You have to admit that the accident wasn't exactly metrolink's fault.
Stranding the "survivors" for 90 minuets is, (brings to mind an old
joke, I wonder where they were planning to bury them...).
David Oswald wrote:
Yes, there was a 90 minute delay. Here's why. An officer eventually
escorted us to the Woodman stop. But he forgot to inform the
metrolink authorities of where we were. So OrangeLine buses were
being re-routed past us. We even went and asked a metrolink security
officer and he impatiently just said, "You're gonna have to work with
us on this." 20 minutes later we found an apparent supervisor. She
said she didn't even know we were waiting. I said, "There were 40
people travelling on the bus. You took 12 away to medical attention.
It doesn't take much of a mental leap to realize that you've got 28
people stranded here." A few minutes later they sent a bus by.
It's funny because I'm not a normal rider. But sometimes on our day
off we jump on the subway to go to the civic center or to hollywood,
rather than driving through traffic. Today I was telling my wife that
the new Orange Line sounded really convenient, and that we ought to
give it a try to see where it goes. We rode less than one stop from
the park-and-ride lot before we were struck and delayed 90 minutes.
...very convenient.
Dave
Derek wrote:
Oustanding job! I'm a Westsider who doesn't get to the valley much,
so this is the first I've seen of the Orange Line. Where are the
pictures of your wife smiling with the firemen? (My wife wants to know).
Derek
P.S. You had a 90 min delay? Sounds like LA mass transit at work!
Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really
stick my nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me
to stop if I got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably
shouldn't have worried. They were all too busy with their big scene
to bother me. As I look the shots over I quickly see they're
nowhere near my best work. I guess I myself was a little flustered,
plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be too obvious.
The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would
assume I was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the
accident victims, and escort me out from within the police taped
boundry.
Tom C wrote:
Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the
Fresh Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots.
Tom C.
From: David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800
The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by
a local reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me
on the phone and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem.
Tom C wrote:
Still waiting for the photos to come in. Great job! Gigantic
kudos for having your camera with you. My camera is always with
me, if not just outside in the car.
Looking forward to seeing them as they download. Work Pentax in
there somehow.
Tom C.
From: David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: "pentax-discuss@pdml.net" <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:30:36 -0800
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. ;)
Dave
--
When you're worried or in doubt,
Run in circles, (scream and shout).
- Re: PESO: The scene of an accident. P. J. Alling
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