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ChineseLive Chat w/ Pam Transcript
Somehow this took an hour to occur and since not every MetroRider got a chance to join in on this farely useless effort here is how it went.
A preview (note this was actually chosen as one of the questions to be answered):
Billie: Not sure if my message got through. My husband is a software engineering consultant. He has worked for Toyota in Torrance, Yahoo in Burbank, etc. There is absolutely no reason that employees who are engaged in similar work need to be on the road. He works in silence in a cubicle all day long with occasional meetings. Corporations should team up with Starbucks or someone, create hub centers with cubicles and web cams and ease the traffic that is affecting us all. It’s a moral imperative.
Enjoy the useless (and edited) fun of it all.
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this is my fav not only cuz of the absurdity that this amazingly selfish question, which isn’t even a question and has nothing to do with the well being of LA, was addressed in this forum for whatever mindless reason, but that it also closed the whole chat! brilliant!
You’re hilar — writing a post then being your own first commenter
I joined in late, and was rather disappointed and bored by it. Then again, I’m not sure why I expected it not to be moderated….
I know, how lame. But after re-reading it I just had to put that “question” in there in ncase peepz didn’t want to go and read the whole blundering mess
I think the next chat with Pam should be a collective effort where we barrage her with the most ridiculous, non-transportation-related questions possible.
They wanna waste our time? We can waste theirs.
I didn’t find it *that* bad, when you consider that a lot of people had a lot of stupidity to vent at in not a lot of time. I feel like I got some good answers on some stuff (among other things, we learned that the USC Expo station is no longer tentative) and it wasn’t a complete waste of time. But I expected a venting session, not a high-minded policy debate, so I guess I set a lower bar.
My guess is that they answered nearly all questions put to her, including the stupid ones.
Here’s her transcript:
I’m really glad she said that. It something Southern Californians need to hear. We cannot build enough roads, but we can build alternatives to them.
The golden era of single-occupancy motoring is over. Many people will still choose cars as their best option, but driving a single-occupancy vehicle can never be and will never be as convenient as it once was. And there is nothing Caltrans or the MTA can do to bring that golden age back.
Let me try that again:
Here’s the link to the transcript of her chat:
http://interactive.metro.net/archive_chat/archive_oct_17_2007.php
I’m really glad she said that. It something Southern Californians need to hear. We cannot build enough roads, but we can build alternatives to them.
The golden era of single-occupancy motoring is over. Many people will still choose cars as their best option, but driving a single-occupancy vehicle can never be and will never be as convenient as it once was. And there is nothing Caltrans or the MTA can do to bring that golden age back.
aaron,
i agree, the expo part was def a good thing:
to know and some other stuff as well. i was just kind of annoyed, though ironically entertained is probably more appropriate, by the questions they chose. i wasn’t expecting a debate by any means i just expected questions that actually mattered and seeing as i know i sent at least 3 other questions, and after speaking to fred, he sent in several as well, it was pathetic that she or whomever ended up choosing such useless ones to comment on.
It was also nice, but disheartening since it’s over a year away, to hear her say that TAP would be fully implemented by the end of 2008.
TAP may be a year away from full implementation, but it is partially in service.
At the Metro Operations Committee meeting this afternoon, the monthly TAP report included the information that 1000 regular pass holders who buy their pass at the Metro Customer Center at Wilshire/La Brea, the LADOT transit store at the Los Angeles Mall, or Foothill Transit’s customer center at El Monte Station have been issued TAP cards already.
Add that to the 4000 already in use by businesses who purchase passes for their employees (and have been converted … some to a annual pass!) and that’s not bad, considering the contractor doesn’t have the computer system 100% operational yet (the existing transactions are being handled by a smaller, temporary computer).
Plus all Metro dependent passes and retiree passes are now being converted to TAP (all the employee and governing official badges have been TAP-enabled for more than a year now).
Fred, go buy your pass somewhere that is selling TAP cards!