alex davis
LightNews LightNews
banner
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
alex davis
@alexdavistransit.bsky.social
590 followers 160 following 1.7K posts
Transit service planner 🚏
Fare enforcement enjoyer 🎫✅
Proudly car free in LA 🚌🌴

My statements =/= my employer's

-Being wrong lets you discover new things.
-Being naive lets you dare to try.
-Being cringe lets you change the world.
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · Oct 8
🚨See federal agents in LA County? Call both of these numbers immediately to notify the rapid response networks.

🗽Save America Movement: (213) 379-991🎱
🇲🇽Union del Barrio: (213) 444-656✌️

Repost to help make California hell for ICE agents. 🌴
Reposted by alex davis
xkcd.com
Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/
4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
😳
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Now to figure out whether the tanks will arrive in Miracle Mile Los Angeles or Magnificent Mile Chicago. Somebody get a Kalshi pool going.
trumpreposter.bsky.social TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social · 3d
(1/2) The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST,
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
How to spot a transplant from the East Coast:
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Patsauraus Bus Plaza from the busway bridge
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
TOD opportunity site? Definitely not. But don't be so quick to judge this questionable use of dwell time. Caleb and I head out to Link Belt to get some clues about what's going on here.
youtu.be/hSFEXFgOH0k?...
Link Belt: The Least-Used Station on SEPTA Regional Rail (feat. Alex Davis)
YouTube video by Classy Whale
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:20 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Slide from 2024 internal LA Metro presentation documenting a 46% fare evasion rate.
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Apparently in post-Trump v. CASA America, you can still get nationwide injunctions. You just have to get plaintiffs from lots of different states to make plaintiff-specific relief impractical.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 8d
A federal judge in Rhode Island has said the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. https://cnn.it/47KumOX
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
I can't believe it. Inyo County, a red-leaning county in Kevin Kiley's district, voted for Prop 50. They must REALLY hate that guy.
merovingians.bsky.social the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 9d
with 50 percent of the vote in, 2/3rds of California has voted to send Kevin Kiley to the shadow dimension
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Guys, I think I found VIA Rail's employee handbook.

Simple Sabotage Field Manual 1944:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
(6) Transportation: Railways (a) Passengers (1) Make train travel as inconvenient as possible for enemy personnel. Make mistakes in issuing train tickets, leaving portions of the journey uncovered by the ticket book; issue two tickets for the same seat in the train, so that an interesting argument will result; near train time, Instead of issuing printed tickets write them out slowly by hand, prolonging the process until the train is nearly ready to leave or has left the station. On station bulletin boards announcing train arrivals and departures, see that false and misleading information is given about tralns bound for enemy destinations. (2) In trains bound for enemy destinations, attendants should make life as uncomfortable as possible for passengers. Sec thal the (ood is especially bad, take up tickets after midnight, call all station stops very loudly during the night, handle baggage as noisily as possible during the night, and so on. (3) See that the luggage of enemy personnel is mislaid or unloaded at the wrong stations. Switch address labels on enemy baggage. (4) Engineers should see that trains run slow or make unscheduled stops for plausible reasons. (b) Switches, Signals and Routing (1) Exchange wires in switchboards containing signals and switches, so that they connect to the wrong terminals.
November 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Reposted by alex davis
maxdubler.com
Academics’ and planners’ single-minded focus on making *brand new* homes affordable to the poorest people has been a disaster for poor people’s’ ability to afford housing.
dereksagehorn.bsky.social dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 14d
Real grim stuff from a nonprofit staff attorney and former UCSD urban studies lecturer
October 31, 2025 at 9:20 PM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Do you support bringing fare enforcement back to Los Angeles?

