Comments on: Public Transportation in L.A. is broken

By: M Boyer

M Boyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:16:40 +0000

I can understand your frustration. I can’t drive for six months, so I have to use public transportation in small Columbia, Missouri. I’m blogging about the experience…and it has been frustrating at times…my town only has eight busses…

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:46:33 +0000

Small world, indeed – missed you at Barcamp LA. Oh well, next time…

By: mischef

mischef — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:17:59 +0000

omg: addison & pulaski, after living in River Forest for 4 yrs during college. small world

By: Robert Blum

Robert Blum — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:14:34 +0000

Hey, I know how you feel. I used to live in Chicago, too. (Wrigleyville - beautiful spot). The buses there were way better than the L.A. system - and it still can't compete with the bus system we have in Germany. (Where I'm originally from)

It's frustrating to see that, because I know we could have a better system.

By: mischef

mischef — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:33:41 +0000

When I lived in Santa Monica, I tried to take advantage of using the bus system several times:

I took the bus to the Getty once, and it took nearly the entire morning. it was simply ridiculous.

I took the bus to the hollywood bowl, and again, it took forever.... but getting home afterwards, OMG, it was awful. We waited hours for a buss that never came, but we were entertained by watching drug dealers, johns and prostitutes do their thing. Finally getting home after 1am, when the show ended around 10pm. Horriffic.

I've taken a string of busses from montana/20th to LAX, and it was not only uncomfortable and stinky, it took freaking forever. YEAH, we made the trip for under $2 per person, but it took almost 2 hours to travel (it would have taken about 20 minutes by car) and we had to manoeuvre luggage on and off several busses in the process.

I'm from Chicago and the bus system worked there. Maybe it's because Chicago has winter and we don't?

Even though gas is well over $3/gal, it's still not worth it to try to take public transportation from burbank to santa monica. My time & sanity (plus my desire to be ON TIME) is worth more than a quarter of a tank of gas.

sorry for the rant...