Have you ever been on the red line? It's hell!>Underground>Hot and stuffy>Demons everywhere
I only needed to ride it for three stops but holy shit it was intolerable. It was like one of those scary theme park rides but you can actually get hurt.
"The Red Line sucks" is some good west coast/midwest unity
>>1904324I live here, have taken it a lot.The train itself is fine but the city's refusal to do anything about thugs/vagrants ruins it.
>>1904406>a literal mental hospital on wheels
>>1904324Hollywood/Vine Station is a cool concept.
>>1904423Though otherwise, not a fun line to ride (none of them are in LA - somehow the buses are the better experience). One's basically playing bingo with 'unpleasantness' every time they ride e.g. >guy playing loud music >and he's eating >and drinking >and he just throws the empty bottle on the floor, and empty wrappers onto platforms when the train stops >his friend gets on >they start loudly talking >and smoking That trip was absurd for how complete the trashiness was. Almost the platonic ideals of terrible riders.
>>1904324>demonsLay off the meth dude
>>1904458Oh okay. Lay off the /pol/ then.
>>1904324Yeah I live a mile away from a stop and usually take it if I need to go somewhere since i still need to buy a new ulock for my bike. Don't really go to the westside so it works for me. Some stops are total garbage, pershing and macarthur in particular. Have had worse experiences on the blue line though.
>>1904368>>1904406kek, no wonder burgers hate public transport so much
>>1904324There's a theory from leftists. It goes like this:>Capitalism.>Some men getting richer, some poorer.>Poor people must go where they can afford living. This place will be called slum or ghetto.>Social imbalance between rich and poor causing poor people to commit more crimes.We don't have any blacks around here. But the same goes on in my 3,500 people town. We call them rednecks.
>>1904428>classical music scares off the homelessKek, they're really subhuman, aren't they?Classical is comfy af
>>1904643Went to the station before they lowered the volume, they were blasting it.
>>1904324>>1904368>>1904406LAbros, please tell me the appeal of your city. Every representation of Los Angeles looks incredibly depressing.>concrete and dirt everywhere>evil cops>homeless everywhere>busted transitEven poor depictions of NYC, SF, Chicago, etc make their cities looks at least kinda charming in their dirt and grit. LA looks like a dying city with no water and no hope, even in movies that depict LA as being a good place. What's the appeal of Los Angeles?
>>1904787Warm weather and beaches. Oh and muh HECKIN tacos
>>1904630What do you do about them? Do you shoot them when they fuck around?
>>1904562Skunk weed smokers.
>>1904800The pigs? Probably.
>>1904801Found one!
Lived in LA before covid hit. Redline was always a shitfest. I mean every single day either homeless people acting crazy, or niggers blasting loud shitty music. Moved away since thank God. Never really used the other ones as they weren't in my area. Were the other lines just as shitty or is the Red special?
>>1904805>Were the other lines just as shitty or is the Red special?They look newer but that is all they have going for them.
>>1904802Nah I live in a fully legal state. No need.
>>1904805while stabbings and such happen on the red line, i've only seen knives pulled out on the blue linenot towards me, but on the same car. always take the precaution to be very alert on that train.
>>1904787Some beaches and areas look pretty heavenly. Would be a paradise if it was filled with the right people like Japanese people(calm, clean and commit lowest crime.)
>>1904824>japaneseNO THANK YOU. Streetlife is infested with wannabe gangsters who call themselves Yakuza and have shitty tattoos only tacos would wear.
>>1904913Aren't most Yakuza are more in line with La Cosa Nostra? I always thought they took an extremely organized approach (even to legitimacy in many cases) to their organized crime, despite the full body tattoos.
>>1904787Literally just perfect weather and that's good enough
>>1904787Urban decay, Los Angeles :|Urban decay, Chicago :0
The reviews are overwhelming bad but somehow it still gets 4 stars.
How many riders have an experience like this because of mismanagement.
