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Aqua, Rose, Fiddlesticks*
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Proving that its lack of continuity-sense rivals even Michael Bay's, the MTA caved in to Councilman Bernie Parks' demands and agreed the new light-rail route from USC to Culver City should be called (drumroll please) ... the Expo Line. (Or not. - Ed.)
This, after an hour of debate that had Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky grousing, "I have resented the minimal amount of time I have had to spend on this, roped in to spend on this. But it is serious in one sense, it telegraphs to the community what our worldview is about how we make decisions." Of course, the board then quickly and harmoniously voted in the colored names for the other lines: the Red Line from Union Station to Wilshire/Western is rebadged "the Purple Line", the El Monte express busway will be the Silver Line and the Harbor express busway the Bronze Line.
So what color will the MTA mapmakers give the oddball Expo Line? Black. I've got this massive box of Crayolas. Anybody got a map?
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UPDATE
A blogger is only as good as his willingness to check all available sources of info. Now I see that the Times saw the hearing differently, reporting that since the MTA couldn't reconcile its choice of "Aqua" with Parks' preference of "Rose" for coloring the Expo Line on the map, it will remain named, simply, the Expo line.
Pick your version of events, it's still a ludicrous state of affairs that can be settled easily wtih a coin toss or rock-paper-scissors, best 2 out of 3.
Or, if anyone else gets involved, Rock, Paper, Scissors, Spock, Lizard.
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Friday, August 25, 2006 - 01:00 PM
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