China wants a piece of this. Photo courtesy of VirtualErn.
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!
Image courtesy of whalt via Flickr.
Although the presidential candidates don’t really have much to say when it comes to transit (you can check out Street Heat LA’s presidential round-up here), that doesn’t mean you can’t take transit to get the LAist’s Super Tuesday Celebration at Seven Grand in Downtown LA.
Starting at 7pm bloggers will congregate at the whiskey bar and discuss the presidential race and other issues facing our world today. Or they will just get wasted. The first 75 peeps who show up wearing their “I Voted” sticker will, unbelievably, receive a free drink! Sounds like a pretty good reason to vote, hell just Christmas Tree the ballot if you don’t care and grab some free booze (jk).
Seven Grand is located in the transit hub of Los Angeles meaning there’s no good reason to drive. Especially since drinking and driving is not only illegal, it’s dangerous as well. I know most of you bloggers are a bunch of pinko green libbed out Obama supporters anyways, so don’t let me catch you being hypocritical! In fact, MetroRiderLA will help you out with transit access info. See ya there!
Oh, yah: Sorry guys, Seven Grand is 21+. I know you’re legally allowed to vote and fight in wars, but you can’t have a sippy sip. Sowwy. And yes, we can blame the car-culture for this. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 held states hostage, like a dealer to a junkie, by withholding federal highway funds from states that did not enforce a minimum drinking age of 21. So although technically the drinking age is set by the states, it was actually coerced by the Feds! Go big gov! I often wonder why my fellow libertarians claim the car-culture offers freedom…
HOW TO GET THERE:
Seven Grand is located at 515 West 7th Street and is served by rail and bus. Click the above map for transit stops near Seven Grand from Public Routes. You can also check the Metro Trip Planner for the best route from your location.
Image courtesy of Fire Monkey Fish via Flickr.
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