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April 28, 2006
Alternative Answers
Please forgive the over-generalization, but to over-generalize the Democrats are the party of expensive mass transit boondoggles, the Republicans are the party of lung cancer, freeways to nowhere and terror-enabling dependence on foreign oil, and in Orange County members of both parties are against ... 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 >>
Blogs
January 10, 2008
Santa Ana's Grand Choo Choo Conspiracy: The Carlos Bustamante Connection
Final post in our Carlos Bustamante conflict-of-influenza series--for now... All this week we've focused on Carlos Bustamante, the SanTana councilmember who gladly takes money from people seeking something from the city, then votes favorably for his donors. Some readers have wondered about my focus ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2008
The Fix is In (Santa Ana Edition)
Remember my post yesterday, where I theorized out loud about how SanTana councilmember Carlos Bustamante could greatly benefit if Cordoba Corporation (headed by major contributor and fellow Santa Ana Business Bank director George Pla) ever got a contract with the city to develop a mass transit syste ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2008
Santa Ana's Grand Choo-Choo Conspiracy Continues
Back in January, I theorized out loud about a SanTana scandal of Chinatown-esque proportions: the introduction of a light-rail system most likely involving the Cordoba Corporation, whose CEO sits alongside SanTana conflict-of-influenza-afflicted councilmember Carlos Bustamante on the board of the Sa ... More >>
Columns
January 14, 1999
Letters
Back in January, I theorized out loud about a SanTana scandal of Chinatown-esque proportions: the introduction of a light-rail system most likely involving the Cordoba Corporation, whose CEO sits alongside SanTana conflict-of-influenza-afflicted councilmember Carlos Bustamante on the board of the Sa ... More >>
Columns
June 17, 1999
Train Trash
Back in January, I theorized out loud about a SanTana scandal of Chinatown-esque proportions: the introduction of a light-rail system most likely involving the Cordoba Corporation, whose CEO sits alongside SanTana conflict-of-influenza-afflicted councilmember Carlos Bustamante on the board of the Sa ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2009
Art Leahy Leaves OCTA for LA Metro: Good Riddance
News item: Art Leahy, who has led the Orange County Transportation Authority for eight years, accepted an offer to head Los Angeles County's Metro - a transit agency with a $3.4 billion budget. (Courtesy of the Orange County Register) Be careful what you wish for, LA ... *The NOAA, which has ju ... More >>
Music
August 28, 2008
[Aural Reports] Nightlife Maven Sean Francis' Need for Speed Led Him to Create Spare the Air Fest
News item: Art Leahy, who has led the Orange County Transportation Authority for eight years, accepted an offer to head Los Angeles County's Metro - a transit agency with a $3.4 billion budget. (Courtesy of the Orange County Register) Be careful what you wish for, LA ... *The NOAA, which has ju ... More >>
News
July 12, 2007
Moonnites
The 28th Annual Mooning of Amtrak
News
July 31, 2003
Lite Rail
The 28th Annual Mooning of Amtrak
News
August 26, 1999
Why Weyrich?
Whats the moral majority founder know about trains in Orange County?
News
November 2, 2006
A Measure of Titanic Proportions
Green groups weigh Measure M support
Unknown
September 22, 2005
Pedestrian Encounter
Green groups weigh Measure M support
News
July 28, 2005
Hooray for OCTA?
Award for top transportation agency is astoundingfor all the wrong reasons
Features
February 17, 2005
Next Stop: Immobility
An A to Z Guide to Surviving the Death/Pause/Sunshine of the CenterLine
News
August 21, 2003
Fear Factor
The four horsemen of the suburban apocalypse
News
August 7, 2003
Track Record
A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig
Columns
July 24, 2003
Letters
A CenterLine contractors resume includes Bostons notorius big dig
News
July 10, 2003
They Have A Dream
Light rails friends and enemies rally around the bus. But do bureaucrats care?
Columns
April 24, 2003
Diary of a Mad County
Light rails friends and enemies rally around the bus. But do bureaucrats care?
Columns
July 18, 2002
Lost Highway
Cmon down to Jims World of Pain Motors!
News
May 30, 2002
Train in Vein
Jane Reifer lives for mass transit
News
March 15, 2001
Just Build More Roads
Is the Auto Club working for you or for the auto industry?
News
October 12, 2000
Waiting
El Toro Airport Watch no. 147
News
September 9, 1999
Derailed
OCTAs attempt to bring out the benefits of a $2 billion light-rail system crashes at UC Irvine
Columns
September 9, 1999
Letters
OCTAs attempt to bring out the benefits of a $2 billion light-rail system crashes at UC Irvine
Blogs
April 20, 2009
Santa Ana City Council to Put Fix in on Trolley Project Tonight
If only this saga came with Faye Dunaway--instead, we have to settle for Michelle Martinez...It's been almost to the year since I last wrote about how the SanTana City Council would most likely award a light-rail contract to Cordoba Corporation, a company whose president George Pla sits on the SanTa ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2009
What Happened to the Long Beach Loop?
