Brianna (also on bluesky)
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Med student. Organizing for healthy communities, which includes climate action, abundant housing, and accessible transit & mobility. Views are mine. 🌱🏘️🚉🚲🩺
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Yesterday I completed an epic 33 mile bike trip from Redondo to Venice along the Marvin Braude Trail. It’s a gem of a bike path and one of the few (almost) fully protected paths connecting multiple cities in LA.
🧵on my route & adventure
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Wow 😍 I think I’m in love.
15 units, cross-laminated timber, exterior stairways, large terraces w rooftop garden space, 100% electric building, heat pumps, built-in rainwater capture.
On a formerly single-family lot in Silver Lake. This is the future of housing in LA.
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Suburbs and highways were built so people could ignore poverty, inequality, and homelessness.
But suburbanization and highways only further exacerbate poverty, inequality, and homelessness by perpetuating car dependence, housing unaffordability, & negative externalities.
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Parks and Rec is a documentary film. There is no exaggeration between the show and real life and actual small town city politics. In the past month alone we’ve experienced storylines Parks and Rec wouldn’t even dare to imagine.
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ArroyoFest should be a yearly or quarterly event. Really makes you see just how much public space we hand over to cars.
Here’s an extremely rare sight on an L.A. freeway: lots of people, no cars.
“It makes you realize how much of an open space this is when you see how many people can fit on it, especially versus how many cars,” Highland Park resident Shannon Talbot told me.
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📢 ATTN: YIMBY Twitter 📢
Darrell and I are officially calling for a moratorium on the YIMBY pile-ons.
Don’t feed the trolls. Engage in good faith with those asking genuine questions. If you see others have given a response you would have given, slowly back away.
@briannajegan
Brianna, you and me can stand together and call for an end to the pile ons right here. Lets do it!
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A developer has submitted plans to build housing near the Redondo Beach waterfront at the AES power plant. At 2,320 units, it will meet over 90% of city’s RHNA.
The site is currently zoned for park & utility but the city’s housing element is noncompliant.
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These renderings are of SuperLA’s SuperBungalow project on Hyperion Ave in LA/Silver Lake. I came across it via
@UrbanizeLA
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Redondo Beach is converting a motel to permanent supportive housing w Project Homekey funds & the NIMBYs are having an absolute fit.
The city has actually been doing good work on homelessness: outdoor homeless court, pallet shelter, now this. Love to see it.
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Big takeaway here: your personal household water use is a drop in the bucket.
More effective ways to reduce water usage: Take out your lawn and grow natives (or grow food w a drip system). Cut your beef consumption (beef industry relies heavily on alfalfa grown in CA).
If water use in California is 80% agriculture + another 12% landscaping, yards, etc, how come when there's a drought the state tells us to take shorter showers etc?
Any actions being taken related to using more water for alfalfa than every human in the state?
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My boomer dad yesterday: Shouldn’t environmentalists support dense housing? Why is it the other way around?
Yes, yes indeed. If only we could reverse decades of faulty boomer “Population Bomb” logic around environmentalism and housing. More insights:
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I invite anyone who opposes upzoning or allowing more housing to be built in coastal LA to come spend a week or month in the Inland Empire in the summer. Sweltering heat, steep AC bills, mosquito bites, car baking in the asphalt. This is the impact of exclusionary zoning.
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Wake up babe, a new two-way cycle track just dropped in Santa Monica 😍
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The project is by-right and makes use of the city’s Tier III Transit-Oriented Communities Incentives allowing it to increase the number of units and set a percentage aside as affordable units.
The eco co-op of ur dreams!
More about the building’s ethos:
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Visit any beach in Southern California and you will instantly see evidence of the huge ebike boom. All we need is for cities & transportation agencies to catch on and build protected lanes so that people can ditch their cars and safely cycle to work, school, shops, and leisure.
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EVs are not the solution you think they are: EVs generate 20% more car tire pollutants (6PPD, microplastics, PM) than gas cars. Mining & extraction for lithium pollutes air and water.
Instead we should shift away from cars & invest in frequent, reliable transit & bike infra.
