The Orange Line: May 2008 Archives

With gas going from $4 to $4.20 or so in a matter of days, I'm more resolved than ever to take the Orange Line bus to work as often as possible.

Yesterday Ilene dropped me off on the way to her father's house, which is in the middle of nowhere (aka West Hills), and I took the bus home. It takes about a half-hour to get from the Warner Center Station (aka Owensmouth Avenue across from the Promenade mall) to the Van Nuys Station.

Today I'm taking the Orange Line both ways.

Yeah, it adds 20 or so minutes to my commute, but most of that is spent walking — healthy, it is — and all the money I'm saving on gas makes it very much worth it.

Sometimes the bus can be pretty crowded, but I've gotten lucky lately and not been crushed by all that humanity most of the time.

I met David Weiss — aka David Was of Was Not Was — who is in the process of starting a blog, and he rode to the Daily News offices on an electric scooter. It was a pretty sweet ride.

I didn't ask him how much it cost, but it couldn't have been too cheap.

Back to the Orange Line. To go one way on the bus costs $1.25. I hope the MTA isn't thinking that now is the time to dramatically raise fares.

When gas was still in the $2 range (remember those days not all that long ago?), I wanted to ride the bus, but nothing motivates me more than saving $5 a day on the gas that I'm not using.