Becky Hartung

Happy Transit Day of Equality!

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We can do so much to build out these areas! Boost local businesses! Make it safer for the workers to cross streets on their lunch breaks! Increase housing supply! Add much needed canopies + plants to protect nearby LA River.

There are some improvements a few blocks up like painted crosswalks and drought tolerate landscaping. It really did make all the difference at feeling safer to walk.

I tried walking to the studio where they film a popular gameshow in LA. Sidewalks ended abruptly or were broken/poorly maintained, massive crosswalks with long waits, areas pedestrians can’t cross because of the Metrolink tracks (long detours) and no shade. We can do better.

After asking for years, the city finally added my precious daylighting red curbs to the street in my neighborhood to stop cars from parking in the intersection.

Escaped the Rapture on a Bus I sat in a dimly lit room with a dozen or more other teens during our weekly Bible study. Our New King James Bibles were pressed into the…

Dusting off my Bluesky account to share some writing about leaving evangelicalism and finding public transit (I’m serious).

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If you live/work/bike in Pasadena—come out to our bike panel on May 20th at 7:00 PM.

Bike to Work day—tired eyes and all.

I was out biking this weekend, did I miss anything before I go clock in for my job in INTERNATIONAL TV SALES & DISTRIBUTION?

If Trump is serious about tariffs on movies, it's a very dangerous escalation. Tariffs have not traditionally been applied to services, and the United States is a massive net exporter of services. We would be extremely vulnerable to any service-based retaliation.

Bikes lanes are only empty because we refuse to actually separate them from dangers like cars and trucks.

did they not hear our city is BROKE

Don’t give the Democratic Party a dime until they start treating the current moment like the crisis it is.

A new multi-family unit in our neighborhood opened and within a few weeks we saw sighs going up about a “neighborhood watch”. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Grassy tram park land ftw. 🚃🌱

“It’s okay if you don’t like it, but we’re going to build it anyway” Validates their feelings without compromising on what we actually need to reduce our carbon footprint.

My coworker has been teaching her daughter to respond to criticisms about her outfits by saying, “It’s okay if you don’t like it” and I think that’s what I’m going to start saying to anyone opposing more bike infrastructure.

I like that San Antonio adds these colorful lights under their freeways. If I have to walk under these awful things—at least make them bright.

Next time hold a town hall in your district, provide food / mutual aid supplies—actually DO something for the community you are serving. That’s the best way to serve.

I think Dems should have set up mutual aid areas across DC or in their districts tonight to talk about issues, provide support, and serve a hot meal.

Everyone but like five cast members can go

I was excited to watch Running Point on Netflix, but the opening scene with a speeding driver going down what is clearly PCH and hitting people sitting at a restaurant is in poor taste and soured me a bit.

I missed it on camera, but this idiot came down our street and it was so loud the house shook. We have a 30 mph speed limit in the neighborhood. These freaks don’t care and we need to add protective barriers to keep these guys off the road including his license.

As a kid, I lived near a race track that had races every Friday night and you could hear the sounds of racing cars throughout town. Now, living in Pasadena, drivers treat ours roads as their race track and tear through our neighborhoods every night. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I think the California Film Commission should give production tax credits to productions who have crews commute by public transit and/or show characters on bikes, buses, or trains for a certain amount of film/episodes.

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Bikes, cargobikes, transit, walkable cities have always been a “fuck the oligarchy” movement for me. Riding my bike is an act of resistance. Always has been. (My people knew Elon Musk was full of shit before it was popular). Today’s FTO content is a natural and necessary extension of that.

Congestion Pricing Reduced Traffic. Now It’s Hitting Revenue Goals. (Gift Article) Revenue figures from the Manhattan tolling plan showed that the program is on track to raise billions for mass transit repairs.

EXCLUSIVE: New York’s congestion pricing plan raised $48.6M in tolls during its first month, a strong start that exceeded expectations. The revenue figures, expected to be released publicly on Monday by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, are the latest sign that the tolling plan is working.