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At 1:06:30 there is an update on food and beverage on the Gold Runner. They are going to go from a free for all to carts later this year, and installing pilot vending machines for implementation next year.

This change apparently started this week according to Google reviews. Now if you need to cook a steak or get fresh produce at 4 am in the morning your only choices are to drive to Lakewood or Fontana. I can’t think of another 24/7 grocery store in the LA region.

Running every 12 minutes during the day seven days a week, 15-20 minutes until midnight, and every half hour overnight, on dedicated bus lanes for 90% of the trip on Maryland Parkway.

The CX will no longer serve the airport or Strip, rather it will stop on the 15 at In-N-Out, near Vdara by the towers on the other side of the freeway, and at the intersection of Flamingo and Valley View across from the Rio and Gold Coast.

The fare increase will probably happen but is not on the August RTC agenda and so would not be decided until September at the earliest.

The list of the 241 pay phones is at the end of the scope of work.

Looks like they are putting their meetings on YouTube which hopefully they will do moving forward. Discussion on the new Oakley station, Thruway bus study, new I-5 corridor bus from Redding to SMF and Sacramento Valley station (to replace the current RABA Chico Redding bus), and marketing the service to Southern California when there isn’t much of a budget to do TV or radio for the LA area.

Recently my agency just opened a 401k with a mega backdoor Roth option (previously we just got the 457). Currently 44 with $1m in 457, $450k in Roth (including mega backdoored funds), and $750k net in taxable plus a paid off home. Partner lives frugally enough so that they can carry their load and retire with me but is not relevant to this calculation since we aren’t and probably won’t marry, and no (human) kids either.

At this point I consider myself FI but am basically shoving as much as possible into both the 401k and 457 for $96,500 of which $49k is pre tax and the remainder mega backdoor Roth. This includes occasionally taking profits in taxable to fund my daily expenses since for the first half of the year I put in 75% of my pay into tax advantaged accounts, with the rest going into defined benefit pension contributions and taxes. I just dialed it down to 40% until I can max out, so I don’t have to dip into savings to buy lunch.

I am considering staying to 50, I get free healthcare for life, will max out on the amount of vacation I get a year, and can start on the pension at the end of 2031 which would be $70k in 2026 money. Plus retiring at age 50 would mean I could put $112,500 in 2026 dollars into both 401k and 457 and reduce the amount I have in taxable, as well as all the years of 2027-2030 where I will have shoved another $400k+ in tax advantaged accounts.

If I leave now I would have to pay 16% of health care premiums, which are inflated due to the older population of the retirees so I might consider a bronze plan with HSA instead and decline the subsidy at least until I get older; would only get $60k in 2031 but that amount would not be inflated for COLA for the five and a half years between now and retirement, but obviously I will have four years to convert as much of my $1m in pre tax funds to Roth as would make sense, funded by the taxable account. (My target taxable income would probably be the end of the 22% tax bracket although it would not kill me to get to 24% provided I stay clear of the NIIT at $200k AGI.)

I think I am going to stay until 50 at this point, but just pull the plug if I get transferred to a bad assignment or my bosses suddenly become evil (I have been fortunate to not have actively malicious bosses in my career). Other than the usual considerations of still having to show up to work, schedule vacations around work needs, etc is there any reason why I shouldn’t stay and continue placing as much as possible into tax advantaged accounts?

Recently my agency just opened a 401k with a mega backdoor Roth option (previously we just got the 457). Currently 44 with $1m in 457, $450k in Roth (including mega backdoored funds), and $750k net in taxable plus a paid off home. Partner lives frugally enough so that they can carry their load and retire with me but is not relevant to this calculation since we aren’t and probably won’t marry, and no (human) kids either.

At this point I consider myself FI but am basically shoving as much as possible into both the 401k and 457 for $96,500 of which $49k is pre tax and the remainder mega backdoor Roth. This includes occasionally taking profits in taxable to fund my daily expenses since for the first half of the year I put in 75% of my pay into tax advantaged accounts, with the rest going into defined benefit pension contributions and taxes. I just dialed it down to 40% until I can max out, so I don’t have to dip into savings to buy lunch.

