UCSD Academic Senate dismissed students’ ask for an extension of the Pass/No Pass deadline without even a vote, despite pandemic concerns from students and a joint letter from AS and every college council. Remember this when UCSD admin tries to say they’re “student-centered.”
Remember when
@GavinNewsom
@CAgovernor
flew to LA because *one* segment on *one* of dozens of redundant highways collapsed and he made sure to have it fixed within a week? Meanwhile, the *only* rail line connecting the state’s two largest cities…
Day 7⃣ with no passenger service on our only interregional rail line north out of San Diego. The weather today and coastal erosion will continue to threaten corridor unless we act with urgency to plan for the future. I'm hearing so much from you on how you've been impacted - keep
@YsabelJuradoLA
This privately funded project at no cost to taxpayers will improve air quality and safety in those neighborhoods by getting cars off the road and encouraging people to not drive to Dodger Stadium. Why is that bad?
Hi, I’m Governor Gavin Newsom and I’m coming to you live from a giant fire to tell you I’ve made no meaningful progress addressing the climate crisis or California’s housing shortage.
Absolutely massive win for Los Angeles. Congratulations to the people and organizations that put together Measure HLA and fought for it, and to all the Angelenos who will benefit from it in the coming years.
The citizen-sponsored ballot initiative that aims to force Los Angeles to add hundreds of miles of bike and bus lanes — to make streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists — was leading by a wide margin in early returns.
When are we going to get the limited-stop Pacific Surfliner we deserve?
San Diego
Oceanside
Anaheim
Los Angeles
Oxnard
Santa Barbara
San Luis Obispo
Let's spend that infrastructure money on double tracking and electrification and get on this
Fucking hell. That’s where we live. An entire family is dead because of our collective societal cowardice. And hundreds more die every day with no fanfare whatsoever.
JUST IN: The baby who had been hospitalized after the crash at a Muni bus stop in West Portal has died. His parents and 1-year-old brother were also killed.
Half of San Diego’s problems can be traced back to framings like this where PB is “a beach town” instead of “one neighborhood of the 8th largest city in the country”
UCSD’s penchant for being “socially dead” is no fault of the students themselves. In fact, the social isolation many Tritons feel is by intentional design. The segregated residential neighborhoods act as a microcosm of the American suburban experience. In this essay I will
Damn, look at all these empty lanes on Fifth Avenue (and at peak commuting time no less!). Clearly these whole “car lane” projects were a huge waste of money, nobody even uses them!
@MorePerfectUS
And they’ve got like four bus routes that each run once an hour. I think we deserve better transit service than that personally. Free fares aren’t a panacea.
@bobbyfijan
3x the bedrooms for 2.5x the cost seems decent, and prices will continue to drop as supply increases (if we allow more to be built). The floorplan isn’t inherently anti-family, though, as you seemed to suggest.
Hello all, UCOP is refusing to refund campus-based fees for any UC students even though we have been strongly advised to move off-campus and most campus services have been closed or cancelled. This is unacceptable. Please sign and share:
This is hella tone-deaf,
@UofCalifornia
. Napolitano was the Head of Homeland Security and oversaw deportations. Just recently, she fired student-workers on a visa exposing them to a risk of deportation. And she continues to target undocumented students for their activism. WTF?!
When will there be change at
@goOCTA
to actually take this crisis seriously? And will
@GavinNewsom
@JoeBiden
@PeteButtigieg
step in to rebuild this critical infrastructure somewhere it won’t be unusable half the year?
Update from
@OCTAnews
who photos to show the whole hillside came down & large metal bridge is barely hanging on. Speaking to city councilmember
@ChrisDuncanCA
now who is sending photos too.
The freeway is broken now. We have the choice to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild it, and ongoing maintenance costs, or spend a bit to tear it down with no maintenance costs. One is significantly cheaper than the other, plus environmental benefits to consider.
I find the comments calling for the permanent removal of the damaged stretch of the I-10 incredibly dumb
Should it have been built in the first place 75 years ago? No
But if you're going to call for radical change, you need to understand the practical implications of that
@metrolosangeles
Is
@CAgovernor
going to work with Metro to provide additional operating resources during the state of emergency to help people get around?
🚨DTLA CLOSURE ALERT🚨
I-10 will be FULLY CLOSED until further notice between the East LA Connector & Alameda St due to a fire that damaged the freeway. Avoids the area, expect major delays & seek alternate routes to events in
#DTLA
or use
@metrolosangeles
public transportation.
This was an entirely predictable consequence of the
@CityofSanDiego
’s refusal to install proper, complete transit infrastructure along this route in order to preserve driver convenience.
#MTSAlert
Riders: Unfortunately due to traffic in downtown leading up to Park Blvd, we will be detouring Routes 7 & Rapid 215 off Park. Shuttle service is still operating between City College & Balboa Park. Service will pick-up at Park & University.
plans for this 51-space parking lot in downtown san diego to be turned into a 500-unit mixed use residential tower. two blocks from major city college transit center. incredibly based.
82-year-old woman in a wheelchair was crossing University Ave at 6th in Hillcrest. A driver in a lifted black truck turned right onto 6th, struck the woman and drove off. She suffered a fractured femur and is expected to survive.
#VisionZero
I think this is the issue I have with gentrification discourse—it’s always framed in this lens as opposed to the root cause: no development leading to higher home prices
Luxury condos, Airbnb, bike lanes, house flipping are often lagging indicators of gentrification, not causes. But they're visual so they make easy boogeymen. The actual cause: population growth, urban migration, boom bust cycles and income inequality are harder to visualize.
California has officially ruined my brain because in what world can you play for “affordable for WHOM” game with a theoretical $275k apartment are you kidding me that is nothing
Why do you care if people ride the full length of a bike trail to make it worth it? Do you drive from San Diego to Seattle regularly or is I-5 a waste?
This is ridiculous. The
@CityofSanDiego
installed a new bus lane through Balboa Park for the benefit of
@sdmts
and its riders, yet we still ignore those riders when organizing one of the largest events of the year. What gives
@CMWhitburnD3
?
Guy from OB thinks nobody visits North Park anymore, clearly he hasn’t seen the line for Part Time Lover every night (or any other local business for that matter)
I just got confirmation
@goOCTA
has completely stalled Serra Siding:
Double tracking from just south of San Juan Capistrano station to past the US1 underpass and previous recommended to reach San Clemente North station
All UC orgs and individuals, sign this excellently written petition and demand Justice for Black Lives: End All University of California Police and Imperial Contracts!
MTS Board of Directors this morning approved state SB 125 funding which will include improvements to frequencies & span of service across the network. Phased starting sometime in FY25 (next summer at the earliest)
UC San Diego’s student housing is constantly expanding and is still full (with a waitlist) every year. Because of this shortage, students have to find off-campus housing options, bidding up rents in nearby neighborhoods. Continuing to build more student housing is the way out.
i support building housing for homeless people. most "student housing" ie these new apartment buildings they build sit half empty at best bc half the time students cant even fucking afford that shit
With today’s update, I’m confident in calling Measure C. San Diegans approve lifting the height limit in the Midway district, for the second election in a row.
told an escalade driver last night that he shouldn't have half his car in the crosswalk waiting at a red light while I was crossing the street and he just indignantly asked me "that's not enough room for you?" without a hint of irony, from, again, his cadillac escalade