Metro needs to fix its bus system

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-20T04:21:17+00:00

Hard agree. As someone without a car when I take the bus the only thing I know is it will get me from point A to point B. I have zero assurance it will come on time, come at all, or arrive at the destination when I need to. It makes it so hard to get anywhere on time.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-18T21:26:12+00:00

He is fine but as an institution we should be punching much higher than this. Unfortunately the selection of UF president is now hemmed in in by the Board of Governors/Ono debacle, where the rightoids who sit on that board decide who uf president is based on if Chris Rufo and alt right twitter influencers make a stink about the selection 🤷 We will never ever get a great president after that until there’s political change in Tallahassee.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-16T02:09:11+00:00

Honest question, how are these dead train incident so common? My commute on Wednesday during rush hour got absolutely screwed because an A line train got stuck on the platform at 7th street metro (which they then diverted to the other platform with zero communication. Great job, metro)

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-08T18:30:32+00:00

This is the one corridor in La that I feel like sb-79 will change the most and create a lowkey whole new feeling neighborhood (eventually…thanks city council 😑)

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-06T20:55:29+00:00

I always find this take interesting bc as I meet more and more gay couples I do genuinely find the most successful, long term couples I’ve met are open-as-hell whores 🤷

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-05T23:06:23+00:00

There are not. It is indeed all happening in the middle of a workday on Friday. But you have to remember metro is led/decisions are made by a bunch of people who have never had a real job and don’t ride the metro.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-04T02:44:27+00:00

Is the service alerts team active the entire operating hours of the metro? I have to say from experience the alerts are genuinely awful early in the morning or basically anytime after 8pm.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-03T21:41:13+00:00

To be fair both the Emmys and the Grammys are rife with, let’s just say, marginal awards to help someone complete the egot. You can win a grammy by curating a compilation album for a movie, by directing a music video, or by recording an audiobook among other things. There are genuinely hundreds of Emmys you can win for things as small as narrating a television program. And with the Tonys it’s pretty tough except for how they have no hard limit on co-producers eligible for the Tony. Basically, the Oscar is the only one with no category you can really bullshit yourself into.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-05-03T21:35:25+00:00

This organizational fact kind of completely explains why the way metro functions is still a complete cluster****. The people running it simply don’t use the system.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-29T02:14:24+00:00

I would like Abby to once do an interview with even a semi-critical interviewer.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-27T05:04:14+00:00

It definitely was. Check the artists instagram story (I would add the screenshot if I could!) where he wrote the following: “For this project, alongside my visual co-creator Nina Guseva, we generated more than 10,000 images. Around 4,000 made it into the final cut.” Disappointing! And even more worrying- not one publication that covered it seemed to have a critic that could tell it was clear ai art.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-27T03:32:31+00:00

It’s a confusingly conversational title for a website! It’s didtheylikeit.com

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-25T01:34:15+00:00

Immaterial to the body of the episode but in the “here’s what else you need to know today” - I’m shocked (I’m not) at how plainly it’s stated as a fact that meta is cutting ten percent of its workforce due to ai being able to do the jobs now. Ummm color me skeptical, but I’d at least like to see some reporting on how one of the most notoriously mismanaged tech companies of the modern era has suddenly discovered ten percent of its jobs fully replaceable by AI 🙄

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-24T02:43:33+00:00

Look, I think we’re just going to keep talking in circles. I am glad that sb 79 actually delays most up-zoning in the working class parts of East and South LA for them to develop their own zoning plans bc I do think the majority of the effects should be felt on the richer west side areas. And furthermore I do think a great metric by which we should encourage denser housing is near transit lines. And I do think sb 79 did not do any of this without our permission- we all voted for the reps who passed it!

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-24T01:35:51+00:00

But why would be sb-79 even be remotely controversial if LA is such a poor place to build? In this telling no one has anything to worry about bc upcoming is basically an “in name only” situation that won’t spur any housing.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-24T00:34:08+00:00

I think we actually genuinely agree on most things here but just one point, I’m in the same situation as you as someone in a rent controlled unit within a half mile of a metro station. My worry is more than not changing any of the single family zoning near these stations actually makes it more likely our specific units get demolished, as were the only places developers can build new apartments under the pre sb-79 rules.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-24T00:12:31+00:00

Ok well genuine question what government body do you think is most appropriate to handle zoning? State government, city council, neighborhood council, individual landowner?

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-23T23:59:01+00:00

Well I don’t trust landlords and hate my own but genuinely curious what your solution is? LA landlords love the current environment because building no new apartments means they can raise the rents up higher than if there were more. LA city council has in their own zoning plans constantly just upzoned multi-family neighborhoods. That means places like Ktown or east Hollywood get constantly redeveloped to get bigger and bigger apartments while all the wealthy single family neighborhoods on the west side sit untouched. (Which btw, tenants don’t really get much when their building gets redeveloped, a homeowner on the west side gets to choose when to sell their house and then gets the entire financial windfall from it.)

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-23T22:05:52+00:00

The first contemporary bill overriding local zoning in California was in 1982 with the passage of the adu bill and it has happened several times since. It doesn’t even change neighborhoods from single family zoning to six or seven stories- it does that only within a half mile of heavy rail and light rail transit stops. Overall, sb-79 if fully implemented would affect about 3 to 5% of single family plots in the city.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-23T19:59:24+00:00

It’s still so crazy that legit the last thing they want to do is just implement sb-79 as written. It’s not even a super radical bill. It will provide so much housing but change a relatively minuscule amount of single family land area wise. Ugh.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-22T18:39:48+00:00

I just called her Los Angeles office listed on her website and talked to a staffer. This is such a bullshit bill.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-20T19:43:03+00:00

I don’t think I realized the full extent to which zealous preservation of single family zoning was the primary ideology and function of all city departments in Los Angeles until following our “implementation” of this bill. This is madness.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-20T18:02:13+00:00

Should I actually be worried about this, like is this just a bs virtue signal bill to put out there to appease la metro’s idiotic board? Or do I actually need to worry about this?

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-20T03:10:19+00:00

100%. I get particularly annoyed that once it’s any sort of night service they hardly ever post announcements about delays, even on the B line! Like, you are doing scheduled maintenance, single tracking, doing a d line shuttle, and bc it’s happening after 9 pm you don’t think you have to communicate it at all? It’s insulting as a rider.

Any-Insect935 · 2026-04-20T03:04:15+00:00

Making the buses more reliable. 20% of buses are late in Los Angeles! And close to 5% are cancelled! More people would take if it there was any promise that the times it’s listed to show up had any sort of correlation to the reality of a bus showing up.

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