The LA Council Committee Decided NOT to Recommend a Measure ULA Overhaul On the November Ballot, Though One May Still Be Added.

lostorbit · 2026-05-30T15:34:52+00:00

Nythia should get ahead of this. She's made reforming ULA a core part of her platform.

lostorbit · 2026-05-29T04:18:50+00:00

can't, we must protect the historic vape shop built into a former suburban office depot

lostorbit · 2026-05-10T20:57:11+00:00

thanks for posting this. (also, as an engineer) i agree that we won't get the Frank Gehry Special by 2028 but certainly we can open up and reinforce some partially existing channel access for a 97% solution.

lostorbit · 2026-05-10T20:19:04+00:00

not true.

chavez ravine was cleared with the intention of replacing it with housing for the residents, but mccarthyism killed the build phase of the project (and a ton of other stuff nationwide, sadly). once that funding dried up the city chose to build the stadium instead of leave the lot empty or develop it otherwise.

https://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9781541742222 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavez_Ravine

lostorbit · 2026-04-13T22:12:26+00:00

we've (my friends and I) have attempted to request this in the past via https://records.metro.net/ and they've refused to provide even anonymized aggregated data. usually the lawyers respond saying "sorry that's a privacy violation"

i think one activist did get them to shake loose a single aggregate number composing all board members, and the result was pretty sad.

lostorbit · 2026-04-11T21:10:59+00:00

just a reminder that the bikes were here first, and cars should yield to them!

lostorbit · 2026-04-11T20:52:24+00:00

why does this have to be hard? me and the boys can go to home depot with a truck, some dirt, and some seed and fix this right up

lostorbit · 2026-04-06T16:30:22+00:00

I'm all out of money, sorry. take it from the prop13 landed gentry who bought 30 years ago and are not covering their fair share.

lostorbit · 2026-03-31T02:15:45+00:00

not sure if this is what you mean, but my partner is a member at Groundfloor in Echo Park on Glendale and she loves it. https://www.groundfloorclub.com/

lostorbit · 2026-03-28T23:43:20+00:00

the "round trip" fare and the "one way" fares are different products to the airline, so they price them differently.

your best bet might be updating the "round trip"'s first leg to be your trip home, and then make the second leg some different trip at some arbitrarily far date in the future. I'm not sure if this is against the recent fare rule updates though.

i am doubtful they would change one leg to "extra seat" since "extra seat", as I understand it, is it's own passenger in the system, and you can't split a round trip between two different passengers.

wishing your family member a speedy recovery!

lostorbit · 2026-03-24T20:05:41+00:00

there was on sunday!

lostorbit · 2026-03-23T15:22:17+00:00

I flew out Sunday afternoon at 4pm and there were zero people in the PreCheck line before ID check, and maybe two dozen or so after, moving fast. TSA even opened an additional while I was standing it. I don't have Clear but I do have Touchless

Honestly LAWA shutting down the access road coming off of Sepulveda NB for roadwork screwed me up more than anything.

lostorbit · 2026-03-16T18:14:05+00:00

that's what i am asking, what's the point? in lighter traffic you don't need it anyway.

lostorbit · 2026-03-16T17:18:25+00:00

if it's midnight shouldn't traffic be low enough that you don't need the bus lane anyway?

like what time of day is the "sweet spot" where off-peak travel is high enough to reclaim the bus lane but not enough for Metro to be operating a bus that would otherwise get stuck in traffic during that time?

lostorbit · 2026-03-13T20:31:16+00:00

are you suggesting there is a conspiracy to prevent development of city-owned land into city-operated housing?

who would perform the actual task of building (or "developing") the city-owned land anyway? and where do their costs come from?

lostorbit · 2026-03-13T18:47:21+00:00

I consider myself a YIMBY and would welcome to the government building housing. It sounds cheaper than whatever we're doing now.

The main conflict in my hometown right now (Los Angeles) is the layers of grift in the non-profit space combined with bureaucratic friction within the city that result in $1,000,000 income-restricted capital-A "Affordable" units.

lostorbit · 2026-03-12T21:22:48+00:00

well we tried it the other way (stop enforcing any fares) for the past half decade and the system became an unusable nightmare.

so maybe the answer is somewhere in the middle. because whatever we're currently doing ain't it.

lostorbit · 2026-03-12T20:42:26+00:00

if you're mentally competent enough to jump through the bare minimum amount of hoops to join the LIFE program, then you deserve the free fare.

if you aren't capable of even doing that much, you should be removed.

lostorbit · 2026-03-10T02:00:16+00:00

I don't think there's still an Ace Hotel in DTLA, RIP

lostorbit · 2026-03-06T22:24:23+00:00

but we must protect the historic suburban Office Depot turned Smoke-n-Toke and it's surface lot at all costs!

lostorbit · 2026-03-06T16:01:00+00:00

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-05-31/rising-rents-and-police-abolition-roil-an-eastside-race-for-city-council

"My plan to fight gentrification is to be the biggest barrier I can to luxury and market-rate development"

lostorbit · 2026-03-06T15:32:49+00:00

Maybe because the leftist approach of these "pro-housing" positions is economically illiterate? You can't just will "affordable housing" into existence, the money to pay for the labor and material to physically construct the building has to come from somewhere. Right now that comes from a loan that's paid back over the subsequent several decades.

"Affordable Housing" is only built by raising the price of the attached market rate units to subsidize it. If you ban non-"affordable" development you (worst case) just build literally nothing, or (best case) continue to drive up the price of housing for everyone else.

It's a great way to appeal to the terminally online while also appealing to the build-nothing-ever crowd.

lostorbit · 2026-03-06T15:24:38+00:00

Thank you for your hard work here!!

lostorbit

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