in Matt Walsh
There is no peace in Matt Walsh
There is no patience in Matt Walsh
There is no kindness in Matt Walsh
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I was driving on this road about 30 minutes before the reported crash and everyone was swerving around me as I went the speed limit. PCH needs to do something to slow down these cars.
@CityMalibu
I took this route to avoid the canyon. Turns out neither route is safe.
#BREAKING
: Four people are killed and two injured in a violent, multi-vehicle crash on PCH in Malibu. Several cars are seen ripped apart or flipped on the roadway. Eyewitness News reporter
@ABC7Leanne
is live with the investigation. Tonight at 11 from ABC7
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I appreciate that much of that comes with other cities maybe servicing a larger number of solo commuters vs. going with friends to games/social actives, but just a simple observation that makes me feel happy and so much safer on the trains.
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I did go into work on transit. It took me an hour and 30 minutes. It would have taken me about 30 minutes by car. This is not an acceptable system. We should have a choice for reliable, timely, and safe transit.
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@HollyJMitchell
These streets aren’t safe. Major changes need to happen or else your design failures will cause more injury and car-related deaths.
Can’t wait to see you add a protected bus and bike lane, grassy median with trees, and bigger sidewalks. No time to waste!
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It’s that time of spending time with my Republican parents that they flip on FOX News after dinner and I have to find an excuse not to be in the room so I don’t throw a chair out the window.
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Biking home wasn’t so great. I was going to take
@Metrolink
, but the Downtown Burbank tracks were confusing & what I thought was south bound was north bound & I got stranded at the Burbank Airport Station. Tried to bike to the correct Burbank Airport Station, but maps failed.
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@CityMalibu
Sounds like PCH needs some guerilla style street improvement since
@CaltransDist7
is useless.
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I am deeply concerned about the low voter turnout for young adults in LA. At worst, we get some very vanilla leaders who continue to make California expensive and polluted. At best, this is a wake up call that politicians need to engage young voters (and keep the commitments.)
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My coworker told me today he would like to test out his bike on a rack, because he also is anxious about causing a delay or his e-bike not fitting. I really think having more permanent demo test racks in local districts could really bridge the cyclist to bus gap.
I’m nervous to put my bike a the front of a
@metrolosangeles
bus because I have crippling social anxiety and don’t want to waste anyone’s time. Can someone show me a step by step video of how to put it on the bus or reassure me that it is easy and I can do it and won’t feel bad?
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I think it should be more normal for companies to offer Earth Day off every year. It would reduce carbon emissions from commuting, encourage more people to volunteer that day, and give additional awareness around planet-friendly initiatives.
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Example: A film studio in Santa Monica gave workers money back in their workers paychecks if they opted out of a parking pass.
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@boyonabike62
Yes! Feel like there could be a much more direct, safe route out there! That doesn’t require being an aggressive cyclist or tons of side streets. Let’s make it easy!
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@KarenBassLA
Okay…what’s your plan? Like give details, cause this is a vague ass tweet. Be specific!!!!
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Group of girls are making fun of the sweet girl who is by herself at the
@Adele
show. Praying she has the best night of her life.
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Something I don’t love in climate advocacy spaces is the use of the words “fossil fuels” without mention of car emissions. As consumers, we play a roll in impacting the climate (by driving less) but these types of images make us think climate is just drilling off the coast.
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Build more walkable cities so we can have third places for meet cutes!
I don’t know how y’all keep wanting us to have romcoms when everything about contemporary life is structured to make it impossible to randomly encounter people you do not know but with whom you might share surprising affinities, lol.
What about contemporary life gives meet cute
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@gatodejazz
It’s a shame we have zero options for short term rentals of large vehicles specially for the need of moving things. Better to have a house the size of a small bedroom in an apartment just in case.
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"God never made us to be alone. Sometimes marriage, always friendship, never alone." - Mama Hartung
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@metrolosangeles
What if...we extended K from Hollywood Bowl to Del Mar to give a connection between Pasadena/Glendale/Burbank/North Hollywood after that?
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@jetfixerlady
Yes! I believe they call it the “SUV-ification” of trucks. Workers who often need trucks for work often can’t afford them because all these big luxury ones are so expensive. This photo is from an Axios story and describes what you are talking about of truck beds changing.
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I think
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should do this like how Southwest Airlines did their on-board concert series.
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Guys, Steven thought Activia yogurt was for irregular menstrual cycles.
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I think we need to change our environmental impact reviews around transit projects in this state. Permanent transit exemption?
Today, LA Metro celebrates the 3-year anniversary of starting draft EIR to extend the B/D Lines to Arts District using existing tracks. Board asked to start EIR 6 years ago in 2018. With good fortune, we might be able to finish environmental impact studies by the 10 year mark.
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Disney+ is adding Borat, Scrubs, and Pretty Woman but a Lizzie McGuire reboot was too adult I guess. (Still bad about this, obviously.)
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Not Kenneth bringing his tired pup to the interview!!!!
NEW: LA's new city controller Kenneth Mejia threw out the playbook and recruited Gen-Z volunteers to help shape his campaign strategy with TikTok videos, Corgis and informative billboards.
"We are community organizers. We are professionals, too. And we like to have fun."
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People coming out against speed governors are openly sharing how much they like breaking the law. It is insane to me how people think they have a right to speed.
California would become the first state to require new vehicles be equipped with speed governors — technology that limits how fast they can be driven — under legislation by San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener.
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This tweet is for any of the women in Los Angeles who want to take Metro, but are anxious to travel solo. I take the bus a few days a week and the train. I find that
weekends mid-morning and weekdays late afternoon are busy and I feel most comfortable to ride alone.
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I also ride the bus in Burbank (501 & 549) and have become annoying at work because I talk about local transportation politics so much.
I know that
@KonstantineinCA
and
@VoteNickSchultz
know this bus rider is hecka involved in local politics and cares deeply about his community.
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A woman at the airport told me my skirt was stuck in my shorts. I apologized? Being a human is very hard.
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Look—Florida is a different kind of crazy, but we need to also be calling out Newsom as he slashes active transportation budgets. California is one of the top consumers of gasoline on the planet and he’s often just greenwashing this state.
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