>>1904406I've unironically witnessed the person in the picture. I would just say she was VERY verbal about asking me to put change in a cup.
Things were actually better under this joker's administration.
>>1904368Real. I live equidistant between the brown/red linebrown line>This is montrose. doors open on the left at montrose>lady with stroller gets on>some quiet chatter, very quiet>guy working on laptop >a few people in the back having light conversation>Doors closing.>wooshRed line>AYO THIS A RED LINE TRAIN TO HOWARD>THIS IS 63RD GET OFF>rap music blaring>guy watching tiktok on full blast>another dude overdosing on heroin in the corner>two black ladies having a screaming match over a seat>dude whips out his dick and starts jerking off20 min walk away from each other too
Public transit in US cities is just a cargo cult. They just mimic what other countries have successfully done.
>>1904818>while stabbings and such happen on the red line, i've only seen knives pulled out on the blue line>not towards me, but on the same car.>always take the precaution to be very alert on that train.never really see this on bart, bart used to only have loud black people, but in the past few years ive seen an uptick of junkies just idling riding around in the cars
>>1905462>uptick of junkiesNow they can ride to treatment and job opportunities. Stand back and let the magic happen.
>>1904406i don't get this as it's not as common in my country. where are they even going? not to work, or they wouldn't be homeless in the first place. and where do they get the fare money to ride it every day?
>>1905468saw one hassled by the cops, but she showed a transit pass in a card, so they left her alonemight be given them by a social worker. probably better to keep on the move than in one of the encampments during the day. not sure what they do when the trains close up shop at midnight. maybe get on a bus or something
>>1905468homeless services gives them pre-paid fare ticket or they just walk through the handicap gate.
Do you feel unsafe on public transit? Maybe you and your standards are the problem.
>>1905468>get the fair money There aren't turnstiles. The fair gates can be hopped, or they use the "emergency" gates to get in. Those are supposed to sound an alarm every time someone opens them, but it happened so regularly that the alarms were disabled.
>>1904562hennessy drinkers
>>1905491This guy is actually doing great for the environment: No new pants means no new production which helps the climate.And he's stealing food. By paying for food, the consumer is responsible for draining resources from foreign soil. The consumer is actually the theft. The theft of the theft only takes his belongings back.
LA native and I've never rode any kind of train or subway. I can count on one hand the times I've road the bus and they were all when i was a high school kid.Now I ride a motorcycle and split lanes. If you live in socal and dont ride a motorcycle you're dumb as fuck. It's the only way to get anywhere in a timely fashion and it's awesome.>>1905491Thats New York.
>>1905491>>1905613GIWTWM
>>1904913>wearing a diaper in public. Literally nigger tier. This is quite funny tho. Ching chongs can be quite comical. Maybe they were shitting themselves from all the mexican food, i dunno. either way what a bunch of faggots.
>>1905684>decaying graffiti'd shithole vs actual functioning city
Been there in February trying to get to Hollywood from Downtown, my gf started to cry as she felt very unsafe, tried chaging carriage at each station but the situation kept getting worse at each change; riding the buses was ok tho and they were always on time with decent drivers.
>>1904787There is no appeal. Your perception is accurate. People only like it there if they don't know any better.
>>1905468They usually don't pay or just get discounted fares that are subsidized by the city or state.As for where they are going...often nowhere. It's just a place to be. A train has seats. It moves around. It is climate controlled and subway tunnels tend to be a little cooler...though I've never been to LA so I don't know maybe theirs are warm. There are often police and/or security on the trains or platforms which makes them feel safe. They can carry their stuff on it etc.
So this just happened.
