Timing could be better for Orange Line anniversary
One day you have a crash that injures 17 riders, the next you celebrate the line's first anniversary. While any crash is bad news, there are probably hundreds of other auto accidents occurring each and every day -- some even with transit buses -- that don't get the publicity of an Orange Line mishap. Not the worst thing, because safety must indeed be "first." That's why those big "BUS COMING" lights flash when the ... bus ... is ... coming. That, the RED LIGHT and the fact that YOU SHOULD KNOW THE BUS IS COMING is more than enough to keep you from getting clipped by a massive bus:
Officials believed Monday's crash was caused by a delivery truck that plowed into the Orange Line at Woodman Avenue. The still unidentified driver admitted running a red light, (County Supervisor Zev) Yaroslavsky said.
"We have to convey to commuters in the San Fernando Valley that red means stop," said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Los Angeles, said during the morning conference commemorating the upcoming anniversary.
The MTA has logged 30 accidents since the Orange Line opened. Ten of those collisions resulted in injuries, most minor. All were caused by drivers running red lights.
When Brad Sherman (pictured in living color at right) tells you to stop ... you stop.
And ladies, in case you hadn't heard, Congressman Brad is taken:
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), 52, is engaged.
Though the couple hasn’t yet set a date, Sherman has proposed to Lisa Nicola Kaplan, a mid-thirties Hill fellow he met a year and a half ago in Washington. Sherman has made no secret of the fact that he had previously used JDate and other online dating sites. The couple spent two weeks of the congressional recess vacationing in Norway.
Mike Briggs, Sherman’s spokesman, offered no details on the proposal. “He’s always been interested in maintaining a certain level of privacy,� Briggs said. “And even though this is news, I don’t believe his views of privacy have changed.�
Kaplan, a native of New York City, came to Capitol Hill by way of a Brookings Institution fellowship sponsored by the State Department, where she will resume working this fall. She is a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. She holds a masters degree in public policy from Harvard, a masters in international administration from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vt., and a bachelor’s degree from Williams.
Guess that means we'll never have "The Bachelor: Capitol Hill," at least not with Brad Sherman.
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