Tune into the LA Metro Budget Public Hearing now - boardagendas.metro.net/event/budget-p…
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Oren Ben-Joseph
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Oren Ben-Joseph
@orenbj
Check out my transit game at https://t.co/cWaSkSEJhc Ⓜ️
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Mayıs 2010
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@JohnGonzalesLA1 It appears that many people outside of LA County believe that the AI "doom" videos accurately depict the reality of living here.
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The quality, veracity, and relevance of takes on the Los Angeles mayoral race is inversely proportional to the distance a poster lives from the Los Angeles city limits.
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@stqnfield @HNLTransitFan Best in the US prior to pandemic was BART around 60%
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Why are Metro and BART the only metro systems to have distance-based pricing structure in the US? 🤔
And…do they have to be?
Metro Forward@wmata
Commuting in the DMV is no joke with these gas prices… ⛽️ Take Metro Bus or drop your car at the nearest Metro parking garage and take 🚇 for just $2.25 - $6.75. ICYMI ➡️ Tap.Ride.Go is now available at many Metro garages. 🚙🚗 Learn more here: wmata.com/pay/tap-ride-g…
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@stqnfield @HNLTransitFan Definitely nowhere near that high but still one of the best in the US. I believe around 25% now and about 35-40% prior to the pandemic, if strictly looking at fare revenue.
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@HNLTransitFan @orenbj yeah nyc subway sits >90% farebox recovery rn iirc
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@rockgecko_dev @humantransit That's fantastic! I would really love to visit someday.
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@orenbj @humantransit Hasn't been any meaningful reduction in service quality this century, despite multiple dramatic reductions in fare prices. Safe to say in Victoria, the two are totally decoupled.
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You can tell an urban commentator isn't a transit planner because they praise loops.
Loops are sometimes necessary kludges. But ...
Very few people want to travel in circles!
emily north@north0fnorth
honestly if i ever had to leave the country i think my top choice to move to would be melbourne australia. like the skyscrapers, beaches, mostly public waterfront, train system with a loop… this just seems so chicago to me (laudatory)
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@rockgecko_dev @humantransit Jarrett’s caveat was "if the service is inadequate," while you note that "the service level is excellent."
It seems like you actually are in agreement. Free fares won't boost ridership if cutting the revenue stream causes service quality to drop.
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@orenbj @humantransit Mr Walker literally said it wouldn't. Free V/Line has undeniably got thousands more people out of their cars. The service level is excellent, with ~20-60min headways to Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo (160km @ up to 160kph)
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Jarrett Walker@humantransit
News from Melbourne. Making public transit free will not get people out of their cars if the service is inadequate. Charging fares and improving service is the path to success.
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@US_Stormwatch Fascinating map!
It looks like a massive footprint at this scale, but doesn’t the USDA Cropland Data Layer put almonds at roughly 11% of the total Central Valley geographic acreage? This looks to be far greater than that.
Do you have a source for the image?
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Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology.
That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.
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@rockgecko_dev @humantransit Does anyone deny that free fares increase ridership? I think the argument is more that fare revenue is a 100% flexible funding source that is reinvested into the system. The paywall also helps maintain safety & cleanliness. It could work well in a high-trust society, though.
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@humantransit Please consider revising your view on Melbourne's temporary free PT, given more accurate data now shows ridership up 25%, and >100% for regional V/Line trains on weekends theage.com.au/national/victo…
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@HNLTransitFan Yes, exactly. NYC's massive ridership volume + dense network inside a single city's border makes a flat fare workable. I believe their longest line is just above 32 miles.
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@orenbj A sensible answer! Thanks.
I’m assuming this means cities like New York have high enough ridership to maintain a single fare structure?
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@HNLTransitFan I think because of the distances they cover it's hybrid metro-regional rail
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Oren Ben-Joseph@orenbj
California Urban Rail Lines by Distance
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@the_bigJ0469 I believe the system prioritizes TAP first if it detects both. If you are on Android, you may need to have the app open while tapping.
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@orenbj Pretty cool
Now a personal concern of mine is that I have my college go-pass, and I have it on the tap card app on my phone. The concern is that I also have my bank card Google pay, so I'm concerned that the validator might charge my bank card instead of the tap card.
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when they say something so Americaphobic you gotta hit em with that bristlecone pine stare
Michelle@D162Michele
China literally has trees in Xi Jinping’s garden that are older than the United States! 🤣
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@orenbj not supposed to talk much about this so i’ll just say that it’s crazy to me that LAWA’s flyaway is also soft launching contactless payment today but LADOT transit’s DASH isn’t 😭
tbf like half of DASH fare readers are busted but still!
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@_taximaroa Hopefully third best after D Line Ext and LAX people mover (come on @flyLAXairport, you can do it!)
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WEDNESDAY: *If you live in Burbank* please show up and make public comment in support of a dedicated bus lane on Olive to make the NoHo-Pasadena BRT possible.
Details: mailchi.mp/streetsforall/…
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Give a listen to @flea333's new jazz album, Honora, if you haven't yet! It is beautiful and evocative. 🎺
open.spotify.com/album/4RsSlnwk…
Flea@flea333
Thank you so much Oren
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