Started in September of 2008, the Long Beach Loop was a monthly event that sounded genuinely fun: the first Thursday of each month, a double-decker bus took folks back-and-forth between beloved LB spots Alex's Bar, The Pike and The Prospector, each of which had concerts going on that night (with set ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2009
Mega-Connected Firm Wins Anaheim Design Contract
Whoa! They're moving the Sydney Opera House to Anaheim!Oh wait, no. That's the newly approved design for the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, a.k.a. ARTIC.On Tuesday, the Anaheim City Council awarded architecture firm Parsons Brinckerhoff/HOK with the contract to design and lay the ... More >>
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 >>
Blogs
June 22, 2009
Is OCTA Sacrificing Transit Service for Executive Pay?
Courtesy of OCTAWill Kempton moves to OCTA from Caltrans, where he has served for five years.The hiring of Caltrans director Will Kempton for the Orange County Transportation Authority's vacant executive director position would seem like a step down. After all, the Schwarzenegger appointee oversees ... 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
October 21, 2009
More U2 Info
We all know U2 sucks. The songs are boring, Bono's a pompous ass and the rhythm section might be the worst in the history of rock 'n' roll. They've sold a bazillion records, yet no one I know has ever bought one of them, probably because my friends and I have good taste. But lame-os who own four ... 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 >>
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December 17, 2009
Stuff-a-Bus
Honda Center
Blogs
December 17, 2009
Finally! 5 Freeway From Beach to LA County Line Called Out for Being Shitty
OCTA.netThe 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
January 19, 2010
OC Impacts Some of Country's Worst Commutes
No stretch of Orange County freeway winds up on The Daily Beast list of America's 75 worst commutes, but vehicles originating from, destined for or passing through here certainly contribute to three of those bad drives--including the No. 1 place holder.
Blogs
February 3, 2010
Catching Up With Leif Garrett Again
Leif Garrett, then and now.Leif Garrett's arrest for drug possession Monday morning at the Metrolink station in downtown Los Angeles is a good excuse as any to revisit Dave Wielenga's great 1999 article, "Shakin' Like a Leif: Kicking Smack With Leif Garrett." What's the deal is with the 48-year- ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2010
High Speed Train May Demolish Buena Park Homes Designed to Be Near Trains
California High Speed Rail AuthorityIf only the new train had only to contend with windmills...Sunday's Los Angeles Times carried a piece that largely rehashed a few low-boiling controversies about the planned high speed train line that, when eventually completed, will connect Anaheim and San Die ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
Will Trains or Lanes Connect Santa Ana to LA County?
Choo chooOrange County residents who love public transit--yes, some of these people do exist--talk fondly of Southern California's train-taking heritage. There was a time when the Pacific Electric "Red Car" rail system connected OC to LA to the Inland Empire and beyond; getting around without a h ... More >>
Blogs
August 24, 2010
Blood on the Tracks in Anaheim
Someone apparently ended his or her life on the Metrolink tracks in Anaheim this morning, causing delays to lines throughout Orange County.Train 601 had just left the Anaheim station for Los Angeles at 6:05 a.m. when the person was fatally struck on La Palma Avenue between East and Pauline street ... 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
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
December 6, 2010
Holiday Toy Express Route Change Scrooges San Juan Capistrano
OCTA.netMetrolink's Holiday Toy Express chugs into Orange County this month, but after making more than 50 stops over 14 days last year, the Christmasy choo-choo is only stopping 13 times over five days this December.That has one South County town feeling particularly Scrooged.
Columns
January 28, 2011
Bah! Hum-bus!
[Hey, You!] The holiday spirit misses the bus
Columns
February 24, 2011
Doing the Do-Right Thing
[Hey, You!] Rescued from a train-track surprise attack.
Blogs
June 15, 2011
OCTA Promotes 'Dump The Pump' Week, Gives Free Breakfast Tomorrow to Those Who (Gasp!) Leave Their Cars At Home
More essential than personal trainers and trust funds in this county are our beloved cars. Bus passes, Google's walking directions, Metrolink--these funny words, what do they mean? And yet the folks at Orange County Transportation Authority (bless their hearts) are taking on the noble ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2011
You May Not Know Your Future, But Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) Does
Roy Reynolds is a Fountain Valley-based pollster with a bug up his ass about the Southern California Association of Governments.Thank God.For those who have never heard of SCAG, it is, as Reynolds puts it, "an unelected, unrepresentative pseudo-government-like group" that "we must tolerate in our ... More >>
Columns
September 29, 2011
Diaper Not-So-Dandy
[Hey, You!] Where not to leave your little ones' special deliveries
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