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Alissa Walker
@awalkerinLA
I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Co-host @theLApod. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinLA everywhere else. Sign up for my coming-soon newsletter: https://t.co/SufqDaCiIA
May 20, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I sure wish everyone who suddenly cares so much about shade at LA's bus stops had brought this same energy when the city approved a shitty bus shelter contract that locked us into a decade or more of the same bad decisions that got us here Maybe send a note to your councilmember asking for their plan to raise hundreds of millions in capital expenses to actually install the new shelters — which will still only provide shade at half of LA's bus stops... by 2028 dot.la/la-bus-reforma…
May 19, 2023 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
The fiscal cliff transit agencies are facing is real, but there's a remarkable transformation happening nationwide — schedules and frequencies are shifting to boost ridership *and* finally give the most transit-dependent riders the service they deserve curbed.com/2023/05/public… Existing transit schedules specifically fail workers who have shift jobs that don’t follow 9-5 commuting patterns. In NYC, 61% of those jobs are located in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx — boroughs where ridership recovered to higher rates than Manhattan comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/round…
Jan 26, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
I've written before about how getting more people on buses and e-bikes is faster and cheaper than swapping gas cars for EVs, but reporting this story helped me think in a new way about how to nudge those changes by treating batteries like a public good curbed.com/2023/01/electr… I had asked these same questions for years. @cpluscp's report confirms that the number of EVs that U.S. car companies are "supposed" to make is not set in stone (literally) and we don't actually have to accept these estimates as some pre-determined fate
Jan 26, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I walk and bike here often and this has been my favorite safety improvement to watch deteriorate. Especially fun to make it up to Temple, gasping with relief, only to find the hillside has slid down over the sidewalk again.

Also note how the newly planted trees have all died I think @JoeLinton’s idea to add a bike lane is good but we could actually close this lane completely as well as the other slip lane to the west (in red) to slow drivers down, plus we should add new public staircases (in black) for folks to safely get up the hill A map showing a tangle of streets at the Temple, Silver Lake
Dec 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
The fact that the head of the Boring Company was brought in to “cut costs” for Twitter and ended up eliminating critical safety operations should be sounding alarms for city officials who hired this person to build underground transportation infrastructure nytimes.com/2022/12/29/tec… Cost-cutting has been overseen by Steve Davis, the head of MMr. Davis has directed Twitter employees to delay paying varThe shutdown of the Sacramento data center, known as SMF1, sMr. Musk tweeted that Twitter remained online, “even after You may wonder how this person even has time to work at Twitter when he's so busy supervising the $50 million Tesla valet system he built under the Las Vegas convention center wsj.com/articles/elon-… Boring employees directed attendees into cars. Mr. Davis, in
Dec 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
For this year’s California cookies I tried to visually represent — through sprinkles, of course — LA’s absolutely bonkers 2022 Three California shaped cookies on a cookie cooling rack wit Also available in podcast form 🙃
Nov 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"The six-year-old company has repeatedly teased cities with a pledge to 'solve soul-destroying traffic,' only to pull out when confronted with the realities of building public infrastructure" wsj.com/articles/elon-… An astounding passage here from officials at the Ontario, CA airport who got ghosted by Musk which shows how much damage the Boring Company has done. They still believe digging tunnels for cars will somehow cost less than running a dedicated shuttle bus to the Metrolink station! In Ontario, the San Bernard...
Oct 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's not just drivers who make Halloween so deadly for kids, it's specifically commuters. When you look at FARS data, the deaths remain high year to year but go down when Halloween is on the weekend, as it has been for the last two years.

