A little update on LA transportation chief Jaime de la Vega’s Hummer habit, which I wrote ’bout v. briefly here :
Why is the traffic so bad on the Westside? Well, the Hummer that Los Angeles transportation chief Jaime de la Vega drives can’t be helping.
So reports Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles Times columnist who’s actually started the Bottleneck Blog, inviting readers to post “gripes and ideas for solutions.” Lopez’ latest blog post has picture of de la Vega’s Hummer: “No, those aren’t Priuses underneath it. Those are the tires.”
In fact, Lopez went to have a little chat with de la Vega recently. De la Vega clammed up about the Hummer; the press secretary’s best defense was that “de la Vega’s vehicle is not the largest in the Hummer line.”
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Lopez’s column was not only the best thing in yesterday’s paper (not a first there) but also his best column in a long time. I loved the bit about de la Vega’s press secretary looking like he was going to faint.
Comment by meg — January 22, 2007 @ 6:45 am
Lopez is just fucking awesome. He writes about stuff other people just are failing to write about; and he writes about them in a way that makes the topic fascinating and engagin even for people who think Hummers are just fine –
Comment by Siel — January 22, 2007 @ 10:03 pm