Do go in, or not to go in?
Animated with Loopcam for iPhone.
Train rideee choo-choo!
I was going to watch a movie on the train but I just realized I’ve wasted too much time on tumblr. There’s only one hour left until I get to San Diego, which is clearly not enough to watch a movie. Thank God for Wi-Fi on the train?
(via mayrucha)
Of course.
Photo: Stephen Estes, 23, planks on the 405 Freeway just before the Carmageddon closure came to an end Sunday. Credit: Donna Estes Antebi
LIKE A BOSS
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
Eric Fischer’s “See something or say something” project visualizes geotagged Flickr photos and tweets. “Red dots are locations of Flickr pictures. Blue dots are locations of Twitter tweets. White dots are locations that have been posted to both.”
This one’s of Los Angeles.
Map credit: Eric Fischer (h/t Nightline)
Eric??? Nice map, bro!
Hmmm the major hotspots seem to be: LAX, Santa Monica, UCLA, Hollywood, Downtown, & USC
“The general rule seems to be that public transport in Los Angeles has a great future, and always will.”A brief closure of the 405 Freeway is expected to bring misery to travellers in California this weekend. America’s car culture is partly to blame for the coming “carmageddon”.
Omg I plan on to lock myself in my house and close all the windows on these days. I don’t even want to know what it is going to be like out there.
On that note, WHEN DO WE PLAN ON BUILDING THAT FABULOUS NEW PUBLIC TRANS SYSTEM WE VOTED FOR?! Can’t get anywhere without a car in this city…
A Sullivan reader writes:
Like some of your readers, I disagree with Lloyd Alter’s food cost math. Almost every American consumes far more calories per day than their bodies require, and the exercise would help offset those extra caloric extravagances. In other words, most people are already paying for those calories and not using them.
But I fail to see how one could ever ride so slow as to take 1.5 to 2 hours to go 15 miles. Heck, I can RUN that fast, and I’m not a particularly fast or adept runner. As for the sweating, that is one crutch of the problem. The other is rain. But if you look around, I bet most people have access to showers at work or a nearby gym. Many employers in Pacific Northwest already offer gym memberships to employees. One previous employer of mine had showers at work.
All I hear are excuses from people not wanting to get off their lazy arses.
Another problem I see has to do with the very core of commuting itself: why do we live so far from where we work? I have purposely chosen to live close to where I work so that I can walk or ride my bike or take public transit, even though I pay a little more in rent. Why live farther away to save 50 bucks per month when I would have to drive to work, find a place to park on the street which inconveniences people who live there like myself, or pay hefty parking fees to park in a structure?
I wish I lived in a city where I could ride my bike everywhere. *sigh*
July 16th.
GAAAHHH! The wait is killing me!
OMG freeing up my schedule for that day naooo!
