Meet the Nonprofit Whose App Helps Homeless Angelenos Access Services "Offering access to about 2,000 service providers in the area, WIN has quietly become a key tool for L.A.'s homeless population: Our Community estimates their app is used for approximately 400 searches per week (they don't measure users)." (dot LA)
Transportation Committee Approved Motions To Implement New CA Laws: Speed Limits, Bus Lane Cameras, Slow Streets "If approved by the full council, Los Angeles will move to implement bus lane camera enforcement, reduced speed limits, and make more Slow Streets permanent." (Streetsblog LA)
Quantum Is Coming: Caltech and Amazon’s New Computing Site is Open "In 2019, Caltech announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to resurrect a 21,000-square-foot building as a shrine to quantum computing. Inside, researchers from MIT, Stanford, Harvard and more are planning to build out quantum computers that may look more like the giant IBM computers from the 50s than our current laptops." (dot LA)
Who killed L.A.’s streetcars? We all did "We did it, with our besotted fondness for our cars. But we love the conspiracy notion because it gets us off the hook, and it helps us rationalize the death of a once-splendid transit system with the idea that only a big, wicked cabal could have savaged such a civic jewel." (LA Times)
Is LACMA’s sluggish fundraising campaign picking up momentum? Here’s where things stand "Time is now the biggest enemy. As construction drags on, costs rise; as of last fall, the targeted completion date for the building was 2023, a year earlier than the current timeline. Govan, however, insists that the overall cost of the project — which he puts at $650 million, with $100 million allotted for “contingency costs” such as the increased price of building materials and labor — has not changed." (LA Times)
Employees In West Hollywood Will Earn Highest Minimum Wage In The U.S. "Starting next year, the city of West Hollywood will begin implementing the highest minimum wage in the country at $17.64 an hour....As of New Year's Day, hotel employees in the city will see the bump in their pay. Starting on July 1, all other workers will see incremental raises in their paychecks every six months until their hourly wage reaches the new minimum in July 2023." (LAist)