Battle Of the Buses: Oh, It’s So On!
Posted By WILL CAMPBELL On April 17, 2008 @ 6:00 am In Downtown, Fun, Mass Transit, West Side | Comments Disabled
Just a follow-up from last week’s post [1] to remind you to place your bets this afternoon for the Great Bus Race 2008 [2] because it’s on like Konkey Dong between me and The Bus Bench’s [3] BusTard. I’ll be on the MTA’s No. 439 catching up on my reading of Mercedes Lambert’s “Dogtown” and he’ll be bribing the driver of Big Blue’s No. 10 to skip stops as we travel from our respective points of embarkation deep in the westside sometime shortly after the 5 o’clock hour then call crawl our separate ways across town (his route [4] and mine [5]) to see who gets to Clifton’s at 7th and Broadway first. With fingers crossed that we both get there before the place closes at 7:30 p.m., we will then retire inside for loser-buys dinner with perhaps whiskeys at Seven Grand afterward, or just we’ll pass around The Bus Bench Publisher Browne’s [6] bottle of Everclear.
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13.8-mile Route of Big Blue’s N0. 10
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14.6-mile route of MTA’s No. 439
You can track my progress and follow all the ongoing hot mass-transit action as I post in-route tweets here on Twitter [9], along with the occasional phonecam pix to my photostream on Flickr [10] (at least for as long as my mobile’s battery lasts).
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URL to article: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/04/17/battle-of-the-buses-oh-its-so-on/
URLs in this post:
[1] last week’s post: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/04/10/battle-of-the-buses-mtas-no-439-vs-big-blues-no-10/
[2] Great Bus Race 2008: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x52zko_busrace2008_fun
[3] The Bus Bench’s: http://www.thebusbench.com/2008/04/save-the-date-f.html
[4] his route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1806850
[5] mine: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1806793
[6] Browne’s: http://www.thebusbench.com/the-bus-bench.html
[7] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/04/10.jpg
[8] Image: http://img.metblogs.com/la/files/2008/04/439.jpg
[9] here on Twitter: http://twitter.com/wildbell
[10] my photostream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildbell/
[11] Santa Monica Yuppie Scum Death Battle Overflows onto New York Times Front Page: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/11/25/santa-monica-yuppie-scum-death-battle-overflows-onto-new-york-times-front-page/
[12] Prop 8 battle will continue into spring: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/11/26/prop-8-battle-will-continue-into-spring/
[13] The LA Bike Tour: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/05/25/the-la-bike-tour/
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