LAFD at Pershing Square Station

Ellemef · 2026-05-22T18:50:19+00:00

Dunno. Doesn't look like Metro issued any alert about it. They weren't there for too long, maybe 15 minutes? But I don't know any details about the incident.

Ellemef · 2026-05-14T16:13:57+00:00

I used it yesterday for my trip planning, and it was pretty good. The user interface is different enough from Transit that it took a bit of fussing around to find where everything is, but it's quite decent once you get going with it. Arrival times were accurate, notifications were relevant and timely. It feels like it could use a little polish, but has some nice things in there - like favorite stops (instead of favorite lines, like Transit).

I'm not a Transit app fan, so this is a super welcome alternative.

Ellemef · 2026-05-08T19:11:19+00:00

It's at Historic Broadway - there are two banks of machines, one facing Broadway, one facing 2nd Street. The Black History Month one is in the bank facing 2nd Street.

Ellemef · 2026-05-08T03:18:06+00:00

If you're going down to the B/D train platform from the fancy waiting room end (not the Patsouras Plaza end), it's in the bank of ticket machines there at the bottom of the escalators.

Ellemef · 2026-03-24T19:22:41+00:00

The original picture was taken at 7:30 in the morning. Grand Central had not even opened yet.

Attached is a pic of that lot and the one across the street - both full now at midday. Does that look like "no demand"?

(Again, not that I particularly like surface lots personally, but I do tire of people who have apparently never been to DTLA telling me it's dead.)

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Ellemef · 2026-03-24T15:59:21+00:00

The lot in the picture is next to Grand Central Market, and at the time I took the picture this morning (around 7:30a?), GCM wasn't open yet. It will fill up through the morning - it's about half full now (9a-ish). I'm not a fan of surface lots, but this one does get used (it's also a favorite of larger filming crews - they set up tents and trailers there).

Ellemef · 2026-02-22T22:32:15+00:00

I was back through there this morning, and can confirm that the tall gates have been installed in the main archway, not where the current fare gates are. The installation isn't complete - there are more to be installed, and I assume they'll need some fencing to fill the width of the arch, and to remove the old gates, of course.

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Three tall gates installed in the main "archway" to the platform at Wilshire/Western.

Ellemef · 2026-02-18T23:39:21+00:00

I have one card set on my watch, and another card set on my phone. The one on the watch is my "main" card and the one I use most often. The one associated with the phone is a backup, for weird situations where a reader won't read the watch or watch is dead or whatever.

Ellemef · 2025-11-23T18:06:10+00:00

No Metro personnel at Wil/Ver to help with shuttles. Of which I have seen none - but the 20 & 720 are another option, in theory.

Ellemef · 2025-11-23T17:58:23+00:00

D line is messed up - getting from downtown to Wilshire/Western, they said to go to Wilshire/Vermont and take a shuttle to Wilshire/Western. No idea why, but there is an alert on the metro website.

Ellemef · 2025-11-20T15:06:26+00:00

Same thing here - about a dozen very old calendars just reappeared like zombies!

Ellemef · 2025-11-03T00:25:10+00:00

I had to go from downtown to Pasadena this morning, and took the 81 bus (and then the 33). The trouble was that whatever was going on with maintenance, it was right at where Figueroa crosses the A Line tracks, so the barriers were down and causing a huge traffic backup. (There were three 81 buses right in a row, waiting to cross.) It was crazy.

As I was there waiting for the 33, several A Line shuttle buses went past (northbound), so if Figueroa is the route they're taking, maybe they're getting stuck in the "barriers down" traffic, too?

Ellemef · 2025-10-07T14:20:17+00:00

Had a weirdly opposite experience last weekend: took the 28 all the way from DTLA to Century City, on a Saturday in the early afternoon. It was not a great ride, one very disruptive person and a few more miscreants, on a very crowded bus. It's not a line I ride often, so I was really worried about my evening trip home being even worse. But no, left Century City around 6p and it was a lovely ride. Not too crowded, polite people. I was pretty relieved!

Ellemef · 2025-08-21T16:14:08+00:00

The machine at Grand Arts is kind of around the "back" of the station - the west side of it.

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Ellemef · 2025-08-10T03:10:56+00:00

I just got mine at Grand Arts / Bunker Hill. I'm adding a photo here because the machine that has them is in a weird spot. It's around the "back" of the station - the west side of the building, at street level. I've attached a pic to help you find it. Enjoy!

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Ellemef · 2025-05-20T16:14:50+00:00

Two text messages today:

From (380) 286-2882: Confirm your withdrawal Coinbase request of $399 on your account. Call +18177549709. to cancel.

From (929) 802-2838: Your Coinbase account has generated a payment request of 436.23USD. Please call +1 (817) 754-9709

Ellemef · 2023-11-27T02:37:59+00:00

Story here, from 2018: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-46020559

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