I am considering staying to 50, I get free healthcare for life, will max out on the amount of vacation I get a year, and can start on the pension at the end of 2031 which would be $70k in 2026 money. Plus retiring at age 50 would mean I could put $112,500 in 2026 dollars into both 401k and 457 and reduce the amount I have in taxable, as well as all the years of 2027-2030 where I will have shoved another $400k+ in tax advantaged accounts.

If I leave now I would have to pay 16% of health care premiums, which are inflated due to the older population of the retirees so I might consider a bronze plan with HSA instead and decline the subsidy at least until I get older; would only get $60k in 2031 but that amount would not be inflated for COLA for the five and a half years between now and retirement, but obviously I will have four years to convert as much of my $1m in pre tax funds to Roth as would make sense, funded by the taxable account. (My target taxable income would probably be the end of the 22% tax bracket although it would not kill me to get to 24% provided I stay clear of the NIIT at $200k AGI.)

I think I am going to stay until 50 at this point, but just pull the plug if I get transferred to a bad assignment or my bosses suddenly become evil (I have been fortunate to not have actively malicious bosses in my career). Other than the usual considerations of still having to show up to work, schedule vacations around work needs, etc is there any reason why I shouldn’t stay and continue placing as much as possible into tax advantaged accounts?

SB 707 is the new law which allows anyone to comment from phone or online on any city council in the Southern California counties. This is especially important for the cities such as Industry who like holding their meetings during the day to evade accountability.

https://bbklaw.com/resources/la-101025-major-brown-act-updates-under-sb-707

“This was a result of unintentional human error during the printing setup process with a vendor contracted to print this job by our contracted printing company, US Printing. City staff had no involvement in the insertion of these images,” Mark Gluba, Pomona assistant city manager, said in a Tuesday email.
The city first acknowledged the matter in a now-archived statement on its website on June 8, though posts are still live on Facebook and Instagram.
The city contracts printing services with US Printing, which has locations in Chino and Montclair, according to Gluba.
Gluba said the same owner owns both the Montclair and Chino US Printing locations, and that “the error was actually generated with a third-party printer, who they contracted the job out to,” he said by phone, Wednesday, June 24.
A Chino US Printing staff member said management was unavailable for comment, and an employee at the Montclair location said management declined to comment, as of Wednesday morning, June 24.
Only three to four copies out of 26,000 contained explicit images, according to Gluba. Earlier, Gluba said the images appear to be pages of adult content ads in place of planned city content.
“Our related staff’s last action on the matter prior to print was to approve the final proof, which had no identifiable issues, and absolutely no inappropriate images,” he said.
At a June 15 council meeting, City Manager Anita Scott said that after the investigation, the city is “confident that we are placing in quality controls with any future printers that we use, evaluating our contracts and ensuring that that error does not happen in the future.”
“All proofs that were approved were 100% correct,” Scott added.
“This was completely a printer error that they have taken accountability for, and responsibility for, and are enormously apologetic, although that doesn’t discount the error in itself,” she said.
After its investigation, the Pomona Police Department determined that no crime was committed.

Line 490 gets grafted onto Line 498, the Fairplex Park and Ride stays open and line 499 continues to just serve Via Verde, and Line 493 will be cancelled when the Puente Hills Mall closes, to be replaced by more 495 service and re-deviating the 482 to serve the Industry Metrolink station to mitigate impacts for those who were able to board the 493 without driving.

So far I’ve just seen Santa Clarita, SunLine (Coachella Valley), and Riverside (not much of a loss since they have a fare sale with 25 cent fares June, July, and August).

Anyone else celebrating?

The survey asks about improvements they could make to encourage people to ride Gold Runner Thruway Bus more often, as well as if people would use Gold Runner to connect to an airport, locations that should be served, and prioritize things like on time performance, frequency, new routes, better connections, improved amenities, and cost. The survey is open until September.