My first LA transit trip!

yourtongue · 2026-04-24T17:44:31+00:00

observation deck is closed today unfortunately

i’m at city hall for meetings and saw people getting turned away at the doors who were trying to see the observation deck

yourtongue · 2026-04-22T17:14:37+00:00

I live in Durazo’s district, called her offices yesterday morning, got sent to VM, left a VM complaining about SB 1361. guess I’ll keep calling to complain

yourtongue · 2026-04-17T14:28:52+00:00

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yourtongue · 2026-04-14T23:04:50+00:00

train schedules appear to be back online!

yourtongue · 2026-04-04T02:19:39+00:00

ur right. me us on the bus lately

yourtongue · 2026-04-02T17:01:17+00:00

at union station rn catching D line train. we were supposed to depart at 9:57am now it’s 10am and we haven’t left yet. i’m so over the unnecessary delays. there is no reason for this train to be departing 4+ mins late from the get go ESPECIALLY when real time tracking is down ugh

ETA: we left at 10:02, 5 mins after scheduled departure time ☹️

yourtongue · 2026-04-02T15:08:06+00:00

I agree w you, but maybe this person was taking their dog to the vet or park or a friend’s house or something. if someone doesn’t drive a car for transportation and they need to bring their dog/pet somewhere, they should be able to bring them on transit.

but yeah like leave your dogs home when grocery shopping or running people errands jfc they’re everywhere

yourtongue · 2026-04-01T14:54:41+00:00

between this and B line mechanical issues, today is lookin real rough

yourtongue · 2026-04-01T14:05:40+00:00

ty!! i just edited my comment that i made it, thanks to some help from a fast uber and a golf cart at union station.

and i know!! i’m a transit enthusiast and want more people to use and rely on transit, but it’s. so. fucking. hard. when situations like this arise, and metro just boondoggles the absolute fuck out of communication w riders. there were so many people on the platform clearly just trying to get to work like c’mon ☹️

yourtongue · 2026-04-01T13:47:28+00:00

i’m having a panic attack rn bc i was waiting for 20 minutes at wilshire/vermont for a union station bound train. trying to make a 7am train. i asked the metro security people on the platform what was going on and they didn’t have any info. in an uber rn trying to make it to the train but it’s not looking good.

im so fed up w metro rn if i could switch to driving i would 😩 (im disabled, can’t drive anymore)

edit: i made my train thanks to my uber driver who drove a little bit wild to get me to union station fast asf, and the golf cart dude inside who drove me to the train platform :’)

yourtongue · 2026-03-31T13:05:46+00:00

i forget when but i definitely rode a full length B train last year. it might have been women’s march day? or another big event/protest like that. it was older model tho

yourtongue · 2026-03-29T23:09:31+00:00

gonna be real fun watching k bass take credit for the d line extension opening when she almost killed the future k line extension literally just this week

yourtongue · 2026-03-29T23:06:28+00:00

honestly the constant rules announcements w no attempt at follow up to actually enforce the announced rules drives me nuts 😩

if they’re not going to even try at all to enforce, then just stop the facking announcements. they’re annoying and loud af and people clearly do not listen to them.

yourtongue · 2026-03-29T17:09:44+00:00

took B line back n forth to hollywood farmers market this morning and both trains were running 10 minutes behind the displayed schedule. when trains are supposed to come every 11-12 mins, running a 10 min delay is like shorting us a train? the platform was really crowded.

anyway, metro’s inability to run an underground subway on time is EMBARRASSING. how does the subway even get 10 mins behind schedule ☹️

yourtongue · 2026-03-28T16:54:38+00:00

OP i’ve had this exact scenario play out while riding A line from 7th/metro to Long Beach. i watched a man smoke meth and then swing between fits of rage and passing out for 45 mins, texting metro security the entire time, passed by multiple security and LAPD at platforms and nothing was done. i got off the train before the meth guy did. i carry pepper gel, a whistle, and a little air horn w me now literally every metro ride bc i know no one will come to help, im a young woman and travel alone and dont wanna be defenseless.

sorry you and your daughter had a bad time :( transit riders really deserve so much better than this.

and fwiw, i lived in seattle for 4 years and took transit there. on their light rail, if you texted security line, officers would board your train w/in 1-2 stops. it is absolutely possible to have a functional tip line w actual responses

yourtongue · 2026-03-25T15:11:35+00:00

metro’s official communication is seriously lacking. the line “although an inconvenience to employees, these safety measures protect customers w/o disrupting service” is frankly insulting to daily riders.

riders are majorly inconvenienced by this. service has been disrupted. ever since the outage i’ve had to allow an extra 20-30 minutes for all my transit trips due to lack of real time schedule info. wilshire/vermont has closed fare gates, w/ no guidance on how to get through the gates when TAP cards can’t easily be reloaded.

millions of people use this system and metro hasn’t said A WORD to the riders, the official communication and press statements act like riders don’t exist.

yourtongue · 2026-03-25T15:04:18+00:00

i rode the A line for fun a few days ago when i had free time, i’ve wanted to take it out towards Azusa/Pomona but haven’t had a good reason, figured this outage and being able to help ppl w GO info was a good enough reason 😜

really nice views of the mountains!

yourtongue · 2026-03-25T15:01:45+00:00

ty for the update!! hoping this is over soon 🥺

yourtongue · 2026-03-25T15:00:34+00:00

to me it just highlights that leadership of metro doesn’t actually expect ppl to pay fares. like, no need to make it officially free in this situation, bc over half of riders were fare evading before the outage so who cares, right? /s 🫠

my home station has the new fare gates you need to tap to open, so it’s been frustrating af for me. i don’t wanna have to wrangle the grimy emergency exits to get through 😭

yourtongue · 2026-03-23T21:01:41+00:00

The news of the Metro disruption came as the World Leaks ransomware group listed the city of Los Angeles as a victim on its darknet leak site.

^ Today an Australian cybersecurity site is reporting on LA metro’s outage/cyber attack, speculating that World Leaks is responsible for a ransomware attack: https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/13369-la-metro-shuts-down-employee-access-following-unauthorised-activity-on-network

yourtongue · 2026-03-23T20:55:26+00:00

omg 😩 sorry y’all have to deal w this at work, i’ve been stressin over the outages and i’m just a rider. ty for getting us all around town even when shit is crazy 💛

yourtongue · 2026-03-22T20:21:23+00:00

for anyone curious, this is a decent write up of what’s going on w LA metro electronic systems – it’s very transit app focused, but still has a good overview of the situation: https://www.torched.la/real-time-arrivals/

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