Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently near San Francisco

 

Golden California. Nice to contemplate while I'm back in shit-brown slushy New York.

 
Friday, January 30, 2004

 

The old Ridge Route is a narrow, unmaintained concrete strip that parallels I-5 up the mountains above Castaic, heading north to Bakersfield. The road was only used from 1919 til 1933, afterwhich it was replaced by 99, itself replaced by I-5 in 1960. The foundations of the old roadside rest stops, like the Tumble Inn above, are marked by plaques along the road. I rode up with my friend TJ in his new Honda Element. Out of respect I'll withhold expressing any opinion on the car's design.

 
Thursday, January 29, 2004

 

The Getty. Pictures of the San Fernando Busway. Los Angeles takes a lesson from Curitiba, Brazil [pdf] While in LA i rode on the MetroRapid bus along Wilshire all the way from Downtown to Santa Monica. It was interesting to see Los Angeles from a New York perspective, that is, as a pedestrian, without a car. LA has done a good job of making the buses fast by spacing out stops and electronically holding greenlights but it's still traveling over surface streets and it took 90 minutes to go 12 miles. Buses and lightrail will always be massively inconvenient for getting around LA. The only real solution would be to charge tolls on the freeways to speed them up.

 
Wednesday, January 28, 2004

 

Severe Tire Damage.

 
Monday, January 26, 2004

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