LA’s bus lane cameras issued $42.8 million in fines last year
The streets where tickets were recorded cover an estimated 31 miles. The program now accounts for nearly a quarter of the city’s parking fines.
Roll Call
August Attendance Champ
Los Angeles publishes no attendance record. We derived one from the roll calls themselves.
16 officials23 bodies289,344 roll calls
Heather Hutt
442 of 442 roll calls
Places
LA's parks department said the city needs 71 new dog parks by 2050. It has opened one in the last seven years.
Recreation and Parks counts 14 off-leash dog parks and recommends 85 by 2050. Its most recent one opened in South LA in November 2022, and the next isn't due until 2027.
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Mapping Metro
One ordinary Wednesday on Los Angeles transit, every vehicle in service, from the first bus out to the morning peak.
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Elections
Equal turnout would have moved the mayor's race by one point
Turnout in the June 2026 primary ran from 16.03 percent in Watts to 57.01 percent in Studio City, a 3.6-fold gap across 99 neighborhoods. But rescale all 739 precincts to the citywide 39.35 percent and Karen Bass gains 1.08 points, Spencer Pratt loses 1.18, and the same two candidates advance. That assumes the extra voters in each precinct would have split the way its actual voters did.
Politics
Los Angeles County lost 165 people a day for five years. We ran the next century four ways
The county has lost 301,576 residents since 2020, the worst five years of any of the twenty-five largest counties in America. California's official projection has it down another 1.4 million by 2070. Our cohort-component model ends 2070 about 808,000 below the state's. Migration accounts for roughly 40 percent of that gap, and a higher starting count and more optimistic birth and death assumptions account for the rest.
Crime
Twelve thousand hours above Los Angeles
For a year, I collected the positions broadcast by the LAPD's helicopter fleet. The resulting 20.9 million points show where helicopters spend their time, where they tend to circle rather than pass through, and how unevenly that time is distributed across Los Angeles.
Places
LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators on earth… Why?
LA Metro’s design specifications state that its escalators go 90 feet per minute, slower than nearly everything we found.
Running tally
The money in the mayor's race
45 days to November 3
Karen Bass
Incumbent mayor · 3,699 donors
$7.90M
behind this campaign
From donors$3,868,985
Public matching funds$1,257,000
Outside money for$2,775,828
Outside money against$83,630
Nithya Raman
Councilmember, CD 4 · 2,156 donors
$3.06M
behind this campaign
From donors$1,130,187
Public matching funds$1,257,000
Outside money for$673,803
Outside money against$2,021,332
Donor money and public matching funds run through June 30, 2026, the last period the candidates' own committees have filed. Outside money runs through September 19, 2026, because independent committees report within 24 hours of spending, while candidate committees file on a fixed calendar. Get the data.
Who pays to lobby Los Angeles
Every client that has paid a registered lobbying firm since 2005, with the filers' own name variants resolved into one company. Nine of the top ten develop land or sell advertising that hangs on it.
| 1 | AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group) Real estate and venues | $12.65M | |
| 2 | Clear Channel Outdoor Outdoor advertising | $10.93M | |
| 3 | Harridge Development Group / CRE-HAR Real estate | $10.89M | |
| 4 | Westfield / URW / ASUR Real estate and airport concessions | $9.76M | |
| 5 | LaTerra Development Real estate | $8.94M | |
| 6 | Champion Real Estate Company Real estate | $8.17M | |
| 7 | Atlas Capital Group Real estate | $7.75M | |
| 8 | Chick-fil-A Restaurants | $7.65M | |
| 9 | CIM Group Real estate | $7.45M | |
| 10 | Millennium Partners Real estate | $6.36M |
Source: Basin Data, la-lobbying-by-client. $1.159 billion in disclosed payments, 2005 through the second quarter of 2026.
Basin Data
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