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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Begley is a raving nutball and he is dead wrong. StrokerMcgurk
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Laptops, cell phones, and iPods are pretty much obliterating the privacy advantage held by the automobile over transit. You're way more likely to get into a car wreck than you are to get mugged on the bus, after all.
If I could find a one-seat bus ride from Palms/Culver City to USC, I'd save myself $40/month (plus gas) on transportation costs, since I wouldn't have to buy a USC parking pass. Why doesn't the #38 bus go further west on Jefferson?
Pete, try the LADOT Commuter Express to get downtown, and then a short jaunt on the DASH to get to USC.
See http://www.ladottransit.com/ for routes.
Nice suggestions, Snow, but the lack of off-hours service on the Commuter Express and the 6 PM cutoff of the DASH F make that an unviable combination for me.
Right now, my best transit option is to take the #333 from Overland and then bike or bus down Vermont or Hoover; having lived and made use of transit in Koreatown, though, I can honestly say that I would not feel safe waiting at those bus stops--and I'm a 6'2"/230 male. Even the most fervent K-Town booster (and there is one on LAist, isn't there?) is gonna have to admit that anything south of Olympic that far east is still Fort Apache.
If the #38 continued west on Jefferson instead of turning north at Fairfax and going to the desolate asphalt-and-power-pylon wasteland that is the "West L.A. Transportation Center," I could ride my bike a quick two miles through Culver City (which is quite safe) and then hop a single bus at Duquesne that would dump me off at the north entrance of campus.
My personal Holy Grail will come if/when the Expo Line finally opens and I can bike a mile and a half to the Venice/Robertson station and then straphang in style all the way to 'SC.
My office is going to move to near Amoeba and I am DYING to take the subway to work. Now what is the dude in the picture doing listening to his computer and talking on the phone in the same ear? That is too much multitasking. ;-)