Party Ben
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Party Ben
@PartyBen
Dance & electronic programmer, @amazonmusic.
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Kasım 2008
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Oh man what I would do to get just a whiff of this vibe in LA
NYC DOT@NYC_DOT
speed camera violations are $0 if you don’t speed
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speed camera violations are $0 if you don’t speed
NY Post Opinion@NYPostOpinion
Mamdani’s 15 mph speed limit isn’t about safety, it’s another money grab trib.al/1jP2oGU
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@alsonickadams @humantransit I mean, you're not wrong, if this is the one chance for WeHo to get a subway, do we just take what we can get? But in the design stage it seems like well-meaning expert voices (and I do not mean mine) should be heard. Activists/experts helped protect the Sepulveda line.
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@humantransit @PartyBen 1. Everyone gets that this isn't optimal, but given the political realities in America and LA, it's amazing that even this is happening.
2.Although obviously imperfect, this "squiggly line" is happening for a reason. And everyone who knows LA even a little bit gets that.
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LA is not a magical mystical "exception" to the rule that a transit line that makes a literal U-turn is just poor design. Give Weho an E-W Santa Monica subway that runs across to Silverlake and (imagine!) Dodger Stadium, and let a straight-shot K come up to the bowl 🤷♀️
Pedro Pascal Siakam@alsonickadams
I respect Jarrett's work, but this is the kind of stuff people say when they know nothing about LA.
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@alsonickadams @humantransit I promise it isn't snark, it's concern, that hugely expensive transit investments are so vital to LA's future that they shouldn't risk being politically-driven boondoggles. "Political realities" gave us rail lines with freeway median stops nobody uses en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_sta…
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@PartyBen @humantransit It's not that his concerns aren't valid. It's that him and the rest of the snarky, "Why can't the lines go straight"
critiques are ignoring the political realities on the ground in LA.
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@alsonickadams I get it, we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good when it comes to LA transit, which we need so desperately. But @humantransit's concerns are valid
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It's hard to stand in opposition to any transit initiative in LA, even when they're imperfect, but Jarrett makes very good points here. One subway line shouldn't try to do the work of like, 5 lines. Successful transit has clear paths and destinations.
Jarrett Walker@humantransit
Wondering what Southern California housing advocates think of this. The proposed new subway line will take a squiggly path that no actual person wants to follow. Why? To serve the City of West Hollywood, which supports density, and avoid Los Angeles, which doesn't? 1/🧵
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Amusing how the contrarian twitter-checkmark click-bait goober take is “things in LA are just fine exactly how they are”
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
Since I have been antagonizing the transit folks, I think it's a good time to talk about what I actually think about transit and Los Angeles. The tl;dr: we should spend plenty on transit, but no Leftist who opposes cars and freeways should have any say in LA transit policy.
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We should do that w Santa Monica Airport too but the cries of “but muh street parking” would shut it right down
limonadier rei :-)@chemdawgrei
we should turn wilshire country club in south hollywood into a public park surrounded by mixed-use mid- to high-rise buildings
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The Atlantic@TheAtlantic
A common refrain of progressive urban politics is that “new, ‘luxury’ housing will not help solve the housing shortage,” Henry Grabar writes. But, according to a new study, “more housing supply of all kinds leads to lower prices in general terms”: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/…
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Have not read the article but the cover art and whole vibe are giving 1993
WIRED@WIRED
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates. wired.com/story/inside-t…
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Or, maybe, we have nice apartments and walk to nice stores along nice streets to buy two rolls of toilet paper and don’t get run over by SUVs full of 80 rolls of toilet paper trying to exit the giant garage onto the 6-lane stroad
Tobin Stone 🌐@tobinjstone
it's an idiotic, massive waste of space. A truly wealthy society would put the parking underneath the Costco, make the Costco itself the same size as the parking lot, and put apartments on top of the costco.
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Easy and fun on Twitter to blame “wokeness run amok” for everything. But transit worldwide works when it costs something and is convenient and safe, and that doesn’t correlate with giant fare gates. They’re fine, leave them, sure, but this isn’t a data-supported “gotcha.”
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I’m glad fare gates have helped improve some CA transit systems (from “apocalyptic” to “yuck”) but in fairness there are proof of payment gateless systems around the world that work fine. It’s a bit like saying “yay we made benches crappy but way fewer homeless sleep on them”
Sar Haribhakti@sarthakgh
.@Noahpinion: “Progressives often argue against measures like fare gates, labeling them “carceral” and “racist”. This demonstrates a principle that I call anarchyfare — the idea that eliminating society’s rules serves as a kind of welfare benefit for marginalized people.”
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