Bus Bench Service Alerts. Sept 30. The economy had a stroke!!
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Metrolink is going to have to add a second engineer on SOME trains, oh well how about them letting the engineers have more than eight hours between shifts, oh that would be real change and cost money.
LA Times/ Sept 27
Shooting near the Blue Line. What does that mean exactly? If it’s not
on the Blue Line, aren’t most shooting near something somewhat
significant?
LA Times/ Sept 24
Izip (the electric bike) was using Darryl Hannah to sell bikes, but they forgot to tell her.
Sify/ Sept 28
The economy had a stroke; lets see which side gets paralyzed.
Washington Post/ Sept 29
A list of freeways that should be torn down, none of the freeways of
LA, you know probably owing to our questionable bus service.
CNU
The Eastside. An education.
LA Eastside/ Sept 28
Compiled and edited by Browne Molyneux
You should have posed the question: Are you ready to move to Watts?
Posted by: soledadenmasa | 09/30/2008 at 10:01 AM
Soledadenmasa,
Ha-ha. You are a bad influence :)
Race relations is like the mafia, you try to ignore it and it drags you back in. Good point. I will pose it on one of my race relations weekends posts. I try to divide the week into transit on weekdays and race on the weekends, but I try to be fluid.
I've lost my id and credit cards...what is wrong with me....
Browne
Posted by: browne | 09/30/2008 at 10:29 AM
I had also seen that article before about the freeways which ought to be torn down. I tried to think of some in LA that might fit that description, but only one came to mind (a section of the 101/5/60 in East LA). There are very few freeways in LA that have the vestigal, duplicate function of those listed in the article. In most cases they are roads that were used to completely destroy communities or downtowns which are now resurgent and want the roads removed. In the places where that happened in LA, they either completely destroyed the area in question (eg. Bunker Hill), or redesigned it to function in a different way.
The example in the Bronx is pretty perfect. I know that area. There is a freeway (or expressway as they call them) every 1.5 miles in every direction. Hideous.
Posted by: Bert Green | 09/30/2008 at 08:07 PM
About that freeway article... They're right about I-84 in New Haven. That thing is exactly like the 710 stubs in Pasadena and Alhambra. Separates the city right in its downtown area. If it was turned into a boulevard with some pretty good landscaping or public art in the middle, it would unite both sides of the connector and and make some sort of grand entrance to New Haven.
Posted by: soledadenmasa | 10/01/2008 at 01:09 AM
I've never lived in anywhere in the US for an extended period other than the West Coast, but for purely selfish reason I would like the i105 to be torn down...lol...I think how nice the Green Line would be without that freeway of course they there would probably be lot more people on it, so the pleasant ride inside the train would be short lived.
An older woman told me the Harbor Freeway destroyed portions of the city.
Posted by: browne | 10/01/2008 at 05:52 AM