This year Halloween is on a Monday again From my (old) story: "Halloweens that fell on workdays had an 83 percent increase in deadly crashes involving kids compared to weekend days. The worst day? Friday. Since 1994, the three deadliest Halloween nights for kids have all been Friday nights" archive.curbed.com/2019/10/25/209…
Oct 22, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
If you ride a bike, you may have noticed how car companies are proposing all sorts of tech to keep you "safe" while doing little to actually make cyclists safer. Here's what worries me so much about C-V2X, which you're going to be hearing a lot about soon curbed.com/2022/10/audi-c… C-V2X is the latest "vehicle to everything" tech that allows cars to talk to other cars and anything else with the right sensors installed. For this to prevent crashes, however, we'll need sensors on "everything" on the road, from cars to crosswalks to even pedestrians themselves An illustration of the C-V2X technology that reads: standard
Sep 14, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Still cannot get over this quote from LAFD: “Like most fire departments, we have somewhat limited experience with many aspects of these new forms of transitional housing, and as an agency, do not perform live fire testing to expressly evaluate their flammability” My question to the city of LA, which is currently "housing" hundreds of people in these structures — is there any live fire testing that's going to happen now? A raging red hot fire destroying several tiny home shelters The aftermath of the fire showing charred and melted remains
Aug 10, 2022 • 12 tweets • 0 min read
Aug 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
This is a community policing program Caruso co-founded with LAPD. It's not really for "every kid." Students with a 3.0 GPA can apply, and if accepted, they are taken out of public school, paired with LAPD mentors, and awarded scholarships to attend Catholic schools Here's how Caruso talked about Operation Progress with the LA Times editorial board earlier this year — as his way of "investing" in Watts instead of building housing or a Grove-like development latimes.com/opinion/story/… The commitment of dollars i...The impact on that family’s...
Jul 30, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Trump's ghastly rhetoric to "make our cities clean, safe and beautiful again" by ramping up street sweeps and detention camps is exactly the same strategy being pushed by Democrats — and it's going to get a lot worse curbed.com/2022/07/donald… Removing unhoused people from public space by forcing them to accept shelter under threat of incarceration isn't new, but it got pushed back into the spotlight when Trump elevated Robert Marbut and his “velvet hammer” approach to a federal position archive.curbed.com/2019/12/10/210…
Jul 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
As an LAUSD mom, I'm outraged by the council's proposal to expand 41.18's enforcement zones — which will not make anyone "safer" but will do great harm by stigmatizing and criminalizing the homeless families at our school Loitering outside a school or daycare is already illegal! But introducing new enforcement zones around our schools will increase the likelihood of conflicts with police that @LA_StudentsDsrv have worked so hard over the last two years to reduce
Jul 27, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
In hindsight, the under-construction bridge, off limits to everyone except invited guests of the mayor, was a strikingly symbolic venue for the "state of the city" Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garc... Now it truly is "a love letter to Los Angeles"
Jun 3, 2022 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
Let's talk about Caruso's plan to "clean up" LA.

The most important thing to know, which I point out in my piece, is what he's proposing is not a departure from current policy. At all. If anything, it's throwing more money at solutions we know don't work nymag.com/intelligencer/… In reporting this story, I learned how Caruso works closely with certain LA neighborhoods to build "their little downtown," as he calls his malls. That sounds great! You'd think that would be his platform.

But it's not. His platform is just three issues ON THE ISSUES We cannot tolerate the homelessness, crime and
Jun 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
I actually did have this on my 2022 bingo card Not surprising, and neither is the pattern of celebrities endorsing Caruso who also have business deals with him. Musk is a tenant at the Americana, where there is a Tesla store on the car-free street. The trolley conductors point it out specifically A Tesla store showing electric cars in a large white doorway
Jun 1, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Last month, I spent a week at the Grove, trying to figure out what electing Rick Caruso as mayor of LA might look like. Unfortunately his plan doesn't promise fountains and trolleys for everyone nymag.com/intelligencer/… The Grove is open 365 days a year, something I didn't know before I spent a week there. Even before the stores open, people walk their dogs around what Google Maps insists is a park. It even has a little free library A grassy lawn in the center...Four statues made out of br...A white little free library...
Apr 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
It's very interesting that he's going after a reporter for procuring and sharing a video within her legal rights when he recently instructed another news organization to do the exact same thing for a video his department made showing alleged crimes on LA's transit system Just last week, KFI made a big deal about "the video Metro doesn't want you to see," which Villanueva told their reporters to obtain from Metro using a public records request. So clearly he knows how reporting works
Apr 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Everyone should read this sentencing memorandum which is full of bonkers details about our city's failed governance but I keep coming back to this statement. Who does this? Here's the video from 2017. After he names Wright as part of a long list of people in LA city leadership who are gay: "If you have a problem with your bill, with the DWP, you can go to somebody gay now and complain"
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Apr 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
At first you might think, wow, Elon Musk is finally focusing on solving real traffic issues, not moving his own cars. But I see this as further evidence that the Boring Company does not care one bit about the people who have to actually use these tunnels curbed.com/2022/04/elon-m… Here's the project site in Kyle, Texas, where the Boring Company proposes tunneling a pedestrian underpass below the Union Pacific tracks to connect two planned developments in the suburbs of Austin. Seems like an okay idea, right? Well... A rendering of a Boring Com...