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KCBS-Channel 2/KCAL-Channel 9 reported that Metro chief executive officer Roger Snoble will stay with the agency for another two years.

He stays with a salary of over $300,000, and allowances for housing and automobile. The irony of the last perk is not lost on anyone.

Is Snoble worth the money?

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John Scott is a familiar name throughout Los Angeles. Stickers promoting his web site have been affixed to Metro equipment, street furniture, telephones and newsracks.

Scott, it turns out, is a real person and not some post-modern hipster inside joke like Obey the Giant.

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Welcome back to another installment of L.A.’s first, best and only examination of commuter bus options in the metropolis … What A Rush.

There are three reports for this month, two of which are available for reading. The third was an attempted exploration of Metro Line 489 on September 26, but the bus never showed up. Readers were screwed out of a good read as much as What A Rush was screwed out of a good ride. Give Customer Relations some hell and tell them that the 3:32 p.m. trip never arrived.

Take a ride after the jump.

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The Metro [COLOR HERE] Line, better known as the one running along the Exposition Boulevard right of way, is set for a groundbreaking Friday morning, September 29, 2006 at 8:30 a.m. The site will be near Crenshaw Boulevard.

RSVP recommended but not required to Genetha Eddins at (213) 245-5506 or via e-mail at geddins@exporail.net.

Information from Friends4Expo Transit.

The Daily News wrote another article on the anticipation of Metro Connections, completely overhauling MTA’s current route structure in favor of routes that look more like a “hub-and-spoke” system used by airlines.

Generally, I try to avoid soapboxy rants as my entries on MetroRider LA, instead focusing on personal rider essays such as What A Rush or articles of an informational nature. But as a transit rider, I am alarmed by what the bus system might look like once MTA “improves” the routes.

The same way William Tecumseh Sherman “improved” Atlanta.

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