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Matt. PE.
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Matt. PE.
@_MattHuff
Civil Engineer with a focus on Traffic & City Building 🚦 UCLA '23. AU '20. Tweets my own, etc.
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Mayıs 2013
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@the_transit_guy @will_alverson @aphysicist Biiiig jump from servicing automation to “robots will be everything” there.
But wait do you, the transit guy, not think transit should be automated / include automation?
I think that’s like table stakes for transit advocacy?
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@_MattHuff @will_alverson @aphysicist So your calculus is that robots will build everything, onshore everything (has to for your argument), and displaced jobs will all be hired to service said robots and supply chains. And you as an engineer on synchro will be side by side with them when that gets automated?
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i wonder if he realizes that a) this ultimately creates more jobs, b) we are a generation way from automating factories
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries. Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.
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Putting aside the very relevant histories, I’ll play your predict the future game:
All those robots in the warehouses? Need communications, charging, parts, cleaning, etc.
Jobs that didn’t exist before.
And then new supply chains for those new things!
I’ll even give you a very real example from my work:
I automated a permit review process for my city. Did this eliminate the reviewer’s job? No!
Instead they are now able to review more permits and faster! More things get built and no jobs were lost!
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@_MattHuff @will_alverson @aphysicist So Matt, break my mindset. Give me an example of a job that one of the 600k people displaced will do. Don't give me a historical approach, these are happening now. It's "off target" to literally not be able to list a single job for labor displacement that's happening now.
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Begging for people to realize that if 5% of people are biking instead of driving
THATS 5% LESS CARS ON THE ROAD.
Van I Am@VanIAm1776
@RVA_DOT That's not a traffic lane, it's a bike lane for the 5% of people who think bicycling is cool. And you see what it did to the real traffic that serves 95% of adults over 25 who don't live at home with mama.
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Hayden has a fixed pie mindset here but in reality the pie gets bigger!
We can dig more, cut more, create more with the same input
Ditch Digger -> Excavator Operator
Machinist -> CNC Operator
Etc.
I usually like his takes but this one is oddly off target.
Hayden@the_transit_guy
@will_alverson @aphysicist With all due respect, I'm asking for 1-3 job titles that will be created for the excess of 600k workers who will be displaces. Give me an example of the "safer and higher paying job" you're talking about, please.
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@will_alverson @the_transit_guy @aphysicist Hayden has a fixed pie mindset but in reality the pie gets bigger!
We can dig more, cut more, create more with the same input
Ditch Digger -> Excavator Operator
Machinist -> CNC Operator
Etc.
Agreed I like his stuff usually but this take is oddly off target.
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Love your page- long time follower. If job loss is a concern here i really cant recommend enough you take a look at the research. The executive summary is on the site too if you are in a rush and just want the highlights.
Job titles will depend on the type of manufacturing but some examples where i see growth happening at automated orgs i work with include
Machinists, roboticists, setup welders, material handlers, quality assurance technicians/ engineers, maintenance technicians, logistics support, safety and compliance among others
Most machine operators will also see increased demand for roles as well, theyll just run more machines as setup becomes more automated. We did this (move to multi machine) at one of our locations and the outcome is not less jobs, its us looking to hire for a whole second shift
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@chemdawgrei Respectfully, absolutely not :)
Or do, but shatter LA departments into smaller than Culver City sized districts, responsible only to the people in their district.
EXCEPT for departments that exist to fight tragedy of the commons scenarios, like future planning & transportation!
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LA needs to annex all of this by force
Joe Cohen@CohenSite
I have never heard anyone provide a single reason to why Culver City and Los Angeles should not do a land swap
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@barrykane760 @uriahz @otter401 @HenryForLA And notably tenant rents dropped considerably. Win-Win for all but the worst investors, as it should be.
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Kind of wild that I’m running mostly on eliminating Single-Family Zoning and permitting reform, allowing for more home construction than anything the incumbent has ever even dared advocate for, and still get accused of “destroying the capital markets that enable home building.”
