Dead Escalator Surveys: Sat, 05 Jan 2008

I’m of the belief that if you are an alternative transportation advocate that you shouldn’t drive a car.

Yeah it’s a pain in the ass in LA, but if you believe in something you have to feel a bit of pain. Having a car and advocating for alternate forms of transportation whether they be cycling, walking, or bussing it, is like being part of the DARE program and smoking just a little pot.

I’ve never believed in hierarchy of drugs much.

I always felt beer, cocaine, and pot were the same thing, if you feel the need to judge drugs on some kind of moral scale. Just because the government sanctioned one as more ok than the others doesn’t mean it’s actually more right. It’s sort of like gay marriage is gay marriage wrong, because the government said that heterosexual marriage is right?

No the world doesn’t work that way.

It’s either all or nothing.

I know in “Wishy-washy, don’t want to actually take a stand on anything because it might be unpopular” L.A. that’s a hard concept to grasp.

• Marriage should be legal among all consenting adults; though I don’t know why anyone would want to do that.
• All drugs should be legal, because I doubt grandma is going to start using crack if you made it ok for her to do it.
• Alternate transportation advocates shouldn’t have cars.

If you believe that driving a car kills the planet you can’t feel as if you’re superior (which a blog or nonprofit dedicated to an entire topic I would think implied)  just because you kill the planet only a little. Now if you’re in a program and your car is like methadone, then I’m fine with that, but people who have alternate transportation blogs and organizations AND own cars, well you’re complete bullshit.

You should just move on to the next popular thing and get off of everyone's ass, because seriously let me state this again, you’re bullshit and you're annoying. I would liken you to Jane Fonda who told everyone to diet while she was binging and purging.

It’s nothing wrong with addictions or disorders.

It is something wrong with your preachy annoyingness, “this is what people should do” or “you should do this” and giving your opinions on bike lanes and bus lanes and bus service and rail service when you have the option of taking your car.

You having a car means your opinions are slanted with the privilege of car ownership.

Most public transport riders don’t have that option.

Nothing wrong with sharing, but at the bare minimum acknowledge and understand your privileged position in your head before you open up your big mouth in regards to your opinions on things that affect the lives of people who don’t have your privilege.

by Browne at Shametrain LA

On to the escalator report by BusTard

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Sunset-Vermont, where THREE escalators were out of service:

1) to the street:

2) the mezzanine:

3) the lower level:

Westlake-MacArthur Park, where another three escalators were dead:

1) north exit:

2) south exit, where both escalators were shut down:

Shametrain LA

Comments

[fabooj]

Ah yes...The Empire is dying.

[Bert Green]

"No the world doesn’t work that way. It’s either all or nothing."

Like, when Bush says "you're either with me or against me?"

[Browne]

I should have been more clear as I was writing that (all or nothing) and I thought, "I should restate that," but you know I had a bar to go to. I'm saying you can't change the condition midstream just to make your belief hold water.

Think about the constitution, they said this country is free for all men, they they thought about and went oh, not black men though, they are only like 3/4.

Even the driver's license thing, everyone who can pass the test can drive a car, that's had been the law up until the 1990s and people wanted to discriminate against Latinos.

I've never really known of a condition that wasn't about exclusion or prejudice.

Most people put conditions on things so they can discriminate and feel superior, usually you can tell these conditions, because they usually fade away after it becomes more ok for that thing. Or get added after people go, "those people suck," during an economic downfaww.

Like to me if you're anti drug and you would include alcohol, while I don't agree with you I feel it makes sense.

Because then I know its not some class based, well rich people do coke so they should get this amount of time and poor people do crack so they should get ten times more...that's the kind of thing that happens with conditions.

Most people if they realized the slippery slope of oppression, would just be for everything, because it's only a matter of time before those people say YOU can't do something. Not talk about it, but make a law specifically to take away your rights.

I think most people put conditions on things out of feer and intolerance.

But yeah I get the all or nothing and the Bush connection, it can also obviously be a viewed in a negative way. It can be negative, but I didn't mean it in that way, but I guess I shouldn't have said it like that.

Browne