MetroRiderLA

So I did it. After months of telling myself I’d get around to it, I finally got rid of my number one expense. I probably drove less than 20 times in 2006, but I sure spent a ton on insurance and especially on parking! Thank you Craigslist, and thank you MetroriderLA!

Question: What is arguably the busiest bus line in LA?
The 720 Rapid.

Question: Where is it busiest?
It might not be the #1 stop, but Wilshire & Western is known to be one of the big boys.

Question: What time is it?
Rush hour on a Friday Evening.

Question: What is taking up the entirety of the bus stop there?
No less than 5 white movie trucks. Sorry everybody, we got sum movies 2 make!! bettr luck nex tymeeeee

Hey LA, check out these wild Russian bus stops! We all know ours can oftentimes have a serious case of the uggs.. especially those gray rubbermade bois, but these are pretty damn wild. If we had something like these, we might even be able to forget about that bus that’s over an hour late and nowhere in sight.

The first time I heard it, I thought there was an injured animal stuck under the tracks. I walked up and down, but didn’t see anything. But the sound, that sound, THE SOUND.. it haunted me. But when I returned weeks later, the sound remained. How could this injured animal still be under there? It has been months since my first visit and the sound remains. And I don’t think its an injured animal anymore
I’m talking, of course, about the Civic Center redline stop. The station’s art features some very cool and very creepy levitating/ falling human bodies. Overall, I’d say it’s one of the quieter stations, but there is this crazy echoeing chirp you can hear while waiting. You can hear it ever 30 seconds or so.. sometimes it sounds like birds chirping.. but sometimes it sounds almost mechanical.. robotic.. evil. It always creeps me out.
What is up with the mystery sound of the Civic Center stop? Is it a ghost? An art instalation? A job for Scooby Do and the gang?

-posted via hiptop-

I buy my monthly metro pass at Ralph’s and for some reason, they refuse to sell them after 7! I have no idea why, but it’s really annoying and really invonvienant. Anyway, Because of this, I was forced to buy a subway ticket this morning at the machine- and I only had a 5!!!! AHHH! Cursed again! As we all know, the machines only give change in huge worthless dollar coins.

Anyway, I picked them up and stuck them in my wallet. Fast foward to just now as I look in my wallet- only to find ONE 1 dollar coin and a CHUCKY CHEESE GAME TOKEN!!!!!!!!!!!

Not cool MTA, not cool at all…

As seen on the 207 @ Sunset and Western. Has MetroriderLA’s own Wad been caught redhanded defacing MTA property? YOU BE THE JUDGE!

UPDATED AUG 25

Metrorider ELHAY has recieved a nastygram regarding this post so I feel I should clarify. I didn’t see the perp commiting the crime.. And frankly, it seems doubtful that the actual Wad we know and love here could be connected to such ruthless scrachitti. But still.. it’s a pretty hilarious coincidence!

My apologies and a tip of the hat to an essential poster.