Transportation
What's the Worst Service Alert a Transit System Can Send?
L.A.'s Metro Rail system offered up a serious contender this morning.
Every mass transit system is going to have a bad day now and again. Some, perhaps, more than others. This morning, it was L.A.'s Metro Rail system's turn. An early morning power outage affected service along a large portion of the Blue Line right in the middle of the a.m. commute, leading to delays of up to two hours for those unlucky souls who depend on the line to get to work.
Like any responsible transit authority, Metro promptly sent out alerts to let its customers know about the outage. But they took what seems to me to be a bit of a counterintuitive approach when it came to giving advice on how to avoid the delay. The tweet below is via public radio's KPCC. Only in L.A.?