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ChineseThe Bus Bench Goes After Broken Escalators
Added on Friday, January 18th, 2008
The BusTard over at The Bus Bench blog deserves a MetroRider Award of Blogging Excellence for reporting on the most glaring example of Metro’s inability to hold together even the most basic elements of their rag-tag transit system. Anyone who has ever descended into or ascended out of a Red Line station knows that, more often than not, the escalators do not work. They are either not moving, blocked off, or completely ripped out as men in jump suits tweak around parts of an escalator normal citizens are never supposed to see.
The thing is, most of us, in our complacency and relative good health, just pass it off as an annoying example of bureaucratic ineptitude and continue on up the stairs. The Bus Bench isn’t having that any longer, and with its nearly daily video reports of out-of-order Metro escalators, it’s shedding a very bright light on that bureaucratic ineptitude that has long been ignored.
The results are almost humorous in the fact that in the first 15 days of the year, not a day has gone by without a broken escalator. In fact, January 15th set a record with five escalators out between Westlake/McArthur Park, 7th Street Metro Center, and Pershing Square. Those are three consecutive stations. Insane!