Reposting this: for everyone worried about lack of US lithium supply to build batteries for increasing # of EVs sold, this
@BerkeleyLab
analysis is HUGE: in the Salton Sea, CA, there is enough lithium for 375 million EVs — far more than every car in the US today. Wow.
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Sounds to me like a situation ripe for wealth concentration, economic and racial segregation, an increasingly aging population with higher service needs, empty schools, and teacher/HCW/service worker/essential worker shortages.
Or we could just build more housing.
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When I heard about the standoff in Torrance I immediately called my mom to make sure she was ok. She had been driving back from church in Torrance and was rerouted bc of the police/SWAT activity. Thank goodness she’s ok. I hate how we have to live in fear of mass shootings.
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This tragedy marks the 2nd time in less than a year that a county supervisor in California was killed by a driver while walking across the street (the other was Wilma Chan, Alameda County, Nov. 2021).
Our elders, our children, everyone who walks and rolls deserve better.
Our County mourns the loss of our Chair of the Board Carmen Ramirez. Chair Ramirez was a pedestrian involved in a vehicle accident in Oxnard and passed away this evening. We extend our heartfelt condolences to her family, loved ones, and her City and County community.
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The comments that Mr. Loewenstein made in the interview are the same response he had when I gave public comment on the housing element at city council: People work hard to afford their $2M houses in Redondo. Their kids will probably not be able to afford coming back & that’s ok.
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Ok so to whomever said that the real YIMBY advocacy work happens on Nextdoor:
Ya girl is doing that work and wow is it tiring.
@NimbyPatrol
@nextdoorsv
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This Redondo Beach builder’s remedy drama is riveting. I’m back w another update from the local paper. Pustilnikov is increasing the size of his proposal from 2300 to 2700 units, w 540 affordable units. He’s not holding anything back in the quotes either.
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If I’m reading this correctly, does AB2011 + AB2097 + SB9 = SB50 (+ SB827)?
In 4 yrs we have achieved major housing reform in California. Thank you to
@cayimby
for leading the movement and our MVPs in the legislature
@BuffyWicks
,
@laurafriedman43
,
@toniatkins
,
@Scott_Wiener
🙌
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Lemme just say it is damn stressful to ride a bike on a painted bike lane along a 5-6 lane arterial. All bike lanes should be protected bike lanes, or bust.
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Seems we will get to see if Builder’s Remedy plays out here. (Developer is proposing a project at 25% affordable housing while housing element is noncompliant.)
@CSElmendorf
@derivativeburke
@AbundantHousing
@cayimby
@carla_org
@California_HCD
@AGRobBonta
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Gift link to the
@patagonia
article: Founder Yvon Chouinard and his family have decided to transfer their $3 billion in wealth and future profits into a trust and 501(c)4 nonprofit to fight climate change. They will pay $17.5 million in taxes to do so. 💚🌎
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@GavinNewsom
@KarenBassLA
@CaltransDist7
-
@Metrolink
is stepping up. Use this opportunity to fund more frequent Metrolink service and to fund electrification of its lines.
It’s time we prioritize fast, frequent, electrified transit instead of costly, toxic, deadly highways.
Traffic in and out of LA is being significantly impacted due to the closure of a portion of the 10 Freeway in Downtown LA. We’re adding extra cars and service along the San Bernardino Line.
Learn More:
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@SupJaniceHahn
Based on law of induced demand, these changes may actually worsen the issue. More lanes induces more drivers and cars = more traffic. Torrance would be better served by protected bike lanes and bus-only lanes to improve mobility & reduce car traffic.
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@CatDocMD
What the vast majority of people don’t know (including doctors) is how to safely taper / deprescribe from antidepressants and neuropsych drugs. Best recommendation is to reduce by 10% per month (compounding or liquid) to avoid disastrous withdrawal.
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To spend 2 years on an intersection improvement and NOT include any bike infrastructure or bus lanes or any other mobility improvements is a very depressing use of tax dollars.
What sort of “pedestrian amenities” can come from 9-lane arterials?
