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[TOVI @tovihomie]

If you look closely, you'll see a huge transformer in front of each of our LA projects. 🤖

The one West Hollywood one (Huntley), no transformer...🤔

[Urbanize LA @UrbanizeLA]

The project would replace a portion of the Wilshire Courtyard office complex

https://t.co/1kJptt56Jw

[Maths Cat @SecantSphinx]

I wish people who weren't in LA and who aren't paying to LA politics would stay out of it.

There are STRONG reasons a lot of lefties do not want Rae as mayor.

And it's because she knows about as much as Spencer Pratt.

[Metro Los Angeles @metrolosangeles]

Hall of Fame transit advocate and rider @_KennyUong_ is in the 🏡

D Line opens in less than 2 hrs!

[Dave Rand @DRand2024]

Members of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association booing and hissing at @cd4losangeles over her pro housing and transit positions speaks volumes about what’s at stake in this election. Good for Nithya for going into the NIMBY lions den and standing her ground.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

There’s going to be a completely braindead population who went to school during covid and were allowed to use cell phones in school sandwiched between generations of people who actually know how to read

[Michael Schneider @schneider]

Why can Santa Monica and Culver City do this so easily and in the city of LA they’re big expensive capital projects that take forever.

Instead we use plastic bollards that get run over constantly and have to be replaced so often that we run out of them.

[lej @_lej44]

LA released a progress report last month on 18 “open-by-the olympics” street safety + bike/bus lane projects (summer 28’)

Only a single one has started construction and most haven’t even entered the contract/bidding stages!

We need new leadership pushing/reforming this.

[Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer]

It’s the age of electricity and America isn’t ready.

Virtually every goal that Americans care about requires big changes to the power grid. I’m in @nytopinion today on why power bills are going up, whether AI is to blame, & what we need to do about it:
https://t.co/wgJeAEzF8h

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Oh my God this is so good

[j @_jesse_dean]

@aarmlovi How much of this is downstream of (dumb) railroad labor rules? It’s not like either the MTA or Amtrak is known for their ability to flexibly schedule staff for… basically anything

[amy @amypretzel]

unpopular take: the most underrated piece of object engineering in your house is your front-load washer door seal. it's a torus of EPDM rubber (ethylene propylene diene monomer, picked because it survives hot water + detergent + bleach for 10+ years). it has 3 sealing lips, drainage channels routed to prevent mold, and a bellows geometry that absorbs drum vibration without leaking under 1200 RPM spin. it costs your manufacturer maybe $4. it does more mechanical work than your car's serpentine belt and you've never noticed it. that's the gold standard

[Joe Cohen @CohenSite]

@moseskagan The real problem with government employment is that it’s really hard to both hire and fire. In LA, the process of getting hired for a civil service position takes like a year!

[L. Louise Lucas @SenLouiseLucas]

Thank you McDonalds for hiring those facing federal job losses. Every family deserves to earn a living and that’s why we raised our minimum wage in Virginia to $15 an hour.

[Edward Russell @ByERussell]

.@AlaskaAir is attempting what few have ever done: successfully fly as a dual-brand airline. From Wednesday, travelers will see new Alaska-Hawaiian branding at airports around the world. The aim is to respect both brands within a single airline family.

https://t.co/WwcEL0o84u

[Coconut Tree City 🥥🌴 @yin_yang_yo_]

@tobyhardtospell @kylekatarn95 And for too long, our leaders have ignored just how costly the process is and all HLA did was force them to confront it. It's entirely on our leaders to fix the process

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

The stats here are kind of remarkable. BART's new fare gates have led to a 1,000-hour decline in clean up time; 41% drop in crime; and $10 million increase in projected revenue. https://t.co/bQMIcgUPal

[Austin Nissly @atnissly]

We’ve been able to attract over $150mm of investment into SoCal over the past year in large part thanks to laws created by @cayimby.

This is money that would have gone to other states.

There’s 1000x this capital eagerly waiting on sidelines if @cayimby continues this work. We’ve talked to these capital sources. For example, we’ve had to avoid investments that will be impacted by ULA and neighborhoods run by anti-business councilmembers who’ve let their areas deteriorate. ULA reform and business friendly councilmembers would turn this around.

Very few places have capital just waiting for good governance, LA/CA is very fortunate. Cleveland or Pittsburgh don’t suddenly get a flood of investment if they elect a great Mayor or streamline permitting rules.

["D." Fool @FoolOfD]

There isn't much I like about Americans, but the understated cultural taboo we have around having servants/hired help and being generally polite to waitstaff is a genuine achievement in egalitarianism. Much of the rest of the world are absolute savages in this regard.

[John Otter @otter401]

This is big. Developers typically have to go through the entirety of the process only to find out in the end that their project is responsible for 100's of thousands or millions of infrastructure costs.

It would be great to include city/county owned utility companies like LADWP. Our project was quoted $600k by DWP to run a 1-1/4 mile overhead line extensional at the beginning of the process, only to get stuck with a final bill of $3.2M because DWP changed their mind and decided to run the line underground.