John Gregorchuk@JMGregorchuk
PSA - CD 5 race is between an incumbent who's cutting regs and a tenant protection attorney who is destroying the capital markets that enable home building.
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@CohenSite Most importantly, can Culver City get ownership of its entire Main St?
Currently has world’s shortest Main Street!
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@CD5LosAngeles This is the clearest I’ve seen of a Los Angeles Council member diving into the weeds surrounding the slowness of DWP and other permitting at large.
Kudos and keep digging!
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DWP still has a lot of work to do on their end to clear the backlog and fix the bottlenecks holding projects up. But this is a really good start.
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Haven't been on here in a while, but wanted to share that the CA just dropped an ordinance to repeal the Traffic Control Review Committee in its entirety. Here’s why that’s a huge deal:
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Look at the jobs & residents within walking distance metric!
That’s honestly the most important, with commuter traffic being the leading cause of congestion on our roads.
Benjamin Schneider@urbenschneider
This table provides a sense of LA Metro's decision making. Despite being costlier and less direct, this route will serve many more residents and jobs than the alternatives. Ridership would be higher, but not hugely so.
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Wait, I'm actually really impressed by the design. It's broken up into three buildings, two separated by a paseo that will connect into future Culver City development.
Joe Cohen@CohenSite
No details yet, but a 490-unit project has been filed in the City of LA adjacent to Downtown Culver City
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it occurred to me that let there be light was the first prompt
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@BayWestInvest Because your money is already in their store! And getting it from your wallet to theirs doesn’t really change the financial situation for any of them
But in seriousness, DWP employees should have some incentive that is tied to project turn on, so that they’re motivated to finish
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What’s so crazy about this is WE’RE TRYING TO BECOME PAYING CUSTOMERS!
DWP sells electricity. We want to buy it. From them. It’s like we’re walking into the electricity store and saying “we would like some electricity please” and we slap some cash on the counter and the cashier just stands there. For 9 months. Sometimes more!
John Otter@otter401
Unfortunately the alternative in LA is a dysfunctional public utility company that is LADWP. It's so bad here that housing developers have red-lined LA because DWP can't even connect bldgs to the grid, leaving many fully constructed bldgs that just sit waiting for power for many months, and even years on end.
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@chemdawgrei I generally share this sentiment.
I'm still hopeful for some solution that could be funded to align YIMBY & NIMBY interests (more people & easier parking).
This solution probably does not exist.
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No one’s really building public parks or parking garages within cities anymore
Is there a way to build these at some tiny revenue value?
Are design / permitting / construct phases necessarily expensive?
Surely you can build a concrete box w/ a paid solar powered gate for cheap
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@yonahnthewhale I'm just wishing for a solution that may not exist.
A non-insignificant portion of city workload revolves around parking scarcity. Would love to remove this issue with something that folks wouldn't mind near them.
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@_MattHuff Broooo noooo parking lots are destroying cities.
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@jasonc_nc @FairweatherPhD @ahardtospell Learning about the existence of unpriced externalities really opened up my worldview
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@FairweatherPhD @ahardtospell I want to not like this tweet reflexively because I think transit should be paid for by users, but it’s forced me to consider the point from a new perspective.
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Streetsblog New York City@StreetsblogNYC
NEW: Mamdani's City Hall is discussing charging fees for currently free on-street parking — a policy change that would not only create a new revenue stream but also seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve the streetscape. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/mam…
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@RightyJim The play has always been to develop the parking lots into integrated year-round entertainment zones a la Battery in Atlanta, Ballpark Village in St. Louis, Gaslamp in San Diego, etc.
Whether McCourt does it or the next guy, it’s the inevitable path forward.
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@_MattHuff This the parking lot guy who had to sell the Dodgers after he crashed the team, idea?
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LA Marathon / Dodger Stadium had an exhibit for the LA Aerial Rapid Transit (LAART) this weekend ahead of the race today.
When built, it purportedly will be able to cut the LA Marathon start traffic (always a nightmare) in half!
And cut 1/5 (20%) of Dodger Baseball traffic! 🤔
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