The Hawthorne Blvd and PCH Intersection Improvement Project is complete:
🚗Expanded lanes on PCH
⬅️New Left Hand Turn Lanes w/Signals
➡️New Protected Right Turn Lanes in All Directions
After two years of construction, traffic is finally moving.
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Some of the storylines from advocating for a light rail extension to an LA suburb:
- neighbors abutting the Metro right of way found headstones and announced there’s graves!! don’t build!
- one city has paid their city manager and special counsel a lot of $ to yell at Metro
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Is this the 1st city council hearing on a builder’s remedy proposal?
One of Leo Pustilnikov’s builder’s remedy projects in Redondo Beach w 35 condos (20% affordable) on waterfront property. Planning director deemed incomplete, applicant appealed.
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If you find the time in LA, I highly recommend a day on the bike trail. It’s amazing to see how lively it is with plenty of people, bikes, and dogs moving at different speeds.
We need car-free spaces and routes in every community & LA needs more. Thanks for following along 💚
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@brandonyung1
No interior corridors! It might even be single-stair, but I haven’t seen any floorplans. Here’s what I can find from their website. They also say there are no shared walls between units horizontally so I wonder if there are inner corridors that are still open-air? Idk!
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- my elem sch music teacher, in his 80s, performs an original song for public comment
- two cities threaten to sue Metro if their preferred route is not chosen
- county supe postpones Metro Board vote, calls for community mtgs
- costs rise, no one knows if it’ll ever get built 😭
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@tobyhardtospell
The alfalfa is largely grown for animal feed to feed beef and dairy cows. Beef is one of the most water, land, & carbon intensive foods to produce. We should all be eating much less beef, pork, dairy and working to transition those industries/farmers to plant-based alternatives.
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@RobertGarcia
A federal ebike rebate would be a great starting place. And road design reform for safer, multimodal streets.
Tagging a few great minds…
@LauraFriedmanCA
@bellachu10
@_KennyUong_
@AmericanFietser
@menorman
@gspeng
@alfred_twu
@WarrenJWells
@TallDarknJewish
@IDoTheThinking
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The loss of Dr. Jing Mai reverberates far. I know folks who went to medical school w her. She had just started residency, like so many of my other friends. She was beloved.
We need our systems to honor the peace & health of training physicians.
#ForJing
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Here’s the full segment on Twitter.
Great reporting
@byjacobward
and
@HallieOnNBC
There’s a shortage of affordable housing across the country. The owner of a former power plant in Redondo Beach is close to moving ahead with a housing development that will include low-income qualified units.
@byjacobward
has the story.
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For my first e-bike-powered grocery run I cycled home with a box of LaCroix and a few other items in my panniers, with plenty of room to spare. I can definitely do this more often 💪🚲🌎
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@CaltransDist7
@metrolosangeles
@CaltransHQ
@CHPsouthern
@LAFD
@LACity
@MayorOfLA
@CHPCentralDiv
Caltrans, LA Metro, and
@KarenBassLA
have an opportunity to do something amazing here: reimagine the I-10 into a truly multimodal space with bus lanes, bike lanes, green space, space for WSAB line, and watch the traffic disappear.
Never forget that when Seoul, Korea removed the Cheonggyecheon expressway in 2003 and replaced it with a restored stream, 1000 acre park and improved transit, not only did it transform the city’s public life & economic success, but the traffic got better.
The traffic got BETTER.
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I’m riding the Metro from Pasadena to DTLA. There are plenty of examples of at-grade crossings and sections that go behind homes.
People in Lawndale should come visit and see there is nothing to be concerned about.
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Note, my earlier math was off, but the same general intent is conveyed. It appears obvious the developer is looking at Builder’s Remedy ()
458 affordable
1832 market rate
=2290 total, exactly 20% affordable
Add’l 30 units proposed across street at SEA Lab
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@Boenau
I’m a med student who advocates for walkable and bike-friendly communities. There are so many connections between the built environment, public health, & disease prevention. Abundant housing, community/3rd spaces, healthy food access, transit/bike infra would truly improve health
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Got my sister
@thekoreanvegan
cookbook for Christmas and she spent a good hour poring over the stories and recipes after unwrapping! I’m looking forward to cooking some recipes together.
