Will Proctor
@willproctor.bsky.social
tryna get around LA on foot, bike, skateboard, bus, and train
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The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
The epidemic of A line bunching continues. Waited 17 mins for a train then ofc there are 3 in a row. @metrolosangeles.bsky.social please fix this! Is this gonna get worse when the line is extended next month??
August 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The epidemic of A line bunching continues. Waited 17 mins for a train then ofc there are 3 in a row. @metrolosangeles.bsky.social please fix this! Is this gonna get worse when the line is extended next month??
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I wrote an unusually strongly worded thing about the transit crisis in Pennsylvania, which is coming soon to Oregon and Illinois. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...
The Fall of Philadelphia — Human Transit
The Pennsylvania State Senate has decided that the transit system of America’s fifth largest city should be substantially destroyed. Similar dramas are playing out in Illinois, Oregon, and Rhode Isla...
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August 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I wrote an unusually strongly worded thing about the transit crisis in Pennsylvania, which is coming soon to Oregon and Illinois. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...
18 mins for an A line train at 4:40 on a Friday? Then 3 in 6 mins. Insane bunching for a rail line
August 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
18 mins for an A line train at 4:40 on a Friday? Then 3 in 6 mins. Insane bunching for a rail line
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The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
July 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
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Ebikes are so underrated. You can skip traffic by lanesplitting like a motobike, but you can also use bike lanes, parks, and sidewalks to avoid traffic entirely. I just wish everyone hadn't been brainwashed into thinking cars are cool and city planners would stop making everything bad on purpose.
July 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Ebikes are so underrated. You can skip traffic by lanesplitting like a motobike, but you can also use bike lanes, parks, and sidewalks to avoid traffic entirely. I just wish everyone hadn't been brainwashed into thinking cars are cool and city planners would stop making everything bad on purpose.
For the discourse, I actually ordered from the app-powered vending machine at LAX Transit Center. My thoughts:
- it is very dumb you *need* to download an app to order
- the app kinda sucks
- I have no idea how this is is better than a normal vending machine
- it is very dumb you *need* to download an app to order
- the app kinda sucks
- I have no idea how this is is better than a normal vending machine
June 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
For the discourse, I actually ordered from the app-powered vending machine at LAX Transit Center. My thoughts:
- it is very dumb you *need* to download an app to order
- the app kinda sucks
- I have no idea how this is is better than a normal vending machine
- it is very dumb you *need* to download an app to order
- the app kinda sucks
- I have no idea how this is is better than a normal vending machine
Full wraps and window dots on the Pacific Surfliner should be illegal @amtrak.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Full wraps and window dots on the Pacific Surfliner should be illegal @amtrak.com
We are living in a Veep bit
KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, 'You win. We're gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?" Would you accept that deal?
LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do
KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?
LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do
KENNEDY: What's the purpose of reciprocity then?
June 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
We are living in a Veep bit
Why is @metrolosangeles.bsky.social so bad at updating signs? How long do we think it will take Metro to have consistent station signs at Imperial/Aviation station?
May 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Why is @metrolosangeles.bsky.social so bad at updating signs? How long do we think it will take Metro to have consistent station signs at Imperial/Aviation station?
Credit where it’s due. Metrolink OC line headed south out of Union Station on the :40 and Amtrak on the :10 slaps. Super easy to remember. We now just need more Amtrak trains to get legit 30 minutely service
May 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Credit where it’s due. Metrolink OC line headed south out of Union Station on the :40 and Amtrak on the :10 slaps. Super easy to remember. We now just need more Amtrak trains to get legit 30 minutely service
Just biked the whole new path! Very awesome to have such a high quality bike path in LA!
May 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just biked the whole new path! Very awesome to have such a high quality bike path in LA!
Metrolink operates two hourly trains from Union Station to Burbank. Instead of having a train every 30 mins, they have two trains in 9 mins and then a 51 min gap. This seems like a huge miss not to have 30 min frequency on this line segment. Is this needed for their pulse scheduling?
April 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Metrolink operates two hourly trains from Union Station to Burbank. Instead of having a train every 30 mins, they have two trains in 9 mins and then a 51 min gap. This seems like a huge miss not to have 30 min frequency on this line segment. Is this needed for their pulse scheduling?
It’s insane that the concert venue at OC’s Great Park is a 2 hour walk from the Irvine train station. They should make it as easy as possible to take the train to these concerts
April 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s insane that the concert venue at OC’s Great Park is a 2 hour walk from the Irvine train station. They should make it as easy as possible to take the train to these concerts
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With zero public outreach or notice, LA Metro removed a 3.3-mile protected bike lane from the North Hollywood BRT project design because it would have resulted in a 30% reduction of street parking. A *transit agency* prioritized a couple blocks of parking over the safety of its riders.
April 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
With zero public outreach or notice, LA Metro removed a 3.3-mile protected bike lane from the North Hollywood BRT project design because it would have resulted in a 30% reduction of street parking. A *transit agency* prioritized a couple blocks of parking over the safety of its riders.
Biking in deserted flower district streets in DTLA on a @metrolosangeles.bsky.social bike >>>
March 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Biking in deserted flower district streets in DTLA on a @metrolosangeles.bsky.social bike >>>
Bus bunching on the 720 continues to be outta control
February 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Bus bunching on the 720 continues to be outta control
Forget 28 by 28 but by the Olympics can we have the correct line names at the stations? It has been 5 years since the name changed to the B Line and 19 years (!!) since the introduction of the Purple Line that services this station.
February 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Forget 28 by 28 but by the Olympics can we have the correct line names at the stations? It has been 5 years since the name changed to the B Line and 19 years (!!) since the introduction of the Purple Line that services this station.
If there is only one working escalator, it should be required to run up. Seems like a basic quality of life improvement that would be very easy to implement
February 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If there is only one working escalator, it should be required to run up. Seems like a basic quality of life improvement that would be very easy to implement
No buses for 18 mins, then three in six mins. Lovely
February 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
No buses for 18 mins, then three in six mins. Lovely
7th St Metro Center during rush hour is one of the few places + times LA feels like a real city
February 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
7th St Metro Center during rush hour is one of the few places + times LA feels like a real city
Still baffled that the light at 12th street and flower prioritizes left turning cars over the A and E lines. Seems so easy to move the left arrow to the end of the phase.
February 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Still baffled that the light at 12th street and flower prioritizes left turning cars over the A and E lines. Seems so easy to move the left arrow to the end of the phase.
Currently walking through a diamond freeway on-ramp in suburban ATL from the MARTA station to my hotel. AMA
January 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Currently walking through a diamond freeway on-ramp in suburban ATL from the MARTA station to my hotel. AMA
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I had been hearing rumors that LA NIMBYs were trying to hijack this crisis to roll back state housing law, but this is wild. Suspending the Housing Accountability Act for five years? In a city that already had a housing crisis before the fires? Insanity.
This Tuesday, LA County Commission will vote on a clusterf*ck resolution to speed the rebuilding of firetraps -- while exempting "fire impacted communities" from virtually all state housing laws for the next 5 years.
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January 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I had been hearing rumors that LA NIMBYs were trying to hijack this crisis to roll back state housing law, but this is wild. Suspending the Housing Accountability Act for five years? In a city that already had a housing crisis before the fires? Insanity.
Biking in Manhattan is so much fun. So much better than biking in LA
January 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Biking in Manhattan is so much fun. So much better than biking in LA