olong
@olong.bsky.social
@olongnolo on Twitter. Transportation engineer, interested in transit and housing. Los Angeles (SGV/South Bay).
There's a JR East merch and Eastern Japan Travel Information distribution popup this weekend at the Tokyo Central near the Torrance Airport (transit accessible via haha lol, the 232 I guess). Featuring Shinkansen livery chopsticks. I didn't even know there was a Tokyo Central there tbh
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
There's a JR East merch and Eastern Japan Travel Information distribution popup this weekend at the Tokyo Central near the Torrance Airport (transit accessible via haha lol, the 232 I guess). Featuring Shinkansen livery chopsticks. I didn't even know there was a Tokyo Central there tbh
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What idiot in South Pasadena decided to blast the entire county with their test message? Disincorporate the city.
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 AM
What idiot in South Pasadena decided to blast the entire county with their test message? Disincorporate the city.
A joint meeting for two projects along Garvey Ave in Monterey Park: one (city, funded by the 710 stub reallocation) to implement curb extensions and another (SGVCOG "SGV Forward") to improve transit service. This is the 2nd round of meeting for the MPK one and the first here for the SGVCOG one.
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A joint meeting for two projects along Garvey Ave in Monterey Park: one (city, funded by the 710 stub reallocation) to implement curb extensions and another (SGVCOG "SGV Forward") to improve transit service. This is the 2nd round of meeting for the MPK one and the first here for the SGVCOG one.
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Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
Thread by @CSElmendorf on Thread Reader App
@CSElmendorf: I stumbled across the work of Arthur E. Stamps III this morning and, wow, my eyes have been opened! He's was (is?) an architect in San Francisco who wrote scores of academic papers on th...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Cross-posting my discovery of the day. This guy could have been the Shoup of design review.
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
He's was a random architect working from home in Bernal Heights. Never had a faculty position.
He churned out scores of academic papers and one great book.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/19873...
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The degree to which every single major journalist seems to just hate math is palpable in almost everything
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The degree to which every single major journalist seems to just hate math is palpable in almost everything
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Starting to appreciate that most of our streets in Alameda are highest at the intersection(unusual!) so there is often no grade change required for corner curb ramps.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Starting to appreciate that most of our streets in Alameda are highest at the intersection(unusual!) so there is often no grade change required for corner curb ramps.
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Took my first scooter ride in a while today (been doing Metro bike) and it’s so depressing what a missed opportunity that was for cities. We did to scooters everything we should have done to cars:
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Took my first scooter ride in a while today (been doing Metro bike) and it’s so depressing what a missed opportunity that was for cities. We did to scooters everything we should have done to cars:
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
- capped speeds with governors
- refused to give curb space
- made heavy pedestrian areas no go zones
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anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
anyone have the backstory on the revolutionary landlords of santa monica?
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the scene bsky.app/profile/acat...
Los Angeles, CA -
LAPD once again calling unlawful assembly outside of the Douglas bar as fans are watching the dodger game via laptop and radio the bar turned the tv off. About 30 minutes ago, they called it for the first time and said 5 minutes. Now giving 20 minutes to disperse. Top of the 10th.
LAPD once again calling unlawful assembly outside of the Douglas bar as fans are watching the dodger game via laptop and radio the bar turned the tv off. About 30 minutes ago, they called it for the first time and said 5 minutes. Now giving 20 minutes to disperse. Top of the 10th.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
the scene bsky.app/profile/acat...
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Don’t set fire to buses please
CONGRATULATIONS LOS ANGELES DODGERS 🧢⚾️🏆!!!
What a ride in every sense of the word
What a ride in every sense of the word
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Don’t set fire to buses please
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Wow that was something, good for the Dodgers and Yamamoto is the MVP.
November 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wow that was something, good for the Dodgers and Yamamoto is the MVP.
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People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.
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this is playing out like a manga arc
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
this is playing out like a manga arc
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lots of interesting details here about the nuts and bolts of the french social housing system
October 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
lots of interesting details here about the nuts and bolts of the french social housing system
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RIGHTEOUSNESS PREVAILS
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
RIGHTEOUSNESS PREVAILS
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if it goes on long enough do they have to play game 3 and 4 at the same time
October 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
if it goes on long enough do they have to play game 3 and 4 at the same time
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they say there was a time before the Game, once.
October 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
they say there was a time before the Game, once.
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me when Dodgers lose: the lot’s an affront to the environment, justice and God, let a million public housing units bloom
me when Dodgers win: who’s to say if the parking lot’s good or bad, generations of memories were made there
me when Dodgers win: who’s to say if the parking lot’s good or bad, generations of memories were made there
Part of the discussion last night at @thewaroncars.bsky.social live was the ridiculousness of that parking lot
October 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
me when Dodgers lose: the lot’s an affront to the environment, justice and God, let a million public housing units bloom
me when Dodgers win: who’s to say if the parking lot’s good or bad, generations of memories were made there
me when Dodgers win: who’s to say if the parking lot’s good or bad, generations of memories were made there
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Chinese EVs are a very good product, but I maintain everyone, especially people not in the urbanist space, underrate just how much the structure of Chinese cities favors them over American ones. Nobody is commuting 25 miles by car one way in a Chinese urban area!
October 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Chinese EVs are a very good product, but I maintain everyone, especially people not in the urbanist space, underrate just how much the structure of Chinese cities favors them over American ones. Nobody is commuting 25 miles by car one way in a Chinese urban area!
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Relaying a message from the mayor.
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Relaying a message from the mayor.
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It's a busy week on the #MeasureHLA front. In addition to filing & retooling appeals based on city rejections, I filed a motion as part of my lawsuit. Basically I asked the judge to invalidate city HLA ordinance, because it doesn't support what voters approved. labikas.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m...
Measure HLA Lawsuit Update – 22 October 2025
This week I, via my lawyers, filed a Motion for Summary Adjudication (see motion and statement of facts). Basically I am asking a judge to invalidate the city of L.A.’s Measure HLA ordinance.…
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October 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
It's a busy week on the #MeasureHLA front. In addition to filing & retooling appeals based on city rejections, I filed a motion as part of my lawsuit. Basically I asked the judge to invalidate city HLA ordinance, because it doesn't support what voters approved. labikas.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/m...
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When @alonlevy.bsky.social and i started working together, we both thought that a wall of text with a picture and maybe a chart/table was advanced design. We know that’s wrong. We attempted to take our NEC work and add some good design. We are very happy with how this came out: nec.transitcosts.com
How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor
An interactive site presenting the North East Corridor proposal by Marron Institute's Transportation and Land Use Group, authored by Alon Levy.
nec.transitcosts.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
When @alonlevy.bsky.social and i started working together, we both thought that a wall of text with a picture and maybe a chart/table was advanced design. We know that’s wrong. We attempted to take our NEC work and add some good design. We are very happy with how this came out: nec.transitcosts.com
Metro staff (and board lol no) getting microtargetted like DOD staff on WMATA
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Metro staff (and board lol no) getting microtargetted like DOD staff on WMATA
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It's such a shame to waste such rare talent as one of 435 representatives trying to pass legislation in the world's worst deliberative body (the U.S. Congress.)
This guy should be staffing California state agencies and hammering the bully pulpit to get our state's shit together.
This guy should be staffing California state agencies and hammering the bully pulpit to get our state's shit together.
October 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
It's such a shame to waste such rare talent as one of 435 representatives trying to pass legislation in the world's worst deliberative body (the U.S. Congress.)
This guy should be staffing California state agencies and hammering the bully pulpit to get our state's shit together.
This guy should be staffing California state agencies and hammering the bully pulpit to get our state's shit together.