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.
Art Gonzo was raised in Los Angeles. He is a visual artist. He has seen a bus. When not at The Bus Bench he is a contributor at LA Eastside.
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.
The police have been ticketing jaywalking students near USC, too. I would think they had better things to do around here, but I suppose the need for revenue is pushing them on?
Posted by: onetenten | 10/13/2008 at 09:26 AM
Ticketing pedestrians while motorists and bus drivers, which are far more dangerous, break the law all day is backwards and absurd. This is outrageous.
Posted by: Gary Kavanagh | 10/14/2008 at 10:19 AM