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Passenger Transportation

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    United Airlines Harshes Orange County's Aloha, Ends Hawaii Service out of John Wayne

    Citing lack of bookings, United Airlines will end flights between Honolulu and John Wayne Airport starting Monday.As one who used to be able to afford air travel to the Islands, I can say we used LAX more often than JWA because the fares were so much cheaper.

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Musician and 'The L Word' Actress Kicked Off a Southwest Airlines Flight for Kissing Her Girlfriend Issues Statement

    ​The L Word actress and member of electro pop band Uh Huh Her Leisha Hailey says she was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight for kissing her girlfriend. She announced the incident in a series of tweets yesterday, which sparked an Internet outcry. Hailey wrote that she and her longtime girlfrien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    What Did a $26,028 Plane Ticket Buy?

    Dillion​Like the rest of us, you think you've had it bad traveling by air, and you've probably said to yourself, "If only I were rich and could charter my own plane, life would be trouble free."Not so fast.Consider the nightmare of Gregory L. Dillion, a Corona del Mar man who paid $26,028 for roun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    [UPDATED: Sold Out!] JetBlue Will Fly You Over Carmageddon For $4 Each Way

    JetBlue​UPDATE, JUNE 12, 5:50 P.M.: The deal is sold out! To those who nabbed a ticket: Have fun laughing at all of the suckas on land!  ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 13, 2:40 P.M.: Whether it's sheer marketing brilliance or proof that Southern Californians have completely lost it, JetBlue is offering& ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2011

    [UPDATE: Photos!] Asses Will Be On Display At Annual Amtrak Mooning Event Tomorrow in Laguna Niguel

    ​UPDATE, JULY 10, 11:57 P.M.: Amtrak Mooning 2011 photos right here!ORIGINAL POST, JULY 8, 1:31 P.M.: All aboard for Laguna Niguel's annual ass flash. People from around the world will line up parallel to the Amtrak rail lines on Camino Capistrano Road Saturday to moon the passing trains.The ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2011

    Amtrak Mooning

    Mugs Away Saloon

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    5 Ways the Airline Industry Has Given Up on Us

    ​It's no secret airline travel has gotten worse in recent years, even before the 9/11 gut check. Normally, businesses facing that perception from customers would change their ways.Recent developments suggest the airline industry is doing just that: by totally giving up on the flying public. Five w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Airline Treats Kenyan UC Irvine Professor, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Like A 'Terrorist Menace'

    Ngugi wa Thiong'o​Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a celebrated Kenyan author and distinguished professor at UC Irvine. He's 72 years old and married. He's not a terrorist. And yet, for an unexplained reason, he and a group of fellow Kenyans were treated as such upon a detoured flight to Lyon, France.El ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Now Jerry Brown Says Curt Pringle in Conflict Serving on OCTA and Bullet Train Boards

    ​Poor Curt Pringle: Termed out as Anaheim's mayor, no longer in demand as a Howdy Doody impersonator and now this: A second state legal authority has found it is a conflict for him to serve on the boards of the Orange County Transportation Authority AND California High-Speed Rail Authority simulta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Santa Ana Has a Desire Named Streetcar

    ​An interstate high-speed train that would stop in Anaheim and another linking the town that Walt Disney built with the town the mob built (Las Vegas) get all the media attention, but a California Planning & Development Report article claims slow poky streetcars will be online up and down the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Airlines Increase Surfboard Travel Rates; No Guarantees of Board Survival

    worldprosurfers.wordpress.comPay hefty travel costs only to have the board show up like this on the other end--priceless.​Traveling with a surfboard is a bothersome venture. As soon as the board bag goes into the possession of the airline, that stomach-churning feeling sinks in and good luck ritua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Airport Airspace Changes Prompted by Mid-Air Collision Warnings Come in for Criticism

    ​Looking up at the skies over north Costa Mesa a couple weeks ago produced a most disturbing site: a JetBlue plane making its normal descent into Long Beach Airport was passed maybe 100 feet above by another airliner heading for either LAX or the landing line at John Wayne Airport. Maybe that's a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Mugs Away Saloon's Amtrak Mooning Carries On Without Mugs Away

    ​Mugs Away Saloon's annual mooning of the Amtrak is Saturday.Check that: it's apparently not true.Yes, booze-fueled, hearty-partiers will be out there, dropping trou as the choo-choo whizzes by, but the Laguna Niguel watering hole is now distancing itself from the annual event.

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Asiana Martini at Kimera Restaurant Lounge

    Jessica Ford The blur must be from those beer goggles...​Kimera Restaurant Lounge, located near the Irvine Business Complex, attracts mostly young professionals looking for a place to unwind after work. The extensive drink menu here covers wines, beers and specialty cocktails, and the ki ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2010

    Night-Owl Bus Riders Face the End of the Line

    Jessica Ford The blur must be from those beer goggles...​Kimera Restaurant Lounge, located near the Irvine Business Complex, attracts mostly young professionals looking for a place to unwind after work. The extensive drink menu here covers wines, beers and specialty cocktails, and the ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Finally! 5 Freeway From Beach to LA County Line Called Out for Being Shitty

    OCTA.net​The 5 freeway from Beach Boulevard in Garden Grove to the Los Angeles County line in Buena Park is one of the roughest roads in the nation, states a report released today by two highway advocacy groups. "Future Mobility in California: The Condition, Use and Funding of California's Roads, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Just in Time for the Holidays: Secondhand Porn Under, On and Above Ground

    Monica Hesse has an interesting story in today's Washington Post on ​a new breach of etiquette sweeping this great land of ours: the secondhand porn that travelers are subjected to as they, well, sweep across this great land of ours.

