“Buses seem to be the playground of the illegal alien to a large extent. I say shut the whole system down. Companies can set up their own shuttle services if they feel there is a critical need in specific cases.The drivers are incredibly rude too.”

“I shop at the Orange Mall routinely, and I park near the huge OCTA transit center there. I never see any bus that is more than one third full, no matter what time of day. Many times I see buses coming and going from that OCTA center and there are only two or three people on each bus!

Stop this wasteful system where a majority of the taxpayers subsidize a tiny minority of the citizens to ride around in empty buses all day long!”

“Shut down the whole system. Let people ride bikes, mopeds and walk.
Plan your time better.
By getting rid of of this tax eating monstrosity we will cut down on noise, clear the roads and save billions of taxpayer dollars.”

… the Transit Advocates of Orange County need all the help they can get. They should want stupid people like me showing up, not just “big wigs.”

I’m not going to email their group to “ask” to join their meeting so that they can evaluate me (or anyone else) to see if I (or anyone else) am worthy of attending. The meeting info should be public knowledge and anybody should be able to show up.

My problem is that they gave out the time of their first meeting, but not the place. When I inquired they said they were being selective about who came (they wanted transit big wigs). I thought it was bullshit because meetings should be open to anyone who wants to learn more.

http://www.transitrideroc.com/join-transit-advocates-orange-co

The remarkable Jane Reifer has rallied riders through a group called Transit Advocates of Orange County, more or less an offshoot of SO.CA.TA

http://www.transitrideroc.com/transit-advocates-orange-county

This picks up the remnants of O.C. transit advocacy efforts of some years back mostly centered on the now dead CenterLine light rail proposal.

Streetcars are returning to Downtown LA in 2014:

http://www.lastreetcar.org

There are lots of places in Southern California where heavy or light rail will not be able to get to, but streetcars in transit-only lanes can make a difference.

Outside of downtown, my top four choices for streetcar lines in transit-only lanes would be:

1) Union Station to Century City via Sunset to Sunset Junction then Santa Monica Blvd. via the unused ROW in Beverly Hills

2) Union Station to Century City via Sunset to the Sunset Strip then down San Vicente to Santa Monica Blvd., to Century City via the unused ROW in Beverly Hills

3) Ventura Blvd. between Universal City and Warner Center

4) Venice Blvd. between downtown and the beach

Are there specific transit advocacy agencies to Orange County I am unaware of?

O.C. is a very conservative county, of course, the only one south of Bakersfield that voted for McCain (by only 3 points), but it is no longer the monolith it used to be.