Michael Schneider

I biked 2 miles on Melrose to dinner last night. Nearly every street light was out. Spooky — and dangerous. Thanks to Karen Bass wasting our money on a convention center and LAX roadway expansion, there’s no money to fix them.

Buffoons for All !!

“LA doesn’t need a mayor who is skilled at political survival. It needs one who will spend political capital — on housing near transit, on streets that don’t kill people, on a homelessness program that publishes its numbers without being audited into it.” www.dailynews.com/2026/09/20/d...

Everything that makes my dinner spot in Spain charming is illegal in most of the US: - zero parking - no setbacks - mixed use - single-stair buildings - a street width most fire departments wouldn’t allow I think it should be legal to build this in any US city, by right.

This article on @citywatchla.bsky.social by Thomas Glick was a NIMBY's greatest hits of why LA can never be a multimodal city. It was so absurd, I felt compelled to take it apart paragraph by paragraph: michaelschneider.medium.com/the-war-on-c...

Apparently questioning the utility of palm trees in LA makes you both a communist and a terrorist 🤷‍♂️

“The cemetery has enough customers. Lawmakers shouldn’t help send it more. After years of work to make this street safer, Sacramento is threatening that progress. Politics should never come before human lives” - @michaelschneider.com www.latimes.com/california/s...

"How much does it cost to write your own law in California? About $500,000. That’s what Forest Lawn and Mt Sinai spent on lobbyists since 2025 to kill one road safety project, on one street, in LA. This week, Sacramento gave them their money’s worth." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The finishing touches on the Mid City Greenway are going in, here is the new Toucan Signal at Rosewood / Crescent Heights. There will also be a bike-only signal at La Cienega and Rosewood.

LADOT’s second Toronto barrier installation and the first outside DTLA on Imperial Highway. These will also be used on the Spring/Alameda project, and likely on Ohio. Great option for true Class IV protection. Bravo LADOT — let’s replace all K71’s citywide!

Good morning from Venice Bl

Awesome Beverly Hills bike bus this AM! @coachbalto.bsky.social

Good morning from Santa Monica Bl

Same story in Mexico City

Rush hour in Mexico City

Very multimodal trip with my dad to the Mark Taper Forum

Land use in the Coachella Valley is so wild

"Mayor Karen Bass’ office said the problem dates back to before her election in 2022." This is simply not true. While the applications were submitted before her time, the critical years where nothing happened after the money was won were under her watch. www.latimes.com/california/s...

How to start advocating for something, and make it a successful effort. michaelschneider.medium.com/how-to-start...

We could know results twice as fast if @lacountyrrcc.bsky.social worked normal 8 hour days. Why are we only processing/scanning 4 hours a day?

I’m sure the law passed in Sacramento had good intentions, but what exactly am I supposed to do with this information?

Step into my traffic-free world

We literally can't afford to live as car dependent as we do.

Do Angelenos even realize what % of their daily stress is caused by having to drive for every trip?

Not only does Mexico City protect its bike lanes well with very inexpensive barriers, but they also blink at night to be extra visible. Protected bike lanes don’t have to cost a fortune.

Even with an iconic transit line opening, @metrolosangeles.bsky.social sends out an email giving instructions only for people driving; apparently they’re even validating 🙃

Downtown Culver City

Amazing to me that the Mayor of LA sent out an email update on her plans for climate action improving infrastructure and there's zero mention of bike or bus lanes, Measure HLA, first/last mile to Metro, or anything else that would actually help reduce VMT. Instead it's about EVs!

At this point Santa Monica feels like another planet compared to LA

There’s only one candidate running for CA Senate District 24 who is a champion of safer streets and building more housing at the scale we need. Vote for @johnericksonwh.bsky.social by June 2, we need a fighter like him in Sacramento!

Another magical CicLAvia in the books.

LA’s first real modal filter outside of Hollywood is officially in the ground! Sweetzer and Rosewood

Despite all its problems, I still love LA. It’s worth fighting for.

Thank you @cd13.lacity.gov

The man who never met a freeway he didn’t want to widen, and who is currently chair of the @metrolosangeles.bsky.social board, Fernando Dutra, lost re-election last night! Good riddance.

Sometimes LA streets are just 🪄

Wanna save $45 and skip traffic? 🚲 to @dodgers.com Stadium!

Listen to @michaelschneider.com speak with Congresswoman Laura Friedman yesterday on her bill to unlock federal dollars for technology to eliminate police changes. Not only could this lead to safer streets for all, but also to the end of police helicopters in LA! youtu.be/T-GWS8OLtzU?...

The more LA’s leaders and bureaucracy try to sidestep the will of the voters, the more taxpayer dollars will be wasted on lawyers. Enough games!

Cochran / Pico Rush hour

American fire departments: - demand wide (unsafe) roads - multiple car-length red zones for hydrants - huge fire trucks Somehow in Japan: - trucks half the size that still put out fires - tiny zones for hydrants (helped by no street parking) - narrow (safer) roads everywhere

Meanwhile in Japan… Having an amazing bullet train system with 4 minute headways since the 60s wasn’t good enough so they’re doing this. I’m so tired of the US spending nearly all its transportation money on car infrastructure. I want nice things in my country too.

Cities can change People can change too

Santa Monica Bl West Hollywood 830pm on a Thursday 🚲🚲💨💨

Only in LA is it somehow legal to create parking spaces that by definition you have to drive *on the sidewalk* to park in them. We’ll never get close to Vision Zero when pedestrians are such an afterthought.

From 10pm - 6am, we should lower the volume of sirens. There’s way less traffic, and so the need to be noisy is less. The few cars on the road would respond to flashing lights and perhaps a quiet siren, and there’d be way less noise pollution / people woken up at night.

After the death of a pregnant mom riding a bike with her family, Traci Park all of a sudden cares about bike lanes. But the bike lanes they’re proposing aren’t safe! They’re door zone bike lanes. Even after a tragic death, protected bike lanes aren’t being considered.

Traci Park came into office deriding Bonin’s road safety improvements. Now, all of a sudden, she cares about Pershing — a street that HAD a bike lane and lost it thanks to NIMBYs. LA deserves Councilmembers who care about road safety all the time, not just in response to tragedy.

Good morning from San Francisco’s green painted protected bike lanes. We can’t even afford to replace broken plastic bollards in LA right now 🫠

Why do Caltrans projects take so long and cost so much? A multi-year study in the 5th round of outreach to consider creating a project to build bus lanes for a few miles.