Dan Koeppel

I love this place. It is among the most beautiful train stations in the world, and I'm not the only one who thinks so. And I feel bad for Union Station, too: for years - and this may be part of the reason it hasn't fallen to the wrecking ball - not much happened here. Amtrak was sleepy before the State of California began funding it. Bus services was weak. There was no Metro Red Line or Gold Line. Now, with all that happening, and even more expansion coming in the next decade, L.A.'s primary transit hub actually has to figure out how to function.

(Editor's note: Dan Koeppel is the writer of the now famous "The Illegal But Highly Effective D.I.Y. Bike Lane" article that appears in the July issue of Bicycling Magazine.  You can continue to read his writing at his blog at www.bananabook.org.  The following was written as an update to his editor's at Bicycling Magazine.)