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alex davis

@alexdavistransit.bsky.social

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Transit service planner working toward a transit-first America.🚏🇺🇸 Proudly car-free in LA 🚌🌴 Fare enforcement enjoyer 🎫✅ -Being wrong lets you discover new things. -Being naive lets you dare to try. -Being cringe lets you change the world.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

🚨See federal agents in LA County? Call both of these numbers immediately to notify the rapid response networks.

🗽Save America Movement: (213) 379-991🎱
🇲🇽Union del Barrio: (213) 444-656✌️

Repost to help make California hell for ICE agents. 🌴

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. The vision has finally appeared to you.

All of South Jersey must be served by one great holy microtransit zone.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 6h

That's really smart. Because then we don't have to solve the murder problem because most of the murders happen at night, right? So if everyone's gone by 5:30p, no murder problem!

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 7h

Nah. They got through a whole summer without a murder. We're in business!

youtu.be/GmnKs3N6P9k?...

Camden reaches significant crimefighting milestone in New Jersey, touting declining crime rates

YouTube video by 6abc Philadelphia

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 7h

Woah. Camden's citywide microtransit has averaged 140 rides a day since it launched in June 2023. By comparison, this half hourly, stupid looking squiggly loop carries over 700 rides a day.

Worse yet, bus 452 has four vehicles. Camden loop has EIGHT! (Started with 5)

Via Inc. 💘 stupid politicians

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, you could say I'm familiar with it.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 8h

Why don't we put the 567 units in Downtown Camden, a place that already is a somewhat walkable neighborhood, has lots of space and also has much better transit?

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 11h

Open fare payment:
Good enough for Will Stancil.
Good enough for Los Angeles.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

why can I board the trains by tapping a card and never buying a ticket, it’s like black magic

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 12h

The last chopper out of 'Nam. The last C-130 out of Afghanistan. The last Spirit Airlines flight out of Portland.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 16h

Now if only we had a photorealistic rendering to illustrate the magnitude of this glorious future:

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, was just about to comment this. This is just the impacts of presidential priorities on TIGER, not a complete assessment of presidential transportation priorities.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 17h

We are used to the nimbys always finding a loophole. But this time, after a decade of fighting, it appears the California yimbys really have finally achieved the holy grail: a law that forcibly upzones neighborhoods with no opportunity for the local government or neighborhood orgs to stop it.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 17h

This entire street near Pierce College will be upzoned to 6 stories and crucially, there are no tools left to stop it.

-Parking minimums? Blocked by AB2097
-CEQA attack? Blocked by SB10
-Historic preservation? Retroactively time limited.
-Arbitrary denial? Blocked by Housing Accountability Act

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 19h

Yimbys dragging Gavin Newsom to the White House:

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, why not

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah maybe in some places. But in Southern California?? It was like 56°f the other day and also I got spritzed by mist. Sorry buddy, but walkability is not going to work here.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 2d

Big TBM = Small imagination

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine what it would mean to use Zohran's new $730 million (to offset MTA bus fare revenue) mystery funding source to boost service instead of deleting the fares that most passengers are happy to pay.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

Urbanism is so successful, highway engineers now have to build in *secret* hidden lanes like it's the Piața Romană metro station.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 3d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

Cross section of 114' wide bridge structure with each direction having a 12' outside shoulder and a 10' inside shoulder.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

Awesome! I'll write it later tonight.

alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

By the way, the deviated scheduled service I'm proposing would also use the same mini bus.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

to the email and have it be from all of us to give it more oomph?

By the way, I've already been able to get a couple small changes to Bus Revolution using this exact method.

Lmk, and I can show you all the email before I send it.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 3d

This will be such a catastrophic elimination of ridership on this corridor that I think I want to write an email to Dan Nemiroff politely suggesting a last minute pivot to a deviated, scheduled service. @bensh3.bsky.social @milesintransit.com @awildschild.bsky.social, want to sign on

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

If I had stayed at West Chester University, this is definitely something I would have worked on. Because WCU already runs a timed shuttle to Exton. They could have given that money to SEPTA, added some more hours to the schedule and had a really good service for the whole town.

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alex davis @alexdavistransit.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, that's a great idea. It could be like the CDTA connector service that is timed for Amtrak departures to NYC.