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I don't know. I can't say that I've ever had the pleasure of riding a Chinatown bus. I would always take Peter Pan between Boston and NYC. Once I graduated, I just started driving. When Bolt hit the scene, I started riding that.
I don't know. I can't say that I've ever had the pleasure of riding a Chinatown bus. I would always take Peter Pan between Boston and NYC. Once I graduated, I just started driving. When Bolt hit the scene, I started riding that.
Yeah I've only taken Bolt (or maybe it was Megabus) - never taken the Chinatown bus. I have heard some awesome stories from people that have though
When I lived in the Washington, D.C. area I rode first buses and then the subway to work for years, and since the city has a majority black population, I couldn't have done so if I'd care about sitting next to a black person. I'm actually glad I grew up in a place like that so that I learned from an early age to judge people as individuals, not by their skin color or ethnicity.
Whites didn't want to sit next to blacks but also didn't want to live next to blacks. So they fled to the suburbs which began the great white exodus to suburbia and the acceleration of urban decline and decay, after WW2. As the cities began to rot from neglect it prompted even more white flight, and more endless sprawl growth that popped up everywhere like weeds.
Personally, I don't like public transit because the transit I utilized was loaded with all manner of smelly, ill-mannered and often mentally ill people.
This is more accurate than "dark people, poor people and other undesirables".
That couple is screwed. Trapped with hoodlums in the back of a tin can of a bus with nowhere to run. When crowds of people are packed together like sardines they can start to behave like animals. And why something like that isn't very likely to happen on light rail.
That couple is screwed. Trapped with hoodlums in the back of a tin can of a bus with nowhere to run. When crowds of people are packed together like sardines they can start to behave like animals. And why something like that isn't very likely to happen on light rail.
LA BRT bus during peak travel time
LA light rail during peak travel time
I've heard the Blue Line at rush hour is worse than both of those. It's an LRT line that nearly gets heavy rail ridership. It seems that the Expo Line will be a crush like that too once it goes to Santa Monica.
I usually get seats on the Local buses (2, 217, 212, 4 are my main routes), but that is rarely the case on the Red Line. I've always gotten a seat on the Gold Line and Expo Line.
Last edited by munchitup; 05-02-2013 at 07:27 PM..
I don't see the difference except that the light rail isn't as well used. The LA bus passengers look normal, not hoodlum-like.
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