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09/05/2008

Please welcome Ms. Sirinya Tritipeskul a Westsider!!

I started The Bus Bench as a satirical figurative and literal look at LA and public transit, while I wanted this blog to be entertaining I also wanted it to be a resource.

I expanded it to include other L.A. bred writers. Except for BusTard who was bred in the UK and the dirty South. The Bus Bench wanted to include writers  who live or are familiar with different aspects of alt transportation and LA life as well as from (or are familiar)  different neighborhoods:

The South side and avid cyclists: Rogelio.
The Valley: Simon.
The SGV and Eastside: Art
Hollywood (Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Echo Park) and downtown: Me!!!
The OC, downtown and anywhere, where punk rock, rocked: BusTard

One perspective is boring, even if it's your own perspective. Who knows everything?

But something was missing. The Westside. The Westside is a part of L.A. and it's a pretty big part of L.A. How can you have a blog about transit in L.A. and never talk about the Westside. BusTard is banned from going west of LaBrea and I am a Hollywood bred girl. I never frequented the Westside*. Peer pressure encouraged me to never visit the Westside. Even when I went to college in Brentwood, I never hung out there.  Consequently anything I would say about the Westside transit wise, would be from some odd poseur perspective. Why should I cut and paste or interpret someone else's opinion? I can just link that person. But I kept hope alive and then I got an email from Sirinya.

A valley girl alt transportationist that's into urban planning living on the Westside.

Please welcome aboard Sirinya our newest Bus Bencher and Westsider.

We look forward to reading your posts.

-Browne, Editor The Bus Bench



*The Westside vs the Eastside debate is a long ongoing saga in LA. Technically Hollywood to a true Eastsider (communities east of the LA River, Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights...)  would be considered the Westside, but when I am referring to Westside I'm referring to communities in the 310. If you are not an Angeleno and want to visit this debate go here.

It's very complicated or not so complicated, but it involves race, class status, ownership, neighborhoods and community pride.

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Hi there! Thanks for welcoming me to the blog and I can't wait to humor all of you about my adventures on transit. xoxo, S

Posted by: Sirinya | 09/05/2008 at 10:08 AM

Hi Sirinya!

I first "spoke" with her over email a month ago, she's going to be a great addition to the BB. Congrats to both of you!

Posted by: Damien Newton | 09/06/2008 at 09:50 AM

Welcome, MS. Tritipeskul! I look forward to your contributions to The Bus Bench.

Posted by: BusTard | 09/07/2008 at 09:12 PM

Welcome, Sirinya! Can't wait to read your posts on the BB. Bet you're uber qualified.

Posted by: Lizzie G. | 09/11/2008 at 08:35 PM

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  • The Bus Bench is published by Browne Molyneux. The editorial consultant is Randall Fleming.

    The Bus Bench’s roots are in Social Ecology.

    The Bus Bench takes a satirical and editorial approach to dealing with the issue of mobility in Los Angeles. The emphasis of The Bus Bench is public transportation, but we also discuss class, race, gender and Downtown Los Angeles.

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    • Browne Molyneux is a freelance journalist and a friendly gadfly in the LA based blogosphere. She writes a transportation column for LA City Beat: Tracks and is a contributor to LA Eastside and The LA Progressive. She does not own a motorized vehicle, but she does have a bike.

      RANDALL (BusTard) FLEMING has spent two decades working in most every facet of publishing. A former magazine publisher (Angry Thoreauan, 1987-2001), he has also contributed to a great many books, periodicals and newspapers in Los Angeles and New York: New York Post, Brooklyn Spectator, Discover Hollywood!, Ben Is Dead, Flipside, Los Feliz Ledger, Sabotage in The American Workplace (Pressure Drop Press), Notes From the Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (Verso), and several of the Unreinforced Masonry Studio books about Los Angeles.

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      A Valley-born Los Angeleno, Simon Ganz only recently returned from the liberal enclaves of Northern California where he, to his surprise, found himself more than happy living without a car. Now back in his hometown with only a political science major to show for his journey, he is of course constantly unemployed and hoping to join/start/follow a movement to create better transit for everyone in Los Angeles.

      Rogelio Gomez is a public transit rider and an avid cyclist. He blogs at My Daily Ride when he's not sharing his adventures on The Bus Bench.

      Sirinya Tritipeskul is a graduate student studying to become a transportation planner at UCLA. She writes on The Bus Bench about living car-free on the Westside. Her own blog, The Valley Girl Planner (in training), is a tribute to her Valley Girl roots and her travels around the Los Angeles area.