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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Sep 8 15:12:39 2007, in response to A few RTD/MTA pics around town, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Sep 8 14:59:47 2007.   I was doing a spotting run at Division 18 sometime in 1997, when this 97 Neoplan pulled out, going to a Hollywood Bowl Special run (the 657 started at a park in Torrance, on Crenshaw Blvd, a few blocks south of Torrance Blvd (or was it Carson Street?) Interestingly, when I returned for a visit in June 1999, I rode 4747 for a few blocks on line 53 on 5th St in downtown LA.  This was taken in November, 1997 at Figueroa and Griffith Sts. 6319 was brand new then (this was the first time I had seen it). It was pulling out to line 207 (Western Ave). After I took the pic, I noticed that the bus paused for a bit, but it continued on. I then walked down Figueroa to the bridge over Compton Creek to check out the buses in the "foreign section" (which is MTA-speak for buses that are from other divisions and ended up at the division replacing Div. 18 buses that had broken down and were replaced by a bus from another division, or buses from other divisions that had broken down in D18 territory. In either case, they were parked by the fence until they could be returned to their rightful owners. A few minutes later, I notice that 6319 had returned s/b on Figueroa, and pulled up near me, and the stupid ghetto bitch driving demands to know why I took a pic of the bus! I respond that I am a bus fan, etc. etc. And she's claiming that ppl sometimes take pics of the bus and them claim later that she screwed up, blah blah blah (and she had a point as 1). She was now going to be majorly late going into service, and 2). Her headsign was already set to the northbound destination (207 WESTERN - HOLLYWOOD BL). MTA regulations state that deadheading buses are to display the route number and "NOT IN SERVICE". I never think fast enough in these situations, else I would've pointed these transgressions out to her. Also, as it turned out, I knew the first name of the Division 18 Service Operations Manager (courtesy of a MTA driver friend of mind who worked under this guy at a different yard). I shoulda dropped that on her, woulda really shook the bitch up. I would've said some shit, but I wa afraid she would hit the transit police button. I had seen a couple of units parked in the D18 yard (they were actually LA Sheriff's Dept Transit Services Bureau units, but the MTA Police (aka Amateur Police) had recently been disbanded and replaced by transit units from LAPD and LASD. So the officers were likely to be ex-MTA Police, and as you can tell from the nickname, I didn't think highly of them, so if they had come, I probably would've said the wrong thing, and been arrested (or worse). So I let it go and left. /rant :) |
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