🥰🍲
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Newsom signing
#AB2097
into law is a huge victory for housing and transit in California.
But what are the chances that cities pass ordinances “limiting” the law in the same way they did for SB 9?
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@LavanyaSunder
Thank you for this! It really helps to see perspectives and setups from women who ride :)
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- two councilmembers from Torrance dog whistle about being “end of the line”
- one of those CMs demands Metro launch a post-9-11 security response & TSA for public transit
- CM in Redondo visits city council in Hermosa & alludes to Hamas-Israel conflict asking for solidarity
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@Susan_Shelley
We really don’t need new suburbs. That’s the last thing we need more of in CA. We need to build homes where the climate is mild, where risk of wildfire is low, where jobs are, where transit can be justified... coastal areas. Thank you.
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@RodGerardo
I just finished a clinical nutrition/dietetics rotation at an academic hospital and the amount of patients who come in for gun shot wounds...on a public health level it’s so costly to the health system and even more for lives affected. Paralysis, surgeries, lifelong complications
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Let’s hear it for the supportive people in the chat. Glad to know we have neighbors who support permanent housing solutions.
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After El Segundo & the refinery, the trail passes by the Ballona Wetlands, a salt & freshwater marsh. It’s an impt habitat for local plants, wildlife, & ecosystem restoration.
Along the path here were 2 kids on training wheels with dad, as well as cyclists, scooters, & runners.
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Update on the massive builder’s remedy project in Redondo: The planning dir. deemed the application incomplete, on the basis that it doesn’t conform to zoning (public utilities) & Local Coastal Plan. Developer appealed and the public hearing is tomorrow.
This Redondo Beach builder’s remedy drama is riveting. I’m back w another update from the local paper. Pustilnikov is increasing the size of his proposal from 2300 to 2700 units, w 540 affordable units. He’s not holding anything back in the quotes either.
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We reached Venice Beach by 1 pm. Our first destination was to El Huaraque, Joanna’s favorite Peruvian place and one of those Venice hole-in-the-wall food stands. Amazing food; everything was really well-marinated.
Thanks to
@MikeBoninLA
for this parklette (Westminster Ave).
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Late night scroll through r/LosAngeles post
#i10fire
and pre-Carmageddon 2.0 aka
#Palletgeddon
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New bike day! Assembled my e-bike today with help from a few friends.
Have you ever seen a prettier bike? 😍⚡️🚴🏻♀️
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@HannahntheWolf
@roto_tudor
I’ve found that turning on the humidifier along with the heater helps the room to stay warmer for longer (and saves energy bc you can shut off both and stay warm for longer). If the room is dry the heat dissipates much more quickly.
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I rode with a good friend of mine from college. We left at 10:30 am and rode through Redondo, Hermosa, and Manhattan as the beaches were just waking up.
We filled up our tires w air at a beach bike rental shop. I rode my hybrid Linus bike, Joanna rode her Specialized road bike.
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Dollar for dollar, no vegetable beats the humble cabbage in terms of nutrition, versatility, storage life, and volume. One of my staple grocery items. I will always stan the cabbage.
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After receiving a notice of violation from
@California_HCD
, a lawsuit notice from the developer, and warnings from
@housingdefense
,
@Yimby_Law
, Californians for Homeownership -
@citymb
council reversed its earlier decision and approved 79 units (6 affordable). State laws work.
Reversing an earlier decision, the
#ManhattanBeach
City Council has approved the
#Highrose
/Project Verandas development:
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Also amazing, and welcome
@_SuperLA
to Housing Twitter!
@briannajegan
@brianvanriper
@freeyourchains
@briannajegan
two of the homes at our Hyperion project are affordable (per LA city). As we scale up, our focus is on increasing the % of affordable homes in our projects. We are also working on our own model for ensuring affordability beyond City mandates/requirements.
