MetroRiderLA

Yep, I finally did it. I’ve been promising myself for over a year that I would see what it’s like to ride the bus from little Atwater Village all the way to ritzy Beverly Hills and try to do my part for the environment, for the city and for my sanity. And you know what, it was easy.

On Friday, I rode from Universal City — as I had dropped off my car at the dealer to get fixed — but today was all Atwater/Beverly Hills. I took the 603 and the 4 and was to and from work within an hour.

And you know what? I’m gonna freakin do it again…at least one day a week and then, perhaps expand from there. Hell, I might even be able to read a book again. All I know is that I arrived at work and at home, relatively stress free, with an iPod song in my heart.

So, if you have been thinking about trying it out and doing it. As it has been said, just do it.

“From 1904 thru the 1920s Los Angeles’s rail transit system continued rapid growth, eventually operating trains on 1100 miles of track along with 2800 scheduled trains daily to become the world’s largest rail mass transit system. This photo shows the opening day of Los Angeles’s first subway in 1928. This view is of the west portal where the trains entered and exited the subway tunnels. The line ended at the Subway Terminal Building. The subway part of the transit system ran only under City Center West to avoid the already congested streets above. When service ended in 1955 the subway was carrying 100,000 passengers per day. Today the west portal sections of abandoned subway tunnels are occassionally used by film studios.”

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