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Sugar Hill, once home to LA’s Black elite, before-and-after construction of I-10. Previously the wealthiest Black neighborhood in Los Angeles, construction of the 10 cut Sugar Hill in half in the 1960s. Despite residents’ protest, the highway took hundreds of homes with it.

Davis Square 'SafetySticks' will battle Somerville parking problems bostonglobe.com/2023/11/15/met… via The Boston Globe

PRESS RELEASE: Carl Guardino and Darnell Grisby Elected as Chair and Vice Chair of the California Transportation Commission

“Only 1% of the land in America’s 35 largest cities is walkable. But those areas generate a whopping 20% of the US GDP.” 🎥 World Economic Forum

📣 We have a plan! The Commission approved the 2024 Traffic Relief Plan last week. The comprehensive aspirational Plan identifies more than $30 billion in transportation projects across #RiversideCounty. Read the approved Plan at TrafficReliefPlan.org

In grad school, I worked part time at lululemon (retail, not corporate). I learned more about business from that part time job folding & selling yoga pants than any other job I had. ❤️ Here’s what they did differently:

Miami’s Brickell might be one of the most dramatic examples of transit-oriented (or at least transit-adjacent) development in the US. The Miami Metromover made it there in 1992, and now it’s surrounded by high-rises and a huge mall directly connected to one of the stations.

I witness this frequently as well.

Two cursed things in NY politics: — Burning political capital on bail reform rather than congestion pricing, which is known to *become* popular once it is implemented. — Doing a huge court fight over redistricting and then not actually gerrymandering!

A fun SF thought experiment: would a dozen gay bars have been allowed to open in the working class Irish-American neighborhood of Eureka Valley (now known as the Castro) if there had been a Robust Community Outreach Process for liquor licenses in the 1960s and 70s?

A Black woman president, endowed with immunity from prosecution by the US Supreme Court is apparently not a possibility MAGA considered.

Since I know there are a folks extra interested in crowd size… Let’s take a look at this week’s Kamala Harris & Tim Walz events👇🏻

It used to be pretty lonely to be a YIMBY elected official. That era is over. Kamala: “There’s a serious housing shortage. It’s too difficult to build & it’s driving prices up. We’ll take down barriers & cut red tape including at the state & local levels”

GOP pollster Frank Luntz “I’m trying to do a focus group tonight with undecided voters under the age of 27 for a major news outlet. And I can’t recruit young women to this, because they don’t exist.” The people who are ‘undecided’ have all collapsed towards Harris.”

Strong, forceful pushback by Kamala Harris on these topics & framing. Refreshing. This most recent media swing, voters are seeing the Vice President's comms skills tactfully deployed--showing she knows each audience and host very well. It's not the same conversation each time

Turning SF’s Great Highway Into a Park Will Have Major Ecological Benefits, Report Says dlvr.it/TFRgbf

Muni is making strong progress to adapt to a post-pandemic world. New data show customer satisfaction among Muni riders is the highest in 20 yrs. 72% of Muni riders rate service “good” or “excellent,” the highest rating the system has received since surveys began in 2001.🧵

Dems need to embrace making it easier & faster to produce the things people need — e.g., housing, clean energy, child care, transit — & move away from government-created scarcity. An abundance approach lowers cost of living. Dems need to lean into being the Party of abundance.

New — Asked Speaker Johnson about placing conditions on aid to California, and he tells us: “I think there should be conditions on that aid.” Said that’s his personal view before talking with the conference. Also says “there’s some discussion” within the House GOP about tying