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Staff writer . San Fernando Valley girl. “Highly vascular.” Tips? lbliss@theatlantic.com / DM for Signal and PGP

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Joined February 2013

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  1. Honored and intimidated be on a panel about public data and journalism at this afternoon. Come on down:

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    you are welcome for creating this thread of transit oriented metaphors from The Op-Ed. 👇🏽👇🏽1/

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    Sep 4

    Wrote a quick thing about Rahm's announcement and the questions it leaves unanswered. (hint: many).

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    Sep 4

    My first story for , on an ambitious chef who's trying to solve the problem of cooking lunch in public schools. This fall--tomorrow!--he starts operations in a high school in the Bronx.

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    Sep 4

    Great piece on why the near-collapse of mass transit in the United States wasn't inevitable. When service improves, ridership goes up. Seems like that *should* be obvious, and yet... by

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    This is a truly excellent writeup by . Looking forward to the next installment.

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    Sep 4

    Wow. And I thought Portland was fairly modern.

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    Sep 4

    As much as Torontonians like to complain about the state of transit, they sure have it good (by North American standards)!

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    Sep 1

    “Columbus, Ohio, does not have a single [transit] route that meets the full service standard.”

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    Sep 1

    Excellent thread by Laura Bliss & excellent article by John English. (More thorough treatment of the racist ethos that drove suburbanization & highway building is available elsewhere.) This concludes my Saturday morning sermon / Twitter rant.

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  13. Aug 31

    West Coast organizing groups are "rallying tech workers to mitigate the hostile effects of their own industries on the cities they occupy, and urging them to forge local connections." From and :

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  14. Aug 31

    algorithm, you see me

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    Aug 30

    Congratulations to . for his Bradford Williams Medal, chosen each year by the LAM Editorial Advisory Committee for excellence in writing on the built environment in general media. He’ll receive the medal at ’s Annual mtg in Philadelphia!

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    Aug 30

    The scorecard for San Francisco's scooter share pilot. The vertical trends show the winners. The horizontal trends are equally interesting.

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    Aug 31

    This thread (and great piece)! Just would quickly add: so much is about land use, most locally controlled. It's about far more than transit or highway investment. And here, too, Toronto did better than southern peers. For more:

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  18. Aug 31

    The outlook seems dire when refuses to disburse funds and oil titans actively fight local transit referenda. Lesson from 's history is simple, though not easy: to draw riders and revenue, build service that is actually good. READ:

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  19. Aug 31

    Vehicles are the #1 source of CO2 emissions in the U.S. Car dependence is a huge life barrier if you don't drive. Poor Columbus. "Full service transit" is not a thing there. This is a factor in a huge local health crisis: infant mortality. (more: )

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  20. Aug 31

    The story of transit in America wasn't inevitable. Toronto is a nearby example of why not. As it sprawled out, instead of relying on 1970s-style park-and-ride commuter rail systems that often fail to draw riders, it also provided frequent bus service to all of its new suburbs.

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