LAist: LAist Interview: MetroRiderLA Editor, Fred Camino and Guest Day Editor

Wad

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:03:37 -0800

LAist has been the best thing to happen to MetroRiderLA since curly fries. Thanks, LAist.

guest

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:39:21 -0800

Great blog Fred. I read LAist all the time, and I'd heard you were a blogger, didn't realize it MetroRiderLA! rob from the trailerpark

fredcamino

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:46:34 -0800

Great to hear nomad! Downtown is a GREAT place to go car-free, and since I live Downtown as well, many of my MetroRider posts relate to Downtown living. I encourage you to do some more research on the BRU, come to your own opinions, but I think you'll see that their mission is oddly skewed. PS - MetroRiderLA is an open blog, so if you ever want to tell your story, all you have to do is register and you'll be given access to the writing tools.

nomad

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:58:36 -0800

Thanks for the quick reply... and you said you were lazy. I know very little of the BRU and what I did know made it sound like they had a decent mission. I'll have to give that info a more thorough look later. I just moved downtown and am trying to ween myself of the car little by little... I'll definitely be checking out your blog some more.

Militant Angeleno

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:45:42 -0800

BTW, the Militant knows "Wad" personally (though "Wad" does not know me as the Militant). He knows his stuff. And your #15 response rocks.

Militant Angeleno

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:23:33 -0800

The Bus Riders Union is RACIST.

fredcamino

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:21:30 -0800

I knock the BRU because they use fabricated race-baiting to push forward their own agenda which has very little to do with improving public transportation, or improving the lives of bus riders for that matter. They are hypocrites. Did you know that in 2000 and 2003, when Metro drivers and mechanics went on strike, disrupting service for thousand up thousands of the very bus riders they claim to represent, the BRU sided with the striking parties? The BRU are anti-rail under the platform that rail serves wealthy white people and neglects the traditionally poor and minority riders of Metro. It's simply not true. Any ride on a train will reveal that to you. I wrote at length about it a few months ago. There's tons of articles that debunk Eric Mann and his BRU. There are whole sites set up with facts proving that the BRU is full of it. Hell, there's even mathematical proof that the BRU is just wrong. On of my favorite pictures to post is of a group of BRU member posing happily while waiting for a Red Line train at Hollywood/Highland. You'd think if they really believed that trains were racist they wouldn't be so eager to ride on them. See the picture here.

Sloane Berrent

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:19:12 -0800

It's so great to have you here editing here today. Yeah Fred! Yeah carless living in LA!

nomad

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:06:26 -0800

fred, just curious.... whats your knock on the Bus Riders Union? Is trying to keep public transit affordable for people who may have trouble actually affording it a bad thing? .. does that not generate enough revenue for improvements? serious question..please reply.