Scenes from A Daily Dash to Downtown. The Bus Bench is victorious against Blogging.LA. The 10 wins!!!

Amidst a throng of unsuspecting commuters merely returning home after a day working in Santa Monica was a silent albeit overly melodramatic blogging bastard, whose desire to turn a regular bus ride into a remarkable event, well, was probably annoying.

In any event, it took approximately 40 minutes for the Big Blue Bus #10 to get from Yale and Santa Monica Blvd to Olive and 7th. (Starting time was 5:10 p.m. at Santa Monica and 3rd Street). The MTA 439 line took 59 minutes, most likely owing to its street travel at the outset and then the heavy Freeway congestion as it trailed the BBB #10.

Having started earlier as well as arriving first, I elected to take a victory lap on the DASH, but failed to see that I got on the wrong one. By the time I looked up from my camera several minutes later, I realised I was on First Street. It was the final DASH of the evening, and as such I had to walk all the way back to Clifton's where Will was graciously awaiting my return from the not-so-clever bit of boasting I had hoped to have recorded photographically.

Here are some hardly dramatic still photos from the somnambulistic race of the rush hour buses:
       

-BusTard 

editor edit--the gloating title was added by browne, because i'm a little bit of an asshole, a cute asshole, but still an asshole.

Next challenge if you were at Paramount Studio and you wanted to get to Pershing Square for drinks at the Biltmore Gallery Bar. Bus all of the way or a combination bike to the Red Line station. Challengers line up for your ass kicking.