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Crush loaded LA blue line train |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:22:57 2010 Blue line trains this weekend and the next three are running at 30 minute headways all day because they are working on the tracks to tie in with the new Expo line. Trains are normally standing room only at 12 minute headways, so I expected the worst. But it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. It was crowded, but not ridiculously so. I was in the last car and the first two cars were much more crowded, but only a few people at 2 or 3 stations weren't able to board and had they been aware that the next train was 30 minutes behind us, I'm sure that they would have squeezed on. This next pic was supposed to be a video, but I had my camera on the wrong setting. So I'm standing there holding the camera thinking it was a video...lol 
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Posted by error46146 on Sun Feb 7 22:26:56 2010, in response to Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:22:57 2010. pretty much your typical day in the NYC subway lol |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:32:19 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by error46146 on Sun Feb 7 22:26:56 2010. lol! In fact that is much worse!The one thing that you can't see in my pic however is that there are several bikes in there that you can't see. That's why there aren't more people squeezed in. The bikes are blocking the door and the aisle. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:40:48 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by error46146 on Sun Feb 7 22:26:56 2010. Our trains get crowded on normal days too. This is on a weekend afternoon.
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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:56:53 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:40:48 2010. 
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Feb 7 23:09:51 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:40:48 2010. Good to see that ... I'd gotten the impression that the red line was largely empty and the only regular riders were the crew ... and a cast of screaming extras. :) |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sun Feb 7 23:09:57 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:40:48 2010. man the ridership on the blue line is like that during the week too ?woah easy |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 23:15:25 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sun Feb 7 23:09:57 2010. That's the red line. And IMO the blue line is more crowded on Saturdays than weekdays because they only run 5 tph all day. On weekdays the trains are full at rush hour, but most people get a seat. |
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Posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 23:24:30 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Feb 7 23:09:51 2010. lol. The red line is pretty much like a regular Metro anywhere in the world except that trains aren't too frequent. The ridership is about 10k people per mile which is a little ahead of the WMATA average and well ahead of the CTA. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Feb 7 23:55:38 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:40:48 2010. Who the HELL at MTA writes the destinations for the Red Line car signs?!? "NOR HOLLYWD"?! I realize that Breda stuck them with a cheesy-ass Luminator sign with only 12 positions, but seems to me that "N HOLLYWOOD" would work better. Almost as bad as "WIL/WESTERN". I guess as the Purple Line is extended west, we can look forward to "WIL/FAIRFAX", "BEVRLY HLLS", "CENTURY CTY", etc. |
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Posted by Easy on Mon Feb 8 00:11:01 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Feb 7 23:55:38 2010. I never noticed that, but you're right! |
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at least they moved in! |
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Posted by insidetransitcom on Mon Feb 8 01:51:15 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by error46146 on Sun Feb 7 22:26:56 2010. at least they moved in on that train - i can't get the people on the 7 to ever freaking move in - everyone crushes at the door - and i dont speak 104 different languagesthe one good thing about being super fat is that i just push and they move :) |
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Posted by Jsun21 on Mon Feb 8 06:22:35 2010, in response to Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:22:57 2010. By NY standards that train ain't full yet. |
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Re: at least they moved in! |
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Posted by Railman718 on Mon Feb 8 07:19:04 2010, in response to at least they moved in!, posted by insidetransitcom on Mon Feb 8 01:51:15 2010. LOL ! |
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Posted by ebtmikado on Mon Feb 8 10:52:36 2010, in response to Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:22:57 2010. Is the Expo Line that close to opening, or is this just preliminary trackwork? Lee |
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Posted by LA Scott on Mon Feb 8 11:02:10 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Feb 7 23:09:51 2010. With all my riding being on weekends, I've never seen less than 20 people in a car on the section from Hollywood-Highland to 7th/Metro Center, and it is not uncommon for all the seats to be taken. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Mon Feb 8 12:58:02 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by ebtmikado on Mon Feb 8 10:52:36 2010. The latter, Expo line won't be opening until some time next year. I think what is being done (I haven't checked the Expo Line threads at the Transit Coalition boards is the connection from the exisiting Blue Line to the Expo Line at Washington Blvd & Flower St, south of downtown L. A. |
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Posted by Steve B-8AVEXP on Mon Feb 8 13:27:02 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Jsun21 on Mon Feb 8 06:22:35 2010. Too bad there's no photo of R-6-2 1277 at Lexington Ave. around 5:00 PM on 9/11/73. |
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Posted by Newkirk Images on Mon Feb 8 20:08:09 2010, in response to Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sun Feb 7 23:55:38 2010. Who the HELL at MTA writes the destinations for the Red Line car signs?!?Probably some retired TA workers who moved west and went to work for LACMTA to enhance their pensions ! Bill Newkirk |
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Re: Crush loaded LA blue line train |
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Posted by Union Turnpike on Tue Feb 9 20:38:49 2010, in response to Crush loaded LA blue line train, posted by Easy on Sun Feb 7 22:22:57 2010. Nice pics, Easy! |
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