I make a weekly tour or two to pick up mail in Franklin Hills, and occasionally the DASH happens to be waiting at the curb as I exit the Red Line's Sunset/Vermont station. Last week I spied a development on the DASH that I noticed was remarkably similar to a mid-town (Manhattan) LED crawl while awaiting the downtown R last December.
First the new DASH:
Now the mid-town marque:
We missed this year's event, but there is always next year!
Downtown has "A" new DASH, one that replaced the free DASH that the civic center folk used for so many years. It is free until Friday, 12 September 2008.
Oh, wait: it ain't the A; it is the Central City East. Or is it?
Helmets aren't just for kiddies anymore.
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Stories from the future: If you still read print like me. I was looking for an a an article in the LA Weekly about MTA’s old busses. It was in the table of contents, but not in the paper. It had obviously gotten bumped by a reward update on the pedestrian nightmare of the Grim Reaper by the awesome Christine Pelisek
LA Weekly/ Sept 11
Boxer wants to whip the Fed Highway Bill (expires in September 2009) into shape. It’s even got a cool new name: Moving Ahead for Progress.
Trafficworld/ September, 4
The Bruins newspaper is talking about the plans to fix public transit on the Westside. I’ll tell you on the Westside it’s a pain in the tooshie to get around. Santa Monica and Weho being the glaring exceptions.
UCLA Bruins/ September 8
A little paper up north doesn’t like Prop 1A. He claims it will kill people. I guess it would all depend on what your definition of kill is.
Tracy Press/ September 5
Dash Central E is open. And The Bus Bench will relive our experience for you later today. The wonders of technology.
Blogdowntown/ September 4
Subway to the Sea. Look a big hole. Maybe a certain Westsider here will go to the hole and tell us what she sees? Oh wait that’s just a random picture, because we’re just talking about this.
LA Now Times/ September 3
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