I need your help with something in DTLA on Nov 14th. DM me if you want to help!
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
MAKE
MY
DAY
trumpreposter.bsky.social TrumpReposter @trumpreposter.bsky.social · 14d
(6/11) time for the Republicans to play their “TRUMP CARD,” and go for what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW! Just a short while ago, the Democrats, while in power, fought for three years to do this, but were unable to pull it
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
SEPTA's 260 transit cops catch a total of ~24 fare evaders and ~6.5 smokers a day. They call this "enforcement" 🙃

If SEPTA riders want to fight antisocial behavior, the first step is demanding transparency on what the hell SEPTA's 260 police actually *do* all day.
wwww.septa.org/news/first-h...
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Long Beach is on the hook for some big crimes when they find out this type of smart, walkable, mixed-use neighborhood is illegal to build today.
Promenade and 3rd St in Long Beach Pacific Av A Line station in Long Beach
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reposted by alex davis
latransitgays.bsky.social
me on the 14 when it used to run to inglewood
October 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
I'm deeply saddened that despite my years of dedicated service as an Antifa supersoldier and 2020 Pennsylvania ballot mule, I have not received one (not one!) visit from federal authorities.

@homelandgov.bsky.social
👏Do 👏Better
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22d
I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...
VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
“Your name was brought up.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
LA Metro, LADOT, etc have made it impossible to attend all the board meetings and hold down a day job. That's why we have a guy whose job *is* to attend the board meetings. 🧠🧠🧠🧠

So please consider setting a small recurring donation to keep Joe Linton on the job.

la.streetsblog.org/make-a-donat...
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
impeccable
"Air traffic control: The LAX-pressway must be stopped" www.torched.la alex davis: What's the most direct, specific action I can take to help stop the LAXpressway? Nate is waking up: Probably driving on it. It's going to be stopped most of the time.
October 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Thank you @jimspeedy.bsky.social for singlehandedly stopping this Atlantic author from churning out another libertarian fever dream about magical free market innovation choo choos.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
At one summit event, I chatted briefly with Jim Mathews, the president and CEO of the nonprofit Rail Passengers Association, who thought the Brightline project was interesting and in some ways laudable. Still, he said that Brightline's Florida strategy was not repeatable. It had been a quirk of history that its parent company owned the right-of-way on those old railroad tracks, and it would not be in that situation again anywhere else in the country. Plus, Brightline lost more than $500 million in 2024 while serving only six stops, he pointed out. Amtrak, often regarded as an albatross around taxpayers' necks, lost more-about $705 million-but serves more than 500 stops, including many that a private enterprise would never bother with and that a public one is obligated to serve.
October 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by alex davis
obcycler.bsky.social
Takes 5 seconds to tell them you like protected bike lanes ⬇️

form.typeform.com/to/mKQsn7LQ
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Here's a picture of the incident that made a 48 y/o Sound Transit rider end her life-long car-free streak and buy a Subaru Outback. We shouldn't be surprised.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
A harrowing image from the Nov 26 2021 incident where passengers in a stalled Sound Transit train used the emergency door releases to escape the train and walk down the tunnel after more than half an hour waiting for rescue.
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Los Peñasquitos Lagoon as seen from a Surfliner train on the NCTD Surf Line.
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 AM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
Do you know a local politician or bureaucrat who really needs to read Human Transit, Trains Buses People or Better Buses Better Cities, but is just way too busy and also is afraid of paper cuts?

Don't worry. Zaref is delivering the solution, 15 minutes at a time.
thetransitbandit.bsky.social Zaref (The Transit Bandit) @thetransitbandit.bsky.social · 25d
In my latest video, we talk about the three building blocks that go into any public transit, anywhere: frequency, span, and coverage. youtu.be/Nsu5GFdei5s
Transit 101: The Three Building Blocks of Transit
YouTube video by The Transit Bandit
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
alexdavistransit.bsky.social
This is a really great idea!

@keawilson.bsky.social, if you have time, can you try to figure out what DDOT's plan for the rolling stock is after the line is decommissioned?
alanthefisher.bsky.social Alan Fisher @alanthefisher.bsky.social · Oct 9
Federal Dollars went into the creation of the DC Streetcar. If it shuts down the Rolling stock should be a transfered to a city that actually needs it, like Memphis

Memphis already runs a pantograph compatible system, but have had issues with their old museum fleet
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM