Yin and Yang
Mar11

Yin and Yang

ADVENTURES IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: Yin and Yang “Pardon me, sir. Would you be able to change a dollar for the bus?” I’m standing at the bus stop on the corner of Fair Oaks and Colorado in Old Town Pasadena. He is older gentleman in slacks and a blazer. I’m not using “gentleman” lightly. He seems uncommonly courteous. The kind of person for whom the term should be reserved. I ask whether four...

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Garbage Out
Aug25

Garbage Out

ADVENTURES IN PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION: Garbage Out As usual, the southbound 110 freeway is snarled with bumper-to-bumper traffic approaching downtown L.A. Strangely, the northbound lanes have not a single car. “Not a single car,” just isn’t a phrase one hears in Los Angeles. No matter the time, no matter the place, no matter the activity, if it’s in L.A. it involves lots of cars. Usually too many cars. Not...

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