Dueling Chainsaws on 5th Street
Earlier this week, a cacophony of nearby chainsaws prompted a run to the roof of a nearby building, then a walk round the machines from which the arboreal assault was launched.
-BusTard
Environment
11/18/2008
10/28/2008
Sitting in The Middle of 5th Street
Good thing I had my camera to document the foolish position that best describes sitting in the middle of a one-way street facing away from traffic!
-BusTard
10/09/2008
Get Yer Butt to BusCon!
We missed this year's event, but there is always next year!
10/06/2008
Could These Be Unsold Embezzled Metro Drivers' Day Passes?
There is all sorts of wrong with Metro's poor compensation of bus drivers. The public's safety is but one facet (and apparently an insignificant one) of hiring drivers for rates at which even a lowly newspaper production schmoe would scoff: "Trainee Rate:$11.09 p/hr - Start Rate:$14.38 p/hr - Top Rate:$22.12 p/hr."
As such, it is no wonder that the Daily News found out about a Metro drivers' scam that has been employed for quite some time.
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10/03/2008
The REAL Reason for Exorbitant Oil Prices
Don Pardo tells us why oil prices are so damned high. In 1976.
-BusTard10/02/2008
Black Monday prompts Blue Metro
As there is neither a recession nor a depression, then it follows that tits and ass, drugs and death, wrong and right, AIN'T. Or so Metro implies, as this single slice of the debauchery to follow clearly illustrates:
09/17/2008
Bus Bench Services Alerts. Sept 17.
____________________________________________________________________________ Making parking easier will help public transportation.
Economist/ Sept 17
No electronic billboards along LA Freeways
LA Times/ Sept 17
South LA may not be very black anymore, but life is still rough and most of the residents still have to pay more for transportation that in surrounding communities.
Physorg/ Sept 17
There is a planning conference coming to Hollywood from Sept 21-24. There’s a mobility section. Roger Snoble will be chatting. According to the schedule there is going to be a section on lofts, with a tour…
APA Conference Sept 21-24
London’s Tube upgrades could be painful.
Economist/ Sept 11
Electric biodiesel busses will be in New York thanks to grants. Compiled and edited by Browne Molyneux
Buffalo News/ Sept 17
09/11/2008
Browne's Been Busy
Before the day wears me out, and I find myself wandering the Art Walk, let me tell you about the Bus bench's busy editrix's latest writings in L.A. Progressive and L.A. CityBeat.
'Nuff said.
-BusTard
09/09/2008
Drunken Goats Storm Bunker Hill
In what appears to be a bi-centennial event, Bunker Hill was once again sheared of its foliage. 
09/04/2008
Metro's Spelunking Tour!
Los Angeles, like any big town pregnant with metropolitan ideas, is bursting with tours of its innards.
more after the transfer. . .
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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.
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