Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:16 am by msgeek
That looks like the Metro Orange Line...except those mega-buses are powered by Compressed Natural Gas instead of electricity. Which sucks. I would like to see a move to hybrid technology first, then complete electrification of the Orange Line. Right now the Orange Line buses have to turn around on city streets to go the opposite direction on the busway. This is why hybrid would be necessary. You'd have aerial power lines for the buses when they're cruising down the busway. Perhaps when the Orange Line busway is extended to Chatsworth they can look at an electrification system.
Here's what they look like now:
http://www.metro.net/news_info/metroorangeline.htm
I really would have rather they went with light rail but that was a hard sell in some of the neighborhoods it went through. And this is amazingly fast. It's easily the fastest east-west route in the Valley.
Yes, I really live in Los Angeles. Srsly. And yeah, life really does imitate art here. Especially now we've got those video billboards. No spinners yet. But I suppose that's next.