Comments on: Today’s Headlines

By: Dan Wentzel

Dan Wentzel — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:42:56 +0000

Let’s not overlook that Krugman blog from the New York Times.

Paul Krugman is frequently champions alternatives to car culture lifestyles and for improved rail and other transit in America.

By: Spokker

Spokker — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:34:24 +0000

Eh, I’d probably give Metro a B-.

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:23:37 +0000

Damien,

The San Bernardino line Metrolink train (#324, the 5pm out of LAUS) hit the tespasser at Azsusa Blvd. in Covina, in Los Angeles County.

The 626 and the 909 already have enough trouble getting recognized as part of L.A. County without you!

By: Erik G.

Erik G. — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:17:59 +0000

@M
Just walk past the smartly dressed people who are in florescent vests. Are the vest stolen off a parked bus? Could easiily be…we cannot be sure.

I did and there was nothing they did or could do to stop me. I also made a point of going back and asking them why they were not displaying ANY badge or identification and then went to my train again having still not shown them anything.

Be sure to send a complaint to Metro as I have, and to ask them to have ticket checks done by trained, uniformed and badged L.A. sheriffs and Metro operators only.

The apparent policy of getting passengers accustomed to being barked at and told what to do by people wearing nothing but street clothes and a florescent vest is something Metro’s “anti-terrorist” policymakers ought to think long and hard about.

By: Dan Wentzel

Dan Wentzel — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:06:46 +0000

Well, I give the BRU an ‘F’. My grade for them is about as relevant as their grade for anything.

By: Dana Gabbard

Dana Gabbard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:54:41 +0000

Also the BRU is touting a report they paid Ryan Snyder to write touting bus over rail. Snyder is well known as being anti-rail, prominent so for over 10 years. And hie credentials as some sort of urban policy guru are suspect to me after his much promoted elevated veloway for West L.A. never came to fruition after wasting scads of study funds from various public sources. So the report already has baggage that makes it hard to take seriously.

By: Kymberleigh Richards

Kymberleigh Richards — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:45:23 +0000

The BRU says their survey proves their point about Metro bus service.

Don’t they realize that their “postcard survey” is automatically biased and will have zero effect on Metro’s board of directors?

With all the grant money they get …
http://www.transit-insider.org/bru/funding.htm
… they can’t afford to have a real survey done by a credible company? Or is it that they are afraid an unbiased survey will show precisely what they DON’T want it to show?

By: M

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:10:45 +0000

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/08/subway-taser.html
A guy that was asked to show his ticket yesterday at the North Hollywood Station was tasered and died after not responding to the sheriffs request.

Also, do I really need to show my ticket to Cubic employees near the turnstiles? They aren’t sheriffs and from what I understand I don’t need to show my ticket to any random person that asks to see it. Those people are pretty aggressive, let me tell you. And I already missed my train due to messed up foot traffic patterns due to turnstile installations! Go Metro and waste your life standing at an underground platform!

By: jj

jj — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:19:55 +0000

Those crosswalk signs are indeed useless and a waste of taxpayer money