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    OCTA Committee Recommends Slightly Less Painful Bus Cuts--For Now

    WikicommonsBye bye buses.​County Supervisor Patricia Bates may have said it best today: "You can't send these people off a cliff, in a bus."The remark came amidst some low-heat sparring between her and Tustin Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Amante at this morning's meeting of the OCTA Finance and Administrati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Transit Activists to Pitch Ways to Save OCTA Bus Routes

    ​More than 60 people got up and spoke at Monday's board meeting for the Orange County Transit Authority. Pacific Progressive has the run-down: It was a diverse group of people telling OCTA how detrimental further cuts to the OC bus system would be.It's a sticky issue. Facing a steep decline in sal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    SeatGuru Lobbies for More Airline Loos

    SeatGuru.com is pooh-poohing the airline industry over "a going concern": customers having to wait in line for restrooms at 30,000 feet.  The online resource for air travelers calls this "bladder abuse." "Airlines with too few bathrooms per passenge ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Friday Film Funnies Fun: The OCTA, and John Moorlach the Bus-Hater

    Supervisor John Moorlach wants to get rid of our bus system? What a buffoon! This video is too earnest, but what are you gonna do...

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2009

    Follow the Bouncing High-Speed Trains

    Rendering of new Anaheim transportation hub, awaiting whatever comes its way.Harry Reid (D-Nevada), who had earlier seemed to be the biggest supporter in the U.S. Senate for a magnetic-levitation (Maglev) train from Las Vegas to Anaheim, is now pooh-poohing such a system, favoring instead a high-spe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    Marine Wildlife Cruises

    Ocean Institute

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    St. Joseph's Day Swallows Train Tour

    Mission San Juan Capistrano

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Read Curt Pringle's Lips: He'll Take New Taxpayer Dollars

    Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle has long been the golden boy among Orange County Republicans. He got elected to the party's Central Committee in 1986, and two years later became the GOP nominee for the Garden Grove area state Assembly seat. The party, under the leadership of then-Chairman Tom Fuentes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Get the Fries at the Honda Center's Club Level

    Two weekends ago, my cousin treated me to the Vic Darchinyan-Jorge Arce boxing match at the Honda Center for my birthday. He scored club-level seats and also invited me to eat whatever I want. I had just treated him to Mariscos Licenciado #2 just up State College Boulevard, so I contented myself wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2008

    Robert Thornton, Professional Bitch

    Two weekends ago, my cousin treated me to the Vic Darchinyan-Jorge Arce boxing match at the Honda Center for my birthday. He scored club-level seats and also invited me to eat whatever I want. I had just treated him to Mariscos Licenciado #2 just up State College Boulevard, so I contented myself wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2007

    OCTA wants to party with you

    Been riding those darn buses since 1972? Then you might be one of 35 special people who gets to party with OCTA - which is celebrating 35 years of hauling fat OC ass across the county at the end of the month. Party place: The Fullerton Transportation Center, 120 E. Santa Fe Ave, where the bus syst ... More >>

  • News

    July 1, 2004

    Burning Bush

    The presidents conservative critics

  • News

    February 19, 2004

    Supervisor Sig-Alert

    Broadwater campaigns to widen 22 freeway after suing to prevent new lanes

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Steven Hatfill's Big Idea

    Broadwater campaigns to widen 22 freeway after suing to prevent new lanes

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Wheres Rick?

    OCs most colorful cabby comes to the end of one ride, but therell be another any minute

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Spin Recycle

    Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

  • Columns

    July 12, 2001

    I Went to My Kids Soccer Game and an English Soccer Game Broke Out

    Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

  • Columns

    June 7, 2001

    Want Fries With That?

    Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

  • Columns

    May 17, 2001

    Letters

    Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    An Open Letter to the John Wayne Airport Commission

    Truth still grounded after El Toro approval

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Cab Tab

    Add to the countys mammoth failures (bankruptcy, toll roads, El Toro) one more

  • Columns

    April 26, 2001

    Viva Las Vegas

    Take an ace/deuce/yo, please, and one for the dealers

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Flack Attack

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 151

  • Columns

    December 14, 2000

    When Pigs Fly

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 151

  • News

    September 21, 2000

    Another Dave, Another Scandal

    Like Garofalo, Christensen dogged by alleged conflicts

  • Columns

    September 21, 2000

    Letters

    Like Garofalo, Christensen dogged by alleged conflicts

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    50 Reasons to Hate the Proposed El Toro International Airport

    Like Garofalo, Christensen dogged by alleged conflicts

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    RedBatesing

    El Toro Airport Watch No. 121

  • News

    September 9, 1999

    Derailed

    OCTAs attempt to bring out the benefits of a $2 billion light-rail system crashes at UC Irvine

  • Columns

    June 17, 1999

    Train Trash

    OCTAs attempt to bring out the benefits of a $2 billion light-rail system crashes at UC Irvine

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