On 11/2/05, David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Los Angeles introduced a new bus line on the 29th of October. It is a > rapid line that runs on a road all its own called "Busway", thorough the > middle of the San Fernando Valley, connecting Woodland Hills / Warner > Center with the Metrolink subway system starting in North Hollywood. > The busyway has synchronized traffic lights that keep the bus moving all > the time. This means that as the busline road crosses major streets, > traffic stops on those surface roads. > > I rode the Orange Line today as a novelty, to see how the experience was > going to be. My wife came with me. We had been on the bus for less > than two minutes, when suddenly it was struck by a fast moving car that > ran its red light. The car broadsided the bus. The car was seriously > damaged, and driver taken to the hospital in critical condition (she was > later upgraded to stable). > > We were then put through a triage routine by the first responders to > determine who (if anyone) was injured. Mostly any injuries were just > people pretending to be injured, thinking their gravy train had come in. > Despicable really. Anyway, it held us all up by about 90 minutes. > Fortunately I had my camera. > > Taken with the *ist-DS, and the DA16-45 lens.... > > http://users.adelphia.net/~daoswald/pictures/index.html > > Warning: It's about 4.5 megabytes of photos that will load. > > I posted the pictures quickly because a woman riding on the bus with us > is married to a reporter. Quickly he was on the cell with me requesting > any of the pictures I took. ...I had to remove the ones where my wife > was posing, smiling next to the firefighters. It seemed a little > inappropriate after the fact. ;)
nice series -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
