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Replying to @_MattHuff
Hopefully, this account can grow to be a casual discussion & learning resource for those interested in traffic, transportation, and other urban issues.
Follow me to learn with me!
As someone who regularly responds to FOIA requests, we’ve noticed a 100x increase in requests, usually clearly bot created.
This effort increasingly requires more & more of staff time, taking us from actually doing the job of managing a city.
Some staff are now 100% committed to sorting & responding to these - it’s not sustainable!
Since it’s often for the exact same information, I propose reforming the FOIA process to allow an agency to post the commonly sought data to an MCP/API, and allow access as needed.
Next level would be creating an agency specific model to handle all FOIAs & give it clear file permissions for what can & can’t be shared.
It turns out you can just order your own puzzles (out of metal) and build a (hopefully) useful product 🤷♂️
Follow me as I make this journey into hardware & data collection!
S/O @sendcutsend
$4k for a 1 Bedroom new construction in Palms?
Onsite parking, in-unit wash/dry, rooftop balcony, etc. Building is beautiful too & Expo & Culver City jobs adjacent.
But does the market bear this?
First in my bloodline to run 10 miles while voice dictating revisions to my agents back on my home compute machine for a traffic simulation project I’m working on.
Exercise & programming have never gone together so well.
I will never not be amazed & confused at the sheer number of auto-repair shops in LA.
And their proclivity for occupying what seems like prime real estate!
Is it just prop 13 again or are people really smashing their cars that much? 🤔
As has been observed by others before me - software is now solved & the next frontier is hardware. Upskilling here next, specifically data collection & sensing.
I often make visual inspections of city infrastructure for work & I should be able to convert what I see into data.
New planted medians going in on W Washington Blvd in Culver City!
(near the Costco)
A 20yr project that aims to reduce blight, lower vehicle speeds & turning conflicts, and will add a massive stormwater capture & treatment under Glencoe Avenue ahead of the upcoming El Niño!
I am starting to see more and more projects that revolve around recreating/tinkering with an actual, controllable 3D digital twin, relatively recently captured.
And the ability is immensely valuable!
For cities - Imagine knowing the pothole location, scoping the materials needed, bid out..
My kids skate teacher asked if I could help him with a mini-ramp design. Things quickly got out of control.
Let me present, PLY 🛹
Grounded in real-world constraints, materials, and common sizes used in ramp building - I've put together a tool that allows you to not only make a mini-ramp with construction ready plans. BUT infinte ENTIRE skate parks.
PLY is truly nuts. I got hyper good performance at 120fps, all browser based, EU/US standards, full BOM, Cutlist, material optimisation and use of off-cuts. Integration with stores like Home Depot and Beijer (gives you an up to date price estimate for your build) based on total material needed.
It even estimates how many screws you need, and what types of screws. All down to a +-2.5% margin.
Everything is parametric, everything locks into grids based on material constraints (you can detach for bespoke aspects) any orientation, 15 degree banks, 45 degree bowls. But grounded in what can be done with the material you buy.
Not only does it output printable PDF, with step by step assembly like it was LEGO. It also creates 3D visuals and step by step 3D assembly guides you can play on your phone or tablet (yes even computer). Per section, or/and ofcourse your entire park.
The example below shows a park with elevated floor, but you have ground connectors aswell. So you can make freestanding quarters, roll in ramps, spines, boxes, pyramids, rails, stairs... Even draw your own custom components and save them to your own library.
mm, cm, inches, feet, everything is dynamic and you can switch between settings in real-time.
Park fly-throughs, assembly timelapses... BUT that's not all, when done, you can also... skate the damn thing.
IN THE ACTUAL BROWSER 🤯
So what started as an ask for my kids skate teacher, is now turning into a full CAD/GAME for creating skate parks, based on real-world material constraints.
There is so much left to sort out, for example, CONCRETE, yeah, we're doing it. Being able to smoothly shape concrete, calculate the needed volume, rebar, sand, filling material, drainage, slopes, anti-crack lines. Coping molding.
If people are not yet getting it, AI assisted development, is absolutely flipping software upside down and inside out.
I've not touched a single line of code. none. zero.
When it's ready for you to try, I'll share the link.
Until then this video will have to do + some more examples below.
Follow @LinusEkenstam if you want more stuff like this in your timeline.
With the K Line North Extension, I predict Mid-city will become like Palms after Expo but on a larger scale.
Cost of living, workers, & access to jobs parallel imo
Excited by the early results of my latest project.
Needs a bit more data to be definitive but with enough time I should be able to see macro trends in the LA/OC area that I don't think have ever been observed before!
Reminder that Culver City is in discussions w/ Hackman Capital tomorrow in a closed session regarding the following properties that Hackman Capital has defaulted on:
Sony Studios (9050 Washington Blvd)
The Culver Steps (9300 Culver Blvd)
+ other creative offices
City shaping!
My friend and I rebuilt a core feature of DeVinci Resolve using Claude this afternoon and now something that took him hours takes minutes.
DeVinci Revolve is the gold standard software for Hollywood color grading & professional post-production.
Probably nothing!
Underrated how good these taller building developments on Venice Blvd will make Culver City downtown look!
The city, utility, and/or developer are going to underground these power & com lines right?
…Right? Huge value capture miss if not
As a city road fixer, we’d love to pay to have this data!
Would want to ensure full coverage of every navigable public street, in every lane - manhours make it impossible now but if it was autonomous &/ aggregated…
AI is going to allow us to build digital twins that are actually useful.
Currently scoping repairs to our city’s streets & the hardest part is finding where to build!
I envision public AVs like Waymo/Zoox fitted with sensors traveling every street periodically collecting data!


























