Baazquux

I'm thinking out loud again, don't bother me.

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

Fun (really!) fact about California. All beaches up to the mean high tide line are state land and are available for public use.
Beachfront homes are prime real estate and often have multi million dollar price tags.
Owners of these properties know, or should know the legal status of property in such locations. As sea level rises, as storms worsen, the Pacific Ocean is pushing inland, right under these houses. What was once private land becomes state land and courts have ruled over and over that properties built after 1977 when the law was enacted cannot expect any restitution or even build permanent sea defenses because that will harm the beaches that belong to the people of California.
Properties were built on eroding shorelines and developers knew it and built anyway. Buyers knew (or should have known) what the law was but bought anyway either assuming the geologic and climatic forces were occurring too slowly to matter and in the worst case scenario the taxpayers would bail them out. They are being proved wrong on both counts. Via Peter Craven

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

One of the biggest things wrong with public transporation in America is the people who lead it and run it don’t use it. So they view it as a charity, jobs program, political football or transport of last resort rather than the *only* way to safely move people at scale in cities.

[Baazquux @baazquux]

@ImChrisHughes @streetsforall I mean, the sprawl was an inevitable consequence of the automobile, but Huntington & co's land sales strategy certainly sped things right along.

[The Basin @TheBasinLA]

You'll often hear that at one point LA had "the largest light rail system on earth"

It's true, and now you can see it as well!

LA rail transit in 1926 vs 2026

[Baazquux @baazquux]

@metrolosangeles @Metrolink I'm sorry, my phone somehow autocorrupted Crenshaw to France. It's the scanner on the east portal of the Crenshaw station, south side, that wasn't working.

[Baazquux @baazquux]

@metrolosangeles once again your TAP barcode scanner on the east portal of France/I-105 is not working, forcing @Metrolink riders to hop the turnstiles! Fix your shit!

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined

Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

[Baazquux @baazquux]

How is it Toyota's out there racing Camrys in NASCAR and yet there's no Camry TRD edition?

[Police Pursuits Live @PursuitsLive365]

Update: NBC4 aerial reporter Eliana Moreno & pilot George Marciniak were killed in today’s helicopter crash in Chatsworth. They brought us the news from above with courage & dedication. Heartbroken by this tragic loss. Prayers for their families, friends & the entire NBCLA family

[BNO News @BNONews]

BREAKING: TV news helicopter crashes during live shot of bus crash in Los Angeles.

The helicopter belongs to NBC Los Angeles (KNBC-TV). No word yet on casualties.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Streets and roads are widened all the time to "relieve" traffic, and yet pedestrians can make up most of the traffic on a street, and the thought of giving them more space never happens.

[Baazquux @baazquux]

The weather app on my phone is trying to gaslight me and tell me that the skies are clear when they are, in fact, cloudy.

[fully fund transit @crosstown_line]

In this house we believe car rights are human rights

[Baazquux @baazquux]

@dbsb3233 @TODNewsHub Usually these TOD deals include some portion of the underground parking being assigned to the station anyway, so why should you care that an ugly, sunburned parking lot is getting developed?

Plus having amenities within easy reach of transit stops means people will use them.

[(((Matthew Lewis))) cults & consequences @mateosfo]

The coastal commission can scramble jets to block a protected bike lane on the PCH, or an apartment in the coastal zone (which extends 1,000 yards inland), but these rich homeowners can dump wet concrete on the beach & put it on TV.

If you wanna know how California works.

[Baazquux @baazquux]

@dbsb3233 @TODNewsHub 100% of *checks notes* parked cars that occupy less than 20% of the station's surface area, vs residents who live there and don't have to drive an hour just to get to a station, park, and then walk a quarter mile.

Tell me you've never ridden transit before without telling me.

[Baazquux @baazquux]

@_ooo0OOOO0ooo_ @RocketLab Hmm. Wonder if they're up to something like building a prototype K-F drive.

[Motor1 @Motor1com]

Look I think we all had money on what the first Cybercab accident would be but I don’t think any of us had “hit by 767”

[Baazquux @baazquux]

Just saw a dude on a bicycle carrying a broken Stargate. People will just take anything that's not nailed down these days

[Baazquux @baazquux]

@z_this_thing_on @otherside_X42 Landing them softly in the ocean was never the goal, more like a pleasant surprise that it survived (mostly) intact this time.

If they go on to blow up a launch tower on the next test then feel free to rant all you want.