March Yelpcast Update

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MetroRider’s domination of Yelp continues. Well, maybe I should say Fred Camino’s domination of Yelp continues, because due to certain Yelp policies we were unable to continue the innovative group Yelp we were initally doing (wherein a number of our contributors would write Yelp reviews under the master profile of MetroRiderLA). It’s okay though, I encourage any of you who are still interested in writing transit friendly reviews of your favorite places to sign up for your own Yelpcast and then just follow the MetroRider (er… Fred Camino) format of including transit access at the end of your reviews. Heck, there’s even a spot in your personal profile where you can include your favorite website, whatever that site may be (wink, nudge)?

Anyways, here’s our stats as of March 1st:

• We have 180 reviews (up 85 from last month).
• 113 of those reviews are firsts.
• We have 23 friends, 6 fans, and 21 compliments.
• 228 people have voted our reviews useful, 9 have called them funny, and 89 said we are cool.

The majority of the 85 new reviews this past month have been station reviews. Every station on the Red Line, Blue Line, Green Line, Gold Line, and Orange Line now has a star-rating based on a number of objective factors as discussed in last month’s Yelpcast update. Soon we will have reviews for Metrolink stations, and after that we head south and review San Diego Trolley and North County Coaster stations.

Also coming up in March… lists! Using Yelp’s lists feature, we will be adding lists of places you can go via transit. Initially it will be just the rail lines, but later we will add Rapid bus and 12-minute map Rapid lines.