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ChineseValentine’s Day And The Transit Oriented Lifestyle
The Taj Mahal gets romantic today. Photo courtesy of Metro.
Metro is celebrating the February 14th holiday by lighting up the Metro Headquarters Building (aka the “Taj Mahal”) with a heart on all four sides. You can see the luminous ode to love today from 6pm – 10pm if you’re in the Downtown area. MetroPhotographers, grab your sweethearts and make sure to capture this adorable architectural gesture on digital emulsion and share it with us on the MetroRiderLA Flickr Pool.
Taking your significant other to see lights on a building, no matter the shape they produce, does not a Valentine’s Day make. However, is it even possible to have a Transit Oriented Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles without the day ending in a nasty break-up? Does a Metro Bus really set the mood for love? Is a 4-car Red Line train entering a dark tunnel a clear enough euphemism for the physical act of love without being so overt as to offend? Does the number of cars a train has even matter? Or has your car-free lifestyle left you riding solo? We all just want someone to sit with us on the bus, if only to avoid having that vagabond with personal odor issues take the seat next to you.
In the spirit of the holiday, I’d like for everyone to upload their favorite romantic Transit Oriented Picture on to the MetroRiderLA Flickr Pool so that we can prove that a car-free life isn’t a love-free life! Plus it will be really cute… even cuter than Metro’s glowing heart building. You can check out my contribution right here, adorable isn’t it? So, please, if you’ve got a picture (and I know you do) of you and your significant other riding the bus, rails, or just being transit oriented in general, share it with us. Just keep it PG please, ya freaks. And then tell us your Transit Oriented Plans for this Valentine’s Day!
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I was car-free for many years when I was younger and it definitely put a damper on my love life. It seems like the “green” lifestyle is a lot more popular now. So are younger boyfriends. I guess I’m always a day late and a dollar short…
I’d like to find more women into the transit-oriented lifestyle. Good post, Fred.
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I took LB Transit to my date!
I took a Valentine’s Weekend mini-vacation to Long Beach (rode the Blue Line) and thoroughly enjoyed what Long Beach has to offer transit-wise. The buses are clean and pretty, and seemed to quite on schedule. I read that starting today or yesterday the Passport buses will be adding more late night hours, which is awesome. As a Downtown Los Angeles resident, I’m sorry to say, but Paul Shigley is right, Downtown Long Beach blows DTLA out of the water. It just has a much more cohesive urban vibe. And it sure is a joy to see those Blue Line trains running along the street. We also took a Long Beach Transit Bus 22 out to Signal Hill and walked up Skyline Drive to the Hilltop Park. Truly a stunning view, and so easy to get to without a car!