- A good public beach is hard to find — when Malibu homeowners fence and gate it. LA Times columnist Steve Lopez checks out new LAT owner Sam Zell’s property and the hard-to-reach public beach next to it. To take advantage of the beaches paid for with your tax dollars, check out Jenny Price’s guide to Malibu’s hidden public beaches.
- Activism on foot. Lime’s first community-wide challenge, Live the Change & Walk Out, wants you to go for a walk to reach collective goal of 24,900 walked miles — the equivalent to an entire lap around the earth.
- Just in time for Easter: Divine chocolates and some info ’bout the people who produce them
- Public Routes: The public transit web app that could — but doesn’t, yet. The app only give you 1 option to get where you need to, which isn’t always the best route. Plus, it doesn’t factor in for time of day — sort of important considering that many bus lines stop running at night. I’m still waiting for Google Transit to roll out its LA version.
So far, even with its awful UI and hard-to-use results, I’ve not found anything which beats the MTA route planner for my needs.
Comment by don hosek — April 6, 2007 @ 11:45 am
I usually end up mapping it on google in conjunction with the MTA planner so I can figure out where the route is going exactly –
Comment by Siel — April 6, 2007 @ 11:51 am
thanks so much for covering Live the Change and Walk Out — we really appreciate it and invite everyone to come and walk out with us
Comment by monique — April 7, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
I gave the publicroutes.com site an easy test, which was to get from an intersection where Metro service is available directly to North Hollywood Station, to Union Station … and it did okay (but whose idea was it to list EVERY SINGLE STOP ALONG THE ROUTE?) until it got downtown and advised getting off at Civic Center Station and taking a DASH bus from there to Union Station.
They don’t know that the Red Line has Union Station as its east terminal??? That’s a fundamental flaw, given that Union Station is THE major transit hub in downtown.
Comment by Kymberleigh Richards — April 8, 2007 @ 11:20 am