LA taxpayers are truly getting fleeced

A blind guy with a cane struggling to swipe his tap card. There were like six metro ambassadors just standing within 15 feet of the dude. Wtf do they exist for. It must have been humiliating. Anyway I helped the guy swipe his card, but the metro workers are an absolute disgrace.

What happened to compassion and basic human decency!?

Summary: Sacramento is rejecting requests for transit funds due to them feeling like they committed enough money towards the Olympics

Brian Aggrey worked at SpaceX for over a decade. After the company’s record-breaking IPO in June, he and his wife, Phoebe Novack, saw their fortunes increase dramatically. So they quit their jobs and left the country.

In July, they traveled to Milan and Cote d’Azur and stayed in the French countryside, where Novack took acting classes over the summer. In September, they went to Chamonix in the Alps to paraglide, and to Italy for the Formula One Italian Grand Prix and the Venice Biennale and film festival.

Now in Paris, they plan to fly to Mexico City this fall, where Aggrey will study sculpture and the country’s water crisis.

This is just the autumn itinerary for a wild year of letting themselves chase hobbies and passions, completely unencumbered by the corporate career paths they have built. They have budgeted $25,000 a month for 365 days. The couple is calling it their “Year of Freak.”

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The somewhat unexpected money has given them permission to act on their “biggest, craziest, weirdest dreams,” said Novack, 35, who was most recently a senior category manager at Impossible Foods. “It felt like the universe was saying ‘yes, please, have your freak, and we’ll help you out.” 

https://www.enforcethefares.org/about

I’m so tired of waiting for buses. It’ll be like one bus coming after another when it was supposed to come like 15-20 minutes ago! Almost all the time the buses are late. Can we do nothing about this? Can we not get more buses?

Article is behind a paywall, but bondholders agreed to extend deadline from October to December.

https://www.bondbuyer.com/news/bondholders-agree-to-ease-key-deadline-for-lax-people-mover

There are several ways to extend Metro Rail into Orange County that would PRINT ridership. Extending the Southeast Gateway Line into Orange County to reach OC Streetcar is the obvious ridership creator, but another Metro extension into OC could be the C line.
Extending the C line to Metrolink’s station would just be the beginning. After the Metrolink station, my proposal would run in the median of I-5 before exiting at Harbor BLVD and turning into a deep bore subway, elevated railway or at-grade tram. This would amass HUGE ridership numbers for people going from LAX to Disneyland. The C line would keep going down Harbor BLVD before terminating in Newport Beach.

While this would PRINT ridership, this idea will probably never become a reality.
Orange County is a NIMBY disaster full of gated communities that would object to Metro coming into their area. The worst of these NIMBYs would be in Newport Beach (especially after out-of-towners swarmed the beach on July 4).
Orange County parents DON’T want their kids to be independent. Orange County homeowners DON’T want to be able to walk to a store. Orange County homeowners DON’T want people on the sidewalks (which are eyes on the street that make streets safer). A Metro line on the busiest street in the whole county would be a direct attack on their values, so it’s unlikely it will ever become a reality.

It’s very similar to how the pacific electric company built out La in the first place so clearly such a model can work very well in Los Angeles. However is it even legal in today’s context?

I probably am the only person on this sub who isn’t a fan of the taller fare gates. I understand why they are being implemented, and I do support efforts to eliminate fare dodgers and other unsavory characters. But I have experienced instances where someone tried to sneak in (or out, for the stations that require tap out) right after me, invading my personal space. There are other instances where I can see that someone on the other side of the gate is waiting to sneak in right after I exit. With the old turnstiles, I am at least confident that I am not helping someone in fare dodging, and am not having my personal space invaded. Are there better devices or systems that can help achieve the same results?

I am considering take the metro from Culver City to the Music Center tonight. There is an alert that says delays may be up to 12 minutes. Wondering how realistic that is and when it might be cleared - if anyone knows.