>>1904787LA native and almost lifelong resident here. There isn't much of an appeal anymore. LA used to have some redeeming qualities, proximity to nature, all kinds of shopping and other stuff supporting a wide range of hobbies, subcultures, etc., but over the last few decades it's become incredibly homogenized and overcrowded and if you're middle class and not a basic-ass instagram NPC yoga pants vegan type there's fucking nothing to do anymore. Obviously there's a lot of draw for people wanting to work in "the industry" (Film/TV/etc.) or tech but LA's less and less relevant there too, with more and more of what's here concentrating on administrative stuff and actual production happening elsewhere. On that note, I'm really concerned about what this writer's strike is gonna do to LA. It's already a city on the brink and a huge slice of the city depends on the industry, and if there's a prolonged shutdown it's gonna be catastrophic, not just to people who work in the industry itself but to all of the businesses that rely on industry employees for business, restaurants and so on.
>>1908657As someone who has barely set foot in LA I find this post amusing because that's how we've always viewed LA, turbo NPC soulless hell for people who want to be A list movie stars and end up being F list porn stars if they're lucky
>>1908660The funny thing is that LA had that stereotype way before it actually lived up to it. Maybe it's because so much of LA's culture has always been driven by transplants and after a few decades of that image only people who WANT to live in soulless NPC hell move here so they've turned the stereotype into reality. (Plus I think LA avoided it in the past because we had other industries like aerospace and automotive drawing a lot of more sane people here, but those have mostly moved away now.)
>>1908664Hmm. The children now love luxury, they are tyrants, gobbling up dainties, no respect for socrates, south africa, the iraq, and the asian countries, like everywhere like such as.Everyone says their city sucks and things aren't like they used to be, I'm starting to think it's just boomers kvetching about not being cool anymore.
>>1908668>Everyone says their city sucks and things aren't like they used to beBecause it's true
>>1908657>if there's a prolonged shutdown it's gonna be catastrophic, not just to people who work in the industry itself but to all of the businesses that rely on industry employees for business, restaurants and so onElaborate, if you can. I don't know much about LA or the industry and I don't know as much like an insider would.
>>1908668>Everyone says their city sucks and things aren't like they used to beI mean, I feel like there's a grain of truth to it. A lot of the interesting subcultures and aspects of cities that make them even somewhat interesting to live are usually held up by people who aren't making six figures and are the first to get priced out when that subculture or community becomes even somewhat marketable.
>>1908657> and a huge slice of the city depends on the industryYou dumbass
>>1908668>Everyone says their city sucks and things aren't like they used to beIt actually is this. Trendy cheap cities with lots of young people just sort of fucking around aren't really a thing anymore. SF in the '60s, Austin in the '90s, Portland in the '00s, there really isn't an equivalent to that now outside of a few dumps in the rust belt that are more depressing than cool.
>>1908859>a few dumps in the rust belthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM
>>1908878Fuck, that's a blast from the past.I like the sequel better, though. The upbeat delivery of how he says, "Don't slow down in East Cleveland or you'll die!"
>>1908884>"Don't slow down in East Cleveland or you'll die!"does that line still hold up? has East Cleveland been fixed?
>>1909208Fixed like a dog fixed?
>>1908878absolute CLASSIC, havent watched this in years. cheers
>>1904428Ironically the music that is played at Westlake MacArthur Park is hostile.
>>1909445>NOOOOOOO NOT THE CLASSICAL MUSIC>I'M GOING INSANE!
>>1909445https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY
>>1905491he's doing her a favor
>>1904324This ride is awesome. I take it all the time to go to Griffith Park. People who hate it are cowards.
I live blocks away from the the hollywood/vine station. i rode it once and it was nonstop horrors of all variety. never again.>>1905637I dont want to worry about it being stolen all the time.
>>1908859What was the city of the '10s and what is going to be the city of the '20s?
>>1904324if by red line you mean your sister's puss puss, yes, i have been there many times anon.hope this helps
>>1908660we? you speak for yourself
>>1904428>something bad happens >this also happened to Jews in the past!Why are Americans like this?
>>1905436It's scary how true this is.The Brown Line is by far the best line in the city. I feel like it's the only line I can truly relax on
