I'm on the Green Line train and a Metro employee gets on with a trash can. He parks it about one foot from my face.
Now I understand that Metro has to clean, but why do they have to take the dirty disgusting trashcans on the train and park it nose level to seated passengers? Isn't there a better solution to picking up trash at the stations than having people go station to station on the passenger cars with trash?
Isn't the public transit experience in LA exciting enough without this added indignity.
Browne
Ha! I bet bikes on trains don't seem so bad now :)
Posted by: Damien Newton | 11/11/2008 at 02:07 PM
I think really what they should do is make a separate train car for me. No cyclist, no trashcans, no creepy people asking me questions and plenty of mirrors so I can check my lipstick before I get off the train. It will have pink seats (that will be cleaned hourly through some automated system like the public toilets.) Very cheesy 80s music will be played through the speaker system and Duran Duran's Hungry Like a Wolf will play every eight minutes and X-Ray Spex's I'm a Poseur will also play every 15 minutes just so everyone knows that while I like cheesy 80s music I'm still cool. There will also be a bar and a personal security force so I can laugh at people, with no repercussions. This would be ideal. Hopefully with the passing of Prop R they will get around to creating Miss Molyneux's personal car segment of the Red, Green and Blue Line about 2013.
Posted by: browne | 11/11/2008 at 03:35 PM
I'd be OK with the trash and other annoyances if the train simply had a station next to every place I ever needed to go.
Posted by: Bert Green | 11/12/2008 at 01:22 AM