[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Serious, we have one of the largest rail networks in the WORLD and yet the bus system to link up with the rails is terrifying heartless and unreliable. Even the newspaper commented that trying to get across town can "leave commuters in tears" and though I've been doing it for well over 6 years now, I still get fucked up and frustrated waiting hours for buses.

at least every other week I get basically stranded hours across town waiting for a connecting bus to show, and what sucks is they are often ridiculously late and sometimes simply DO NOT SHOW UP!!

It is soul crushing to try to get to places on time, you have to leave hours early, and stand around waiting forever forever forever. Its great practice for Ethiopia

LA, wake up. How do you expect to survive global warming if you do not prioritize public transportation? How will people get out of their 10 million cars in LA county and ride the rails if there is no bus to get there?

[pbradley]

 

The history of LA public transportion lies in a junk yard.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by pbradley

 

Build and Destroy, thats all Babylon knows..

[!@#$%!]

i thought this was going to be about sex on trains, but shit, hellay is a car town-- all of california is except maybe san francisco? anyway, get yourself a horseless carriage mang.

 

alternatively, move to a fully civilized city. i love the dc metro.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

i thought this was going to be about sex on trains, but shit, hellay is a car town-- all of california is except maybe san francisco? anyway, get yourself a horseless carriage mang.

 

alternatively, move to a fully civilized city. i love the dc metro.

been there, done that. I've had my scraper sittin on chrome, subs sounding like a gorrila tryin to get outta the trunk, diggin the scene.. but then I retired that shit in a wave of mushroom induced, anti-materialist diehardism..

 

however 6 months ago I was finally breaking down to get one, but then all my funding dried up, so I'm back on the original plan. However, honestly, I don't even want a car, I just want a few buses to show up less than fashionably late. And SF has a remarkble transportation network with only ONE flaw, it is more ridiculously expensive then LA's is ridiculously inefficient..

[!@#$%!]

move to new york. you can get a bus to go anywhere. hellay seems to be an ultraviolent place-- i like the beaches, but i would never wanna live there. well maybe in some pockets but not the city at large. still, everyone is an actor-- and HORRIBLE freeways-- GTFO for your own sake.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

still, everyone is an actor-- and HORRIBLE freeways-- GTFO for your own sake.

been on that scheme for well over 9 years now, I woulda been in Ityopya but the world recession voided the viability of my meal ticket :/

but I will miss LA when I'm gone, it is a weird place that will swallow your soul for no particular reason, and you will never escape its clutchs, swearing all along you're gonna leave but truly loving the drama too much to fathom ever doing so.. what would I do without trendy veganism, terrifying traffic, Nigeria level govt corruption, police brutality and blinding gang violence?

[Keeping It Simple]

Sounds like LA could do with these. Get the out of work immigrants to pull them. Whip them if they're too slow.

 

[Satan]

new york city has the best public transportation system of all time, period.

i love los angeles though. it's fucking evil.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Satan

i love los angeles though. it's fucking evil.

spot on.

 

[EVOLghost]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

been there, done that. I've had my scraper sittin on chrome, subs sounding like a gorrila tryin to get outta the trunk, diggin the scene.. but then I retired that shit in a wave of mushroom induced, anti-materialist diehardism..

damn dood...lol propzz for goin' through with that shit.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by EVOLghost

damn dood...lol propzz for goin' through with that shit.

give thanks. I just had an Malcom X epiphany moment with my head in the toilet and realized that I was "working for my car" so I gave it up cold turkey and hopped on the bus. Six years later I honestly don't even want a car, just for a few buses to show up on time from time to time..

but I did have a car and all that nonsense, it had shinny chrome rims, bumpin woofers, leather interior and was always polished, this is LA, you have to have your car with style or you might as well not even have one

[!@#$%!]

i used to have legs but i realized they required calories so i cut them off. now all i hope for is for handicap ramps at street crossings.

ha ha ok, sorry for the teasing. i had no car in DC (only a zipcar membership), but living in the southwest without one would be crippling. LA is so fucking big, i can't imagine the pain of going around without wheels.

are there buses to the beach?

fuck your vanity, get yourself a rusty clunker, and help the american dream of choking the planet with our exhaust fumes.

eh, holy fuck, time to get on the tv.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

i used to have legs but i realized they required calories so i cut them off. now all i hope for is for handicap ramps at street crossings.

ha ha ok, sorry for the teasing. i had no car in DC (only a zipcar membership), but living in the southwest without one would be crippling. LA is so fucking big, i can't imagine the pain of going around without wheels.

are there buses to the beach?

fuck your vanity, get yourself a rusty clunker, and help the american dream of choking the planet with our exhaust fumes.

eh, holy fuck, time to get on the tv.

if you want to go to the playa it is quite the excursion on the bus, I work there and it takes a while. That is precisely the problem with MTA here in LA, this city is literally vast. Other cities are dwarfed by us in terms of square miles.. To go from Long Beach to Downtown is like going from Bronx to the burbs, NYC transport in actuality is not as good as LA in this regard, MTA here in LA is enormous. That is why it takes to so so so long to get places, because in LA we travel long distances from place to place, the average american drives 40 miles a day. The average person in LA probably drives twice that, and just going out for a night or to an afternoon gathering perhaps could tripple that. I have easily put 300 miles in a single day just driving around to a few places here in LA to catch some cool happenings. I have even covered over a 100 miles in a day on the Metro alone!!

yr right.. game is on, got to see this super hyped up US vs UK match, though honestly, half of the US team are from England.. I don't understand the 21st century World Cup teams, they are all far to internationalized to honestly call them "American" or "English" or "Argentinian" because they import players worldwide like US baseball swallows up Latinos..

[hevusa]

move away from the LA area asap. that is the only smart thing that can be done in your situation.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by hevusa

move away from the LA area asap. that is the only smart thing that can be done in your situation.

true. but this is less a thread about my own personal gripes as much as a place to discuss the pitfalls of LA public transport and perhaps those of other systems, and also the successes.

For example, if you wanna get around downtown, hollywood, the westside or the valley then MTA is actually not that bad, even can beat traffic. Its the eastside and the southbay that are not connected at all, and MTA critically neglects these areas, as well as overall neglecting the necessary amount of buses. But I believe this is a funding issue, and I also do not know of ANY public transportation system in the world that supports itself, most like MTA here are subsidized as much as 90%. It all comes down to priorities and in Los Angeles, Metro also has to manage the roadways and in reality most Angelinos want the money invested there..

What are the public transportation systems like in your respective cities/areas?

[space]

dear suchfriends,

time is short, but I would like to purchase for you a tasty cold beverage.

bradders is invited too.

yr pal,

spacerock


ps: I own a car.

[Lamont Cranston]

 

Pacific Electric map, 1949

Are you using the buses to get across L.A. or to get to a railway station to get the train across L.A.? The latter method is known as a 'feeder' system and really shouldn't be that hard to organize.

[pbradley]

Originally Posted by space

time is short

Indeed, I'll be leaving the USA in a week or two.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

 

Pacific Electric map, 1949

Are you using the buses to get across L.A. or to get to a railway station to get the train across L.A.? The latter method is known as a 'feeder' system and really shouldn't be that hard to organize.

if you noticed the redcar lines are parallel to the current Blue and Green lines, which I am critically dependent on..

yes, a feeder system seems easy to negotiate on paper, but the LA city planners and the MTA authority are not very bright in this regard.

Who actually rides a decent public system out there? Anyone boardies have success?