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LA’s street sweeps of the unhoused is violent and wrong. A 15-unit green apt building (the basis of the professor’s remarks) w 2 units set aside for very-low-income households is a very good thing and will prevent folks from being pushed into homelessness (or provide a path out).
My timeline is swamped rn bc hundreds of ppl are freaking out that I use eco-apartheid language to talk about LA's housing market, where the unhoused are violently evicted, and the market is building expensive green apts. Another day on housing twitter.
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After we returned to Linus to swap the e-bikes back for my tuned-up acoustic bike, we got to talking with some folks about how protected bike lanes make a huge difference in encouraging us to ride.
I shared w them about the Healthy Streets LA
@streetsforall
ballot initiative.
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By prohibiting bike riding on sidewalks and requiring people to ride close to the curb, this urgency ordinance puts people in danger—esp youth who ride to MCHS and MBMS. If the concern is safety, MB should build protected bike lanes.
@heybikela
@streetsforall
@StreetsblogLA
The City Council adopted an urgency ordinance amending the Manhattan Beach Municipal Code establishing a speed limit, safety and operational standards, and location restrictions for bicycles, e-bikes, and motorized bicycles. Press Release:
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In a comical moment, a process server has just come up to two councilmembers to serve papers. Public hearing is about to close.
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A developer that *has* tried to work in good faith w the city just had 3rd & final hearing at Planning Commission for missing middle housing on Catalina Ave by the pier.
The commission has dragged out approvals, citing not enough parking & too much VMT🙄
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@dancaroselli
Check out One South and Legado on this same stretch of PCH in Redondo. One South is 52 units over parking garage & retail. Legado is 115 units over parking garage & retail. Really strange stuff and a direct result of the city council forcing developers to reduce the # of units.
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Car dealership but make it an ebike dealership for people & families to test out ebikes.
And it’s not just a “bike shop” bc these dealerships also have go-kart style test tracks that double as bike safety courses.
+ best-in-class bike lanes, bike racks, and road diet demos.
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Then, we routed our way back home, fueled up at a Trader Joe’s conveniently located along the bike path in Marina Del Rey, and retraced our path down the beaches. We arrived home just as the sun was setting.
33 miles logged just by the power of our own legs.
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As the trail reaches Marina Del Rey, it dovetails with cars in a combo of Class II painted lanes, separated Class I lanes, and back to Class II. I’m not a street cyclist, & it felt scary/hairy to be riding so close to cars. But I felt strength in numbers w other cyclists nearby.
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This was Joanna’s first time on an e-bike and it reminded me of something
@gspeng
has said: “Once you try one, e-bikes simply sell themselves.”
We went to the canals (video here), window-shopped a little on Abbot Kinney, and dodged cars there and back.
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@zac___who
Just wish it didn’t have so much parking! It’s not currently a transit hub but could easily become one.
If this gets built, hopefully the 22 acres of green space are turned into restored wetlands habitat. It was an impt salt marsh to the Tongva way before it was a power plant.
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I’m riding the Hollywood Bowl park & ride bus from Torrance. We filled five buses at the 5:30 time slot alone. There’s definitely a demand for transit and buses in the South Bay. I won’t let NIMBYs say otherwise!
Park & ride or transit really is the best way to get to the Bowl.
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Two carpenters from the carpenter’s union testify in support of creating new jobs and reducing the cost of living by building more homes.
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Nearly 40% of emissions in CA is due to transportation. Personal vehicles account for 70% of that. EV incentives will only go so far. We must invest in transit and legalize infill housing so people can live closer to their jobs. I ask
@AsmMuratsuchi
to vote yes on SB 9 & AB 1401.
In CA, we unfortunately know too well that climate change is happening. The droughts, the extreme heat and the water shortages in CA is serious. We need to pass my and
@AsmGarcia
's
#AB1395
to limit the effects of climate change by requiring net zero emissions by 2045 or sooner.
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So many post-election threads. Just want to say to our pro-housing candidates, esp
@scottforla
and
@vasquezdulce
— thank you for running thoughtful, positive, and inspiring campaigns that centered equity and accessibility. I hope you continue to lead the way in LA.
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