I made the jump over to bsky as this site continues to go down the drain. You can follow me there at the same handle.
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Eric Bruins
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Eric Bruins
@ejfbruins
@LACityDPW Bureau of Engineering. Former @mikeboninLA. Transpo nerd. #USC alum. #EchoPark. Tweets are my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Aralık 2014
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@brianschatz Met one of your staffers door knocking in Vegas today!
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Shout out to the hundreds of thousands of volunteers across the country. Feel free to say what you did below. But today very well might be the biggest day of door knocking ever. In any case good vibes below please!
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Eric Bruins retweetledi
Executive Directive 9 will bring a unified approach to improve our streets, roads and parks in cheaper and faster ways.
These efforts are part of our preparation to host major world events and create lasting benefits for decades to come.
dailynews.com/2024/10/16/la-…
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Eric Bruins retweetledi
The City of #LA is assessing our sidewalks and crosswalks, and we need your input! Take the Sidewalk Assessment Survey to help shape the future of our pedestrian spaces. Your feedback will guide decisions for a safer, walkable city! ➡️
ow.ly/1gM350T8UnF
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@nicSTREETZ This is exactly backwards. LA has separate sewer and storm water systems which is why we have not historically treated storm water prior to discharge. In fact, some of our newer water quality projects intercept low flow runoff and divert it into the sewer system for treatment.
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LA take notes, we have yet to separate our stormwater and sewage systems like most east coast and Midwest cities, with LA’s sewage system consistently overflowing into the ocean and rivers.
Alex Schieferdecker@alexschief
Bizarre to me that people think the French cleaned the Seine by like, pouring chlorine in for a day? No, they completely reworked their sewer and stormwater management system! It's going to keep working after the Olympics! This is a *good* thing, cleaning rivers is good.
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Biden has been the most legislatively consequential president of my lifetime. His legacy will pay dividends for generations. Thank you @POTUS for your lifetime of service to this nation and your brave decision today to pass the torch to the next generation.
The Associated Press@AP
President Biden's record includes legislation that will rebuild the country in ways that will likely be seen over the next dozen years, even if voters did not immediately appreciate it. apnews.com/article/biden-…
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The explicit goal of this policy is to allow the market to provide lower rent units, so it appears to be working as intended. The extra turnover is an interesting side effect, but people should have the freedom to move when their circumstances change.
Sanjeev@Sanjeevbhatiala
What is the long term impact of reducing parking minimums on new developments in LA? Feels like people will still pay a premium for properties with parking - and leave those which don't have it, at the first chance something in their budget pops up.
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👇 Insightful thread on messaging the housing crisis. “Shortage” implies a right number of homes and endless methodological fights to determine that number. “Spillover” speaks to people’s experience with the housing market, whether you’re looking or being displaced.
Daniel Herriges@dpherriges
Housing shortages are actually housing spillovers. Everyone needs a home. So when we don't build, demand doesn't evaporate—it floods into other neighborhoods, other cities, other metro areas or even whole regions. 🧵
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Eric Bruins retweetledi
Good news for LA: their light rail system has jumped San Diego to have the highest ridership in the nation, following a 30% year-over-year increase from the opening of the Regional Connector
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@markskovorodko @JulieChangRE Fireplace is a classic Batchelder — very specific to Los Angeles and a smart choice to keep it. Will maintain the home’s character for generations. Ripping one out is a huge giveaway the flipper doesn’t know what they’re doing.
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@JulieChangRE They nailed it. Only part I don't like is the fireplace, and they should've done a Santa Barbara stucco coat on the exterior – this texture is a vibe-killer. That said they nailed the overall patio area and sagey trim color.
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Who do y’all think of this investor improved LA flip?
It was a trust sale - sold for 897k last August
3/2 1497 ESF listed for $1.4M
Pics from the before in thread 👇🏻
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@CSElmendorf @pahlkadot It’s worth noting that the total value of the shelter program exceeds the $ threshold for all of the alternative process requirements included in SB922, including skilled and trained labor. These are sources of unknown legal risk vs the known legal risk of CEQA.
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Is this just a case of bureaucratic risk aversion (@pahlkadot) or autopiloting of dumb processes? Is there an actual problem with SB 922 that makes it unusable for ordinary LA bus stops?
Curious to hear from anyone who knows.
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Why is LA's transit agency cowering before NIMBYs rather than invoking the new @Scott_Wiener-authored CEQA exemption for transit improvements?
lapublicpress.org/2024/03/new-ye…
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Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Environmental review is now holding up ***bus shelters*** by six months. Literally can’t even build the smallest physical infrastructure quickly.
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Eric Bruins retweetledi
Editorial: Measure HLA win shows Angelenos really do want walkable, bikeable, safer streets (via @latimesopinion ) latimes.com/opinion/story/…
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LA established the Bus Speed and Reliability Working Group between @metrolosangeles & @LADOTofficial to solve this challenge. In project-oriented agency cultures, it’s hard to make programmatic improvements without making everything a “project.”
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Eric Bruins retweetledi
The citizen-sponsored ballot initiative that aims to force Los Angeles to add hundreds of miles of bike and bus lanes — to make streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists — was leading by a wide margin in early returns.
latimes.com/politics/story…
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Eric Bruins retweetledi
1941 LA drive time map -- this is LA pre-freeway era
how @%$#*&! quaint
1941: 35 mins btwn DLTA & SaMo
2024: 🤯
consider transit instead of 🚗 pls!
more great pics in Metro Library archives: mtro.la/TBfN50QK0Af
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@CohenSite There is a partnership between @LASchools & @LACityParks, but it hasn’t scaled up yet. It requires extra staffing to keep the school site clean and secure, and those resources aren’t usually the top priority for either agency without a community champion.
laparks.org/community-scho…
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This graphic is a good illustration of how safer street design can improve emergency response times — there’s a whole extra lane for police and fire vehicles! See also: bus lanes.
LAOCBuildingTrades@LAOCTrades
When BOTH business and labor, environmentalists and politicos support--there's something to it! @healthystreetla #YESonHLA @BizFed @LALabor @LADemocrats @SierraClub @VICASFValley
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@ShaneDPhillips The greenfield-oriented permit process is exactly right. It’s where policy and practice diverge since so many of our policies get chewed up the minute they are applied through the processes we have.
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I think this is downstream of our suburban-focused planning. In greenfield development, it makes perfect sense to have the developer build all the infrastructure--it's really only for their residents, after all. But that logic totally breaks down in an urban infill context.
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This is, in my view, a housing policy issue with some of the largest impact relative to how little it's discussed. I don't think cities are generally acting in bad faith, but these exactions are doubly harmful for being excessively large *and* completely unpredictable.
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