Bikes, food, folk music. Sustainable transportation policy pays the bills. Proud Palestinian-American. Opinions my own, etc.
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.@metrolaalerts @metrolosangeles I was just almost killed by the operator of bus 8813 (short line 4) at Sunset and Marion. Please get in touch and let me know where I can discuss further.
Is an unwavering commitment to human rights why your dad just put a Bush staffer on the editorial board?
There is a lot of controversy and confusion over the LAT’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate. I trust the Editorial Board’s judgment. For me, genocide is the line in the sand.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The claim that the Los Angeles Times not endorsing was a decision by the Editorial Board is false. In reality, the Board had decided to endorse Vice President Harris, but Patrick Soon-Shiong, the paper's owner and poster's father, overruled them.
nytimes.com/2024/10/23/bus…
@metrolaalerts Just got kicked off the Azusa A at Union because the train is turning back to Long Beach (ridiculously common occurrence). No trains are tracking. What is going on??
Update: A Long Beach-bound train arrived and turned back to Azusa. Are both sides short tracking or something?
@metrolaalerts What is happening with the B line right now? PA said power outages in Hollywood but I can't figure out if I'll be able to get out of NoHo tonight
No one who rides Metro would write this. Fare beaters use the emergency gates or the ADA fare gates, which can be easily walked through. Jumping over the turnstiles is extremely rare in my experience.
In an effort to stem crime, Metro demands fare cards as riders exit station latimes.com/california/story…
Who's heading to Miami next week for the @NACTO Designing Cities conference? I'd love to see folks while I'm there.
The American health insurance system is truly evil and I don't know how anyone at @Cigna or elsewhere sleeps at night.
I wish I could ride a bike but I need my pickup truck for groceries
ALT Large packages of paper towels and toilet paper bungeed to the rear rack of an ebike
You vs the bridge she tells you not to worry about
ALT The Sixth Street Viaduct in LA
ALT The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge in DC
Hey #bikedc friends, is the Capital @bikeshare system always terribly balanced or am I just having bad luck?
Thank you @metrolosangeles for finally adding a 182 stop at Rowena and Glendale. Many people just got on the bus there, including sometime with two bags of Trader Joe's groceries. Now please improve the incredibly infrequent service!
The only kind of YIMBYism I'm interested in recognizes that we need government intervention to make great places. Libertarian market urbanism is a fantasy.
Rabi Abonour retweeted
If you let conservative YIMBYs have their way they will just build Caramel Indiana's everywhere.
Overgrown lifestyle centers for rich white people with some of the aesthetics of urban life but none of the substance. None of the positive social and agglomerative effects. – at St Louis, MO
ALT A photo of Carmel Indiana, it's got some bike lanes, but is a lot of parking and empty lots and is not real urbanism
ALT An aerial photo of Carmel Indiana, just looks like another suburb
Rabi Abonour retweeted
There's absolutely no room in the urbanist movement for conservatives.
The fight for equitable, climate conscious cities, worker's rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, wealth equality, and LGBTQ rights are all the same fight.
It's the fight for our future. – at St Louis, MO
Rabi Abonour retweeted
Israeli police are beating Palestinian worshipers at Al Aqsa in Jerusalem at the start of Ramadan. It’s nothing new, this is a video of them beating worshipers inside the mosque last April. This is why they don’t want to talk about anything before Oct 7.
xitter.cf/theIMEU/status/1643390…
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Ramadan Kareem from @israelpolice in Jerusalem.
Ban police chases, exhibit one million
Deadly police chases are killing record numbers of Americans. The vast majority of people killed are suspected of only a minor crime, or no crime at all.
Read our investigation:
sfchronicle.com/projects/202…
